Vapers Digest 6th November

Wednesday’s News at a glance:

ASH Welcomes Idiotic Tax ~ UKVIA Concerned For Ex-Smokers ~ Government Introduces Tobacco & Vapes Bill ~ Government Sponsored Comments on the Bill ~ Oral Health and Cardiovascular Prevention at the Core of Harm Reduction Research ~ Cytisinicline For E-Cigarette Cessation ~ I got schooled! ~ Smoke Free Sweden: EU’s Outdated Tobacco Strategy Is Failing and Costing Lives ~ Smoking ban introduced to protect children and most vulnerable ~ Tobacco and Vapes Bill ~ Christopher Snowdon: Time to call out Labour’s version of the last government’s ‘least conservative policy’ ~ Tobacco and Vapes Bill goes before UK Parliament ~ Disposable vapes ban could push nearly a THIRD of vapers back to smoking, UK ministers warned ~ Alaska begins lengthy lawsuit against e-cigarette company JUULs ~ Brazil, India, and the Global Battle for Harm Reduction | With “Hazard” and Samrat Chowdhery Ep. 66 ~ CZECH CONTRADICTION | Different approaches for nicotine and psychoactive substances | GFN News ~ The Global Consequences of Nicotin Bans | Alberto Gómez Hernández for BBC Radio

Four from Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

ASH Welcomes Idiotic Tax

The tax increases on tobacco and vape eliquids has been “welcomed” by health charity Action on Smoking and Health, marking the completion of its transition into an anti-vape organisation. The short-sighted position fails to appreciate how a tax levy approaching 400% on some products will have the unintended consequences of turning smokers away from vaping and feeding a buoyant black market.

UKVIA Concerned For Ex-Smokers

Following Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announcing in the Budget that the Government’s plans to tax eliquid at £2.20 for every 10ml contained within a bottle, regardless of whether it contains nicotine or not, the UK Vaping Industry Association has expressed its concerns for ex-smokers. The trade body says the Government is penalising former smokers with a “revenue grab” for making sensible choices and being less of a burden on the health service.

Government Introduces Tobacco & Vapes Bill

The UK Government has introduced plans including an extended smoking ban “to protect children and most vulnerable” in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill today. The Labour administration says their “world-leading reforms” will “phase out smoking, protecting the public, NHS and economy and put us on track to a smokefree UK”.

Government Sponsored Comments on the Bill

Wes Streeting, the Health and Social Care Secretary, has released details of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill today. The Government has issued a number of statements from Streeting, Chief Medical Officer for England Professor Chris Whitty, Professor Sanjay Agrawal, Dr Charmaine Griffiths, Dr Ian Walker, Henry Gregg and Cllr David Fothergill.

Oral Health and Cardiovascular Prevention at the Core of Harm Reduction Research

Center of Excellence for the acceleration of Harm Reduction (CoEHAR)

 Last Wednesday, October 30, Catania hosted the Annual CoEHAR Conference, led by the founder of the University of Catania’s Research Center, Prof. Riccardo Polosa, and its director, Prof. Giovanni Li Volti. The conference addressed two major topics: oral health and cardiovascular disease prevention. Among the 25 distinguished speakers were many prominent harm reduction and addiction specialists from leading U.S. universities.

Cytisinicline For E-Cigarette Cessation

Rongzhong Huang,  Tianyang Hu, JAMA Network

Comment & Response:

To the Editor We are pleased to learn the results achieved by Rigotti et al¹ when using cytisinicline for e-cigarette cessation, which provides a potential pharmacologic treatment option for adults seeking to quit smoking nicotine. In fact, several previous studies have investigated cytisinicline for smoking cessation treatment with similarly promising results.

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