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.
Actions by anti-tobacco harm reduction advocates and organizations are “outrageous” and “disgusting,” says Ethan Nadelmann, legendary drugs harm reduction campaigner. Why are the lessons learned in the fight to end the war on drugs ignored in the battle to end the war on vaping?
Featuring: Ethan Nadelmann Founder & Former Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance Podcast Host, PSYCHOACTIVE @ethannadelmann
📅 22 Mar 2024
GFN.TV Interviews | EXTRAORDINARY PACE | Consumers Move to Vaping Products at Dramatic Rate
Despite extensive regulatory barriers and massive misinformation on relative risk, consumers are transitioning from cigarettes to safer nicotine products at an extraordinary pace. In today’s episode tobacco control policy expert David Sweanor guides us through the remarkable growth of the U.S. vaping market and issues a warning to those who seek to stand in the way.
Featuring: David Sweanor Adj. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Tobacco Control Policy Expert @ottawaharmredux
📅 8 Mar 2024
GFN.TV Interviews | DÉJÀ VU | Insights on Youth Use from JUUL Researcher
The UK’s ban on disposable nicotine vapes demonstrates the many misbeliefs surrounding the “gateway” theory are thriving. But isn’t the theory that youth e-cig use is a gateway to smoking de-bunked? According to Dr. Arielle Selya it is and there’s no room for doubt.
Featuring: Dr. Arielle Selya Behavioural Scientist, PinneyAssociates @ArielleSelya
📅 23 Feb 2024
GFN.TV Interviews | COP-OUT | WHO FCTC Punts On E-Cig Regulation
Tobacco control promised bans and restrictions on e-cigarettes and other novel nicotine products for COP10, the Conference of the Parties to the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. But instead, frustrated by a handful of countries calling for a harm reduction approach to tobacco use, the global health regulator punted.
GFN.TV Interviews | TPD STRUGGLES | Romania Braces for Oppressive Excise Tax
With an estimated 7 million smokers out of a population of 19 million, the Eastern European country of Romania has a lot of work to do to help its citizens quit the deadly habit. Instead, Romania plans to enact a new excise tax that would double the cost of safer nicotine products, like vaping.
Featuring: Alex Gogoana President, ACPAN Consumer Assoc. of Nicotine Products, Romania acpan.ro
What happens when ideology meets science? Look at the debate over nicotine vaping products for the answer. Just a decade ago tobacco control made great strides towards eliminating cigarette smoking. But in a bizarre effort to undermine nicotine vapes, public health is now contorting science and pushing people back to smoking.
Featuring: Dr Ian Fearon Director, Independent Research Scientist whatIF? Consulting, UK
Where’s the parade for all the people who quit smoking thanks to nicotine vapes? This is the question Janine Timmons wants tobacco control bureaucrats to answer when they gather next month in Panama for the World health Organization’s COP10 conference. She’s afraid attendees will continue to dig for the worst possible excuse to ban vaping, when they should be celebrating its success in helping smokers to quit.
GFN.TV Interviews | BANNED IN MEXICO | Physicist Reacts to Draconian Vape Laws
Mexico’s ban on nicotine vaping leaves consumers caught in the crossfire. While the “tobacco wars” narrative is obsolete, it continues to cause damage, says physicist and tobacco harm reduction advocate Dr. Roberto Sussman. While the tobacco industry today is no longer the villain it once was, public health campaigners continue to wage war, striking disruptive technologies like nicotine vapes that provide safe and effective alternatives to combustible tobacco.
Featuring: Dr. Roberto Sussman Sr. Researcher in Theoretical Physics, National University of Mexico Vaping Advocate, Member of Pro Vapeo Mexico @RobertoSussman
📅 24 Nov 2023
GFN.TV Interviews | PANIC OVER | Teen Vaping Decline Spells Trouble for Tobacco Control
A spike in U.S. youth vaping rates back in 2018 sparked a worldwide moral panic over teen vaping. But the so-called “epidemic” was short-lived. In just 4-years, U.S. teen vaping fell over 60% to a historic low in 2023. It’s good news for everyone except those campaigners who profit from panic.
GFN.TV Interviews | SHAME ON YOU | Vaping Activist Responds to Critics
Canadian tobacco harm reduction advocate and nicotine vape retailer takes a stand against anti-vaping critics at home while preparing to take on the WHO at the upcoming FCTC COP10, the Conference of the Parties in Panama, this November.
Featuring: Maria Papaioannoy-Duic Vaping Activist, Canada @papaioannoy
