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From a genuine harm reduction perspective, I have serious concerns about the WHO FCTC’s current approach to vaping and cancer prevention. The FCTC is a landmark treaty that has helped reduce smoking initiation and second-hand smoke exposure worldwide, that’s real progress and should be acknowledged. But when it comes to helping the remaining 1+ billion people who smoke #pws actually quit or dramatically reduce harm, the rigid opposition to electronic cigarettes is increasingly hard to defend. Cochrane’s highest-quality reviews (2023–2025 updates) show with high certainty that nicotine vapes help more people quit smoking than traditional NRT (patches/gum), roughly 50–55% higher quit rates! Serious adverse events are rare and comparable to NRT. That’s not industry spin; that’s gold-standard independent evidence! In the real world, tens of millions of people have already switched from cigarettes to vaping and stayed off combustibles, many permanently. In the UK alone, nearly 3 million adults credit vaping for quitting in the last few years, and smoking prevalence has fallen faster than almost anywhere else. Sweden’s snus + modern nicotine products story is similar: among the lowest smoking and lung cancer rates in Europe! Yet the FCTC Secretariat and WHO often frame vaping as “just another tobacco product” or an industry trick, pushing for bans or severe restrictions in over 100 countries, even in places where smoking remains the dominant killer and cessation support is almost nonexistent! This isn’t harm reduction in practice. Harm reduction, as the FCTC’s own Article 1(d) defines it, means reducing tobacco-related death and disease for people who continue to use nicotine. Vaping demonstrably slashes exposure to the worst carcinogens in smoke (tar, carbon monoxide, many of the 70+ known cancer-causing chemicals). For adult smokers who can’t or won’t quit nicotine entirely, that is a massive harm reduction step. Yes, youth uptake is a legitimate worry and needs strong age restrictions, marketing controls, and enforcement. But treating vaping the same as smoking or worse, banning it outright risks condemning millions more to keep burning tobacco and dying from preventable cancers, COPD, and heart disease. If the goal is truly preventing cancer and saving lives, the FCTC should evolve: regulate vaping responsibly for adults, promote complete switching for smokers, and stop equating a far less harmful product with the cigarette that actually causes the disease. The evidence and millions of real human outcomes are pointing that way. Ignoring them isn’t protecting public health > it’s prolonging harm. Henri©️ #PNCT Human-conceived. AI-refined. #THR #harmreduction #VapingSavesLives #NoIndustryShill #privatecredit