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EU cancer plan passage ‘important step’ for tobacco harm reduction: Swedish MEP
EU cancer plan passage ‘important step’ for tobacco harm reduction: Swedish MEP
The European Parliament has adopted a “historic” EU cancer plan to guide the region's fight against cancer. Swedish MEP Sara Skyttedal called the vote an “important step” in acknowledging tobacco harm reduction. The recommendations were included in a repor...
Sweden tobacco tax travesty: punish snus users and keep cigarettes cheap
Sweden tobacco tax travesty: punish snus users and keep cigarettes cheap
Sweden’s controversial new tobacco tax proposal would further punish already over-taxed snus users while failing to address the fact that Sweden has the Nordics' cheapest cigarettes. The Swedish government ...
Meet Lukas Reimann, the MP and ex-smoker who helped legalise snus in Switzerland
Meet Lukas Reimann, the MP and ex-smoker who helped legalise snus in Switzerland
Swiss MP Lukas Reimann explains how a chance encounter with Swedish snus helped him kick a 20-year smoking habit, legalise snus in Switzerland, and become an outspoken ambassador for smokeless nicotine product...
New Zealand Smokefree 2025 Action Plan ‘shouldn’t overshadow’ harm reduction progress
New Zealand Smokefree 2025 Action Plan ‘shouldn’t overshadow’ harm reduction progress
New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 Action Plan, which will outlaw smoking for the next generation, has angered many tobacco harm reduction advocates. But Patrik Strömer of the Association of Swedish Snus Manufacture...
Flavour ban ‘uncertainty’ clouds BECA tobacco harm reduction win
Flavour ban ‘uncertainty’ clouds BECA tobacco harm reduction win
A special committee of MEPs has adopted language acknowledging tobacco harm reduction as part of a sweeping set of recommendations to guide the EU’s fight against cancer. But concerns about a widened flavour b...
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...
‘Impossible to ignore snus’ in EU’s beating cancer plan: Swedish MEP
‘Impossible to ignore snus’ in EU’s beating cancer plan: Swedish MEP
Swedish MEP Sara Skyttedal remains critical of the European Commission's continued unwillingness to recognise the potential for snus and other harm reduction alternatives for reducing tobacco-related mortality...
FCTC COP9: All eyes on UK as pressure mounts over WHO harm reduction stance
FCTC COP9: All eyes on UK as pressure mounts over WHO harm reduction stance
Amid a growing chorus calling for the WHO to drop its opposition to tobacco harm reduction, many are pinning their hopes on a post-Brexit UK to challenge the status quo at the upcoming FCTC COP9 meetings. F...
Nicotine regulation in Europe: ‘It feels like we’re going backwards’
Nicotine regulation in Europe: ‘It feels like we’re going backwards’
Despite ample evidence that snus and new nicotine products can save lives by helping people quit smoking, harm reduction advocates and industry experts fear that European policymakers are less informed about n...