Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
The Deadliest Disinformation in Tobacco Control: Nicotine Equals Cancer
In the United States, cigarette smoking remains the single largest cause of preventable death, claiming nearly half a million lives each year. Yet efforts...
More Data in Favour of Nicotine Pouches, Yet More Measures Against
The debate over nicotine pouches keeps intensifying on both sides of the Atlantic, exposing the widening divide between harm reduction and prohibition in tobacco...
The Missteps of Ignoring Harm Reduction in Pregnancy – When Stakes Are so Much...
Merseyside and Cheshire NHS services have recently introduced sweeping restrictions on publicly funded in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Among the new rules is one that...
Doctors and Harm Reduction: The Fight for Honest Tobacco Policy
For more than a century, smoking has been a leading driver of preventable death worldwide. In India alone, it claims over a million lives...
Nicotine Pouches: Cutting Through the Hype And Reframing the Debate to Balance Protection and...
Nicotine pouches - the unsuspecting small, smokeless packets - have surged in popularity worldwide over the past decade. From just 100,000 sold in 2016,...
The Cost of Clickbait: How Science and the Media are Failing Smokers
By now, the benefit of using safer alternatives to combustible tobacco as smoking cessation tools has been well documented. Yet, media coverage—from tabloids to...
The Pitiful State of THR in the U.S. : Shouldn’t the Nation Be Getting...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has long been heralded as America’s guardian of public health. However, as Lindsey Stroud recently wrote on...
Disposable Ban, Lasting Consequences: The Rise of Illicit Vapes After the UK Ban
Once deemed one of the most progressive countries in relation to tobacco harm reduction, the United Kingdom’s recent change in strategy on tobacco control...
