Tuesday, February 24, 2026
News
The government has recently opened a public consultation regarding a proposed ban on vaping in public places. The New Nicotine Alliance believes that this is a mistake and an unnecessary legislative overreach for which there is no justification. As a charity, we believe it is vital that the voices...
Monday, April 28, 2025
Blog
In late January, a research paper was published by authors from The Truth Initiative and the University of Chicago which contained wholly false allegations about the New Nicotine Alliance. We have contacted the publishing journal, Sage Journals, on several occasions yet these fictitious claims...
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Blog
It was ten years ago today when the NNA first became an educational charity. Trustees of the organisation had previously met while fighting against the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive, alongside other European consumers, which was attempting to regulate e-cigarettes to be licensed only...
Thursday, November 28, 2024
News
For immediate release The government’s all-out offensive on vaping will undo years of advances in helping smokers quit Restrictions on the availability and accessibility of vapes will cause avoidable deaths Consumers in the UK want to know who will take responsibility for the avoidable deaths and...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
News
Due to health reasons, Louise has had to end her time as Chair of the New Nicotine Alliance. The Charity Commission will be informed. Louise wishes trustees, associates and supporters of the NNA every success with their future work to help people understand the benefits that safer nicotine...
Thursday, October 31, 2024
News
Yesterday , Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, announced amendments to the vape duty which was originally proposed by Jeremy Hunt in the spring budget that preceded the general election. The NNA wrote at the time that Hunt’s plans were “wrong in principle and childlike in application.”...
Friday, July 10, 2020
Blog
On Tuesday the Office for National Statistics – the UK government’s official agency for assessing economic and social behaviour – released their latest statistical bulletin on smoking prevalence. It made for interesting reading: The proportion of current smokers in the UK has fallen significantly...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Blog
Chesterfield Royal Hospital unveiled a vaping ban in 2017 which has since been rescinded In August, the government’s Science and Technology Committee produced a report detailing, amongst other recommendations, suggested policies on e-cigarette use on NHS property. Specifically dealing with mental...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Blog
NNA Poster Authors: Stimson, Gerry; Jakes, Sarah; Harding, Jessica; Morrison, Andy; Dorn, Dave; Costall, Paddy; Salim Sartoni, Sairah; Summers, John; MacKintosh, David; Molloy, Kevin Objectives: to outline the experience of a nicotine consumer group (New Nicotine Alliance UK) in using legal...
Wednesday, March 02, 2016
Blog
In his recent paper published in the journal 'Addiction' Robert West and colleagues tried to count the number of additional people who successfully quit smoking in 2014 and would not have done so if ecigs didn't exist.You can read the paper here. The conclusions drawn in this analysis have...
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