Clearing the Air

@clearingthe_air

News and opinion on safer nicotine products in English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish. Pro harm reduction.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 17

How hard will the EU’s new tobacco & vape tax proposal hit you? Check in seconds, our calculator is built on the Commission’s 16 July data. Share your result & tag your MEP. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/the-tr… #harmreduction

clearingthe_air's tweet card. The European Commission wants to hike taxes of safer nicotine products, a move which will cause enormous pain for consumers, most of whom just want to stop

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 16

🛑  New UK byelaw: You can now be fined £1,000 for vaping on the Metro. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/vapers…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. Metro passengers in the UK can now be slapped with fines of up to £1,000 for vaping anywhere on the network under a controversial new byelaw.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 16

Kate Moss: still iconic, now vaping instead of smoking. The ‘greatest smoker of all time’ switches to harm reduction. clearingtheair.eu/post/kate-moss…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. Kate Moss turned heads at British Summer Time (BST) Hyde Park on Friday as she was seen casually vaping and sipping a beer during Neil Young’s headline set.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 11

NEW STUDY: Most teens who try vaping stop within a year. Only 1 in 20 becomes a regular user. So much for the “epidemic”. clearingtheair.eu/post/most-teen…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. Most teenagers who experiment with vaping stop within a year, according to a new U.S. study.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 10

📉 New Czech data: smoking drops, vaping rises. A harm reduction success in the making. #harmreduction #vaping clearingtheair.eu/post/smoking-d…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. Cigarette smoking is falling out of favour in the Czech Republic as more people - especially the young - turn to lower-risk nicotine alternatives like vaping,

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 9

More young Australians now vape AND smoke than before the ban, and it's all through the black market. Public health failure in real time. clearingtheair.eu/post/australia…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. Shock new data shows smoking and vaping rates are surging among young Australians despite the sweeping ban on vapes.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 8

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Vaping and nicotine pouch taxes are being baked directly into the EU’s long-term budget. Health policy? No. This is now a money grab. Full story 👇 #EU #EUPolitics #EUPolicy clearingtheair.eu/en/post/exclus…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. The long awaited EU Tobacco Excise Directive - which, as we revealed on Clearing the Air - will include massive increases on taxes for vapes and nicotine

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 7

🚏 Vape at a bus stop? That’s £100, mate. Because nothing says “public health” like pushing ex-smokers into the street, then fining them. clearingtheair.eu/en/post/100-fi…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. Vapers across the UK could soon be fined up to £100 for using vapes at bus stops, under new powers being considered by Parliament.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 4

🗣️ Clive Bates: “Vaping has normalised quitting smoking.” WHO: “Vaping renormalises smoking.” Only one of these positions is backed by evidence. clearingtheair.eu/post/vapes-ris…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the use of vapes risks "renormalising smoking behaviour," especially among young people, in a sweeping new

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · 9 h

FDA to Juul: Welcome back. Years after banning them, the agency now says their products “protect public health.” Evidence matters. #Juul #FDA #TobaccoControl clearingtheair.eu/post/fda-autho…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorised Juul Labs to market its vapes and tobacco and menthol-flavoured pods in the U.S.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 22

🚨 WHO calls “harm reduction” a tobacco industry narrative. But their own treaty, the FCTC, defines it as tobacco control. They’re now contradicting the very treaty they’re meant to uphold. clearingtheair.eu/post/who-fails…

clearingthe_air's tweet image. 🚨 WHO calls “harm reduction” a tobacco industry narrative. But their own treaty, the FCTC, defines it as tobacco control. They’re now contradicting the very treaty they’re meant to uphold. clearingtheair.eu/post/who-fails…

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 22

⚖️ France’s pouch ban is so extreme, 7 EU countries just hit pause. clearingtheair.eu/post/french-ni…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. France has once again delayed its ban on nicotine pouches, pushing enforcement to August 25 after seven European Union (EU) countries filed formal objections.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 21

Shocking: Pregnant women were given free cigarettes and told to keep smoking, by researchers. Funded by the U.S. government. You read that right. How did this pass ethics review? clearingtheair.eu/post/ethics-ab…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. In a revelation that has stunned public health observers, pregnant women in a government-funded U.S. clinical trial are being given free cigarettes and

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 18

💥 New Study: Ukraine loses 75,000 people a year to smoking. Switching to vapes could save millions of life years. clearingtheair.eu/post/vapes-cou…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. The use of vapes could lead to a substantial reduction in life years lost due to smoking in Ukraine, a new study has found.

Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 18

New study: Flavoured vapes help smokers cut down AND reduce cancer risk. clearingtheair.eu/post/flavoured…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. Flavoured vapes can significantly improve quit rates among smokers - especially those from high-risk groups - according to a new analysis of three U.S.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 17

🚨 Czechia to ban candy-flavoured vapes, but strawberry and banana are still OK. Confused? So is everyone else. clearingtheair.eu/post/czechia-m…

clearingthe_air's tweet card. The Czech Ministry of Health has moved to ban candy-flavoured vapes in an attempt to curb rising youth vaping rates.

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Clearing the Air@clearingthe_air · Jul 9

🇸🇪🔥 Sweden’s Finance Minister just torched the EU’s nicotine pouch tax plan. “Totally unacceptable.” clearingtheair.eu/post/swedish-f…

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