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== Information on Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR), Nicotine, and safer alternatives to using combustible cigarettes ==
== Information on Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR), Nicotine, and safer alternatives to using combustible cigarettes ==
We aim to provide information for Advocates, PolicyMakers, LawMakers, Interested members of the public (remember you are the 'public' in public health), Scientists and Researchers, Health Workers and Medical Doctors indeed anyone who would like reliable information. Most of the time that links directly to the original science, we aim to provide useful summaries/comment where possible as a guide, we encourage you to read the full paper if you wish.   
We aim to provide information for interested members of the public (remember you are the 'public' in public health). This might include consumers, scientists and researchers, health workers, medical doctors, regulators, and journalists. Most of the time that links directly to the original science, we aim to provide useful summaries/comment where possible as a guide, we encourage you to read the full paper if you wish.   
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== Finding Balance ==
In 2021, the American Journal of Public Health published the paper "[https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306416 Balancing Consideration of the Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes]." It was written by 15 past presidents of the Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research (SRNT). SRNT is the main global professional society for researchers who focus on nicotine and tobacco. Its mission is "...to stimulate the generation and dissemination of new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its manifestations - from molecular to societal." The paper discussed the contentious debate about tobacco harm reduction, with a focus on e-cigarettes.
 
Around the world, limits are being placed on people who smoke 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 mythological 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 Safter 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 tradeoffs of any policy.


== [[Tobacco Harm Reduction News]] ==
== [[Tobacco Harm Reduction News]] ==
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==== The Latest News on THR, Vaping and Safer Nicotine ====
==== The Latest News on THR, Vaping and Safer Nicotine ====
Here you will find the latest news and links to news about all nicotine products, regulations, etc.   
[[Tobacco Harm Reduction News|Here]] you will find the latest news and links to news about all nicotine products, regulations, etc.   
 
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== UK Vape TAX ==
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=== LONDON, March 6, 2024: The Chancellor has today approved a tax on vaping liquids which is ill-thought-out and will cost thousands of lives. ===
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* The tax on vaping liquids is damaging in principle and in practice.
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* The UK government will undo its former position as a world-leader in reducing the prevalence of smoking.
* Government is now fighting itself by taxing the very products it is urging smokers to try.
* The government is clearly regulating from a position of ignorance and must urgently consult with consumer and public health experts.
{{Blockquote|text=The New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) is exasperated that the government is systematically dismantling world-leading policy which was an example to the rest of the world on how to utilise innovative harm reduction approaches to rapidly reduce the toll of smoking-related disease.
 
Following the ill-judged decision to ignore public health experts who warned of a ban on single use vapes deterring people who smoke from switching to products which could save their lives, it has now undermined its own admirable Swap to Stop campaign by vowing to increase the tax on the very products it is urging smokers to try. Furthermore, the design of the tax shows that government ministers have no understanding of how the devices help to reduce smoking prevalence. 
 
Government is now fighting itself. It has been recently reported that 400,000 vaping products – the first of one million promised by the government last year - will be handed out free of charge under the Swap to Stop campaign, while the Chancellor is taxing them on the pretext that they are harmful.
 
NNA Chair, Louise Ross, an expert on smoking cessation for nearly two decades comments, “putting a higher tax on stronger e-liquids completely misses the point that the more heavily dependent smokers will need stronger liquid to stay smoke-free. This will include people with poor mental health, people on benefits, people living in disadvantaged communities and those with challenging lives. Higher taxes will keep them smoking.|author=[[New Nicotine Alliance]]|source=https://mailchi.mp/nnalliance/media-release-a-tax-on-vaping-liquids|title=News email}}For information on how to respond please follow the advice of your local advocacy organisation, or the NNA email above.
 
 
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{{note|type=reminder|See the [[Special:AllPages|'''List of all pages''']], or use the [[Special:Search|'''Search page''']] (Tip: add ~ to the end of e.g. colour~ to find alternate (international) spellings) or the search box in the top right corner.<br/>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''']],<br/> There is this list of categories '''[[Guide to Main Categories|Guide to Main Categories]]''', find your local vaping organisation''' [[Links|List of orgs]]'''}}
{{note|inline=0|type=reminder|See the [[Special:AllPages|'''List of all pages''']], or use the [[Special:Search|'''Search page''']] (Tip: add ~ to the end of e.g. colour~ to find alternate (international) spellings) or the search box in the top right corner.<br/>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''']],<br/> There is this list of categories '''[[Guide to Main Categories|Guide to Main Categories]]''', find your local vaping organisation''' [[Links|List of orgs]]'''}}


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