Zonnic pouches entered Canada with a bang in 2023 after they were approved as a smoking cessation aid, leading to their widespread availability throughout Canada. To explore why Zonnic has become so controversial, John Oyston joins us for this episode of GFN News where we dissect Zonnic's Canadian debut and the resultant response from Public Health institutions to this novel safer nicotine product.

GFN News #96 | CANADA'S ZONNIC PANIC | John Oyston explains Canada's Zonnic pouch controversy

In today's episode GFN Interviews host Brent Stafford swapped his usual interviewer's seat to join Joanna Junak to discuss all things #GFN24, the current global backlash to tobacco harm reduction from tobacco control proponents, and what he's learned since beginning to cover the world of tobacco harm reduction with Regulator Watch.

GFN News #108 | MAKING THE NEWS | GFN Interviews host Brent Stafford joins us in the guest's chair!

Australia has taken a hardline approach to vaping leaving smokers wanting to quit with few legal routes to access safer nicotine products. In today's episode leading Australian THR advocate Colin Mendelsohn asks, have these restrictions actually achieved their intended goals? In his recent evidence to Australian Senators, Colin set out how a compassionate approach could be the key to improving Australia's vaping situation.

GFN News #109 | FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE FACTS | Mendelsohn debates Australia's vaping stance

In today's episode Gabriel Oke, a public health professional and researcher, puts a spotlight on the use of social media to disseminate misinformation during the EVALI scare and COVID-19 pandemic, and how advocates and policy makers are having to adapt to a new world of instant communication.

GFN News #110 | THE BATTLE FOR THE TRUTH | THR researcher Gabriel Oke highlights vape misinformation

Despite suffering years of pernicious misinformation and an onslaught of regulation leading to product restrictions and bans, in many countries, the popularity of nicotine vaping continues unbridled growth. Indeed, according to Barnaby Page, editorial director at Tamarind Intelligence, it’s unstoppable!

Featuring:
Barnaby Page
Editorial Director, Tamarind Intelligence
ecigintelligence.com

GFN.TV Interviews | UNSTOPPABLE | Worldwide Vaping Growth Continues

In today's episode Will Godfrey joins us to bring us the latest updates from the E-Cigarette Summit in Washington DC, USA, where the FDA stirred up controversy and the real impact of restrictive vaping policies was laid bare!

GFN News #111 | WHAT'S THE NEWS FROM THE E-CIG SUMMIT? | Featuring Will Godfrey of Filter Magazine

When India's government added nicotine replacement therapies to its list of essential medicines, tobacco harm reduction advocates celebrated a win for smokers looking to quit. But was this success short lived, and has India returned to an anti-nicotine frame of mind? Joining us today to discuss India's track record with nicotine is journalist Samrat Chowdhery.

Link to the arcticle: https://tobaccoreporter.com/2024/05/01/a-perfect-storm/

GFN News #112 | BLOOMBERG FUNDING IN SPOTLIGHT IN INDIA | Featuring Samrat Chowdhery

Under Spain's new anti-smoking plan, safer nicotine products will now be equated with smoking in the latest measures to restrict vaping in the country. Joining us today is Carmen Escrig, Coordinator of the Spanish Medical Platform for Tobacco Harm Reduction, who will highlight the pushback against this proposal and the institutional biases that helped create it in the first place.

GFN News #113 | IS THIS REALLY THE PATH TO A SMOKEFREE SPAIN? | Featuring Carmen Escrig

Australia intensified its war on vaping with new, punitive regulations that will criminalize nicotine vaping products to an extent unseen in the Western world. The government explicitly states that its goal is to 'reverse the increasing uptake of recreational nicotine.

Featuring:
Fiona Patten
Former Member, Parliament of Victoria, Australia
Chair, Australian Consumers’ Association
Harm Reduction, Vaping Activist
@FionaHPatten

GFN.TV Interviews | COMPLETE DISASTER | Australia Abandons Tobacco Harm Reduction

What’s holding up the transformation to safer nicotine products in low-income and middle-income countries, known as LMICs? In India, there are over 300 million tobacco users, with many using what Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan calls “risky forms of tobacco” that significantly increase cancer severity. Hear Dr. Sud’s “bottom of the pyramid” plan to supercharge the tobacco transformation in LMICs.

Featuring:
Dr. Sudhanshu Patwardhan
Medical Doctor, Nicotine Expert
@Doctor_Sud

GFN.TV Interviews | FORGOTTEN FRONTIER | Fighting Risky Forms of Tobacco in LMICs

2024 Michael Russell Oration - delivered by Cliff Douglas - President and Chief Executive Officer of the Global Action to End Smoking - titled "Bridging the Divide: Taking Global Action to End Smoking"

Michael Russell Oration 2024 - "Bridging the Divide: Taking Global Action to End Smoking" | #GFN24

Since 2014, the Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) has been the only international conference to focus on how safer nicotine products like vapes, nicotine pouches, Swedish snus and heated tobacco can help people switch away from smoking, in an approach called tobacco harm reduction.

Building on the event's success, GFN•TV launched in 2022 with GFN News hosted by Joanna Junak. Each episode, Joanna's bulletin shares tobacco harm reduction updates from around the world alongside brief expert interviews. After the news, Joanna hands over to Brent Stafford, who hosts the in-depth GFN•TV/RegulatorWatch discussion segment with a variety of expert guests.

Available to watch at https://gfn.tv and now to listen on [Soundcloud / Spotify / Apple Podcasts], GFN News ensures that our platform for rational and inclusive debate on the future role of safer nicotine products and tobacco harm reduction is accessible to a global audience all year round. Tune in now!

https://gfn.events | Follow us on social media! @GFNicotine

GFN News #96 | CANADA'S ZONNIC PANIC | John Oyston explains Canada's Zonnic pouch controversy

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