Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
Enforcement Won’t Fix It: Australia Needs to Tackle the Root Cause of its Broken...
The experiment that is tobacco control in Australia has crashed into a wall of harsh realities, and the consequences can no longer be hidden...
More on the Ongoing EU Nicotine Policy Review Madness and the Growing Divide on...
Between its core principles of evidence-based regulation and the free movement of goods, nicotine policy is fragmenting across the EU at a pace that...
EU TPD Review Under Fire: Consumer Groups Demand Evidence-Based Tobacco Policy
With the European Commission’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) soon to be revised, the tobacco policy debate in Europe is reaching a boiling point, revealing...
A Destructive Global Tobacco Policy Shift? Prohibition Reigns Supreme as Evidence Keeps Being Ignored
The worldwide tobacco control landscape is increasingly characterized by a dichotomy — on one side, evidence-based harm reduction, and on the other, prohibitionist policymaking....
Cancer Risk and Nicotine: Separating Science from Sensationalism in the Vaping Debate
The cancer risk from smoking is extremely significant. When tobacco is burned, it generates thousands of chemicals, including dozens of well-known carcinogens. Eliminate combustion,...
The EU’s Proposed Restricitive Nicotine Policies Seem all the More Ridiculous in the Face...
There is a widening policy rift across Europe. On one side, there is a large and growing body of scientific evidence in support of...
Sweden Just Did It – It is Now Officially The First Country Worldwide to...
In modern public health history, no other European country has achieved what Sweden has: it is now essentially smoke-free. According to the latest data...
Nicotine Pouch Taxes and Regulations Surge Worldwide—But At What Cost?
A fresh wave of nicotine taxation is sweeping the United States, and it's changing the game for smoke-free alternatives. And what started as a...
