Here, we publish important new scientific research and materials, discuss significant NGP category developments in the media, report on scientific conferences we’ve attended, and more. Please note not all of this content is available in certain territories.
A notable review into e-cigarettes, the Cochrane Review, has turned its eyes to electronic vapour products (EVPs). Christopher Wood examines the findings and what it means for tobacco harm reduction policy and research. Cochrane Reviews are systematic literature reviews of research in health care and health policy. They are carried out by independent subject […]
20 Jan 2021
Abid Khan-Lodhi – Next Generation Product (NGP) Innovation Director at Nerudia – spoke to Italian publication Panorama about the company’s innovation philosophy, and the development process behind Imperial’s portfolio of potentially harm reduced NGPs. Read the original article here (in Italian, web browsers such as Google Chrome can auto translate), and excerpts below. Panorama: Can you […]
6 Jan 2021
From tobacco-free oral pouches to the emerging world of heated tobacco, technological advances are providing adult consumers myriad choices to to facilitate tobacco harm reduction. Christopher Wood takes a tour of noteworthy Next Generation Product innovations. Nicotine use independent of combustible tobacco has existed in certain forms, like chewing tobacco and tobacco snus, for centuries. […]
24 Nov 2020
BEHIND THE HEADLINES IS A REGULAR FEATURE TAKING A SLIGHTLY DEEPER DIVE INTO A PIECE OF RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE OF NGP RESEARCH. Responding to a recent scientific review on vapes conducted by the UK Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) in mid-September 2020, some media reports warned […]
16 Nov 2020
DR GRANT O’CONNELL, STRATEGIC SCIENCE & POLICY ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR AT IMPERIAL BRANDS, TALKS TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION (THR), NICOTINE AND NGP RESEARCH. Earlier this month Dr O’Connell sat down with Italian health and lifestyle magazine, Starbene, to explain the current state of THR and why new independent research affirms Next Generation Products (NGPs) like vapes […]
9 Nov 2020
The European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) recently published its Preliminary Opinion on Electronic Cigarettes. The conclusions reached by the report – and, crucially, the evidence selected to arrive at these conclusions – are extremely disappointing. Rather than endorse vaping as a key component of the public health concept of tobacco harm reduction […]
4 Nov 2020
