Tag: CAPHRA
Harm Reduction or Harm Creation? Rethinking Global Tobacco Policy
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) recently released a powerful report, "The Right to Health and Public Health Policy," authored...
Unmasking The WHO’s War on Vaping: Why Reform Must Include Adult...
On World No Tobacco Day, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Secretariat called for a sweeping prohibition of flavours, sweeteners, and other...
Censored Voices, Ignored Science: The Fight for Evidence-Based Tobacco Harm Reduction
As the global tobacco control debate intensifies, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is sounding the alarm over growing foreign...
New Zealand’s Problematic Vape Laws And Their Lack of Enforcement
Long before the Smoke-free Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Act 2020 was passed, local consumer groups and activists had urged local authorities to...
Regwatch Episode Discusses The Threat COP10 Poses to Vapers
In 2021, FCTC organizers had announced that there would be no discussions or decisions around Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) products at COP9. They had...
Is Big Pharma Driving The Anti-Vape Agenda in New Zealand?
The president of the RNZCGP has recently urged NZ authorities to copy Australia in making vapes prescription only. “The health of whanau is not...
CAPHRA Members Urge COP10 Delegations to Include Consumers
Sadly vapers and tobacco harm reduction experts have year after year been completely left out of a topic that concerns them more than anyone...
Kiwis Must Have Their Say on Proposed Vape Restrictions
Kiwis have until the 15th of March at 5pm to submit.New Zealand’s Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall has launched a consultation document about...
