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The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates
CAPHRA is an alliance between the Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates and their respective organisations in the region. We are unfunded and grassroots.
CAPHRA - Latest News [Page 5]
Vaping Petition Reaches 10,000 Signatures
Friday, 16 September 2022, 4:43 pm | CAPHRA
A petition urging the World Health Organisation (WHO) to respect consumer rights and end its lies against vaping has been signed by over 10,000 people. Organisers now want to hit 20,000 signatures by COP10. Launched during the 2021 Voices4Vape ... More >>
Australia’s Publicly Funded ‘vaping Facts’ Need Investigation
Friday, 9 September 2022, 5:17 pm | CAPHRA
“The vaping lies getting peddled in Australia are an outrageous misuse of public expenditure which should be directed towards improving Australia’s healthcare system,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Co-ordinator of CAPHRA (Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco ... More >>
Vaping Success In The UK, Strong Reason To Follow
Wednesday, 31 August 2022, 6:35 pm | CAPHRA
Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of CAPHRA “Smoking in Britain is dramatically falling, largely because adults keen to quit have been able to switch to considerably less harmful vaping,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of CAPHRA (Coalition ... More >>
Malaysia Must Mirror New Zealand’s Generational Tobacco Ban
Thursday, 25 August 2022, 4:59 pm | CAPHRA
Samsul Kamal Ariffin, President of MOVE, says Malaysia’s special select committee must review the ‘generational endgame’ bill and recommend that vaping be removed and treated separately as a THR tool. Malaysia’s parliamentary special select committee ... More >>
Filipino Green Light For Vaping - A Massive Wake-up Call
Saturday, 20 August 2022, 6:28 pm | CAPHRA
Nancy Loucas, CAPHRA's Executive Coordinator, says enacting some of the most progressive vaping legislation in Asia Pacific now makes the Philippines an international leader in effective Tobacco Harm Reduction. “Enacting some of the most progressive vaping ... More >>
New Vaping Series Exposes Aussie Propaganda - CAPHRA
Tuesday, 9 August 2022, 3:34 pm | CAPHRA
“Thankfully, the inconvenient truth about vaping has now landed on the laptops of Australians smashing all the alarmist anti-vaping propaganda health agencies and officials are peddling,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Co-ordinator of CAPHRA (Coalition ... More >>
Scrutiny Of Malaysian Bill Good For Vaping Legalisation
Saturday, 6 August 2022, 5:33 am | CAPHRA
Malaysia’s legalisation of vape sales remains on the cards after some unexpected twists in Parliament before it adjourned for the country’s imminent general election, says leading local advocacy group MOVE (Malaysian Organization of Vape Entities). ... More >>
Australia’s Vaping Witch Hunt Is Only Killing Smokers
Wednesday, 27 July 2022, 11:03 am | CAPHRA
“Much needed health resources should be directed towards providing Australians more urgent healthcare and elective surgeries, not on a pointless vaping witch hunt,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Co-ordinator of CAPHRA (Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco ... More >>
WHO’s Vaping Q&A An ‘absolute Scandal’ – CAPHRA
Tuesday, 19 July 2022, 3:17 pm | CAPHRA
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has described the latest ‘question and answer’ section on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) international website as an absolute scandal. Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator ... More >>
Don’t Get Sucked In By Website’s Vaping Claims
Friday, 15 July 2022, 5:09 pm | CAPHRA
Launched with fanfare two years ago, the ‘Don’t Get Sucked In’ website has failed to fire or resonate with young people and for good reason,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates ... More >>
Experts Exposing Vaping Dental Lies Deserve Praise
Tuesday, 12 July 2022, 5:04 pm | CAPHRA
“Four experts from Newcastle University’s School of Dental Sciences have done us all a favour by speaking the truth and smashing the latest lie against vaping,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco ... More >>
MPs Must Focus On Cigarettes, Not Vaping Beat Ups
Thursday, 7 July 2022, 4:21 pm | CAPHRA
Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator, CAPHRA “To achieve its decade long Smokefree 2025 ambition, New Zealand must stay the course when it comes to vaping regulation. The focus for MPs now must be on hitting tobacco hard,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive ... More >>
Vaping Going Backwards Under New Aussie Government
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 4:15 pm | CAPHRA
“This latest government document on vaping makes outrageously false claims and will only cost more Australian smokers their lives,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Co-ordinator of CAPHRA (Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates). ... More >>
#GFN22: Asia Pacific Presents On Vaping Advocacy Success
Wednesday, 22 June 2022, 5:16 pm | CAPHRA
At the recent Global Forum on Nicotine - #GFN22 - in Warsaw, Poland, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) made the case that regional advocacy works and is delivering remarkable results for vaping in Asia Pacific. With ... More >>
Anti-vaping Campaign Will Only Send Youth Back To Smoking
Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 5:44 pm | CAPHRA
“By stirring up anti-vaping hysteria, New Zealand’s Asthma and Respiratory Foundation will only send more minors back to smoking and put the country’s decade long Smokefree 2025 ambition in jeopardy,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of the Coalition ... More >>
Hong Kong Must Give Smokers The Choices They Need To Quit
Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 11:18 am | CAPHRA
“We have to help smokers not punish them,” says Heneage Mitchell, founder of factasia.org and member CAPHRA (Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates). Heneage Mitchell, founder of factasia.org , says “Hong Kong has really ... More >>
New Australian Government Must End Anti-Vaping Hysteria
Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 11:40 am | CAPHRA
“We are hopeful the nearly decade long Liberal-led Government’s open warfare on safer nicotine products will end under Australia’s new Labor-led Government,” says Nancy Loucas, Executive Co-ordinator of CAPHRA (Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco ... More >>
Signing Vape Bill Will Ensure Legacy For Philippine President
Friday, 13 May 2022, 4:21 pm | CAPHRA
“Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will create an enduring legacy by signing the Vape Bill into law before he leaves office, and we are confident he’ll do just that,” says Peter Dator, President of consumer group Vapers PH and CAPHRA member. ... More >>
New Zealand Must Not Sabotage Its Smokefree 2025 Goal
Friday, 6 May 2022, 11:26 am | CAPHRA
Nancy Loucas, CAPHRA's Executive Coordinator, says New Zealand finally has Smokefree 2025 in its sights, but a vocal minority are doing their best to sabotage it. CAPHRA is quick to dismiss any claims by commentators that vaping’s long-term health effects ... More >>
Thailand’s Health Minister Won’t Stop Legalization Of Vaping
Wednesday, 27 April 2022, 5:27 pm | CAPHRA
“Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul may not support the legalization of e-cigarettes, but most politicians and the public do, with legal vape sales only months away,” says Asa Saligupta, Director of ECST (ENDS Cigarette Smoke Thailand). ... More >>
