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Sweden's agenda for WHO meeting on snus, nicotine pouches and e-cigs kept secret

The secrecy surrounding the upcoming meeting of the Convention on Tobacco Control (COP10) is causing concern among many Swedes. Not least among those who use or work with smoke-free nicotine products such as snus and e-cigarettes.

Activists mobilise for WHO tobacco meeting in Panama

"The WHO focuses more on e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches than on discouraging cigarette use. They don't care about protecting the alternatives that can improve smokers' health," said Lindsay Stroud, Tax Payers...

WHO fateful meeting on snus, e-cigs and nicotine pouches cancelled

The planned meeting on the Tobacco Convention, COP10, in Panama City has been cancelled. The WHO Tobacco Control Secretariat announced this on its website. The reason is riots in the host country Panama.

Warning: "EU wants to ban white snus - also in Sweden"

EU health bureaucrats want to ban white snus, i.e. nicotine products, in all EU countries, including Sweden. This is what Charlie Weimers, a member of the European Parliament, says after reading a leaked report commissioned by the European Commission...

85% of e-cigarette users in the EU have quit smoking completely.

Calls on WHO: "Do as England does and save smokers' lives"

The organisation INNCO is organising several actions in London to encourage UK politicians to defend tobacco harm reduction within the WHO.

Doctors: "E-cigarettes are the solution - not the problem"

Many leading health and addiction researchers around the world are dismayed by the WHO's campaign against e-cigarettes.

INNCO: "Banning e-cigarettes hinders sustainable development"

WHO criticised for tougher guidelines on nicotine products "Smokers should have the right to choose less harmful alternatives to cigarettes" says INNCO.

Warns of millions more smoking deaths - despite all efforts

The WHO's strategy to reduce the harm caused by smoking is not working. So says Derek Yach, who helped draft the Tobacco Convention 15 years ago.

E-cigarettes work best for smoking cessation according to doctor Ricardo Polosa

"Medicines do not help smokers to quit in the long run"

The WHO is failing miserably to get smokers to quit. "They don't understand how smokers work," says Dr Ricardo Polosa.

World Vape Day celebrates e-cigarettes and harm reduction for smokers.

World Vape Day aims to encourage smokers to give up cigarettes.

World Vape Day recognises e-cigarettes and encourages smokers to vape on their own terms.