Articles tagged with ETHRA

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Jörgen Warborn och Jessica Polfjärd

Swedish MEPs slam ‘misleading’ questions as TPD call for evidence ends

Swedish MEPs slam ‘misleading’ questions as TPD call for evidence ends

Two Swedish MEPs have written a sharply worded letter criticizing the European Commission’s recently closed public consultation to revise the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). They want to see a more objective approach to tobacco control and harm reduction po...

Regulations

Dutch move ahead with nicotine pouch ban

Dutch move ahead with nicotine pouch ban

The Dutch government announced a ban on the sale of nicotine pouches, depriving smokers in the Netherlands of the opportunity to choose a reduced-risk product that could help them quit the deadly habit. In ...

Regulations
EU new call for evidence TPD tobacco legislation

EU seeks more input on tobacco legislation in new call for evidence

EU seeks more input on tobacco legislation in new call for evidence

The European Commission has opened a new call for evidence as part of an ongoing assessment of whether current tobacco control legislation has kept up with the “rapid rise” in new products. Officially launc...

Regulations

Massive response to Dutch nicotine pouch ban threat

Massive response to Dutch nicotine pouch ban threat

Tobacco harm reduction advocates turned out in droves to respond to a consultation on Dutch legislation that aims to ban tobacco-free nicotine pouches in the Netherlands. More than 125 responses arrived by the...

Regulations
BECA Special Committee BECA report Beating Cancer Plan Bartosz Arłukowicz

Will the EU’s final BECA report include harm reduction?

Will the EU’s final BECA report include harm reduction?

As bureaucrats in Brussels wade through more than 1,500 suggested changes to the EU’s proposed plan for fighting against cancer, it remains unclear whether the European Parliament’s BECA report will incorporat...

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EU Nicotine Users Survey: 3 of 10 EU smokers would switch to snus if it were legal

EU Nicotine Users Survey: 3 of 10 EU smokers would switch to snus if it were legal

Nearly a third of EU smokers would consider switching to snus if it were legal, the results of the EU Nicotine Users Survey reveal.  The survey found that 31 percent of smokers who want to quit indicat...

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MEPs largely clueless about nicotine: survey

MEPs largely clueless about nicotine: survey

A recent survey of members of the European Parliament reveals at least a third of MEPs have no knowledge of new nicotine products. And up to one in five believe that some new nicotine products are as risky as ...

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New survey charts European nicotine consumption patterns

New survey charts European nicotine consumption patterns

Tobacco harm reduction advocates are conducting an ambitious, pan-European survey in hopes of painting a more accurate picture of European nicotine consumption patterns. Launched in October by the European ...