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THR Media: Oct-Dec ’25

OCTOBER

October 3 – SunStar
Ex-WHO expert urges harm reduction in APAC smoking
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October 3 – Tobacco Industry Interference at COP11 of the WHO FCTC
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October 5 – TheWire
Global Health Experts Examined WHO’s Tobacco Control Approach
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October 5 – KoreaBizWire –
FCTC’s Failure to Uphold Harm Reduction Risks Global Public Health
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October 6 – Yahoo Finance
FCTC’s Failure to Uphold Harm Reduction Risks Global Public Health
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October 7 – Business Standard
Global Health Experts Examined WHO’s Tobacco Control Approach
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October 9 – SunStar
Advocates warn WHO tobacco treaty risk failing its own mandate
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October 10 – Manila Bulletin
WHO tobacco treaty’s failure to uphold harm reduction
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October 13 – Vapers.org.uk, Vapers Digest
Excluding Consumers, Endangering Lives: WHO’s Tobacco Control Failure
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October 13 – Scoop
Excluding Consumers, Endangering Lives: WHO’s Tobacco Control Failure
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October 13 – GFNTV – GFN News #160
WHO’s FCTC COP11 Challenges & Lack of Consumer Impact Explained
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October 16, Scoop World
Philippines Vape Ban: Government Throws The Baby Out with the Bathwater 
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October 17, AHRA (Asia Harm Reduction Association)
COP11 Consumer Exclusion – Everything About Us, Without Us
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October 26, Yahoo Finance
CAPHRA announces ‘Asia Day’ event to take place at The Good Cop 2.0 Conference Highlighting Harm Reduction in Asia Pacific
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October 27, Global Newswire
CAPHRA announces ‘Asia Day’ event to take place at The Good Cop 2.0 Conference Highlighting Harm Reduction in Asia Pacific
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October 27, Tobacco Reporter,
Good COP to Parallel WHO’s COP11
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NOVEMBER
November 10, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
New TPA Report Exposes WHO’s Double Standards on Harm Reduction in Asia Pacific
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November 13, Tobacco Reporter
CAPHRA Calls on Philippines to Champion Consumers at COP11
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November 18, Scoop World
FCTC Locks Out Voices as NZ Champions Safer Nicotine
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November 19, Scoop World
Smoking Plateau Demands New Tools for Smokefree Success
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November 19, Tobacco Reporter
GATC Awards at COP11 Draw Criticism
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November 19, Scoop World
NGOs ‘Dirty Ashtray’ Award To New Zealand Exposes Deep Hypocrisy In Global Tobacco Control
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November 19, VapeHK
NGOs ‘Dirty Ashtray’ Award To New Zealand Exposes Deep Hypocrisy In Global Tobacco Control
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November 19, GlobeNewswire
Asia Front and Centre: CAPHRA Powers Regional Voice at GoodCOP 2.0
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November 19, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Good COP 2.0 – Daily Download – Wednesday 19 November
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November 19, Korea Bizwire
Asia Front and Centre: CAPHRA Powers Regional Voice at Good COP2.0
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November 20, The Manila Times
Asia Front and Centre: CAPHRA Powers Regional Voice at GoodCOP 2.0
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November 20, Tobacco Reporter
CAPHRA Unveils White Paper on WHO’s Harm Reduction Approach
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November 20, Globe Newswire
Asia Front and Centre: CAPHRA Powers Regional Voice at GoodCOP 2.0
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November 20, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Good COP 2.0 – TPA’s Daily Download: Thursday
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November 21, Manila Standard
Developing nations decry “philanthro-colonialism” in WHO tobacco policy
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November 24, Planet of the Vapes
FCTC Locks Out NZ
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November 24, VSML
GoodCOP 2.0 – Day 5 Recap
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November 24, Vaping Post
Punished for Success? New Zealand’s “Dirty Ashtray” Reveals the FCTC’s Embedded Bias
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November 25, Filter Magazine
Ugly COP11 Attacks THR, But Nations Avert Worst Damage
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November 26, Planet of the Vapes
Dirty Ashtray Hypocrisy
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November 26, Vapers.org.uk, Vapers Digest,
CAPHRA Calls Our Unfounded Accusations In FCTC Discussions
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November 26, Vaping Post
Progress Shamed, WHO Exposed: How Harm Reduction Challenged COP’s Backwards Agenda in Geneva
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November 26, Scoop World
CAPHRA Calls Out Unfounded Accusations in FCTC Discussions
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November 28, Vapers.org.uk, Vapers Digest
Dirty Ashtray Hypocrisy AND FCTC Locks Out NZ
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DECEMBER 2025

December 1 – GSTHR.org GFN News #165
WHY NEW ZEALAND WAS SHAMED FOR REDUCING SMOKING
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December 1, Tobacco Reporter
CAPHRA Says WHO Allowing Prohibitionists to Dominate Agenda
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December 3, Vape Business
Harm reduction campaigners slam FCTC Dirty Ashtray award to New Zealand
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December 7, Globe Newswire,
CAPHRA Raises Alarm over Legitimacy of WHO Tobacco Treaty
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December 7, Macau Business
CAPHRA Raises Alarm over Legitimacy of WHO Tobacco Treaty
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December 8 – Vapers.org.uk
CAPHRA Raises Alarm over Legitimacy of WHO Tobacco Treaty
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December 8 – TechCN
CAPHRA Raises Alarm over Legitimacy of WHO Tobacco Treaty
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December 8 – Yahoo Finance
CAPHRA Raises Alarm over Legitimacy of WHO Tobacco Treaty
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December 9 – Nicotine Insider
Report: FCTC Hijacked by Philanthropic NGOs
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December 14 – Vaping Post
NZ’s Falling Teen Vaping and Near-Zero Smoking: New Data Confirms the Absurdity of the FCTC’s Dirty Ashtray Award
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December 15, Tobacco Reporter
New Zealand’s Conflicting Awards Panned by CAPHRA
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December 17 – COPWatch.info
Awards, outrage, and the Sound of Pots Meeting Kettles
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December 17 – Planet of the Vapes
New Zealand is Punished for Success
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December 18 – Scoop World
New Zealand Punished By WHO For Achieving Exactly What FCTC Treaty Mandated
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December 19 – Vapers.org.uk
New Zealand is Punished for Success
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December 22 – TobaccoWatch (SEATCA)
2025: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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