Public health agencies need to make menthol smokers, black and white, aware of safer alternatives. Anything less isn’t social justice. David Sweanor is quoted in the Washington Monthly.

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Nowhere on Earth has cigarette consumption dropped as rapidly as it has in Japan over the past few years. There has been close to a 43 percent decline in half a decade. It is an extraordinary success. And it seems attributable to a single shift: Japan’s population of smokers, with the government’s acquiescence, has embraced heated tobacco products (HTPs), which heat tobacco sticks to produce vapor—not smoke—that is inhaled. The Hub's David Sweanor contributes in this Filter piece.

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Welcome to Between 2 Vapes. A webseries that focuses on learning more about the Canadian Vaping landscape. On today's episode we chat with Professor David Sweanor, and learn about tobacco control in Canada and what you can do to be heard by regulators...

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The overdose epidemic has had a devastating impact on those who use drugs, made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Public Health Agency of Canada reported 1,705 apparent opioid toxicity deaths between July and September, 2020, a 120-per-cent increase from the same period in 2019. This is the highest quarterly count since national surveillance began in 2016, the year when the British Columbia government declared overdose a public health emergency. Almost all of these deaths were accidental overdose deaths. COVID-19 border closures and travel restrictions have disrupted the illegal drug supply, making it less steady and more dangerous...

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It has been almost impossible to read the news in recent weeks and not see a frenzied article about vaping, e-cigarettes, and vaping products. With seventeen reported deaths connected to vaping products as of October 2nd in the United States and many more hospitalizations, governments are struggling to craft an appropriate response to the rising fear from the public in tandem with the unknowns of what exactly is happening and from which products the harms are stemming from...

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Full videos from the conference First, Do Less Harm are now up! With panels ranging from front lines to the three clusters to the impact of COVID-19 to a free Naloxone training session... and more. Visit our Talks page to check them out (you can click through to YouTube from there if you prefer).