Global Forum on Nicotine 2024
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Global Forum on Nicotine 2024, Tobacco Tactics, updated 01 August 2025, accessed 19 December 2025.
The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN), which typically takes place annually in Poland, focuses on new nicotine products and ‘tobacco harm reduction.’
The GFN is organised by Global Forum on Nicotine Limited,1 which was known as KAC Communications until November 2024.2 For more information, please see the main Global Forum on Nicotine page.
The GFN 2024 was a hybrid event that took place on June 13–15, 2024 in Warsaw, Poland.
Speakers from tobacco companies:3
- Gizelle Baker – Philip Morris International (PMI)
- Ian Jones – Japan Tobacco International (JTI)
- Joe Thompson – Imperial Brands, Cooperation Centre for Scientific Research Relative to Tobacco (CORESTA)
- Karin Jacobson – JTI
- Sarah Cooney – British American Tobacco (BAT)
- Summer Hanna – BAT
Other speakers and panellists listed:3
- Alex Wodak – Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation (see also Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association (ATHRA)
- Alla Bessonova – Council of Eurasian Network of People Who Use Drugs (ENPUD)
- Andrzej Fal – GLIMMER Initiative, National Institute of Medicine, Warsaw
- Arielle Selya – Pinney Associates
- Asa Saligupta – ENDS Cigarette Smoke Thailand (ECST)
- Barnaby Page – Tamarind Intelligence, ECigIntelligence, TobaccoIntelligence, CannIntelligence
- Carissa Düring – Considerate Pouchers – see Consumer Choice Center
- Carmen Escrig – Spanish Medical Platform for Smoking Harm Reduction, THR SUMMIT SPAIN
- Christopher Snowdon – The Spectator magazine, Institute of Economic Affairs
- Cliff Douglas – Global Action to End Smoking (GAES)
- Clive Bates – The Counterfactual
- Colin Mendelsohn – ATHRA
- David Cross – Planet of the Vapes
- David Mackintosh – K-A-C
- David Sweanor – University of Ottawa
- Diego Verrastro – RELDAT, Pan America Harm Reduction Alliance (PAHRA, see Delon Human)
- Emmanuel Mwape – Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship Program
- Ethan Nadelmann – Open Society Institute’s International Harm Reduction Development, Drug Policy Alliance
- Fernando Bueno – Hospital Central de la Defensa “Gómez Ulla”, University of Alcalá de Henares
- Fiona Patten – Reason Party
- Garrett McGovern – Priority Medical Clinic, New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) Ireland
- George Hardie – Dr Vince Clinical Research
- Gerry Stimson
- Gintautas-Yuozas Kentra – Harm Reduction Association – Densaulyk
- Grzegorz Król – K-A-C
- Harry Shapiro – DrugWise, Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (produced by K-A-C)
- Heneage Mitchell – Factasia
- Ian Fearon – Qnovia, Advanced Inhalation Rituals (AIR)
- Ignacio Leiva – Association of Vaporizer Consumers of Chile (ASOVAPE), ARDT Iberoamerica
- Jarkyn Shadymanova – American University of Central Asia
- Jeffery Zamora – ARDT Iberoamerica, International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations (INNCO), ELCAT
- Jessica Harding – K-A-C
- Jonathan Fell – GAES
- Jorge Palma – ASOVAPE PERU, ARDT Iberoamerica
- Joseph Magero – Campaign for Safer Alternatives (CASA) 4
- Kasia Kowalczyk – Global Public Health Foundation, University of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Konstantinos Farsalinos – University of Patras, University of West Attica
- Lindsey Stroud – Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA)
- Marewa Glover – Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking
- Maria Papaioannoy-Duic – Rights 4 Vapers
- Martin Cullip
- Michael Landl – World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA)
- Michelle Minton – Reason Foundation
- Nancy Loucas – Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA), Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy (AVCA), Right2Vape
- Peter Beckett – Clearing the Air (see Consumer Choice Center)
- Pieter Vorester – Idwala Research
- Roberto Sussman – National University of Mexico, Pro-Vapeo Mexico, INNCO
- Rohan Sequeira – Consultant Cardio-Metabolic Physician
- Sharifa Ezat Wan Puteh – Malaysian Society of Harm Reduction, National University of Malaysia
- Stefanie Miller – Juul Labs Inc
- Sud Patwardhan – Centre for Health Research and Education (CHRE)
- Tomás O’Gorman – Pro-Vapeo Mexico, INNCO
- Uladzimir Pikirenia – NGO ‘Positive Movement’
- Vivien Azer – TD Cowen
- Will Godfrey – Filter Magazine, Influence Foundation
Relevant Links
Global Forum on Nicotine website
Tobacco Tactics Resources
- Global Forum on Nicotine
- Harm Reduction
- Knowledge-Action-Change
- Foundation for a Smoke-Free World
- Global Action to End Smoking