On September 20th, 2023, the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum (GTNF) entered its second day, and 2FIRSTS engaged in a conversation with Nancy Loucas, the Public Health Policy and Executive… Read More »With Nancy Loucas: Policies in New Zealand and Australia
The member organisations of CAPHRA have written to their respective country FCTC delegations attending COP10 asking that each includes at least one consumer of safer nicotine products. COP10 will be… Read More »COP10 delegations must include consumers – CAPHRA
Several leading international Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) experts have compiled and published extensive research that slams the World Health Organization’s (WHO) official health claims about vaping. Titled ‘The Subversion of… Read More »Vape authors hit back on WHO’s health claims
Now with Parliament’s health select committee, the bill limits the number of retailers able to sell smoked tobacco products, prohibits the sale of tobacco products to anyone born in 2009… Read More »NZ govt’s smokefree proposals must be enforced, say vapers
Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of CAPHRA, says the only thing WHO gets right is spelling out what the acronymENDS stands for: Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems. The rest, she says, can… Read More »WHO’s vaping Q&A an ‘absolute scandal’ – CAPHRA
Interest, insight, and intrigue around ‘World Vape Day’ on 30 May and ‘World No Tobacco Day’ on 31 May are set to be boosted with sCOPe’s two-day global broadcast. sCOPe22… Read More »Livestream set for ‘World Vape Day’ and ‘World No Tobacco Day’
“Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul may not support the legalization of e-cigarettes, but most politicians and the public do, with legal vape sales only months away,” says Asa Saligupta, Director of… Read More »Thailand’s health minister won’t stop legalization of vaping
“Friday, 1 October marks the day deadly cigarettes become a lot easier to obtain in Australia than safer nicotine vaping products,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of the Coalition of… Read More »Black Friday: Australia makes smoking so much easier
“The world is watching as the Philippines Senate looks set to approve the most progressive and risk-proportionate vaping legislation in Asia Pacific. We’re hoping other countries in the region will… Read More »Philippines Senate to lead region with progressive vaping laws
Asia Pacific’s leading tobacco harm reduction advocacy group, CAPHRA, is deeply disturbed by the World Health Organisation’s recently released ‘Tobacco Product Regulation Report’. It says WHO’s negative and obstructive approach… Read More »WHO’s latest tobacco report – an ‘epic fail’ for public health
sCOPe is a consumer livestream event that was developed to inform, educate and inform the public, the media and all the consumers of safer nicotine products in Asia-Pacific and beyond. This is to show who we are, why we advocate for safer options for adults and to show that we will not be silenced.
2023 Major Links
What is sCOPe || Livestream Schedule
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