Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
Why Are Cigarettes Easier to Buy Than Safer Nicotine Pouches in Canada?
Nicotine pouches and other modern, smoke-free nicotine products are rapidly reshaping the landscape of tobacco harm reduction, yet regulatory environments often lag behind scientific...
Safe When Sold by Pharma, Risky When Vaped? Rethinking Nicotine Logic in Pregnancy Guidance
Pregnancy is the period in which smoking causes the greatest and most immediate harm. Decades of research leave no doubt that continued smoking increases...
The Rise of Generational Tobacco Bans: A Public Health Gamble That Risks Backfiring
In a landmark (and controversial) move, the Maldives has become the first country in the world to formally implement a generational ban on tobacco.The...
Surprise Surprise: The UK’s Vape Crackdown Backfires, Strengthening Black Markets, Not Public Health
The past year has laid bare a difficult truth for the UK, Ireland, much of Europe and the rest of the world, about the...
Progress Shamed, WHO Exposed: How Harm Reduction Challenged COP’s Backwards Agenda in Geneva
As always, the mood heading into COP11 was tense, and not only because of the high-stakes negotiations ahead. In the weeks before delegates descended...
Punished for Success? New Zealand’s “Dirty Ashtray” Reveals The FCTC’s Embedded Bias
The global tobacco-control community is outraged, as New Zealand — long regarded as one of the world’s most innovative and effective leaders in reducing...
The Fight for Evidence-Based Tobacco Control: What we know about COP11 So Far
The ongoing Eleventh Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), currently being held in Geneva from 17–22...
Substitution, Not Abstinence: Danish Data Are The Latest to Teach us About Tobacco Harm...
Throughout history, major advances in public health have rarely moved forward without opposition. From clean water systems to food safety laws, vaccinations, and air-quality...
