Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
Switching From Smoking to Vaping Improves Sperm Quality and Reduces the Chance of Miscarriages
Switching from combustible cigarettes to vaping continues to look like a net win for adult smokers, even when the focus narrows to the sensitive...
CASAA’s Fall: A Stark Reminder of What Happens When Harm Reduction Can’t Afford to...
Consumer‑facing advocacy has always been the engine driving tobacco harm‑reduction (THR) forward. Now that engine is losing one of its most influential components, the...
Banned But Booming: Brazil’s Vape Surge Demands a Smarter Policy Response
Despite its longstanding prohibition on e-cigarettes, Brazil is seeing a dramatic rise in vaping—evidence that demand for safer alternatives to smoking persists regardless of...
Recent Vape Studies and the Claims of Alarming Metal Levels in Vapes: An Expert...
As the global conversation around tobacco harm reduction continues to intensify, recent data and emerging research highlight a growing divide: the urgent need to...
Banning What Works: Smokers Across Europe Are Being Left Behind
The debate over how to regulate nicotine is reaching a fever pitch across Europe, with a growing disconnect between public health intentions and the...
Tax, Ban, or Reform? Australia’s Tobacco Policy at a Tipping Point
Australia’s tobacco control policies have long been hailed as among the world’s hashest. Through plain packaging, high excise taxes, public education campaigns, and strict...
Public Health or Profit? The EU Faces Backlash As it Ignores Science And Proposes...
A recently leaked internal document from the European Commission has raised alarm within the tobacco harm reduction (THR) community. The draft proposal outlines steep...
Smoke, Vape, or Stigma? WA Treats All the Same in New Workplace Rules
In a move that aligns vaping with traditional smoking, last April, Western Australia updated its workplace health and safety laws to officially ban vaping...
