Tobacco Harm Reduction Congo

Plaidoyer pour des solutions sur mesure pour mettre fin au tabagisme en Afrique

[CAPHRA (Coalition of AP Harm Reduction Advocates) @caphraorg]

"Adults who have moved away from smoking should not be treated as an afterthought."
Over-correcting with bans doesn't protect public health. It protects cigarettes from competition. #HealthPolicy #AsiaPacific #HarmReduction https://t.co/d4jZ6itQaO

[The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction @GlobalStateTHR]

From April 2026 nicotine pouches have been banned in France🇫🇷, including their manufacture, sale, online purchase, possession, use, and import for personal use.

Find out more on France's #safernicotineproduct regulation in the #GSTHR Country Database🌍

https://t.co/7YbXLw9WrM

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

Who can look at this Euromonitor map of illicit vape share, globally over 75%, and think "yes, that's totally what we need to achieve for nicotine pouches"?

Yet, @WHO is soon to release a new hysteria-driven, foundation-funded report, arguing that vastly safer pouches are a major health risk and should be banned where possible and regulated and taxed out of existence where not banned.

Source: https://t.co/xFz60CYXdY

[VapingIT, SPE, EEI @Vapingit]

.@grok and I are drafting a piece:

“Safe & Effective” for drugs.

But for tobacco?

“Appropriate for the Protection of the Public Health” (AFPPH) is so vague it’s basically a Rorschach test.

10+ years on, @FDATobacco gets enormous discretion with almost zero guardrails.

A made-up talking point that can justify anything.

[exposetobacco @exposetobacco]

Recent data from the @WHO show:
➡️ 40 million children (13–15) use tobacco
➡️ 15 million adolescents use e-cigarettes
���️ Youth in some countries are 9x more likely than adults to vape

These trends are not coincidental. As WHO notes, young people are being targeted by design.

From flavors and product design to digital marketing, the industry continues to evolve its tactics to sustain addiction.

In the lead-up to #WNTD2026, STOP will share resources supporting the campaign—and exposing the tactics fueling addiction. Follow along.

#TobaccoExposed #UnmaskTheAppeal

[CAPHRA (Coalition of AP Harm Reduction Advocates) @caphraorg]

🇧🇩 Bangladesh is reviewing its 2025 vape ban. Course correction is not weakness — it's what better policy looks like. Protect youth. Strengthen tobacco control. Replace blanket prohibition with smart regulation https://t.co/Fzf3nv54hU

[The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction @GlobalStateTHR]

Smoking rates are significantly high among people living with HIV, and targeted smoking cessation programmes are few and far between.

In our latest #GSTHR Briefing Paper we explore how #tobaccoharmreduction could provide a solution to this clinical gap👉https://t.co/hgC7TFEOMx

[Richard Pruen @PruenRichard]

@PDNWmedia @Tim_Andrews Sweden shows the way; it has not focused on ending nicotine use but on ensuring safer products are available.

Their nicotine use is ~ EU average, with people encouraged to use vastly safer Snus.

A massive public health win, lives first, before moralising over nicotine use.

[The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction @GlobalStateTHR]

In Canada🇨🇦, pouches can only be sold in pharmacies and are regulated as Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) products.

Currently Zonnic are the only pouch product registered as a Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) product.

Find out more👉https://t.co/NtgPGcARiP

#GSTHR

[Global Forum on Nicotine @GFNicotine]

Watch full interview with @FarsalinosK, link below!
https://t.co/rWGSti2bff

[Clearing the Air @clearingthe_air]

🚨 Viktor Orbán is OUT! Following a massive election defeat, his fiercely anti-vaping (and anti-science) EU Health Commissioner is now stranded in Brussels, and caught in the middle of a wild spy ring scandal. Are the walls closing in on Olivér Várhelyi? Read the full story here 👇 #EUPolitics #Vaping https://t.co/HKT8S8IWmw

[Clive Bates @Clive_Bates]

@drjoesDIYhealth @Algore09algor Agree… Opening the pathway to vapes, pouches, HTP etc will be more effective. Just reversing the economic driver will not reverse the illegal market, now the criminal supply is in place. Cutting taxes may help, but only a strategic effort to migrate to new products will work.

[Global Forum on Nicotine @GFNicotine]

The argument is made that the ban on snus is one of the biggest public health oversights in EU history. While the FDA recognizes its potential to reduce clinical health risks compared to cigarettes, the EU maintains a strict ban (with the exception of Sweden).
Is it time to follow the data, or keep the status quo?

[Snusforum @snusforum]

Read what Nordic nicotine industry associations have said about the need for "regulatory precision" in a letter to @EU_Commission president @vonderleyen https://t.co/iim4PB1uNl

[Pouchforum.eu @pouchforum_eu]

Dr Rohan Andrade de Sequeira: Every time we present reduced risk products to smokers the first reaction from patients is that they do not want it because they think it causes cancer

For the first time in history we have nicotine products that do not cause cancer.

#wnc #thr #nicotine

[Richard Pruen @PruenRichard]

@cjsnowdon @LanceChurchill So they want to ban vapes, in favour of cigarettes.

The thing is cigarettes have never been the cause of fires… oh wait…

[World Vapers' Alliance @vapers_alliance]

There are policies that make you pause and think… wait, is this serious?

🇵🇭 The Philippines is considering banning safer nicotine alternatives while millions still smoke.

Not cigarettes. The alternatives.

It’s hard to think of a clearer contradiction, since we already know that bans won’t eliminate demand. That’s not public health, that’s policy failure.

👉 Read the latest piece by Amanda to understand the issue: https://t.co/hZPQmWspkt

[Campaign for Safer Alternatives @GoingSmokefree]

Tobacco harm reduction is simple: if people can’t or won’t quit nicotine, let’s give them safer alternatives instead of cigarettes.

Burning tobacco causes most of the disease, not nicotine itself. Switching to smoke-free options dramatically reduces harm.

It’s necessary because millions still smoke. It’s important because saving lives matters more than ideology🚭 #TobaccoHarmReduction #Smoking #Nicotine #Vaping #NicotinePouches #NRT

[Global Forum on Nicotine @GFNicotine]

Why does bringing science to everyone matter?

[Global Forum on Nicotine @GFNicotine]

In our next Science Lab session Dr Marewa Glover presents the key findings of the Voices of the 5% Study, a 4-year longitudinal qualitative study of New Zealand adults who used vapes but had no intention of quitting smoking. #GFN25ScienceLab