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Vapers Digest 3rd December

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Budget Provokes Comment ~ Criminals Hammered in Hammersmith ~ Luxembourg Snus Law Draws Criticism as ‘De Facto Ban’ ~ Why the World Health Organization’s anti-nicotine policy could keep millions smoking ~ Youth Need Protection. Smokers Need Choices. EPSCO Can and Must Deliver Both. ~ Nicotine pouches: solution or smokescreen? ~ Youth vaping halves in New Zealand ~ Fruit and mint flavours dominate vape sales after disposable ban, new data shows ~ DOCUMENT: EU Health Ministers to discuss new curbs on safer nicotine products ~ Health Canada let kids get nicotine while blaming industry ~ Tobacco Regulation: The European Union ~ WHY NEW ZEALAND WAS SHAMED FOR REDUCING SMOKING?

Two from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

Budget Provokes Comment

The Budget has been presented by Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and includes plans to clamp down on illicit vapes and shopkeepers who sell them. Fines, prison sentences and digital registrations are claimed to be able to curtail the black market – but given the potential for large profits it remains uncertain if the measures will work in reality.

Criminals Hammered in Hammersmith

The London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham says its Trading Standards officers have seized more than £100,000 of illegal vapes since April 2021. The authority says seizures have skyrocketed since 2021 as it targeted removing “potentially toxic and over-strength” vapes from its local high streets.

Luxembourg Snus Law Draws Criticism as ‘De Facto Ban’

Tobacco Reporter

Luxembourg-based snus producer Heintz Van Landewyck criticized the country’s new anti-tobacco legislation, which effectively removes snus from the domestic market despite not explicitly banning it. The law, approved in late October, limits nicotine in snus pouches to just 0.048 mg per pouch—roughly the amount naturally found in two aubergines (eggplants)—making the product unappealing to consumers seeking nicotine.

Why the World Health Organization’s anti-nicotine policy could keep millions smoking

Guy Bentley, Reason Foundation

The World Health Organization (WHO) is pushing for countries to regulate e-cigarettes, nicotine pouches, and heated tobacco just as strictly as traditional cigarettes, even suggesting outright bans. If these recommendations are put in place, they could discourage millions of smokers from switching to these safer alternatives, leading to more deaths and diseases from smoking instead of reducing them.

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Youth Need Protection. Smokers Need Choices. EPSCO Can and Must Deliver Both.

Pouch Forum

As EPSCO considers novel nicotine products, protecting youth must be done with evidence and integrity, while ensuring that adult smokers are not denied access to substantially lower-risk alternatives that can reduce smoking and its related harms. A balanced regulatory framework is also strongly supported by the responsible actors in the value chain who want clear rules, proper enforcement and a level playing field.

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

Transformers Versus Abolitionists

Clive Bates, Tobacco Reporter

In November, two major treaties had their Conference of the Parties (COP) meetings. COP26 of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Glasgow, and COP9 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) was held online. Both aim to address a globally significant problem, and both aim to achieve radical transformations in the markets for energy and tobacco, respectively.

Stop Smoking Start Vaping Is a Guide…

For Potential Vapers – and Much More – Jim McDonald

Colin Mendelsohn’s new book about vaping is out just in time to buy as a holiday gift for smokers, new vapers, nervous family members of smokers and vapers, and open-minded smoking cessation counselors. It would also benefit the elected officials in your city or state that are planning to make vaping a lot harder for you in the near future—if they had enough curiosity to make the gift worthwhile.

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