Global Nicotine Consumer Advocacy Alliance: INNCO

Global Nicotine Consumer Advocacy Alliance Launches

AVCA is pleased to announce that the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations (INNCO), an alliance of over 15 safer nicotine consumer advocacy organisations –  representing over 20 million former smokers worldwide, has launched.  INNCO  is a ground-breaking global consumer advocacy network that brings together leading advocacy organisations to pursue a set of common objectives. INNCO is the fruition of a meeting held with consumer advocates at the Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, Poland in June 2016. INNCO’s mission is to make it easier for smokers to obtain safer alternatives to cigarettes, which are the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the world.

A full copy of the official INNCO press release can be found here.

AVCA, as a founding member, is humbled and honoured to be part of this global advocacy group from its inception and is looking forward to working with fellow consumer advocacy organisations to get the word out, spread the message and assist in “educating, informing and advocating” for safer alternatives to combustible tobacco and easy access and availability to harm reduction options on the global stage much the same as we do here in New Zealand.   

Nancy Sutthoff
Nancy comes from a diverse administrative background that includes surgical research administration, teaching (primary and tertiary level), executive administration and community property management. For over 15 years she has been very active in community advocacy with youth, lower income folk needing advocacy and now, vaping advocacy. She brings a wealth of scientific, medical and research administrative/management knowledge with her to her role as CEO/Director at AVCA.