Vapers Digest 27th July
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Harm Reduction Recognised Crucial For Reducing Tobacco-Inflicted Health Burden ~ Immortal time bias strikes again ~ Vape bill lapses into law ~ Europe’s flavour ban epidemic must end ~ Banning Vape Flavours The Wrong Focus ~ Eli Rubashkyn at the Webinar: Are you feeling Burnout? ~ Popcorn Lung Poppycock ~ Step Up High Street Shops! ~ WHO Q&A An “Absolute Scandal” ~ Smokers need a medically-licensed vape ~ An Independent Review of FDA’s Tobacco Regulations Would Be Welcome as Agency Bows Down to Political Pressure ~ The Media’s Vaping Alarmism Had Lethal Consequences, New Study Finds ~ Vaping Taxes Had Lethal Unintended Consequences, Yale Researcher Concludes ~ CTP Office of Science Director Matt Holman Joins PMI ~ Investigating the Impact of the New York State Flavor Ban on e-Cigarette–Related Discussions on Twitter: Observational Study
Manzar Zaidi, The Nation
Noting the lack of any significant reduction in smoking prevalence worldwide through the years, two public health experts and former World Health Organization officials, Professor Robert Beaglehole and Professor Ruth Bonita, have called for a review of WHO’s existing tobacco control policies, urging inclusion of harm reduction for addressingthe health burden caused by tobacco use effectively.
In a recent correspondence published in The Lancet titled “Tobacco control: getting to the finish line”, the two health experts highlighted that four out of five of the world’s smokers are in low-income and middle-income countries.
Immortal time bias strikes again
Christopher Snowdon, The Snowdon Substack
I don’t write much about e-cigarette junk science because there is too much of it and it is just too depressing. But I just came across this effort, which I missed earlier in the year, because I saw someone tweet about it. It’s worth looking at as a cautionary tale about statistics.
It’s the first study I’ve come across that purports to show that vaping gives you cancer.
Vape bill lapses into law
My opinion is that, based on a look at the abstract of another recent article from one of the key authors of the discredited study, it appears this isn't the only such unsubstantiated salvo against #ecigs. Perhaps a pattern is developing. See https://t.co/W5bSI9Lr90
— Cliff Douglas (@cdoug) July 26, 2022
Eli Rubashkyn at the Webinar: Are you feeling Burnout?
International Network of Consumer Organizations (INNCO)
“The most moving interview: Dr. Eli Rubashkyn. Massive fan. Massive respect for Dr. R’s science, evidence and devotion to #LGBTQ rights and the rights of intersex people worldwide.“ ~ Charles Gardner, PhD.
THREE from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
Popcorn Lung Poppycock
An employee at Johns Hopkins University is spreading lies and misinformation about ‘popcorn lung’ and vaping to either justify his funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies or as part of a quest to gain more cash. The nonsense has been repeated in media articles and a British celebrity doctor was quick to jump on the bandwagon. UK public health bodies maintain vaping does not cause popcorn lung.
Step Up High Street Shops!
High street vendors and not online retail stores need to stand up and be counted when tackling u18s access to vaping, according to age verification experts. The call comes in the wake of Government-commissioned report that could lead to a ban on online vape sales to safeguard children and new Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) statistics that highlight the significant number of illegal sales of vapes to minors in bricks and mortar stores.
WHO Q&A An “Absolute Scandal”
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has described the latest ‘question and answer’ section on the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) international website as an absolute scandal.
Smokers need a medically-licensed vape
Dr. John Oyston, Dr. John’s Blog
A vaping device or e-cigarette that meets the same standards as recognized medical devices such as an epinephrine auto-injector (“EpiPen”), an asthma inhaler or a naloxone nasal spray. These devices can all be prescribed by physicians, sold by pharmacies, and be covered by government or private health insurance plans. Currently, in countries where vaping products are legal, they are considered to be a consumer product, held to a lower safety standard than medical equipment and are not allowed to claim to have any health benefits.
On this Day…2020
Opportunity reduce tobacco related death
And disease is being missed by governments
A leading expert in tobacco harm reduction, Samrat Chowdhery, today stated that nicotine alternative products could help to wipe out the disease burden from smoking across the continent if Governments were willing to embrace them.
Mr Chowdhery is President of the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organizations (INNCO), and was the guest speaker this morning at a webinar co-hosted by the Campaign for Safer Alternatives (CASA) and the Africa Tobacco Harm Reduction Forum (ATHRF).
The effects of traditional tax rates
On adult tobacco product use
We study the effects of traditional cigarette and e-cigarette taxes on use of these products among adults in the United States. Data are drawn from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National Health Interview Survey over the period 2011 to 2018. Using two-way fixed effects models, we find evidence that higher traditional cigarette tax rates reduce adult traditional cigarette use and increase adult e-cigarette use. Similarly, we find that higher e-cigarette tax rates increase traditional cigarette use and reduce e-cigarette use. Cross-tax effects imply that the products are economic substitutes. Our results suggest that a proposed national e-cigarette tax of $1.65 per milliliter of vaping liquid would raise the proportion of adults who smoke cigarettes daily by approximately 1 percentage point, translating to 2.5 million extra adult daily smokers compared to the counterfactual of not having the tax.
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