Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
As The WHO Blurs Smoking – Vaping Line, Leaders Must Demand Transparency for Continued...
For anyone who has watched family members suffer and die from smoking-related disease, tobacco control is not an abstract policy debate, it is deeply...
Stalled Smoking Rates, Thriving Crime: The Reality of Australia’s “Exemplary” Tobacco Strategy
Australia is often portrayed—by its own institutions most of all—as a global tobacco control success story. Officials point to falling daily smoking rates, decades...
The EU Is Dismissing Public Opposition to Nicotine Taxes as ‘Industry Interference’ Instead of...
Whether it is denial or a blatant attempt to decieve, as the European Union revisits its tobacco tax framework, officials in Brussels are increasingly...
Germany Proposes Ban on Menthol Vapes Despite Their Proven Effectivity for Smoking Cessation
Germany is preparing to take one of the most aggressive steps against vape flavours seen anywhere in Europe, proposing a sweeping ban not only...
The Cost of Bad Science: How Flawed Studies And Anti-Nicotine Bias Are Shaping European...
Science is often described as a self-correcting enterprise, a system in which weak evidence is challenged, errors are exposed, and truth gradually rises to...
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...
