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Tag: Tobacco harm reduction

Analysis

Heated Tobacco: A Lukewarm Success Story

22 Sep 2025

This article explores why heated tobacco remains niche despite major investment, showing how products prioritise compliance over experience and miss the simplicity and ritual smokers want. True progress will require rethinking design, physics, and industry-wide collaboration.

Analysis

The Disposable Vapes Ban: Harming Harm Reduction

17 Jul 2025

This article explores why most smokers haven’t embraced reduced-risk products, revealing how current vape and heated tobacco tech fails to deliver the ritual, satisfaction, and simplicity smokers still seek.

Analysis

Why Have So Few Smokers Transitioned to Reduced Risk Products?

29 May 2025

This article explores why most smokers haven’t embraced reduced-risk products, revealing how current vape and heated tobacco tech fails to deliver the ritual, satisfaction, and simplicity smokers still seek.

Whitepaper

Assessing the Efficacy of THR Interventions

17 Jul 2024

This whitepaper presents the findings of our systematic review conducted with Inter Scientific, evaluating the most efficacious interventions in the complex landscape of tobacco harm reduction.

Analysis

Reducing the carbon footprint and plastic waste of LFTs: Evidence-based opportunities

5 Apr 2022

With urgent and important demand for LFTs, jeopardizing performance, ease-of-use, supply chain availability, and low cost isn’t an option – but sustainability strategies are evolving in response to consumer expectations.

Mastering fluid flow to enhance user experience
Analysis

Mastering fluid flow to enhance user experience

22 Mar 2022

Ice cream and blood are two things you probably don’t want to think about simultaneously, but how a substance flows is a vitally important consideration for many products.

Whitepaper

Impediments to tobacco harm reduction in LMICs

10 Jan 2022

The ENDS Adoption Journey outlines seven steps a smoker must take to substitute combustible tobacco products with ENDS.

A British NHS prescription paper bag isolated on a white background
Analysis

The chance to create the world’s first prescription electronic cigarette

26 Nov 2021

What should we make of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) updating its guidance for licensing e-cigarettes as medicinal products?

Whitepaper

Routes to success in the therapeutic cannabinoid market

1 Jul 2021

It can be extremely challenging to identify an optimum business and product strategy in the current cannabinoid market.

Voke CDP
Case Study

Bringing a complex drug delivery device to market

We were asked to resolve the difficult engineering and manufacturing issues that were jeopardising this novel inhaler’s launch. Our team identified and resolved the problems, validated the design and production tooling so Voke could gain CE approval and enter volume manufacture.

What next for events in the world of COVID-19
Analysis

What next for events in the world of COVID-19?

11 Feb 2021

The impact of the pandemic has dramatically shaken up the world of conferences and events. Ana Romero, Digital Marketer and Events Coordinator at Cambridge Design Partnership, looks back over a tumultuous year and asks, “what next”? [CDP team at Pharmapack in Paris, February 2020. Left to right; Jon Powell, Senior Consultant,…

The 2016 National Health Interview Survey
Analysis

Combining treatments to better manage pain

18 Mar 2020

The 2016 National Health Interview Survey of 17,000 Americans reports that 1 in 5 people suffer chronic pain1. Significant effort and money are being invested by companies ranging from large Pharma to small Tech start-ups to address this “pain epidemic” as evidenced in the clinicaltrials.gov database showing over 2,500 “pain”…

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