In the months following the position paper published by The Union, titled Why Bans Are Best, VIDA News has been dedicating both time and resources to panel discussions with leading experts around the world on the tobacco industry and its relation to harm-reduction...
Tobacco Harm Reduction is at the center of everything that we do at VIDA News but it is just a piece of a much larger picture of human rights. Those human rights include the right to health (which we speak to) but it also includes the right to life. Recent events have...
Ray Yeates is a father and a grandfather. He is a retired mechanic but still defines himself as a guy who likes to tinker around and fix things. For the last five years, Ray has lived with his partner Ruthie. Ray describes Ruthie as a partner, friend, and soul-mate....
In this VIDA News Spotlight, we travel to Medellin, Colombia where the leaders of 11 consumer advocacy groups across Latin America and Spain gathered to form ARDT Iberoamérica or the Alliance to Reduce the Harm from Smoking. While respected experts, medical journals...
Want to respectfully discuss an actual deadly epidemic of kids using nicotine? Let’s talk about cigarettes. In Generational Habit, director Marcelo Martinez draws from his own experience with smoking cigarettes to tell us the story of one young lady who started...
Are you helping? Watch this inspirational story of how one nurse left her job to make a difference…& the unbelievable lesson she learned. What can we learn from Harm Reduction leaders in other fields? Lives are complicated. Formulas & standard therapies...
