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Bulgaria: No More Flavored E-Cigarettes from 2024

The Bulgarian government proposes to ban the sale of e-cigarettes with characteristic taste-aromatic qualities and containing flavorings in any of their constituent parts, such as filters, paper, packaging, capsules or other technical elements.

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New Global Vape Alliance Unveiled

A new Global Vape Alliance has been announced today alongside an historic ground-breaking declaration to foster collaboration, promote responsible practices, and champion the cause of harm reduction in the vaping industry. The Alliance brings together major international vaping bodies including the Electronic Cigarette Industry Committee of the China Electronics Chamber of Commerce (ECCC), the US Vapor Technology Association (VTA), the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) and the Independent European Vape Alliance (IEVA).

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WHO asked to protect a billion smokers

A regional civil society group asked the World Health Organization’s (WHO) international treaty on tobacco control which will convene its member states in November 2023 to protect, instead of alienating smokers, by accepting harm reduction strategies that will help them switch to less harmful alternatives such as vapes.

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Tobacco Harm Reduction: The Missing Link

A stitch in time could save nine amid rising morbidity and mortality being driven by smoking cigarettes. With the World Health Organisation (WHO) data showing that tobacco kills at least 8 million people each year, including 1.3 million non-smokers who are exposed to second-hand smoke, delays by governments to adopt alternative and less harmful Tobacco products could see the world sleepwalking into an irreversible health catastrophe.

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FCTC No Longer Relevant in Tobacco Harm Reduction Efforts - Experts

Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) experts have warned that the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), in its current form, is not capable of influencing change as far as Tobacco Harm Reduction is concerned.

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Countries asked to reject measures that will deprive billion smokers of better alternatives

MANILA, Philippines - An Asia-Pacific civil society group asked the member countries of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global treaty on tobacco control to reject prohibitionist measures that will deprive a billion smokers of access to less harmful alternatives such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products.

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THE KAC GLOBAL TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME 2024/25

THE KAC GLOBAL TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME 2024/25

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Most parents back vape ban: study

Most parents of students agree the new government should maintain the current ban on the import and sale of e-cigarettes, citing the potential health risk, according to the Research Centre for Social and Business Development (SAB).

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