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.
Central to this report is the universal right to health for those who for whatever reason continue to engage in risky behaviours. Harm reduction refers to a range of policies that reduce the risks associated with these behaviours, or encourage less risky behaviours, thereby enabling people to survive and live better – in this case through access to safer nicotine products (SNP) aimed at encouraging people to switch away from cigarettes, one of the most dangerous ways of consuming nicotine.
Despite a more globally hostile environment for THR, our exclusive survey of global prevalence of safer nicotine products, included in this report, estimates that the overall figure stands at approximately 98m, of whom 68m are vapers. While from a public health perspective this is good news, it still means that after more than a decade of product availability, there are only nine users of SNP for every 100 smokers.
Table of contents:
About the report
Forewords
Introduction
Chapter 1: Smoking: the slow-burning killer
Chapter 2: Market forces: products and consumers
Chapter 3: Not just the nicotine: consumers speak
Chapter 4: Clearing the smoke: safer nicotine products and health
Chapter 5: Project fear: the war against nicotine
Chapter 6: The politics of health: SNP regulation and control
Chapter 7: The right to health and the people left behind
Chapter 8: Burning issues: conclusions and recommendations
Annex: Estimation of the global number of vapers
No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2018 - 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.
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 the use, availability and regulatory responses to safer nicotine products around the world. This GSTHR report mapped for the first time the global, regional and national availability and use of safer nicotine products, the regulatory responses to these products, and the public health potential of tobacco harm reduction. This report explores in detail the potential of safer nicotine products to unlock a public health revolution, if and when these products are embraced globally.
The GSTHR report series is founded on the principle of harm reduction. Harm reduction refers to policies, regulations and actions focussed on reducing health risks, usually by providing safer forms of hazardous products or encouraging less risky behaviours, rather than simply banning products or behaviours. Harm reduction is a proven public health strategy.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction: tobacco harm reduction
Chapter 2: The continuing global epidemic of cigarette smoking
Chapter 3: Safer nicotine products: a global picture
Chapter 4: Consumers of safer nicotine products
Chapter 5: Safer nicotine products and consumer health
Chapter 6: Regulation and control
Chapter 7: Human rights, public health and tobacco harm reduction advocacy
The "vaping timeline" infographic can be downloaded here.
