Consumers fighting for the right to make informed choices & access to safer nicotine products for adults in Asia Pacific.
@caphra.bsky.socialStrong regulation will achieve both. #WPRO #HarmReduction #RCM77 bit.ly/4i1AgBx
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@caphra.bsky.social@caphra.bsky.socialTreating cigarettes, oral tobacco, vaping, heated tobacco and nicotine-replacement therapy as identical does not reflect their different risks or uses. Effective tobacco control should be evidence-based and risk-proportionate. #WPRO #HarmReduction #RCM77 bit.ly/4i1AgBx
@alexwodak.bsky.socialReposted by @caphra.bsky.social“While legal tobacco packets start about $40, illegal tobacco can be as little as $10. It is estimated the trade, worth more than $8.5 billion nationwide, has put a $42 billion black hole in the federal budget” @algore09algor.bsky.social @igas2.bsky.social #auspol
@alexwodak.bsky.socialReposted by @caphra.bsky.socialGates Foundation adds new science based ways to shrink global malaria but also supports voodoo based opposition to safer nicotine products which accelerate decline in smoking
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@caphra.bsky.socialMost tobacco-related death comes from products that burn tobacco. Regional policy should keep cigarettes and harmful oral tobacco at the centre of the response. #WPRO #HarmReduction #RCM77 bit.ly/4i1AgBx
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@caphra.bsky.socialFull list: afn.asia/speakers. #AFN26, ##HarmReduction #RethinkNicotine bit.ly/4rJV582
@caphra.bsky.socialFull declaration is here: afn.asia/declaration. #AFN26, ##HarmReduction #RethinkNicotine bit.ly/4rJV582
@caphra.bsky.socialIndia 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
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@caphra.bsky.social"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
@caphra.bsky.socialDetails: afn.asia. #AFN26, ##HarmReduction #RethinkNicotine bit.ly/4rJV582
@caphra.bsky.socialAsia-Pacific's nicotine pouch rules right now
#TobaccoHarmReduction #NicotinePolicy #AsiaPacific bit.ly/4xRCqsf
@caphra.bsky.social80% 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
@caphra.bsky.socialUS fast-tracks vape and pouch approvals. Asia bans the same products. Same evidence, opposite laws. #TobaccoHarmReduction #NicotinePolicy #AsiaPacific bit.ly/4xRCqsf
@caphra.bsky.socialUS Fast-Tracks Vapes. Asia Bans Them. Same Science, Opposite Rules. Whilst the US is streamlining approval for vapes and nicotine pouches. Asia-Pacific is banning, seizing and prosecuting the same products — a split CAPHRA says is "not public health policy." www.prlog.org/13173216-us-...
@caphra.bsky.social@caphra.bsky.social@alexwodak.bsky.socialReposted by @caphra.bsky.social@caphra.bsky.social announces Asia-Pacific Declaration call for safer nicotine access - formal call on health ministers & public health officials across South-East Asia & Western Pacific to legalise safer nicotine alternatives for adults who smoke
Press release: bit.ly/4hbNEBo
@alexwodak.bsky.socialReposted by @caphra.bsky.social@caphra.bsky.social accuses HCA blatant political grandstanding. New Zealand daily smoking ⬇️from 16.4% in 2011/12 to 6.8% now, >1/2ing over period NZ legalised & promoted vapes as legal quitting tool-model for how pro-consumer, risk-proportionate policy drives smoking ⬇️.Presser: bit.ly/4iyOIls