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.
GFN News #152 | PAKISTAN'S TOBACCO CONTROL PROBLEM | Can Pakistan get on track with tobacco harm reduction?
30 million people currently smoke in Pakistan, but could safer nicotine products such as nicotine pouches succeed where other tobacco control efforts have struggled? Joining us today is Ziauddin Islam, a tobacco control expert and former Technical Representative to the WHO FCTC and ITP, to highlight the direction of Pakistan's tobacco control efforts.
📅 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
📅 13 May 2025
GFN News #151 | A NEW CHAPTER FOR THR EDUCATION | Chimwemwe Ngoma highlights KAC's brand new THR course!
Building on the strength of its popular Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship programme, Knowledge•Action•Change's brand new foundational course 'Understanding Tobacco Harm Reduction' is a free-to-use educational platform designed to help advocates expand their knowledge base. Joining us today to highlight this key new resource is one of its key authors, Chimwemwe Ngoma of KAC!
GFN Insights #7 | THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF VAPOR | GFN SCIENCE FAQ: PART 4 | Featuring Roberto Sussman
Vaping has been shown to be 95% safer than smoking, but what do the chemistry of vapor and smoke, and the key differences between them, tell us about WHY these products are so different? Joining us again for the fourth part of our vaping science series is astrophysicist Roberto Sussman, who expertly explains the science behind vaping!
📅 6 May 2025
GFN News #150 | FDA'S RELUCTANCE ON FULL SHOW | Featuring Lindsey Stroud
Despite the growing use of safer nicotine being strongly associated with declining smoking rates, there is still systemic opposition to these products from institutions and NGOs - but why is this the case? In this episode Lindsey Stroud joins us to unpack the FDA's reluctance to approve new nicotine products, and the misinformation used to prop up the opposition to THR.
📅 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 Insights #6 | GFN SCIENCE SPECIAL: The physics of vaporisation in e-cigarettes | Featuring Roberto Sussman
In the third episode of our science special, Roberto Sussman looks at the thermal processes that take place in vaporisation, and the impact different solvents have on the vaporisation temperature of e-liquids.
📅 25 Apr 2025
GFN News #149 | VIETNAM'S VAPE BAN EXPOSED | Featuring Will Godfrey
In this episode Will Godfrey highlights the interconnected links between Vietnam's recent vape ban and the influence of Bloomberg-funded entities, and how the well-funded opposition to tobacco harm reduction influences vape restrictions across the globe.
📅 22 Apr 2025
GFN Insights #5 | GFN SCIENCE SPECIAL: Back to the fundamentals | Featuring Roberto Sussman
In the second part of our science special, Roberto Sussman takes us through the fundamental physics of vape aerosols to help explain the difference between cigarette smoke and e-cigarette vapor!
📅 18 Apr 2025
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
