Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
GSTHR 2026: 200 Million Safer Nicotine Users Signal a Global Shift Away From Smoking
The global nicotine market is undergoing a profound transformation, with millions of smokers moving away from combustible tobacco and towards safer nicotine products. Yet...
Official Publications on the Safety of Vapes: Caution Should Not Cast Doubt on Established...
The way health authorities communicate about vaping can influence whether smokers understand, reject or embrace safer alternatives. As evidence supporting vaping as a smoking-cessation...
Disposable Vapes Have Become Public Enemy Number One. Is the Distrust Justified?
Disposable vapes have become one of Europe’s least trusted nicotine products. Once credited with making switching from cigarettes unusually simple, the brightly coloured devices...
Another Day, Another Country—This Time South Korea—Fighting Nicotine Instead of Smoking
South Korea has made substantial progress against smoking over recent decades. Higher tobacco taxes, smoke-free laws, graphic warnings, public education and cessation programmes have...
Europe’s Tobacco-Free Ambition is on a Direct Collision With Its Crackdown on Safer Nicotine
A series of formal objections to proposed nicotine restrictions in Ireland and Poland is exposing the growing fault line in European tobacco policy. The...
For Smokers Who Struggle to Quit, Reiterate Experts, Vapes Are a Viable Smoking Cessation...
A growing body of scientific evidence is prompting healthcare professionals to reconsider how they discuss smoking cessation with adult patients. A new Special Communication...
The Overlooked Smoking Crisis in Mental Health, and How Vaping Could Help
People living with serious mental illness remain one of the groups most severely affected by cigarette smoking—and one of those least well served by...
As Australia Insists on Making Vaping Harder Than Smoking—Organised Crime Keeps Filling the Gap
Australia’s tobacco-control model has reached an uncomfortable turning point. Daily smoking has (allegedly) fallen to a record low, yet the country’s legal nicotine market...
