Electronic cigarettes have a role to play in helping people with a mental health condition quit smoking, a habit they are particularly at risk of taking up. Read More
Thailand is to earmark two percent of its revenue from alcohol and tobacco excise taxes to help its financially-impoverished senior citizens. Read More
A warning to Irish politicians that they could be the recipients of future nanny awards might not strike fear into them. This year’s 'nanny-in-chief' turned up to claim her prize.Read More
If tobacco manufacturers are to be charged with murder; it cannot be long before armaments manufacturers, alcohol manufacturers, governments … join them in the dock.Read More
Parents who smoke are generally not very good at assessing when their smoking is impacting upon their children.Read More
The poet Philip Larkin provided a trenchant warning about what parents do to their children; now, scientists are adding grandparents to that warning.Read More
The US Food and Drug Administration is for the first time explicitly addressing e-cigarette use by young people.Read More
At 18 percent, smokers still make up a sizeable minority within the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.Read More
Australia is coming under increasing pressure to reverse its opposition to allowing the use of e-cigarettes as a harm reduction tool. Read More
Much of the impetus behind the movement to replace smoking with vaping has come from the West; so it is encouraging that the 1st Asia Harm Reduction Forum was held in Jakarta last week.Read More
