GFN 2024 Media Releases and Announcements

“Rating the evidence - good and bad science” sees hosts Arielle Selya and Clive Bates constructing a new paradigm for the interrogation of THR science. By inviting challenge through panel discussion and audience participation, Clive and Arielle will ask, why is there so much bad science? And what needs to change in the big picture?

Just over a week until we see you lovely friends of the Global Forum on Nicotine at #GFN24 in Warsaw! Today we are delighted to be sharing with you some of the fascinating #GFNFivecreations the GFN community has produced for #GFN24.

Science is the foundation of the Global Forum on Nicotine, and today we proudly bring you a preview of #ScienceLab, an exciting innovation for #GFN24. During four dedicated #ScienceLabsessions leading scientists and researchers will be presenting their science and discussing it with the audience, live in Warsaw. Each #ScienceLabpresenter will have 15 minutes to present and discuss their research. Here we announce just some of the hotly anticipated presentations on offer at the #GFN24 #ScienceLab!

Enter the #GFN24panel “The global culture war over THR”. This plenary session will explore the battle for control of the THR narrative, in particular asking what we can learn from the experiences of activists and researchers as we determine how to continue advocating in a challenging environment. Will Godfrey, Editor-in-chief at Filter Magazine, will be at the helm of this panel discussion.

Hosted by Ethan Nadelman, #GFN24 panel discussion 'The costs of prohibition' will tackle the unifying obstacles facing harm reduction advocates, whether in the well-established substance misuse harm reduction sector or in the rapidly developing tobacco harm reduction field. Prohibition comes with its costs, and this panel of experts will bring their professional expertise to a challenging subject.

A focus of this year’s Global Forum On Nicotine is the crossroads between sensible economic and risk-proportionate public health policy, and the challenges facing regulators and practitioners in assessing appropriate response to risk. Exploring this theme are two sessions examining the real-world function of tobacco harm reduction and the power the precautionary principle plays in the regulatory responses to safer products.

With just eight weeks to go until the #GFN24 conference takes place in Warsaw, we are thrilled to announce further details of two of our #GFN24 keynote sessions!

With just eight weeks to go until the 11th edition of the Global Forum on Nicotine takes place in Warsaw, the conference organisers are thrilled to announce further details of two of the event’s keynote sessions. 

In addition to the public health opportunities offered by safer nicotine products for harm reduction, participants at GFN24 will consider the economic benefits offered by the approach, including associated healthcare savings - and the potential costs of prohibiting safer products while combustible tobacco remains universally available.

In addition to the public health opportunities offered by safer nicotine products for harm reduction, participants at GFN24 will consider the economic benefits offered by the approach, including associated healthcare savings - and the potential costs of prohibiting safer products while combustible tobacco remains universally available.

In addition to the public health opportunities offered by safer nicotine products for harm reduction, participants at GFN24 will consider the economic benefits offered by the approach, including associated healthcare savings - and the potential costs of prohibiting safer products while combustible tobacco remains universally available.

In addition to the public health opportunities offered by safer nicotine products for harm reduction, participants at GFN24 will consider the economic benefits offered by the approach, including associated healthcare savings - and the potential costs of prohibiting safer products while combustible tobacco remains universally available.

With COP10 just around the corner, we wanted to take a second to appreciate an important group who will be excluded from the closed door meetings of the FCTC next week. GFN recognises that nicotine consumers are key stakeholders for the smoke free future: although you are shut out of FCTC COP you will be greeted warmly at our conference.

As we near the end of the year, we’d like to inspire you with yet another Global Forum on Nicotine innovation. Brand new for 2024, the GFN Film Festival is your opportunity to present your narrative, documentary or animated film to the #GFN24 conference and beyond! Curated by Jon Derricott and award winning film director Emmanuel Mwape, the GFN Film Festival offers you broad creative freedom to explore some of the most important concepts, pressing concerns and impactful stories from the world of tobacco harm reduction.

At the Global Forum on Nicotine we love innovation. So, brand new for #GFN24, we are delighted to be bringing you the GFN Science Lab, which will showcase the stellar achievements, breakthroughs and insights from the GFN scientific community. Science Lab builds on the success of our popular GFN Fives, where since 2021 we have curated and showcased your updates and insights in the form of your 5 minute videos.

Since the curtain fell on #GFN23, the GFN Team has been super busy, secretly formulating next year’s plans. We are very pleased to announce that #GFN24 will take place live in Warsaw from 13 - 15 June 2024 and will be themed ‘Economics, Health and Tobacco Harm Reduction’. In keeping with a programme that will explore costs and savings, we’re happy to confirm that registration fees for #GFN24 will be frozen at 2023 prices.