Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
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...
Smoke-Free or Smoke-Filled? The Case Against Blanket Vape Bans
In March, Gibraltar’s health minister unveiled a draft legislation banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009. If...
Flavour Bans: Cutting Vaping, But Reviving Smoking?
Tobacco harm reduction has always been about balance: finding ways to minimise risks for people who use nicotine while avoiding unintended consequences. One of...
Beyond Combustion: The Role of Heated Tobacco Products in Harm Reduction
For decades, tobacco control has focused on discouraging smoking through taxation, advertising bans, and public education. While these measures may have saved some lives,...
Harm Reduction or Harm Creation? Rethinking Global Tobacco Policy
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) recently released a powerful report, "The Right to Health and Public Health Policy," authored...
More of the Same: COP11 Seems Headed to the Usual Closed Vault of Secrets...
With just 100 days remaining before the World Health Organization’s (WHO) next global tobacco control summit, concerns are mounting that COP11 will once again...
