CAPHRA

The US is streamlining approval for vapes and nicotine pouches. Asia-Pacific is banning, seizing and prosecuting the same products — a split CAPHRA says is "not public health policy."

A new Victoria University of Wellington report has documented how tobacco industry lobbying shaped the 2023 repeal of New Zealand's Smokefree Generation laws.

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is calling out Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) for blatant political grandstanding, after the lobby group ran an election-season survey of political parties demanding tougher tobacco.

Malaysia's "accidental" nicotine vape ban is no longer just a legal technicality.

A new proposal in Australia's federal politics would legalise and regulate vapes and nicotine pouches for adults, ending prescription-only access. It's the argument CAPHRA has made for years, and the group welcomes it.

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is calling on the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) to ground its guidance on vaping and nicotine pouches in verified science rather than.

New Zealand's continuing decline in tobacco sales should prompt Asia-Pacific governments to reconsider restrictions on safer nicotine alternatives, says the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA).

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is formally calling on the Government of Viet Nam to reconsider its proposed prohibition of nicotine pouches, urging a strictly regulated adult-only framework instead.

As Australia closes its last legal pathway to nicotine pouches this week, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) says the region's own evidence is still largely absent from the rooms where such decisions get made.

Australia has closed the last legal pathway to nicotine pouches, leaving adult smokers with no lawful smoke-free alternative while cigarettes remain on sale nationwide, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) said today.