Habits & risk reduction
Nicotine: addictive, but not the main cause of smoking-related disease
What nicotine does, what it does not do, and why the harm of smoking is linked first of all to smoke.
Demo profile. A fictional specialist created for the website mock-up. The photo shows a stock model, not the person named. Replace with a real expert with written consent before publishing. What is known, what is not — and how to tell them apart Almaty Bekzat is the kind of researcher who reads the papers themselves rather than the press releases: methods, sample sizes, limitations. He is interested not only in what a study showed but in what it did not show — and that difference is almost always lost in retelling. In the editorial team he acts as the brake: if a claim sounds elegant but has no source behind it, it does not go through. He also insists that materials on nicotine and alternative products always keep both sides visible — the exposure data and WHO's position that this does not yet prove lower risk. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, public health, 2015 Master's in public health, 2018 Researches how people understand numerical risk Reviews tobacco and nicotine materials before publication
What nicotine does, what it does not do, and why the harm of smoking is linked first of all to smoke.
Heated tobacco, nicotine pouches and vapes: what actually happens inside each device, and what WHO and the FDA say about it.