Vapers Digest 4th August
Monday’s News at a glance:
Experts Respond to Mental Health Claims – expert reaction to observational study looking at rates of depression and anxiety in teens who smoke and vape – How easily we forget about cigarette deaths. – A full guide to vape aerosols: Post 8, environmental aerosols (part 1) – Japan’s shift to heated tobacco linked to drop in smoking — studies – New Tobacco Bill is a death sentence, lobby warns – The ABC Is Not Asking Questions — It’s Taking Sides on Vaping – No smokes without fire in Australia – Does Trump Intend to Keep His Promise to Save Vaping? – Debate over vape and smoke shops sparks Aurora ‘unsavory’ zoning debate – Portugal opposes EU proposals on tobacco taxes – What’s So Bad About Nicotine? – Evaluating WHO tobacco harm reduction science – Panel Discussion | #GFN25
Experts Respond to Mental Health Claims
Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
Young people who use vapes or tobacco products are “significantly” more likely to say they suffer from depression and anxiety according to researchers at West Virginia University. The study, published in the journal PLOS Mental Health, claims that teen vapers have a higher risk of depression and anxiety, while dual users had the highest chance of reporting mental health problems. Experts at British institutions have responded to the claims.
How easily we forget about cigarette deaths.
Richard, Substack
Humans do not understand risk, not on an intuitive level, nor for most people, even on a logical level. A risk that causes deaths every day is often underestimated, becoming ‘normal’ and thus uninteresting. However, a small risk that is unlikely, but just about possible, is ‘interesting’ and people naturally want to avoid being eaten by a tiger. Overreacting to a shadow is not a huge cost, and being eaten by a tiger is the end. That could explain the issue: being blind to everyday risks, but overly sensitive to unknowns. Maybe that helps you be eaten less?
A full guide to vape aerosols: Post 8, environmental aerosols (part 1)
Roberto Sussman, Roberto’s Substack
This is the 8th Substack post, the first of a series of 3 posts describing the environmental vaping aerosols that users release to the surrounding air when they exhale. Since exhaled vape aerosols expose bystanders and non-users, it is important to understand and analyze their properties, to compare with inhaled aerosol, environmental tobacco smoke and other pollutants. Al this is needed to provide knowledge to asses objectively risks to bystanders. Without being “experts” this knowledge reassures our confidence on the role of vapes in harm reduction and serves us to counter ignorant and malicious disinformation.
Japan’s shift to heated tobacco linked to drop in smoking — studies
Jan Escosio, Inquirer
A growing body of evidence from Japan suggests that heated tobacco products (HTPs) are playing a significant role in the dramatic decline in cigarette use across the country.
A peer-reviewed study published in Tobacco Control in October 2024, titled “Transformation of the Tobacco Product Market in Japan, 2011–2023,” reported that per capita and total cigarette sales in Japan dropped by more than 50 percent between 2011 and 2023.
New Tobacco Bill is a death sentence, lobby warns
Star
Although the Senate Health Committee is yet to table its report on the bill, it is said to support capping nicotine levels and restricting flavours in nicotine products.
CASA warns that such restrictions contradict international evidence and real-world success stories from countries such as the UK and Sweden, where safer alternatives have helped drastically cut smoking rates.
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
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