We are on the side of consumers for safer nicotine alternatives

Spain was set to become one of Europe’s most restrictive countries for nicotine pouches and other nicotine products. Now, those plans have been put on hold. The Spanish Parliament has officially been dissolved, meaning the government’s proposed amendments to the country’s main tobacco law, Law 28/2005, have automatically been shelved. The legislation included sweeping changes […]

There are two schools of thought in today’s tobacco and nicotine policy debate. One wants to reduce smoking. The other wants to reduce nicotine use. As long as policymakers continue to pretend these are the same thing, Europe will continue to fail. Because if the goal really is to eliminate cigarettes, policymakers should start by […]

Eight European governments (the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, France, Hungary, Latvia, Slovenia, and Spain) formally asked the European Commission to take an extreme approach to the next Tobacco Products Directive (TPD3): freeze new nicotine categories, impose broad flavour and nicotine restrictions, curb cross-border sales, and preserve national powers to ban products such as nicotine pouches.  Youth […]

The European Parliament has provided an early indication of how nicotine pouches could be treated in the next generation of EU nicotine regulation. Last week’s vote on Parliament’s resolution on cardiovascular health prevention, while non-binding, offers important political signals ahead of the European Commission’s expected revision of the EU tobacco and nicotine framework in late […]