THR Reports
The Right Side of History
The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2022: The Right Side of History, was released on 15 November 2022
PDF, English
Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2020 - Executive Summary
Harry Shapiro - Knowledge•Action•Change
A brief summary of our second GSTHR report which documents the development of tobacco harm reduction and use, availability and regulatory responses to safer nicotine products around the world.
PDF, Russian
PDF, Arabic
PDF, Spanish
PDF, Portuguese
PDF, Swahili
PDF, French
PDF, Chinese (Mandarin)
PDF, Hindi
PDF, Indonesian
No Fire, No Smoke - Executive Summary
Harry Shapiro - Knowledge•Action•Change
Executive Summary of "No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2018". The executive summary is available in Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
PDF, Japanese
PDF, Polish
Fighting the Last War: the WHO and International Tobacco Control
Harry Shapiro (UK) - K•A•C
The latest report from K∙A∙C’s Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (GSTHR) argues that “tobacco control policy is frozen in time” while “innovative non-combustible nicotine technology and supporting evidence have moved forwards”. The status quo keeps adult smokers smoking rather than switching to safer nicotine, favouring the tobacco industry.
Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2020
Harry Shapiro - Knowledge•Action•Change
Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2020 is the second in our biennial GSTHR series which documents the development of tobacco harm reduction and the use, availability and regulatory responses to safer nicotine products around the world. Burning Issues picks up the story after our first GSTHR report, No Fire, No Smoke, published in 2018.
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Tobacco Harm Reduction and the Right to Health
Ruth Goldsmith - Knowledge•Action•Change
Tobacco harm reduction and the right to health offers an introduction and overview of key issues in tobacco harm reduction, its public health potential and its relationship with human rights. The report is available in English and 12 other languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swahili.
PDF, German
Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Burning Issue for Asia
Harry Shapiro
The focus of this GSTHR briefing is Asia. Sixty per cent of the world’s smokers live in this region and almost half the global deaths from smoking occur here. Asia is also home to nine in every ten users of smokeless tobacco (SLT), leading to high rates of oral cancer. In a number of countries, public health is severely undermined where governments either control or have a significant stake in domestic tobacco companies. New solutions are needed to tackle the public health threat from smoking and tobacco use - but safer nicotine products are banned in many countries. Would tobacco harm reduction improve public health in Asia? And if so - what are the obstacles that stand in its way?
The formal launch event for the briefing took place online on Sunday 18 April 2021 and was co-hosted with Association of Vapers India.
No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2018
Harry Shapiro - Knowledge•Action•Change
No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2018 was the first in the series of biennial GSTHR reports. Inspired by the drug harm reduction reports of Harm Reduction International, published on a biennial basis since 2006, this landmark publication was the first to document the history and development of tobacco harm reduction, as well as use, availability and regulatory responses to safer nicotine products around the world.
The full report is available in English and Mandarin.