Diane Caruana

For more than a century, smoking has been a leading driver of preventable death worldwide. In India alone, it claims over a million lives...

Nicotine pouches - the unsuspecting small, smokeless packets - have surged in popularity worldwide over the past decade. From just 100,000 sold in 2016,...

By now, the benefit of using safer alternatives to combustible tobacco as smoking cessation tools has been well documented. Yet, media coverage—from tabloids to...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has long been heralded as America’s guardian of public health. However, as Lindsey Stroud recently wrote on...

Once deemed one of the most progressive countries in relation to tobacco harm reduction, the United Kingdom’s recent change in strategy on tobacco control...

In March, Gibraltar’s health minister unveiled a draft legislation banning the sale of tobacco to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009. If...

Tobacco harm reduction has always been about balance: finding ways to minimise risks for people who use nicotine while avoiding unintended consequences. One of...

For decades, tobacco control has focused on discouraging smoking through taxation, advertising bans, and public education. While these measures may have saved some lives,...