Tag: Clive Bates

The Tenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and the Third session...

While most remain misinformed about the health risks derived from consuming nicotine, public health experts have repeatedly highlighted that it is the tar and...

COP9 "excludes many legitimate perspectives: notably consumers, pro-harm reduction public health experts, policy think tanks and critical economists, libertarians, and commercial entities affected by...

In December 2020, Health Canada proposed a nicotine limit of 20 milligrams per milliliter (mg/ml) for all vaping products. This proposal came in response...

“Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan” (EBCP), aims to create a ‘tobacco-free generation’ by 2040. It is based on four key pillars: prevention, early diagnosis, treatment,...

While smoking rates had been declining due to Government policy towards tobacco, the real change happened when vaping products arrived on the scene.The Canadian...

Until only a couple of years ago, Canada was on the right trajectory in terms of tobacco harm reduction, and had fully endorsed the...

A public consultation on the recently announced flavour ban which was originally meant to close on the 19th of January, had been extended to...