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How do you know who is a scientific leader in the field of tobacco harm reduction? Increasingly it is clear that the leading researchers – persons involved directly in the field of treating cancer and who see the harms of tobacco

Experts in Italy are concerned that continuous, disproportionate alarmism and regulations against e-cigs is leading to a recovery in conventional, much more harmful tobacco smoking. “A recent statement made by Giovanni Risso, president of the Federation of Italian Tobacconists, which revealed

Tiger Airways has pulled in the Australian Police to investigate a passenger over ‘violating their no smoking policy’, because he vaped on the flight. This could be called an extreme zero-tolerance policy, which certainly would make sense if it constituted a

Casting my mind back to the recent coverage of a hypothesis that nicotine is a gateway drug, I was aware at the time that research already suggests tobacco contains several compounds that appear to increase addiction not only towards the nicotine

Increasingly, as Vapers become more common, we have seen the debate shift from the toxicity of cigarette smoke, based on non nicotine components of the fumes, to that of the supposed harms of nicotine itself. This switch in concern appears to

Professor John Aston recently had to resign his post as the President of a major public health department after a Twitter spat in which, amongst other things, he strongly insinuated commentators criticising his position on e-cigarettes were working for the tobacco

Professor Resigns After Ugly Twitter Spat. Professor John Ashton is a prominent adviser to the UK government on health matters and is known to be a virulent anti-vaping campaigner. As the balance of evidence slides against the dug-out perspective of these

It’s upon us. If you are thinking about stopping smoking, and excessive drinking, October has been semi-officially deemed the time to do it! And although giving up everything entirely might be a bridge too far, and a bit scary to boot

A new study led by Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos from the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens-Greece, highlights certain E Cigarette Risks and shows that some e-liquids have two potentially risky ingredients in them. These are not produced by the vaping process