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.
It’s a move that has left nicotine pouch users scrambling. In late August, Canadian Health Minister Mark Holland followed through on his March threat to severely limit the availability of nicotine pouches, citing the need to protect youth. The new restrictions ban the sale of nicotine pouches at all retail locations, allowing access only behind the pharmacy counter. As a result, thousands are now without access to this critical safer nicotine product.
Featuring: Frank Parker Public Affairs Consultant Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocate
📅 27 Sep 2024
GFN.TV Interviews #49 | DARK SIDE | Tobacco Control’s Penchant for Misinformation
Medical doctor and addictions specialist Garrett McGovern warns that most people in his profession who are anti-vaping seem to want electronic cigarettes to be “more harmful” than they are and it's almost as if “they don't want them to be safe or safer.”
Featuring: DR. GARRETT MCGOVERN Medical Director, Priority Medical Clinic Dublin GP Specialising in Addiction Medicine @AddictionsPMC
Science is an enabler at Japan Tobacco International, driving innovation in risk-reduced tobacco products and reinforcing its position when responding to critics. 'Each scientific study is a piece of the puzzle,' says Ian Jones, V.P. of the Scientific Product Assessment Center at JTI.
Featuring: IAN JONES V.P., Scientific Product Assessment Center Japan Tobacco International
📅 30 Aug 2024
GFN.TV Interviews | Are Anti-THR Campaigners Guilty of Taking Lives?
Spreading misinformation about nicotine vaping to vulnerable populations leads to dire consequences, warns Kiran Sidhu, a leading THR writer-journalist for Filter.
HEART PART | Imperial Brands Calls THR the ‘Right Thing to Do’
Supporting tobacco harm reduction is more than just pragmatic positioning to appease financial analysts and stakeholders. For Imperial Brands, one of the world’s major tobacco companies, THR represents a consumer-focused commitment to helping individuals switch to less harmful forms of tobacco. It's a strategy that balances both head and heart, reflecting a thoughtful approach to the future of safer nicotine products.
Featuring: Joe Thompson Group Science & Regulatory Affairs Director, Imperial Brands imperialbrandsplc.com
📅 19 Jul 2024
GFN.TV Interviews | DEMAND DELUSION | PMI On the Battle for A Smoke-Free Future
Philip Morris International is at the centre of the battle over the coming smoke-free world, having spent billions transitioning to reduced-risk products like oral tobacco, heated tobacco products, and vaping. Yet they are still one of the largest producers of combustible tobacco products. How is the journey to the smoke free future going?
Featuring: Ondrej Koumal Director External Affairs, Philip Morris International pmiscience.com
📅 5 Jul 2024
GFN.TV Interviews | HIGH BURDEN | Illicit Combustible Tobacco & Vapes Take Toll on Malaysia
Nicotine vapes as a tool for harm reduction are gaining support in the Southeast Asian country of Malaysia. However, an entrenched illicit combustible tobacco market is making illegal nicotine vapes highly available and dramatically cheaper than those sold legally. This situation presents a significant challenge for health advocates to overcome.
Featuring: Prof., Dr. Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh Physician, Prof. Public Health, National University of Malaysia Chairman of the Malaysia Society of Harm Reduction
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
📅 3 May 2024
GFN.TV Interviews | ABRUPT TURN | New Zealand’s Surprising Shifts in Tobacco Regulation
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
📅 19 Apr 2024
GFN.TV Interviews | REAL DEAL | Tobacco Control Heavyweight Takes THR Helm
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 & CEO, Foundation for a Smoke-Free World Former VP, Tobacco Control, American Cancer Society smokefreeworld.org @cdoug
