Articles tagged with Harm Reduction Heroes

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“EU snus policy favors politics over science”

“EU snus policy favors politics over science”

Harm Reduction Heroes: Snusforum caught up with Bengt Wiberg, a leading voice in the harm reduction debate. Through his 'EU for snus' initiative, he is challenging the EU's 'unscientific' snus policy and wants to show world leaders that snus saves lives. "...

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Curt Enzell portion snus

Curt Enzell: The tea-loving scientist who spawned a snus revolution

Curt Enzell: The tea-loving scientist who spawned a snus revolution

For the latest in our Harm Reduction Heroes series, we tell the story of Curt Enzell, the little-known Swedish scientist who had an outsize impact on snus and modern oral nicotine products. And it all started ...

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charles a gardner

Charles A. Gardner: Prohibiting reduced-risk products ‘akin to manslaughter’

Charles A. Gardner: Prohibiting reduced-risk products ‘akin to manslaughter’

In this instalment of our Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet talks to Dr. Charles A. Gardner, executive director of INNCO, the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations, about the many sh...

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Marewa Glover

Marewa Glover: Anti-tobacco zealot turned harm reduction advocate

Marewa Glover: Anti-tobacco zealot turned harm reduction advocate

In this instalment of our Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet talks to Dr. Marewa Glover, director of the independent Auckland-based Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking, w...

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Martin Cullip vaping UK

Martin Cullip: Defending nicotine against the ‘nanny state’

Martin Cullip: Defending nicotine against the ‘nanny state’

In this instalment of our Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet talks to consumer advocate and former New Nicotine Alliance chair Martin Cullip about his participation in the grassroots movement that force...

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Helen Redmond

Helen Redmond: Toward a US harm reduction strategy, one story at a time

Helen Redmond: Toward a US harm reduction strategy, one story at a time

In this instalment of our Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet talks to Helen Redmond, a social worker, journalist, and passionate champion of safer nicotine products, especially for the most vulnerable i...

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Lars-Erik Rutqvist Lars Rutqvist snus cancer

Lars Rutqvist: the oncologist who wants smokers to switch to Swedish snus

Lars Rutqvist: the oncologist who wants smokers to switch to Swedish snus

In the 1980s, it was controversial to claim that snus is less harmful than smoking cigarettes, especially if you were an oncologist. But Lars Rutqvist simply wanted to let the research speak for itself. And it...

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Bengt Wiberg EUforSnus Harm Reduction Heroes

Bengt Wiberg: one inventor’s fight to legalise snus in the EU

Bengt Wiberg: one inventor’s fight to legalise snus in the EU

In the first instalment of Snusforumet's Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet catches up with Bengt Wiberg, a Swedish entrepreneur whose passion for snus has spawned a global movement to legalise snus in ...