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Around the world, limits are being placed on people who use THR products to help themselves stop smoking. There are many reasons for over-regulating and outright banning reduced-risk products. They include a moral panic over youth use, a false belief that THR products are a gateway to smoking, stigma about using nicotine, misinformation, click-bait media articles, and science riddled with methodological flaws (To learn more about these issues, please search this website). This is adversely affecting people's ability to save their own lives and improve their health by quitting smoking or preventing a return to smoking. | Around the world, limits are being placed on people who use THR products to help themselves stop smoking. There are many reasons for over-regulating and outright banning reduced-risk products. They include a moral panic over youth use, a false belief that THR products are a gateway to smoking, stigma about using nicotine, misinformation, click-bait media articles, and science riddled with methodological flaws (To learn more about these issues, please search this website). This is adversely affecting people's ability to save their own lives and improve their health by quitting smoking or preventing a return to smoking. | ||
If after exploring the Safer Nicotine Wiki you feel compelled to help consumers in their efforts to have access to safer alternatives to combustible tobacco, please see our [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Advocating_For_Tobacco_Harm_Reduction '''Advocating For Tobacco Harm Reduction'''] page, which contains calls to action you can assist with. While some of our volunteers may fill an advocacy role outside of their efforts on the Safer Nicotine Wiki, we do not participate in or endorse/oppose any regulations as a group. It is outside our mission. We're here for educational purposes only. That information may include studies showing the outcomes of some regulations because it is always important to look at the goals and | If after exploring the Safer Nicotine Wiki you feel compelled to help consumers in their efforts to have access to safer alternatives to combustible tobacco, please see our [https://safernicotine.wiki/mediawiki/index.php/Advocating_For_Tobacco_Harm_Reduction '''Advocating For Tobacco Harm Reduction'''] page, which contains calls to action you can assist with. While some of our volunteers may fill an advocacy role outside of their efforts on the Safer Nicotine Wiki, we do not participate in or endorse/oppose any regulations as a group. It is outside our mission. We're here for educational purposes only. That information may include studies showing the outcomes of some regulations because it is always important to look at the goals and trade-offs of any policy. | ||
== [[Tobacco Harm Reduction News]] == | == [[Tobacco Harm Reduction News]] == | ||
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There is also a list of [[:Category:FAQ Question|'''FAQ Questions''']] that may be interesting. And a [[:Category:FAQ list|'''lists of FAQ questions from various other organizations''']], | There is also a list of [[:Category:FAQ Question|'''FAQ Questions''']] that may be interesting. And a [[:Category:FAQ list|'''lists of FAQ questions from various other organizations''']], | ||
There is this list of categories: '''[[Guide to Main Categories]]''', find your local vaping organisation '''[[Links|List of orgs]] (please try to join if you can, donate if possible, consumers need to be heard)''' | There is this list of categories: '''[[Guide to Main Categories]]''', find your local vaping organisation '''[[Links|List of orgs]] (please try to join if you can, donate to you local one if possible, consumers need to be heard)''' | ||
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This [[Wiki]] has been assembled by a team of keen volunteers, free of [[Special:MyLanguage/funding|funding]] from any industry/NGO (tobacco or otherwise) source. If you would like to contribute to the expansion and evolution of this resource, please see the how to contribute section below. Remember: respected sources only please. | This [[Wiki]] has been assembled by a team of keen volunteers, free of [[Special:MyLanguage/funding|funding]] from any industry/NGO (tobacco or otherwise) source. If you would like to contribute to the expansion and evolution of this resource, please see the how to contribute section below. Remember: respected sources only please. | ||
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