Vapers Digest 17th December
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
GFN 2026 Lifts Off ~ Principles Abandoned for Ideology ~ Vaping Isn’t Cool ~ Germany Risks More Smoking ~ Parliamentary Matters ~ Australia’s prohibition double whammy ~ They Made It Personal: The Human Cost of EU Nicotine Regulation ~ Media Watch: Radio New Zealand on Pouch Legalisation ~ The FDA Might Be Thawing to THR: Here’s How It Could Move Faster ~ Cheered On by the WHO, Vietnam Tightens Total Vape Ban ~ Taxing safer alternatives backfires, pushing users back to deadly cigarettes ~ Weekend Interview: Guy Bentley Challenges Nanny-State Crusades on Gambling, Alcohol, and Nicotine ~ EU to fast track new nicotine laws: proposal expected next year ~ Panic over vapes, opioids and Dutch teens – what the science actually says ~ To Prohibit, To Punish, To Disappear: The Mexican State and the Fiction of Public Health ~ WVA attacks EU ‘Safe Hearts Plan’ for ignoring harm reduction ~ NZ’s Falling Teen Vaping and Near-Zero Smoking: New Data Confirms the Absurdity of the FCTC’s Dirty Ashtray Award ~ Juul named in proposed B.C. class action amid ongoing efforts to support harm-reduction and regulation ~ Smokers and Vapers Face Price Shock Under Brussels Tax Plan ~ Up in smoke ~ COP30 Proves Inclusive Climate Action Works Better Than Tobacco Control Exclusion ~ The Next Frontier in Advancing THR: Oral Nicotine Products | #GFN25 Science Discussion
Five from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
GFN 2026 Lifts Off
The GFN team says that they are delighted to announce that registration for the Global Forum on Nicotine 2026, the foremost event for discussion about harm reduction policy and research, is live. #GFN26 will take place in the striking and vibrant city of Warsaw, Poland, at The Warsaw Presidential Hotel (former Warsaw Marriott Hotel), from Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 June 2026.
Principles Abandoned for Ideology
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has condemned the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Secretariat for permitting Michael Bloomberg-funded prohibitionist non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to dictate policy narratives at its recent Conference of Parties (COP11), directly contradicting the treaty’s foundational principles.
Vaping Isn’t Cool
Despite being singled out for vilification recently, the work being done in New Zealand continues to bear fruit as the rate of daily youth vaping drops yet again. The daily vaping rate has now dropped down to 7.1% among New Zealand’s Year 10 students. This is down from ‘peak vape’ in 2022, according to Action on Smoking and Health New Zealand.
Germany Risks More Smoking
A major new international report reveals the scale of the public health disaster Germany could face if politicians push ahead with restrictions or bans on nicotine pouches, the modern, tobacco-free alternative that has helped drive Sweden to the lowest smoking rate in Europe.
Parliamentary Matters
Conservatives Joe Robertson, James Cleverly, and Richard Holden hold the government to account in this week’s coverage of incredible vape related matters from the Houses of Parliament. Subject discussed included the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, vape shops, and (again) the highly divisive issue of bus stops.
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