Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
As the Debate on Dual Use Continues, New Evidence Suggests it Might Not be...
For decades, public health messaging around smoking cessation has revolved around a simple binary: quit completely or fail. Yet real-world data have consistently shown...
NZ’s Falling Teen Vaping and Near-Zero Smoking: New Data Confirms the Absurdity of the...
New Zealand has just delivered one of the clearest global examples that well-regulated vaping and other lower-risk nicotine products can reduce youth harm rather...
From Smoking to Snus and Pouches: The Nordic Blueprint Saving Millions of Lives
As world governments continue to debate how best to reduce smoking, some pursue punitive measures such as sweeping bans, and extreme taxation, despite decades...
Why Are Cigarettes Easier to Buy Than Safer Nicotine Pouches in Canada?
Nicotine pouches and other modern, smoke-free nicotine products are rapidly reshaping the landscape of tobacco harm reduction, yet regulatory environments often lag behind scientific...
Safe When Sold by Pharma, Risky When Vaped? Rethinking Nicotine Logic in Pregnancy Guidance
Pregnancy is the period in which smoking causes the greatest and most immediate harm. Decades of research leave no doubt that continued smoking increases...
The Rise of Generational Tobacco Bans: A Public Health Gamble That Risks Backfiring
In a landmark (and controversial) move, the Maldives has become the first country in the world to formally implement a generational ban on tobacco.The...
Surprise Surprise: The UK’s Vape Crackdown Backfires, Strengthening Black Markets, Not Public Health
The past year has laid bare a difficult truth for the UK, Ireland, much of Europe and the rest of the world, about the...
Progress Shamed, WHO Exposed: How Harm Reduction Challenged COP’s Backwards Agenda in Geneva
As always, the mood heading into COP11 was tense, and not only because of the high-stakes negotiations ahead. In the weeks before delegates descended...
