By Damilola Babatunde and Marvelene Ekott According to The Encyclopedia Britannica, “Smoking is the act of inhaling and exhaling the fumes of burning plant material. A variety of plant materials are smoked, including marijuana and hashish, but the act is most commonly associated with tobacco as smoked in a cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Tobacco contains […]
Samrat Chowdhery is the director and founder of Association of Vapers India – AVI and Council for Harm Reduced Alternatives -CHRA. These organizations have been advocating for risk reduction in tobacco use since 2016, and most importantly, campaigning for access to less harmful alternatives such as vaping, snus, and Heat not Burn in order to […]
Uche Olatunji March 30, 2020 To state the obvious, smoking kills. Tobacco smoking is the world’s leading preventable cause of premature death. Here in Nigeria, there are at least 11 million smokers, and despite declining prevalence, a fast-growing population means that the actual number of smokers is on the rise. This is especially […]
The Africa tobacco harm reduction forum (ATHRF) is a bi- annual convening that brings together key stakeholders involved in efforts to curb conventional cigarette smoking in Africa. The platform draws together actors from governments, civil society, International organizations, legislators, media, academia and national campaigners to take stock of the current state of play on cigarette […]
Clive Bates This paper turned up in my weekly search of PubMed. Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of Electronic Cigarettes. Eissenberg T, Bhatnagar A, Chapman S, Jordt SE, Shihadeh A, Soule EK. Am J Public Health. 2020 Feb;110(2):161-162. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305424. The commentary claims to show the “invalidity” of the statements made […]
Cigarette smoking is a very hard addiction to break. It was reported that 80% of smokers who attempted to quit smoking on their own failed within the first month and only about 3-5% remained abstinent at 6 months (Riccardo et al, 2011). The addictive part of smoking cigarettes is not at all the issue, but […]
Global Forum for Nicotine 2020 (GFN20) is the world’s leading event for discussion about safer nicotine products, set to take place in Warsaw during June. This year’s theme for #GFN20 is ‘Nicotine: science, ethics and human rights’, and the conference will examine advances in the science of nicotine, the ethical and moral arguments and the […]
The Right to Life, Right to Health and Right to Information are International Fundamental Human Rights. The Right to Health is founded upon the right to life. Article 25 of the United Nations’ 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and […]
Over the summer, US media reported that two National Health Service hospitals in England were allowing Ecigwizard, a vape retailer, to open stores inside their facilities. What some critics quoted in these reports missed was that these stores were established in order to encourage patients who struggle to quit smoking to switch to vaping. The […]
By Farayola Rachael Oluwatoyosi & Babatunde Abdulhammed Opeyemi November 18, 2019 Smoking is an act of combusting and inhaling substances commonly attributed to tobacco smoking in the form of cigarette, cigar, etc. It poses a great threat to mankind’s existence. This act has sent several people to the ‘underworld’ than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. […]