Vapers Digest 16th January
Friday’s News at a glance:
Sheffield Warns Kids About Vaping ~ To cause or prevent 100 million deaths? ~ Manufacturing Consensus: How “Evidence Generation” Became Policy Laundering in Australia’s Vaping Debate ~ Moral Entrepreneurs and the Business of Tobacco Control ~ Waking up to the reality of tobacco’s black market ~ Youth Vaping Declines in New Zealand: A Signal Worth Paying Attention To ~ The war on snus ~ Pouch Patrons #2: Slash from Guns N’ Roses ~ Flavour bans linked to higher cigarette sales, growing body of evidence shows ~ Sweden takes its ‘quit smoking’ case to UK Parliament ~ Nicotine a Heart Threat, Per “Expert Consensus Report.” Experts Disagree. ~ Alleged tobacco kingpin Kazem ‘Kaz’ Hamad has been arrested in Iraq – what happens next? ~ SGF calls for new rules as illegal vape market “ten-times stronger” after disposables ban ~ Canada banned flavored vapes. Cigarette sales surged. ~ UK DISPOSABLE VAPE BAN EXPOSED!?
Sheffield Warns Kids About Vaping
Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
Smokefree Sheffield has partnered up with Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) for a campaign targeted at children and young people, to make them aware of ‘the facts about vaping’. In short, it says that vaping is less harmful than smoking and acts as one of the most effective quit smoking tools, but that children and non-smokers should never vape because “we don’t know yet what the long-term effects may be”.
Clive Bates, The Counterfactual by Clive Bates
I’m often asked, “What’s the point of working on tobacco harm reduction?” or “Why are you so bothered about vaping?” Would I be wrong to say that there is nothing else with quite so many lives – and deaths – at stake? For public health, it is an unusually tractable problem: the right decisions could perhaps prevent 100 million deaths in the present century, but the wrong decisions would do the opposite. It is a cause worth fighting for, but the forces ranged against rational pragmatism are formidable, well-funded, and unaccountable.
