Reflecting on the 15th Year of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), two international expert panel sessions featuring leading academics, researchers and NGO principals will cover the key questions and challenges facing policymakers in achieving more effective and equitable implementation globally
CoEHAR researchers call out the standardization of research methodologies on electronic cigarettes as a milestone for the effectiveness of the procedures to quit smoking
Presented in Italy the “Blue Book”, the document containing the results achieved last year by the Italian Customs and Monopoly Agency. The most impressive result was the contraction of 6.80% in…
QUIT STRONG is one of the first public health initiatives in the World that embrace THR (Tobacco Harm Reduction), showing openness to strategies that can support smokers during smoking cessation programmes. Low risk products allow to provide the necessary amount of nicotine while maintaining the behavioral and psychological rituals associated to smoking
A new study published in the journal "Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease" provides important insight to the issue of smoking and COVID-19. The number of smokers with severe COVID-19 that requires hospitalization is by far lower than expected based on population smoking rates. The very few smokers who are eventually hospitalized have higher odds for severe disease and adverse outcome.
The findings from a survey conducted by COEHAR researchers on almost 2000 participants showed a slight decrease in the consumption of cigarettes during the lockdown period and an increase in the purchase of products such as cigarettes and e-liquid
The damage done by the COVID-19 pandemic is twofold: in addition to suffering from direct effects of the virus, the world is grappling with the challenge of social distancing. Recent poll explores the relationship between COVID-19 social distancing and health among 6,801 tobacco and nicotine users in 5 countries.
We have talked to DR. Colin Mendelsohn about the new Australian smoking cessation guidelines which now suggest the use of ECIG
Can the use of the electronic cigarette be associated with chronic cardiac diseases and myocardial infarction? The results of the National Health Interview Surveys conducted in 2016 and 2017 entitled "Is…
Activities at the Center of Excellence for the acceleration of Harm Reduction at the University of Catania (CoEHAR) are in full swing. After presenting to the press the first 9 approved…
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