Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
EU Tobacco Tax Policy Risks Locking Smokers Into Their Habit by Undermining Harm Reduction
A leaked revision of the European Union’s Tobacco Excise Directive (TED), recently circulated under the Cypriot presidency, has reignited the concern that Europe is...
Oral Lesions, Uptake Data, and Regulation: The Missing Conversation on Nicotine Pouches
As smoking rates continue to fall unevenly across the world, public health authorities are once again reassessing how nicotine should be regulated. In the...
The Recent Motions Across the Globe Keeping Cigarettes on Top and Safer Alternatives Underground
Around the world, governments continue to grapple with how best to reduce smoking-related disease and death. Yet despite decades of evidence showing that people...
From Regulation to Ruin: How Australia’s War on Nicotine Is Feeding An Extensive Tobacco...
Australia’s growing illicit tobacco crisis is no longer a fringe issue—it is a stark illustration of what happens when tobacco control relies on prohibition...
Even After All These Years Tobacco Control Keeps Failing: Exploring The Issue From Different...
Smoking remains one of the most stubborn public health challenges of the modern era. It's impact extends beyond lung/respiratory and oral disease. Cervical cancer...
The Persistent Myth of a Youth Vaping Epidemic, and the Cost of Overreaction
Youth vaping (substance use in general) is of course an issue that deserves serious attention, careful evidence, and proportionate responses. Yet time and again,...
Asia’s tobacco Control Strategy is Protecting Cigarettes and Costing Millions of Lives
The Asia-Pacific region sits at the centre of the global smoking epidemic. Home to the majority of the world’s smokers, it also bears a...
Unsafe Vapes Aren’t a Vaping Problem, They’re a Criminalization Problem
Authorities across the globe have long been sounding the alarm about the concerning circulation of illicit vaping products containing cannabis, synthetic opioids, and other...
