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Bangladesh plans to ban vaping, related products

The government is considering banning vaping, a trendy alternative to cigarette smoking among youngsters, and related products.

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Brazil Plans Public Consultation on E-Cigarette Regulation

According to Brazilian media outlet Metrópoles, the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) is planning to seek public input regarding the regulation of e-cigarettes in the latter half of this year.

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Profile of Brazilian Undergraduates Who Use Electronic Cigarettes: a Cross-Sectional Study on Forbidden Use

The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) persists in Brazil, despite restrictions on sales, imports, and advertising. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of e-cigarette use and user profiles among university students.

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Nicotine dependence affects cardiopulmonary endurance and physical activity in college students in Henan, China

This study aimed to investigate the impact of smoking on physical activity level, emotional status, and cardiopulmonary endurance in healthy young Chinese college students in order to develop future nicotine dependence management solutions.

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A network approach to the symptom-level associations between smoking and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among young adults exposed to childhood sexual abuse

Previous empirical literature has examined the associations between childhood sexual abuse (CSA) exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and smoking. However, few studies examined symptom-level associations between smoking and PTSD among CSA victims. Thus, the aims of this study were 1) to explore symptom-level associations between smoking and PTSD among combustible cigarette (CC) and electronic cigarette (EC) users exposed to CSA and 2) to compare the differences manifested in two network structures between EC and CC users with CSA experiences.

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WHO asked to stop opposition to tobacco harm reduction to help over a billion smokers

Public health advocates who attended a recent global forum called on the World Health Organization to stop its opposition to the tobacco harm reduction approach and insistence to ban less-harmful tobacco alternative products like vapes and heated tobacco.

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Global Forum on Nicotine Remains Crucial to Harm Reduction

The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) has just been held for the 10th time. It’s been a helluva decade! GFN has been a lonely, brave platform in robustly exploring and unapologetically promoting tobacco harm reduction (THR).

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GFN23: Day 4

The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) took place in Warsaw, Poland. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the event opened up to four packed days of workshops and presentations, attended by experts in tobacco harm reduction, advocates and consumers. The final of the four days saw Dr Roberto Sussman deliver the Michael Russell Oration, and session discussing the changing face of nicotine, the role of nicotinic systems in brain disorders, the tobacco control playbook, and what the next decade might bring for tobacco harm reduction.

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