Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
The WHO’s Tobacco Control Conference is Once More Silencing the Very People It Claims...
As it draws closer, the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is once again facing mounting criticism ahead of its...
The Tax Trap: Why the EU is Setting Itself for Failure
Eighty-three leading public health specialists have sounded the alarm over the European Commission’s proposed revision of the Tobacco Excise Directive (TED), warning that the...
So How is the UK’s Disposable Vapes’ Ban Panning Out? As Predicted, Not so...
Three months into the UK’s nationwide ban on disposable vapes, cracks are already showing in the policy’s foundations. Far from easing environmental pressures or...
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,...
