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Nicotine pouches: Will they make a difference?

Nicotine pouches are the latest consumer nicotine product with the potential to compete with cigarettes. They offer advantages such as delivering sufficient nicotine, being discreet to use, having a safety profile similar to NRT, and being validated by their tobacco-based counterpart, snus, which is gradually replacing smoking in Sweden and Norway. However, they require far… Read more »

Seeing clearly with regulatory stances: What would the world look like under different regulatory stances?

Regulation involves shaping markets to address market failure. The simplest way to understand the purpose of regulation is to state how policy aims to alter a market’s size—either shrinking, expanding, or maintaining it—by applying competitive advantages or disadvantages to a sector relative to its competitors. Dr. Liber will illustrate how to use this framework, called… Read more »