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Cessation Policy & Harm Reduction

Cessation is about helping people quit smoking. As NSRA does not do programming, we focus on cessation policies and systems that can encourage more people to make an attempt to stop using tobacco products and improve the success rate of those who do so. Harm reduction is a highly controversial area of tobacco control. It recognizes that not all tobacco users are willing or able to quit and seeks instead to reduce the harm to them and to society from their continued use of tobacco products and/or non-pharmaceutical products containing nicotine.  

E-Cigarette Regulation Update March 2018

Globally-speaking, we are in the midst of a very large natural experiment in which e-cigarettes are being regulated in different ways around the world. Some countries classify and regulate them as electronic cigarettes, others as tobacco or tobacco-related products, while other countries regulate them as consumer products and/or medicines. How these vastly different regulatory...

Next Generation Products in Canada: An Update on Heated Tobacco

Earlier this year, the tobacco industry launched the first wave of next generation products (NGPs) onto the Canadian market. Unlike the United States, Canada does not require any kind of pre-market authorization prior to the introduction of new tobacco products. Last March Philip Morris International’s Canadian subsidiary, Rothmans, Benson & Hedges (RBH), launched iQOS,...

iQOS: Will This Really Change Everything?

Earlier this year, the tobacco industry launched the first wave of next generation products (NGPs) onto the Canadian market. Unlike the United States, Canada does not require any kind of pre-market authorization prior to the introduction of new tobacco products. Last March Philip Morris International’s Canadian subsidiary, Rothmans, Benson & Hedges (RBH),1 launched iQOS,...