GFN.TV Interviews

Tobacco harm reduction activist and award-winning African filmmaker discusses unheard narratives around safer nicotine products, smoking cessation, and tobacco control.

Featuring:
Emmanuel Mwape
Award Winning Filmmaker, THR Activist
K•A•C Global THR Scholar, Zambia
@mwape_emmanuel

GFN.TV Interviews | SAVING CHALO | THR Education on The Big Screen

Tobacco control has no sympathy for the smoker, says Samrat Chowdhery tobacco harm reduction expert and consumer activist. He says there has to be a more humane way to tackle the tobacco problem and tobacco control needs to start thinking more like drugs control.

Featuring:
SAMRAT CHOWDHERY
Journalist, THR Consumer Activist
@SamratTHR

GFN.TV Interviews | NO SYMPATHY | How Tobacco Control Ignores People They Purport to Help

There is too much emotion driving public policy on e-cigarettes, says leading tobacco control researcher Dr. Jasjit Ahluwalia. A physician, public health scientist, and professor at Brown University’s Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Dr. Ahluwalia has deep experience researching health disparities and smoking cessation and nicotine addiction in African-American smokers. He has been continuously funded by the NIH for 25 years and has published over 400 manuscripts. Hear his assessment on the efficacy and relative safety of e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products.

Featuring:
DR. Jasjit Ahluwalia
Physician, Public Health Scientist
Prof. Behavioral and Social Sciences & Internal Medicine Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies
Brown University School of Public Health
@Brown_SPH

GFN.TV Interviews | DISPARATE SCIENCE | Top Researcher Says E-Cigs Are Game Changer

There is a particular piece of information you are not supposed to talk about. You certainly can't promote it. And never depend on public health to acknowledge it. What is it? Nicotine is not carcinogenic; when consumed outside of a cigarette, it is benign. Likely no more harmful than caffeine. According to harm reduction consultant and developmental neurobiologist Charles Gardner, nicotine could have significant health benefits.

Featuring:
CHARLES A. GARDNER, PhD
Consultant, Harm Reduction Strategies
Developmental Neurobiologist
@ChaunceyGardner

GFN.TV Interviews | DE-DEMONIZING NICOTINE | Ending Fear To Promote Benefits

While the United States of America is ground zero for the anti-vaping propaganda and misinformation that poisoned worldwide public perception of vaping, it’s also home to a solid and relentless vaping advocacy community pushing back against the anti-vaping hordes. How are they doing? Find out in this episode of GFN Interviews.

Featuring:
Allison Boughner
Vice President, American Vapor Manufacturers
Marketing & Communications Director, ECIG Charleston
@alli_vapes
@vapouramerican
ecigcharleston.com

GFN.TV Interviews | HARDLY FREE | U.S. Vape Advocacy in Post “Epidemic” Era

Canadian tobacco harm reduction advocate and nicotine vape retailer takes a stand against anti-vaping critics at home while preparing to take on the WHO at the upcoming FCTC COP10, the Conference of the Parties in Panama, this November.

Featuring:
MARIA PAPAIOANNOY-DUIC
Vaping Activist, Canada
@papaioannoy

GFN.TV Interviews | SHAME ON YOU | Vaping Activist Responds to Critics

A spike in U.S. youth vaping rates back in 2018 sparked a worldwide moral panic over teen vaping. But the so-called “epidemic” was short-lived. In just 4-years, U.S. teen vaping fell over 60% to a historic low in 2023. It’s good news for everyone except those campaigners who profit from panic.

Featuring:
MICHELLE MINTON
Senior Analyst, Reason Foundation
reason.org
@michelleminton

GFN.TV Interviews | PANIC OVER | Teen Vaping Decline Spells Trouble for Tobacco Control

Mexico’s ban on nicotine vaping leaves consumers caught in the crossfire. While the “tobacco wars” narrative is obsolete, it continues to cause damage, says physicist and tobacco harm reduction advocate Dr. Roberto Sussman. While the tobacco industry today is no longer the villain it once was, public health campaigners continue to wage war, striking disruptive technologies like nicotine vapes that provide safe and effective alternatives to combustible tobacco.

GFN.TV Interviews | BANNED IN MEXICO | Physicist Reacts to Draconian Vape Laws

Where’s the parade for all the people who quit smoking thanks to nicotine vapes? This is the question Janine Timmons wants tobacco control bureaucrats to answer when they gather next month in Panama for the World health Organization’s COP10 conference. She’s afraid attendees will continue to dig for the worst possible excuse to ban vaping, when they should be celebrating its success in helping smokers to quit.

Featuring:
JANINE TIMMONS
Consumer, Nicotine Vaping Products
@grayjaynine

GFN.TV Interviews | KEEP DIGGING | Consumer Concerns Over WHO’s Upcoming COP10

What happens when ideology meets science? Look at the debate over nicotine vaping products for the answer. Just a decade ago tobacco control made great strides towards eliminating cigarette smoking. But in a bizarre effort to undermine nicotine vapes, public health is now contorting science and pushing people back to smoking.

GFN.TV Interviews | SOUND SCIENCE | Tobacco Researcher Says ‘Trust the Data’

With an estimated 7 million smokers out of a population of 19 million, the Eastern European country of Romania has a lot of work to do to help its citizens quit the deadly habit. Instead, Romania plans to enact a new excise tax that would double the cost of safer nicotine products, like vaping.

Featuring:
Alex Gogoana
President, ACPAN
Consumer Assoc. of Nicotine Products, Romania
acpan.ro

GFN.TV Interviews | TPD STRUGGLES | Romania Braces for Oppressive Excise Tax

GFN.TV Interviews | COP-OUT | WHO FCTC Punts On E-Cig Regulation

The UK’s ban on disposable nicotine vapes demonstrates the many misbeliefs surrounding the “gateway” theory are thriving. But isn’t the theory that youth e-cig use is a gateway to smoking de-bunked? According to Dr. Arielle Selya it is and there’s no room for doubt.

Featuring:
Dr. Arielle Selya
Behavioural Scientist, PinneyAssociates
@ArielleSelya

GFN.TV Interviews | DÉJÀ VU | Insights on Youth Use from JUUL Researcher

Despite extensive regulatory barriers and massive misinformation on relative risk, consumers are transitioning from cigarettes to safer nicotine products at an extraordinary pace. In today’s episode tobacco control policy expert David Sweanor guides us through the remarkable growth of the U.S. vaping market and issues a warning to those who seek to stand in the way.

Featuring:
David Sweanor
Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Tobacco Control Policy Expert
@ottawaharmredux

GFN.TV Interviews | EXTRAORDINARY PACE | Consumers Move to Vaping Products at Dramatic Rate

Actions by anti-tobacco harm reduction advocates and organizations are “outrageous” and “disgusting,” says Ethan Nadelmann, legendary drugs harm reduction campaigner. Why are the lessons learned in the fight to end the war on drugs ignored in the battle to end the war on vaping?

Featuring:
Ethan Nadelmann
Founder & Former Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
Podcast Host, PSYCHOACTIVE
@ethannadelmann

GFN.TV Interviews | INCONVENIENT KNOWLEDGE | Slamming Safer Nicotine Prohibitionists

Cliff Douglas is, as they say, the “real deal”. An essential attorney in the tobacco wars of the 1990s, an adviser to the U.S. FDA and Surgeon General and vice president of tobacco control at the American Cancer Society. He is a tobacco control veteran and now the leader of a global organization dedicated to reducing tobacco harm through harm reduction.

Featuring:
Clifford E. Douglas
President & C.E.O., Foundation for a Smoke-Free World
Former VP, Tobacco Control, American Cancer Society
smokefreeworld.org
@cdoug

GFN.TV Interviews | REAL DEAL | Tobacco Control Heavyweight Takes THR Helm

Tobacco policy in New Zealand could leave one with a touch of motion sickness as the country lurches back and forth in its effort to reduce smoking to five percent by 2025. Researcher Marewa Glover joins GFN Interviews to discuss the latest surprising shift and results of her new study on how New Zealand adults who smoke understand novel tobacco ‘endgame’ policies.

Featuring:
Dr. Marewa Glover
Director, Centre of Research Excellence
Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking, New Zealand
@MarewaGlover

GFN.TV Interviews | ABRUPT TURN | New Zealand’s Surprising Shifts in Tobacco Regulation

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

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

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!

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