Vapers Digest 1st August
Friday’s News at a glance:
JUUL Labs Welcomes Marketing Authorisations – Navigating the Future of the Nicotine Industry – ‘Protect Your Store’ Campaign – Campaign to Save Flavoured Vapes – Systematic review explores the range and effectiveness of interventions aiming to change vaping harm – perceptions – The world conference on tobacco control – mixed perspectives and controversies – Intro to Selya Behavioral Science Substack – Will “third of UK teenagers who vape… go on to start smoking”? – The Flavor of Harm Reduction: Vapes in a Hostile US – The Importance of Balancing Vape Safety, Youth Protection, and Public Education – ASH Late to the Game on Pouch Regulations – Washington Post Attack on E-Cigarettes Deserves Emergency Room Treatment – STUDY: Flavour bans make things worse – Anti-vaping messages discourage smokers from quitting, warns new review – Vaping better for gums than smoking, says major German review – Voices of Harm Reduction Pt 8: Arielle Selya – Study finds flavor bans cut youth vaping but slow decline in cigarette smoking – 28.6 Billion Cigarettes a Year – Overregulation and bans will slow economic growth – Vape shops voice concerns over phased rollout of Tennessee’s new compliance laws – Massachusetts Wants to Ban Nicotine Forever. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – Nicotine bans are tired ‘nanny state’ politics – Vape players reject ban, call it flawed – #GFN25 Commentary Team hosted by Harry Shapiro
Four From Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
Dr. Brad Rodu, Tobacco Truth
Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and Washington Post columnist, attacked tobacco harm reduction in a Post column last week, “The New Nicotine Product Replacing e‑Cigarettes to Addict Teens” (paywalled). It dealt mainly with Zyn nicotine pouches, but it touched on the gamut of safer cigarette substitutes.
Matt Holman, Ph.D., Chief Scientific and Regulatory Strategy Officer at U.S. Philip Morris International, has responded (here) with an accurate point-by-point rebuttal of Dr. Wen’s numerous misstatements.
Four From Clearing The Air
STUDY: Flavour bans make things worse
Flavor bans for vaping are associated with increased cigarette use and black-market activity, including the risk of youth access and reduced consumer safety, according to a new policy paper from the Tholos Foundation. The report draws on a combination of academic literature, policy reviews, and consumer polling in multiple jurisdictions.
It documents a rising number of jurisdictions implementing or considering restrictions on flavored vaping products. In the United States, nearly 400 localities and seven states have adopted some form of flavor ban.
Anti-vaping messages discourage smokers from quitting, warns new review
Ali Anderson
Public health messages warning of the dangers of vaping may be contributing to a growing misperception that vapes are just as harmful as smoking, a new King’s College London review has said.
Published in Addiction, the systematic review examined 85 studies assessing how vaping harm perceptions can be changed and whether these perceptions influence vaping and smoking behaviours.
Vaping better for gums than smoking, says major German review
Ali Anderson
Vaping and other smoke-free nicotine products cause less oral harm than smoking
Combustible cigarette users showed the worst results across four oral health categories
Vapers landed between smokers and never-users on most measures
More research is needed, but early signs suggest harm reduction benefits
Voices of Harm Reduction Pt 8: Arielle Selya
Peter Beckett
Arielle Selya is a former academic turned consultant. She set out to prove that the “gateway hypothesis” – that vaping leads to smoking in young people – was real, but ended up disproving it. When many of her peers refused to listen to her results, she left for the private sector, and has been a critic of academic politics and groupthink ever since.
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