Articles about Opinions
Alex Wodak: ‘The safer nicotine option should be the easier option’
Alex Wodak: ‘The safer nicotine option should be the easier option’
In this instalment of our Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet talks to Dr. Alex Wodak, the Australian physician who helped pioneer needle and syringe programmes during the HIV crisis and has spent decades arguing for a pragmatic approach to drugs, tobac...
Arielle Selya: The scientist who challenged the gateway theory
Arielle Selya: The scientist who challenged the gateway theory
In this instalment of our Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet talks to Arielle Selya, the American scientist who set out to investigate whether vaping leads young people to smoking – only to find the dat...
Brussels should learn from Sweden instead of trying to sabotage it
Brussels should learn from Sweden instead of trying to sabotage it
Sweden’s became smoke-free thanks to an exception from misguided EU tobacco policies. Rather than undermining policies behind Sweden’s success, the European Commission should instead learn from the evidence an...
Swedish health minister slams France pouch ban: ‘idiotic’
Swedish health minister slams France pouch ban: ‘idiotic’
Sweden’s minister of health Elisabeth Lann has rebuked France’s ban on nicotine pouches while reaffirming her support for harm reduction in nicotine policy. Lann’s criticism of France emerged during an inte...
GFN26 preview: Europe’s nicotine crossroads, Sweden’s smoke-free success
GFN26 preview: Europe’s nicotine crossroads, Sweden’s smoke-free success
As delegates prepare to head to Warsaw for the 13th Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN26), Snusforumet catches up with Patrik Strömer to discuss Sweden’s smoke-free success, the ongoing debate about nicotine pouche...
WHO chooses ideology over Sweden’s evidence on nicotine
WHO chooses ideology over Sweden’s evidence on nicotine
The WHO continues to treat all nicotine products as a threat, despite growing evidence that smoke-free alternatives can dramatically reduce smoking-related harm, argues Martin Cullip of the Taxpayers Protectio...
Researchers fuming over EU health commissioner’s nicotine misinformation
Researchers fuming over EU health commissioner’s nicotine misinformation
A group of leading European academics and medical researchers has publicly challenged what they describe as “false and misleading” statements by EU Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi about the risks of smoke-...
Mark Tyndall: The harm reduction doctor who took on tobacco’s last taboo
Mark Tyndall: The harm reduction doctor who took on tobacco’s last taboo
In this instalment of our Harm Reduction Heroes series, Snusforumet talks to Mark Tyndall, the Canadian infectious-disease physician who helped pioneer pragmatic responses to HIV and overdoses – and who now ar...
EU’s Olivér Várhelyi chooses fiction over science on nicotine
EU’s Olivér Várhelyi chooses fiction over science on nicotine
Claims of “one hundred percent” certainty about the health impact of nicotine products by EU Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi should cause alarm in Europe's public health community, argues Martin Cullip wit...