HRPR

Harm Reduction Policy & Research (estd 2020) advocates adoption of pragmatic policies in public health.

[The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction @GlobalStateTHR]

Have you checked out our latest primer “What is Tobacco Harm Reduction?”

Exploring the history of #harmreduction and the use of #safernicotineproducts to reduce the harms due to smoking, this #GSTHR Briefing Paper is the perfect way to introduce professionals and advocates to #tobaccoharmreduction

https://t.co/SvbJjfUe6m

[Samrat Chowdhery @samrat]

New NHFS-6 data shows India's tobacco use fell. Another national survey finds it surged. Who's right? Not settling this basic fact is a public health crisis, I write.

@PMOIndia @JPNadda @kharge @PiyushGoyal @rssorg @thephfi @nitiaayog @eactopm @scroll_in
https://t.co/dtJ5MuwyNI

[Samrat Chowdhery @samrat]

World is ditching cigarettes, but millions of Indian tobacco farmers can't. I explore this agronomic trap and how India can transition from combustibles to the harm reduction economy.
@nsitharaman @PiyushGoyal @FAIFA_Official @TobaccoBoard @ncbn #WNTD2026
https://t.co/5kanBRpQYC

[MSSRF @mssrf]

Congratulations to our Chairperson, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan (@doctorsoumya), on being elected a Fellow of The Royal Society (@royalsociety), the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences.

She is only the second woman from India to receive this honour. Following in the footsteps of her father, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, she now joins a distinguished group of scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the world.

The Royal Society's Fellows and Foreign Members include some of history's greatest minds, such as Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Dorothy Hodgkin.

Congratulations once again Dr. Soumya. More power to you!

➡️ Read the full Royal Society press release here: https://t.co/skXKiqEVMx

#WomenInScience #SoumyaSwaminathan

[Ravi Mehrotra, MD (Prevent Cancer) @StopCancerDoc]

‘Getting a good night's sleep will improve how you feel but also how long you live." https://t.co/ORjwbngbJg

[Dr. Ziauddin Islam 💙 @ziauddinislam]

The 2026 Iran-US conflict is a "health shadow" stalling Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) in the Middle East. War-torn supply chains and sanctions push users back to combustible tobacco. Geopolitics must not dictate the right to health. @EnditFoundation
#THR

https://t.co/urtQXlJkKH

[Cliff Douglas @cdoug]

An important letter from Dr. @mikepesko to the acting @CDCDirector requests a science-based, and long overdue, renaming of "EVALI" (E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury) because it wrongly associates illnesses and deaths that occurred in 2019-20 with nicotine vaping products: https://t.co/zdlJW5FaC2

The actual cause had nothing to do with nicotine and was quickly found to be vitamin E acetate in illicit, adulterated THC vaping products. But "EVALI" was never changed. This seriously skewed risk perceptions of e-cigarettes compared to cigarettes, as we detailed in a peer-reviewed editorial detailing how the persistent use of the term "EVALI" constitutes public health misinformation that has reduced the use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, costing lives: https://t.co/pMjhwf7Eq8

Dr. Pesko's letter follows up on a 2021 petition to the CDC co-signed by 75 experts requesting that the agency reconsider the name. The Biden administration took no action - a major lost opportunity. This renewed effort offers the Trump administration a clear and simple opportunity to right this wrong.

[Michael F. Pesko 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @mikepesko]

Renaming EVALI to reflect that nicotine e-cigs were not the cause remains critically important. I am hopeful that with @NIHDirector_Jay at the helm at @CDCgov, our 2021 petition signed by 75 experts will be given a second look and this scientific misclassification corrected.

[IDPC @IDPCnet]

Only 6% of needed #HarmReduction funding is available in low- and middle-income countries.

Then the US shut down PEPFAR.

'We know the money is there. It's just going to the wrong place' — @HRI_news
#WorldHealthDay

Read the report: https://t.co/7WJwr5Lk6P

[CoEHAR @CoeharUnict]

For the first time, vaping has surpassed smoking in Great Britain.

10.0% vape vs 9.1% smoke.

95% of vapers are current or former smokers — suggesting substitution, not initiation.

A key milestone for tobacco harm reduction.
https://t.co/GRQlJyuWwh

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

I agree with @EricCrampton. But to correct misrepresentations:
1. Tobacco excise tax in NZ is not tagged for Health. It goes into the general tax bucket. Funding for health is a govt Budget decision. The article makes it sound like the illicit tobacco market is robbing Health funding. Indirectly, it could lead to a government decreasing health spending but that’s unlikely.
2. Tobacco Control as a sector worldwide, from the @WHO, its @FCTCofficial secretariat, and prohibitionist academics and health NGOs, have spread so much misinformation about vaping that many people who smoke have been turned away from switching to vastly safer alternative products - including vaping. Scientific evidence now strongly shows that vaping is more effective at helping people to stop smoking than Big Pharma’s nicotine replacement products such as the patch, gum and lozenges. The Ministry of Health NZ has not done enough to counter the disinformation. 3. The previous government banned oral nicotine pouches — arguably one of the lowest risk alternatives to cigarettes. These products were selling well in NZ. Prohibiting oral nicotine pouches closed off one of the off-ramps from smoking that very well could have supported NZ to hit 5% or below smoking prevalence by the 2025 target.

First step is to repeal that ban.
Second, send a clear message that the alternative products (vaping, oral nicotine pouches and heated tobacco products) are vastly safer than continuing to smoke.

Otherwise, the Australian crime-driven blackmarket that has led to extortion and fire-bombings of almost 300 tobacconists and stores that sell cigarettes across Australia could cross the Tasman.

New Zealand had a blackmarket previously — ramraids of shops, violent assaults on shop staff and a few deaths. The current government stopped that. They need to stay strong and hold their ground against crime. @CaseyCostelloMP @nzfirst @dbseymour @actparty

[HRPR @hrpr_in]

This analysis shows how India’s ban on tobacco manufacturing and novel products keep it locked into low-end raw leaf exports, while downstream value addition and technology development happen elsewhere. @nsitharaman @PiyushGoyal @TobaccoBoard

https://t.co/poCp7m4QJh

[Prof Marewa Glover @MarewaGlover]

Low risk alternatives to cigarettes, such as vapes and oral nicotine pouches should be sold everywhere where combustible smoking products eg cigarettes are sold. It should be a condition of getting a license to sell cigarettes 🚬.

[MarcGunther @MarcGunther]

The war on drugs is not going well. This is great journalism.

https://t.co/yI5M9b2oFy via @NYTimes

[Samrat Chowdhery @samrat]

Pleasure to coauthor this article with former WHO executive director Derek Yach on the gutka explosion in India and ways to address it.

https://t.co/IBK0fHBkfo

[Vaping Advocacy & Education Project @VAEPinfo]

If someone says vaping isn’t safer than smoking, question everything they say—no matter their title. Send them to https://t.co/BapjNMOujK for facts.

#VapingFacts #HarmReduction #QuitSmoking #VapeEducation #PublicHealth #SmokeFree

[Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @NTR_Journal]

Current vaping research – is there a middle ground?

Editorial by Editor in Chief Catlin Notley

https://t.co/LNxwwBnkj3 @caitlinnuea

[VapingIT, SPE, EEI @Vapingit]

https://t.co/tHVKnjjF7U

[IDPC @IDPCnet]

'The UNGASS Decade in Review' shows the #UNGASS2016 failed to halt extreme violence in the name of drug control. Human rights safeguards are often treated as optional — rarely enforced. 

More on the evidence & need for change: https://t.co/ZZ3s9RiSmk

[HRPR @hrpr_in]

12-yr review finds vaping is 95-99% safer than smoking, with long-term studies showing no significant new harms for adult switchers. The video also highlights teen vaping is at record low and vaping is as a vital quit-smoking intervention.
@IMAIndiaOrg
https://t.co/JTNwcI6Ua1