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WHO calls on governments to ban flavors in all nicotine products
- On May 30, 2025, the World Health Organization urged governments worldwide to prohibit flavored tobacco and nicotine products in order to safeguard young people from addiction and related health risks.
- The ban call followed evidence that flavored products increase youth experimentation, addiction, and disease risk, despite tobacco control progress.
- Flavors like menthol and bubble gum mask harshness, appeal through marketing and packaging, and contribute to eight million tobacco-related deaths annually.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus emphasized that unless decisive measures are taken, addiction enhanced by attractive flavors will keep fueling the worldwide tobacco crisis.
- This initiative urges 184 FCTC parties covering 90% of the global population to implement strong bans and reduce youth tobacco and nicotine product use.
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When It Comes to Tobacco Harm Reduction, the AMA Can’t See the Forest for the Trees - R Street Institute
Article: Sara Berg, “What doctors wish patients knew about e-cigarettes,” American Medical Association, May 30, 2025. A recent news article from the American Medical Association (AMA) addresses the declining use of e-cigarettes among middle and high school students in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified e-cigarettes as the most commonly... The post When It Comes to Tobacco Harm Reduction, the AMA Ca…
ThePatriotLight - Global crises disrupt effort to get millions to quit smoking
ThePatriotLight - LONDON – The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and wars have combined to hamper global governments' plans to reduce tobacco use, derailing efforts to get an estimated 95 million people to stop smoking, a report endorsed by 57 campaign groups said on Friday. Governments had planned to reduce smoking rates among people over 15 by 30% between 2010 and 2025 as part of an action plan tied to global sustainable development targets ag…
In the context of World Tobacco Free Day 2025 and following the recent presidential announcement in the public account on the incorporation of the cessation of tobacco use into the Explicit Guarantees in Health (GES) program, the Minister of Health, Ximena Aguilera, gave more details about this new decree and how it will work. In the company of the undersecretaries of the portfolio, Aguilera stressed that they were “very happy” with this new inc…
The concept of reducing the risks associated with smoking gains more land. Countries such as Sweden, New Zealand or Japan record historical declines in the prevalence of tobacco once using alternatives that do not involve burning tobacco. In a...
Tobacco companies continue to target vulnerable people
World No Tobacco Day, observed annually on May 31, seeks to flag the dangers of smoking. A World Health Organization initiative, this year the theme is: Unmasking the Appeal: Exposing Industry Tactics on Tobacco and Nicotine Products. Poppie Mphuthing
Ingredient up to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar lurks in vapes popular with teens, study shows
Ice cream, lip gloss, and sparkling water are just a few of the products that can contain neotame — an artificial sweetener that’s 7,000-13,000 times sweeter than sugar. Now researchers have found it’s also in many flavored disposable e-cigarettes, which they warn gives them extra appeal to teens and kids. The study, published Monday in JAMA, found neotame in all 11 of the popular disposable vape brands it tested, including Elf Bar, Breeze, and …
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