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Vapers Digest 21st May

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Vape Club Stockpiling ~ The War on Truth ~ Vapers Plan To Stockpile Disposables ~ Safer Solutions: Common Ground on Harm Reduction in Drugs and Tobacco ~ What Happens in the Real World When Flavors Are Banned in Nicotine Products? ~ Two-Thirds of U.S. Healthcare Practitioners Mistakenly Believe or Are Unsure Whether Nicotine Causes Cancer, According to New Survey ~ Ignoring Science: UN’s Flawed Approach to Tobacco Control ~ The Real Threat? The Hypocrisy Behind Flavored Vape Bans While Flavored Alcohol Gets A Free Pass ~ Tectonic Shift | Consumers Leave Tobacco Control Behind ~ Media Watch: What’s with the BBC’s Anti-Nicotine Agenda? ~ From Harm Reduction to Harm Reversal? The UK’s Disposable Vape Ban Leaves Users Adrift ~ And the award goes to: WHO rewards purveyors of bad policy and misinformation ~ Denmark set to limit number of vape retailers and opening hours ~ Youth vaping panic in the Netherlands sparked by misinterpreted data from just EIGHT teens ~ WHO Boss Slammed for “Tobacco Kills” Claim – Critics Say He’s Spreading Dangerous Misinformation ~ Trump’s tariffs may cause influx of cheap Chinese vapes in UK, experts warn ~ UK Disposable Vape Ban Begins June 1 ~ Prohibition Wins Prizes! ~ Scarborough residents warned not to stockpile vapes ~ Spain’s misguided vaping crackdown reflects dangerous trend as EU eyes new rules ~ Flavored vape bans and tobacco tax hikes are a direct attack on my livelihood | Opinion ~ PAKISTAN’S TOBACCO CONTROL PROBLEM

Three from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

Vape Club Stockpiling

The second company in two days has noticed that vapers are stockpiling their favourite disposable/single-use vapes ahead of June’s ban, with “a significant uplift in sales” for popular flavours. Dan Marchant, Director at Vape Club, and founding member of the UKVIA, responds to the news and offers his expert advice.

The War on Truth

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has released a damning position statement, warning that misinformation about safer nicotine products is putting millions of lives at risk and undermining global public health efforts – a deadly consequence of vaping misinformation.

Vapers Plan To Stockpile Disposables

With the disposable vape ban fast approaching on 1st June 2025, new research from Vape Superstore reveals a major shift in vaper behaviour: over 70% now plan to stockpile disposables – nearly triple the number from just six months ago. While fewer vapers now use disposables as their primary device compared to six months ago, a dramatic rise in stockpiling suggests anxiety and uncertainty remain widespread.

Safer Solutions: Common Ground on Harm Reduction in Drugs and Tobacco

Jessica Shortall, Chelsea Boyd, Rstreet

What do people who use drugs and people who smoke cigarettes have in common? The short answer: a lot.

Advocates for both groups know people have complex reasons for using substances, and agree that it doesn’t mean they don’t deserve better health or a better life. That’s why it’s a head-scratcher that there isn’t more collaboration across these issues. The overlap between people who use drugs and people who smoke is staggering—in fact, some data suggests that nicotine dependence may predict more frequent opioid use. And while only 12 percent of American adults smoke cigarettes, more than 75 percent of people with opioid use disorder smoke. People who use drugs face unique difficulties when trying to quit smoking, and tobacco smoking kills more people who use drugs than overdoses do, just on a different timescale.

What Happens in the Real World When Flavors Are Banned in Nicotine Products?

Marina Murphy, Food & Drug Law Institute (FDLI)

There’s been a flurry of regulatory activity in the nicotine industry recently. The new administration withdrew the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) proposed menthol ban on cigarettes in the United States. FDA also authorized the marketing of 20 ZYN nicotine pouch products. Another FDA proposal currently on hold could limit nicotine levels to such a minimal level that many in the industry feel it is a step toward prohibition. Several other regulatory discussions on nicotine products, including the role of flavors, are far from settled.

Two-Thirds of U.S. Healthcare Practitioners Mistakenly Believe or Are Unsure Whether Nicotine Causes Cancer, According to New Survey

Business Wire, Yahoo Finance

A new survey, funded by Philip Morris International’s U.S. affiliates (PMI U.S.), has found that 47% of U.S. healthcare practitioners—rising to 59% among medical professionals who indicate that half or more of their patients smoke cigarettes—mistakenly believe nicotine is a carcinogen, despite scientific consensus that the harms of smoking primarily stem not from nicotine but from the burning of tobacco. Another 19% are unsure. Practitioners surveyed generally agree that smoke-free products—such as nicotine pouches and other noncombustible alternatives—are addictive and not risk-free, but still pose less risk than cigarettes. However, the survey results also show that misconceptions about nicotine persist and are obstructing progress on tobacco harm reduction.

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Tectonic Shift | Consumers Leave Tobacco Control Behind | RegWatch

Brent Stafford, Regwatch

Over the past decade, tobacco control has waged war on vaping. They have demonized, taxed, restricted, and banned safer nicotine products. They’ve misrepresented science and misinformed the public, all in a misguided effort to eliminate nicotine use entirely. But U.S. consumers aren’t buying it. They’re rejecting the panic, sidestepping the bans, and switching to nicotine vapes by the millions.

Media Watch: What’s with the BBC’s Anti-Nicotine Agenda?

The Daily Pouch

The BBC has produced a lot of articles on vapes and pouches lately. How many of them have met their own threshold for impartiality, education, and independence? We’ve done the maths.

From Harm Reduction to Harm Reversal? The UK’s Disposable Vape Ban Leaves Users Adrift

Diane Caruana, Vaping Post

As the UK’s ban on disposable vapes looms closer, set to take effect on June 1st, a surge in stockpiling behavior has emerged among vapers—despite a notable drop in daily use. According to new data from Vape Superstore, over 70% of adult vapers plan to hoard disposable devices ahead of the ban, nearly tripling from six months ago. Curiously, this comes at a time when only 43.1% of users still rely on disposables as their main device, down from 66%.

UK Disposable Vape Ban Begins June 1

Jim McDonald, Vaping 360

In just a few days, legal disposable vapes will be a thing of the past in the United Kingdom. Beginning June 1, sales of vape devices that are not both rechargeable and refillable will be outlawed.

The ban was announced last October, and justified mostly on environmental grounds, although politicians who support it also believe it will reduce youth vaping, which they think is a crisis.

Prohibition Wins Prizes!

loremipsumdolor, COPWatch

Nothing says World No Tobacco Day like rewarding countries which have protected cigarette sales.

During a back-slapping event on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly last week, the World Health Organization handed out gongs to countries in honor of World No Tobacco Day 2025. The awards are, reportedly, for those “that have made outstanding contributions to advancing policies and measures included in the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC).” However, one can sense a theme going on with those who received them.

Scarborough residents warned not to stockpile vapes

Phoebe Smith, The Scarborough News

Fire safety experts are sounding the alarm as the UK prepares to ban disposable vapes on 1 June, with serious concerns over the potentially life-threatening impact of stockpiling.

According to new research by online nicotine retailer, Haypp, a staggering 82% of disposable vape users are planning to stock-pile disposable vapes before they are banned.

Spain’s misguided vaping crackdown reflects dangerous trend as EU eyes new rules

 Louis Auge, Eureporter

As the EU gears up to review its vaping regulations, key member-states are already pressing ahead with their domestic agendas. Among the most notable of this group, Spain is preparing to overhaul national vaping laws by the end of 2025, yet its government is taking a deeply discouraging direction.

Flavored vape bans and tobacco tax hikes are a direct attack on my livelihood | Opinion

George Zerfu, The Enquirer

When details of the latest state budget proposals were released, my heart sank. As a small business owner in Cincinnati since 2017, I’ve worked hard to build my convenience store into more than just a gas station. My store is a neighborhood staple. Like most corner stores, it’s a place where locals can grab their coffee, fuel up, and grab snacks. They can also purchase tobacco products, which account for a significant portion of our sales. Convenience Store News reports that tobacco makes up nearly 32% of all in-store sales for convenience stores like mine across the country.

Global Forum on Nicotine

30 million people currently smoke in Pakistan, but could safer nicotine products such as nicotine pouches succeed where other tobacco control efforts have struggled? Joining us today is Ziauddin Islam, a tobacco control expert and former Technical Representative to the WHO FCTC and ITP, to highlight the direction of Pakistan’s tobacco control efforts.

 

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