India loses 1.35 million people a year to tobacco. Its response to safer alternatives: seize and prosecute pouch sellers, not cigarette sellers. #TobaccoHarmReduction #NicotinePolicy #AsiaPacific bit.ly/4xRCqsf

India loses 1.35 million people a year to tobacco. Its response to safer alternatives: seize and prosecute pouch sellers, not cigarette sellers. #TobaccoHarmReduction #NicotinePolicy #AsiaPacific bit.ly/4xRCqsf
"We chose to regulate, not ban." Clarisse Virgino, CAPHRA Philippines, says her country is the model Asia should study before following India and Vietnam into prohibition. #TobaccoHarmReduction #NicotinePolicy #AsiaPacific bit.ly/4xRCqsf
Asia-Pacific's nicotine pouch rules right now
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80% of nicotine consumed in Australia now comes from illicit sources, per wastewater data — after pouches were banned outright. Prohibition didn't cut demand. It moved it underground. #TobaccoHarmReduction #NicotinePolicy #AsiaPacific bit.ly/4xRCqsf
US fast-tracks vape and pouch approvals. Asia bans the same products. Same evidence, opposite laws. #TobaccoHarmReduction #NicotinePolicy #AsiaPacific bit.ly/4xRCqsf