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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 nicotine regulation today than they were a decade a...

Regulations

EU Tobacco Products Directive a ‘wasted opportunity’ to learn from Sweden

EU Tobacco Products Directive a ‘wasted opportunity’ to learn from Sweden

The latest EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) report makes no attempt to understand why the one EU country where snus is legal also has the EU’s lowest smoking rates. The TPD 2021 Application Report, publi...

Health

Swedish MEP calls out Commission ‘dishonesty’ on snus and cancer

Swedish MEP calls out Commission ‘dishonesty’ on snus and cancer

Swedish MEP Sara Skyttedal believes the European Commission’s “ideological opposition” to all tobacco and nicotine leaves ignorant on the science on Swedish snus and cancer. And progress on the EU’s Beating Ca...

Regulations

Measuring the outcome of five years of plain tobacco packaging in Australia

Measuring the outcome of five years of plain tobacco packaging in Australia

Australia has the world's highest tax on tobacco and the world’s strictest regulation of tobacco products, but more people smoke today than in 2013, while the black market has captured 20 percent of sales. ...