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Continuum of Risk for Nicotine Containing Products

- Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2020

In the context of tobacco harm reduction – what does ‘safer’ mean? When a smoker draws on a cigarette, the temperature at the tip rises from about 700 degrees centigrade to 900 degrees – enough to melt metals including aluminium and lead – releasing some 7,000 detected compounds, of which at least 70 are carcinogens. …

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, …

Tobacco Harm Reduction and the Right to Health

Ruth Goldsmith (UK) - 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.

Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) Map

- No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

The FDA in the USA has long held the authority to regulate nicotine replacement therapies such as gum, patch, and lozenges through the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). In 2009, with the passage of the Family Prevention Smoking and Tobacco Control Act, the FDA gained the authority to regulate tobacco products and marketing …

Countries Where HNB Products are Sold

- No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

Heat not burn (HNB) products are available in more than 37 countries, including Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, Ukraine, Russia, the United Kingdom, Guatemala, Colombia, and South Africa. Many of these countries, and others, regulate these products differently than cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products. …

Global Status of Snus

- No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

The EU stands out prominently as the only region to have a comprehensive ban on the sale of snus, which was implemented in 1992 and then incorporated into subsequent Tobacco Products Directives (TPD). The UK started the ban when, in 1989, it outlawed oral snuff in response to the introduction of ‘Skoal Bandits’. …

Global E-Cigarette Regulation as of July 2018

Harry Shapiro - No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

It may come as a surprise to both those in tobacco control and those advocating for tobacco harm reduction that at present most countries do not have any specific law regulation regarding e-cigarettes: 101 countries have no specific law on e-cigarettes. It is possible that if it came to a government or court decision, it …

Global Status of E-Cigarettes

- No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

At the time of writing most countries do not have any specific law regulation regarding e-cigarettes: 101 countries have no specific law on e-cigarettes. It is possible that if it came to a government or court decision, it might be that in some of these countries e-cigarettes would be found to be covered by tobacco …

Global Vaping Prevalence (%) - Various Surveys

- No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

For the first time we have tried to bring together the extant information on the prevalence of use of e-cigarettes, and this is summarised in this graphic using data for 2017 gathered from Eurobarometer. This information is also available online, on a country-by-country basis where it exists, at https://gsthr.org/countries/. …

E-Cigarette Use in Great Britain

- No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

The anti-smoking charity ASH has conducted repeat surveys on the use of e-cigarettes in the adult population in Great Britain (England, Wales, and Scotland) since 2012. Sample sizes are substantial at around 12,000 adults (18 and over) each year. …

Regional E-Cigarette Market Size Estimates (2016)

- No Fire, No Smoke: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction

North America is by far the largest e-cigarette market, followed by Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, and then the rest of the world. The market share for different products varies in different countries. …