Nicotine / THR - Statements from Organizations
"Tobacco Harm Reduction = SAFER than smoking"
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International/Multinational
World Health Organization EURO Office
European Parliament
Cochrane systematic evidence review
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- 78 scientific studies (including >34 randomized control trials) involving 22,052 participants in a dozen countries. This 2022 update replaces their 2021 evidence review, based on 61 studies, which found “moderate certainty evidence.”
15 past presidents of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT)
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- NOTE: This is not a statement by the SRNT.
The Tobacco Atlas
- The Tobacco Atlas is a collaborative publication by Vital Strategies & Tobacconomics at the Institute for Health Research and Policy.
- Vital Strategies was formed out of a merger between World Lung Foundation and The Union.
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Australia (See Also: "Australia and New Zealand")
Australia and New Zealand
New Zealand (See Also: "Australia and New Zealand")
Official New Zealand Ministry of Health Position Statement
“Vaping is not harmless but it is much less harmful than smoking. Vaping has the potential to help people quit smoking and contribute to New Zealand’s Smokefree 2025 goal.” Organizations that support this statement include: Health Promotion Agency/Te Hiringa Hauora (HPA), Hāpai te Hauora/Māori Public Health, New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA), Action for Smokefree 2025 (ASH), National Training Service (NTS), All District Health Boards, Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand, New Zealand Heart Foundation, New Zealand College of Midwives, Parents Care Centre
![The report… provides the most robust evidence on health risks of vaping to date. …Vaping poses a small fraction of the risks of smoking. …There is: Significantly lower exposure to harmful substances from vaping compared with smoking, as shown by biomarkers associated with the risk of cancer, respiratory and cardiovascular conditions [and] no significant increase of toxicant biomarkers after short-term secondhand exposure to vaping among people who do not smoke or vape.](/mediawiki/index.php/File:8th_evidence_review_of_nicotine_vaping_in_England.png)
2021
2018
2022
Suggestions to add to this page
- "Smoking rates are dropping, thanks to price increases associated with tobacco taxes, smoking bans, and other evidence-based practices outlined in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.Even if these practices are scaled up, however, millions of smokers will still suffer death, disease, and disability. Alternative tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, aren’t harmless, but they may be less harmful. We need to understand whether they could change the course of the smoking epidemic without addicting youth.”
2021: The Sheffield Tobacco Control Board Policy Position on electronic-cigarettes (also known as vaping)
- While abstinence from tobacco use is the ideal, the next-best result, for individuals who can’t or don’t want to quit nicotine, is movement down the continuum of risk: away from combusted tobacco to a less harmful product. One possible alternative: E-cigarettes.
2023 Tweet - Canada
- Drug Science UK