Vapers Digest 8th December
Monday’s News at a glance:
CAPHRA Raises Alarm over Legitimacy of WHO Tobacco Treaty. ~ How Fearmongers Are Poisoning the Well on Harm Reduction ~ Debunking the Myths: What the Evidence Really Says About Vaping vs Smoking ~ The Warning Shot in Geneva: COP11 and Africa’s Tobacco Reckoning ~ Africa: A Turning Point at COP11 – African Voices Challenge the FCTC’s One-Size-Fits-All Approach ~ Expert Calls For Pragmatic Harm Reduction Strategy To Cut Smoking Risks in Nigeria ~ Global Action’s Position on the Recent Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ~ Ideology and Bloomberg Dollars Distort Global Tobacco Treaty ~ FDA launches web-based premarket tobacco product application process ~ Poland plans blanket ban on single-use vapes to ‘protect youth’ ~ Heated tobacco linked to lower toxicant exposure, new review finds ~ WHO Protected Cigarettes Again: A Quick 2025 Roundup ~ Patents Wars ~ Vape Debate at the Supreme Court ~ Canada’s nicotine pouch paradox ~ France taxes cigarettes but smokers do not drop, while libertarian Sweden has become a ‘smoke‑free country’: the different paths of the EU in its fight against tobacco consumption ~ YOUTUBE CRACKDOWN | Safer Nicotine Flagged As Medical Misinformation
CAPHRA Raises Alarm over Legitimacy of WHO Tobacco Treaty.
Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA)
A damning analysis from the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA), entitled “The FCTC Secretariat’s Deepening Legitimacy Problem”, exposes how the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has been captured by American philanthropist-funded NGOs, fundamentally undermining the treaty’s credibility and harming global public health outcomes.
The FCTC was originally designed as a government-led mechanism for evidence-based tobacco control. It has now devolved into a private advocacy platform where donor-funded organisations write policy, direct the Secretariat’s agenda, and publicly shame countries refusing ideological compliance.
How Fearmongers Are Poisoning the Well on Harm Reduction
Expert Calls For Pragmatic Harm Reduction Strategy To Cut Smoking Risks in Nigeria
Isaac Asabor, Independent
A health expert, Dr. Yusuff Adebayo, has urged Nigeria to adopt a science-driven Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) strategy as part of its national public health response, arguing that the approach offers a realistic pathway to reducing smoking-related diseases among adults who continue to consume nicotine.
Dr. Yusuff Adebayo, a pharmacist, epidemiologist, and health systems researcher, made the assertion in a new commentary where he described THR as “a pragmatic, evidence-based tool that complements—not replaces—traditional tobacco control efforts.”
Global Action to End Smoking
Global Action to End Smoking welcomes the continued attention at COP11 to the rapidly evolving landscape of nicotine and tobacco products.
The parties, consisting of the 183 countries that have either ratified or pledged to ratify the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, agreed to ban the use or sale of heated tobacco products and disposable e-cigarettes on all United Nations premises worldwide. However, there was no global consensus on broader measures related to reduced-risk products, including e-cigarettes, flavored tobacco, or other emerging nicotine technologies.
Ideology and Bloomberg Dollars Distort Global Tobacco Treaty
Martin Cullip, Filter
Once trusted to champion evidence-based public health, the World Health Organization (WHO) has slipped into an increasingly ideological stance on tobacco and nicotine. This is irresponsible, unethical and utterly inimical to public health.
The agency’s behavior at the recent Conference of the Parties (COP11) to its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), held in Geneva, revealed a bureaucracy that has drifted away from science—now swayed less by the truth than by the priorities of wealthy private donors.
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