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Vapers Digest 29th August

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Friday’s News at a glance:

Expert Reaction To Umbrella Review ~ Environmental Impact Of Vapes ~ Wong Is Wrong ~ Response to questions: South Africa Portfolio Committee on Health ~ How harmful are nicotine pouches? ~ Vaping in the News – IBVTA myth busting ~ Imperial Brands Releases New Study: Non-Tobacco Flavoured E-Cigarettes May Enhance Harm Reduction, Calling for Balanced Regulation ~ Barbados can shape the future of tobacco control ~ Why COP11 is Africa’s Chance to Rethink Tobacco Control ~ Gibraltar debates tobacco ban with vaping also in firing line ~ EU tax plan would make smoke-free 2040 target “practically  impossible,” warns harm reduction advocate ~ RFK Jr. is Spot On: Embracing Tobacco Harm Reduction Through Nicotine Pouches and Vaping Could Save Lives ~ Building business beyond the puff: Transitioning to a smoke-free future ~ Bidirectional Association Between E-Cigarette Use and Depression: A Meta-Analysis ~ Asia Forum on Nicotine

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Expert Reaction To Umbrella Review

An umbrella review published in Tobacco Control, covered by Planet of the Vapes on Tuesday, claims that youth vaping leads to smoking, marijuana use, alcohol use, and other negative health outcomes. Various experts have responded to the findings and questions the conclusions and highlighted that the overwhelming majority of studies the review used were of low or very low quality.

Environmental Impact Of Vapes

An Argentinian expert in the field of vaping has applied her knowledge of tobacco harm reduction and environmental sustainability to produce a new study on the environmental impact of vapes. Aylen Van Isseldyk completed her global research project with help from the Tobacco Harm Reduction Scholarship Programme led by K•A•C (Knowledge-Action-Change).

Wong Is Wrong

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has expressed deep concern over Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s announcement that the city-state will treat all vaping as a drug issue, implementing jail sentences and severe penalties that risk undermining decades of tobacco harm reduction science.

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Vaping in the News – IBVTA myth busting

Gillian Golden, All Party Parliamentary Group for Responsible Vaping (APPG)

The Disposable Vapes ban has been successful in environmental terms, and retailers have been surprised by the uptake from users. The IBVTA are reporting that sales of replacement pods are outstripping sales of the new refillable devices – in many cases by a factor of between 3 and 9.

However, some media outlets have shared narratives that a new generation of multi-use vapes are enabling users to by-pass the ban. One such article in the Telegraph led to the IBVTA writing to the editor countering the article’s assertions.

Imperial Brands Releases New Study: Non-Tobacco Flavoured

E-Cigarettes May Enhance Harm Reduction, Calling for Balanced Regulation

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 On August 26, Imperial Brands published a new literature review on its social media platforms, highlighting the role of flavoured e-cigarette products in supporting smoking cessation among adults. The company emphasized that non-tobacco flavours pose no greater health risks than tobacco-flavoured alternatives.

The study, funded by Imperial Brands, was published in the medical journal Cureus and co-authored by Ian M. Fearon (independent regulatory science consultant), along with Matthew Stevenson and Thomas Nahde, both affiliated with Imperial Brands and its subsidiary Reemtsma.

Barbados can shape the future of tobacco control

Dawne Parris, Barbados Today

Barbados has made impressive progress in reducing smoking rates—the lowest in the Caribbean region—but there is still work to do. The stark difference between men’s and women’s smoking rates shows that targeted, practical solutions could push smoking down even further. As the global tobacco control community prepares for COP11, Barbados has a unique chance to push for smarter policies that reflect real-world success and science.

RFK Jr. is Spot On: Embracing Tobacco Harm Reduction Through Nicotine Pouches and Vaping Could Save Lives

Ziauddin Islam, Ziauddin Islam’s Post

In a compelling Fox News segment this week, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a bold statement: nicotine itself doesn’t cause cancer—there’s no evidence it’s carcinogenic. Instead, he championed nicotine pouches as the safest way to consume nicotine and positioned vaping as the second-best alternative to traditional cigarettes. Holding up a pouch during the discussion, RFK Jr. emphasized the urgent need to shift smokers away from combustible tobacco, which racks up over $600 billion in annual health costs and countless preventable deaths in the U.S.

Tina Arceo-Dumlao, Inquirer

With just 5.4 percent of its population lighting up a cigarette every day, Sweden believes that it is on its way to becoming practically smoke-free, way ahead of other countries in the European Union, where one in five citizens is a daily smoker.

There was a time, however, when a much higher percentage of its population smoked traditional, combustible cigarettes that score the highest on the “relative risk spectrum” among 15 nicotine product categories.

Bidirectional Association Between E-Cigarette Use and Depression: A Meta-Analysis

Nicotine & Tobacco Research

Previous studies have indicated a potential bidirectional association between the use of e-cigarettes (ECs) and depression. However, this hypothesis has not yet been thoroughly investigated. In this meta-analysis, the two-way relationship is examined.

Asia Forum on Nicotine

CAPHRA Asia Pacific

The Asia Forum on Nicotine (AFN) aims to provide a comprehensive overview of tobacco harm reduction – including scientific, medical and consumer perspectives – with a focus on the unique challenges and opportunities in the Asia Pacific Region

A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…

E-Cigarettes Carry Much Less Risk of Lung Cancer Than Cigarette Smoke

Lung Disease News

E-cigarettes carry much less cancer risk than tobacco smoke, although some types are more risky than others, a study shows.

The research, “Comparing the cancer potencies of emissions from vapourised nicotine products including e-cigarettes with those of tobacco smoke,” was published in the journal Tobacco Control.

What Trump’s FDA director gets wrong

Carrie Wade, Daily Vaper (via R-Street)

Newly installed Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is proposing to shift his agency’s focus and strategy to reduce smoking and its consequences. Recognizing that not all forms of nicotine delivery are equally harmful, Gottlieb’s plan would undertake the vital job of communicating those differences in risk to the public.

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