GFN•TV will bring the conference's platform for rational and inclusive debate on the future role of safer nicotine products and tobacco harm reduction to an audience all year round. GFN•TV will also be broadcasting live from Warsaw in June. Tune in to hear world-leading experts, tobacco harm reduction advocates and nicotine consumers discuss the latest scientific, regulatory and policy developments. From our unique annual event, to year-round reporting of the issues that matter in tobacco harm reduction, GFN has got it covered.
Canada’s war on nicotine has reached an extreme burden. With a 124% tax hike, sweeping flavor bans, and a “nicotine control” agenda, millions of adult vapers are in danger of being pushed back to smoking. Shot on location at GFN 2025 in Warsaw, Sam Tam, president of the Canadian Vaping Association, warns that misguided policies are destroying small businesses, fueling the black market, and undermining Canada’s smoke-free future.
Institutions like WHO, regulators, and NGOs are hostile to harm reduction and have shifted their firepower from smoking to safer nicotine alternatives, says Clive Bates, international tobacco control policy expert. Shot on location at GFN 2025 in Warsaw, Bates describes public health’s “war on nicotine” as a misguided, ideological crusade that betrays its original mission of reducing smoking-related disease and death.
Featuring: CLIVE BATES Tobacco Control Policy Expert, Counterfactual Consulting Former Dir. of Action on Smoking and Health (UK) Clive Bates o X.com Clive's Website
Sweden’s success with snus and now nicotine pouches proves tobacco harm reduction is a model for helping millions quit smoking. But there’s a secret behind this success. Shot on location at GFN 2025 in Warsaw, Poland, we speak with Anna Franzén and Tomas Hammargren of Emplicure about the big questions surrounding nicotine policy and the realities of recreational use.
📅 15 Aug 2025
GFN.TV Interviews #67 | BANNED IN INDIA | Vape Prohibition and the Fight for Harm Reduction
In India, hundreds of millions of tobacco users are kept in the dark about safer nicotine products, while the government bans popular alternatives like vaping and stays silent on even basic NRTs. Shot on location at GFN 2025 in Warsaw, Poland, Jagannath Sarangapani exposes how prohibition and the absence of relative risk messaging have shaped the country’s tobacco control strategy.
📅 13 Jun 2025
GFN.TV Interviews #66 | NEW PROHIBITION | Jacob Grier on Tobacco Control’s Dangerous Turn
Jacob Grier offers a sneak peek of his #GFN25 keynote on how the media misrepresents tobacco harm reduction. He unpacks the narratives driving public fear, the criminalization of safer nicotine products, and the explosive growth of the illicit vape trade. As millions turn to vaping despite the headlines, is tobacco control losing its grip on the narrative?
Featuring: JACOB GRIER Author, Freelance Writer The New Prohibition / The Rediscovery of Tobacco @jacobgrier
Goldman Sachs predicts safer nicotine will overtake cigarettes in the U.S. this year. Millions have already made the switch, despite tobacco control efforts, not because of it. David Sweanor breaks down the consumer-led collapse of smoking and how it likely can’t be stopped.
Featuring: DAVID SWEANOR Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Tobacco-control Policy Expert @ottawaharmredux
📅 16 May 2025
GFN.TV Interviews #64 | SIDELINED SCIENCE | How WHO Turned Its Back on Tobacco Harm Reduction
Dr. Derek Yach, a lead architect of the WHO’s global tobacco control treaty, reflects on how harm reduction was sidelined by institutional inertia, donor pressure, and deep-rooted distrust. He calls for renewed scientific dialogue, greater nicotine literacy, and an end to the moral panic that falsely equates nicotine with smoking. Despite resistance from the top, consumers are leading the charge by switching in the millions, to safer nicotine products worldwide.
Featuring: DR. DEREK YACH Global Health Leader, Tobacco Control Policy Fmr. Cabinet Director, World Health Organization @swimdaily
📅 2 May 2025
GFN.TV Interviews #63 | TAX TRAP | How Safer Nicotine Products Get Treated Like Tobacco
New research reveals governments are taxing safer nicotine products like cigarettes, sabotaging tobacco harm reduction and blocking smokers from switching. Correcting these policies could accelerate global declines in smoking.
GFN.TV Interviews #62 | UNSMOKE THE WORLD | Inside PMI’s Mission to End Cigarettes
In 2016, PMI pledged to transition the company away from cigarette sales - and almost ten years later, they've made progress towards their promise. But instead of celebrating as 40% of PMI's business goes smoke-free, many in tobacco control would rather stand in the way. Why is that? And can anything be done to change their minds?
Featuring: TOMMASO DI GIOVANNI Vice President Communications & Engagement Philip Morris International @dgtomma pmiscience.com
📅 4 Apr 2025
GFN.TV Interviews #61 | SOUL CRUSHING | Vaping Advocacy, Media Scare Tactics & Push To #Bekind
What’s it like to fight for vaping in a world hostile to tobacco harm reduction? Advocate Skip Murray opens up about the soul-crushing closure of her vape shop, the rise of media scare tactics, and why she believes kindness—not outrage—is the key to saving lives.
