Taxing for harm reduction: New GSTHR Briefing Paper calls for a health-focused approach to tobacco and safer nicotine product taxation
The latest GSTHR Briefing Paper urges governments around the world to encourage those who smoke to switch to safer nicotine products by making use of their tax systems to ensure cigarettes are significantly more expensive than safer alternatives.
Free online course from Knowledge•Action•Change introduces new approaches in the fight against smoking-related death and disease
UK-based public health agency, Knowledge•Action•Change, is launching a free online course called Understanding Tobacco Harm Reduction in a bid to reduce the disease and mortality caused by combustible tobacco and toxic smokeless products.
Norway on track to equal Sweden’s smokefree status: GSTHR Briefing Paper explores widespread substitution of cigarettes by snus
This Briefing Paper explores how snus is rapidly replacing smoking in Norway, uncovering a revolution that has been led by both consumers and product innovation.
Pro-consumer laws and an endorsement for vaping: why smoking is disappearing in Aotearoa New Zealand – New GSTHR Briefing Paper
Our latest Briefing Paper tells the story of Aotearoa New Zealand's rapid and growing embrace of vaping, providing another important case study showcasing the potential of tobacco harm reduction to help bring down smoking rates.
Major new report shows global transition from smoking to safer products is underway – authors call for regulation, not prohibition, to drive down tobacco-related deaths
This landmark new Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report uses the latest evidence and new data projections to assess the current global tobacco harm reduction situation as well as its potential to rapidly reduce tobacco-related disease and mortality.
Vaping set to overtake smoking in the United Kingdom as research and policy endorses tobacco harm reduction - new GSTHR Briefing Paper
The number of people who vape in the United Kingdom is soon set to exceed the number who smoke for the first time. This Briefing Paper explores the United Kingdom’s progress towards becoming smokefree, highlighting both the successes and the challenges.
New GSTHR Briefing Paper explores how social workers could help tackle smoking through tobacco harm reduction
Social workers build relationships with individuals who are often from marginalised or vulnerable communities where smoking rates are disproportionately high and this Briefing Paper calls for tobacco harm reduction to become more integrated into their work.
Startling power of tobacco harm reduction as cigarette sales halved in Japan - new GSTHR Briefing Paper
In the ten years since the introduction of heated tobacco products to Japan, sales of cigarettes have fallen by 52%. This Briefing Paper explores some of the factors that have helped bring about this decline alongside the rapid growth of heated tobacco products.
Huge potential of tobacco harm reduction for people experiencing homelessness explored in new GSTHR Briefing Paper
This Briefing Paper examines the significant potential of tobacco harm reduction to help people experiencing homelessness and provides insights into harm reduction initiatives in three UK cities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New GSTHR Briefing Paper focuses on tobacco harm reduction consumer advocacy groups - and notes their exclusion from COP10
Our latest Briefing Paper explores the tobacco harm reduction consumer advocacy organisations that play a vital role in maintaining access to safer nicotine products around the world, often in the face of significant opposition from well-funded anti-THR groups.