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Australia and Brazil: Nicotine’s Accidental Laboratories
Brazil banned vapes. Australia turned them into pharmacy products. Both reveal what happens when the law is narrower than demand.
May 26
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Claudio Teixeira
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Alan Gor
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Nicotine After the Cigarette
The WHO’s nicotine pouch report exposes the limits of public health built around smoking
May 19
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Claudio Teixeira
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Argentina Stops Pretending
After thirteen years of formal prohibition and quiet coexistence, Milei’s Argentina brings vapes into legality — on the state’s terms, under its gaze…
May 7
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Claudio Teixeira
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The Platform and the Void
On how lived experience becomes visible — and what it takes to count as evidence.
May 2
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Claudio Teixeira
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April 2026
What Counting Misses
In conversation with Kurt Yeo on the stories public health still struggles to recognize as evidence
Apr 29
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Claudio Teixeira
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Putting Smoke Back at the Center of Tobacco Control
Beaglehole, Bonita, and Pang’s Comment in Nature Health seems to be about vapes, snus, and smoke-free nicotine products. It is really about what counts…
Apr 22
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Claudio Teixeira
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What the Curves Conceal
I / Where Smoking Remains
Apr 11
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Claudio Teixeira
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How Prevention Becomes Position
Before the Applause, a companion to Before the Numbers.
Apr 4
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Claudio Teixeira
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Before the Numbers
At a nicotine conference in Switzerland, consensus was already in the room, quietly defining the edges of perception.
Apr 3
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Claudio Teixeira
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March 2026
The Fault Line of Harm
Smoking no longer sketches a portrait of society as a whole. It marks the line between those shielded from harm and those left exposed to it.
Mar 29
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Claudio Teixeira
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The Time Between Cigarettes
What smoking reveals about a society where the future has lost its weight, and why a public-health culture of guilt, purity, and abstinence reaches its…
Mar 27
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Claudio Teixeira
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The Question Warsaw Still Asks
For more than a decade, the same question has hovered over the GFN: can safer alternatives to smoking move from controversy to consensus?
Mar 17
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