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Vapers Digest 16th March

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Monday’s News at a glance:

Is vaping more harmful than smoking cigarettes? More people incorrectly think so ~ Complementing and expanding Chris Snowdon’s latest Substack on passive vaping ~ Complementing and expanding Chris Snowdon’s latest Substack on passive vaping ~ CAPHRA Responds To PHANZ: New Zealand Should Regulate Oral Nicotine Products, Not Ban Safer Options For Adults ~ FDA opens door to more flavored e-cigarettes ~ Special Report｜FDA Revises Device Name in Glas Vape Authorization; Company Signals Optimism on Menthol, Flavored Pods ~ The Mark Butler Contradiction in Australia’s Vaping Policy ~ When Platforms Become Gatekeepers of Harm Reduction ~ When Prohibition Creates the Market ~ When Regulation Creates the Black Market: What the Fraunhofer Study Reveals About Vaping ~ Group backs Alberta premier’s call to reconsider nicotine pouch rules ~ Exhaled vape aerosol fades to background levels within seconds, new study finds ~ Singapore passes sweeping anti-vaping law with jail terms of up to 20 years ~ JAY GOLDBERG: Smith joins call for common-sense nicotine pouch policy ~ CAN VAPING AND SUSTAINABILITY COEXIST? ~ CIRCULAR VAPE RECYCLING AND THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE THR

Is vaping more harmful than smoking cigarettes? More people incorrectly think so

Lisa Lock, Andrew Zinin, UT Southwestern Medical Center

A growing number of U.S. adults consider electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) more harmful than conventional cigarettes. The findings, by researchers from the UT Southwestern Medical Center and published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research, could have significant implications for public health policymakers, tobacco control strategies, and people who use either of these cigarette types.

Two From Roberto Sussman, Roberto’s Substack

Complementing and expanding Chris Snowdon’s latest Substack on passive vaping Part 1

Dear readers

I dedicate this post and the next one (part 2) to complement and expand the excellent Substack by Chris Snowdon on the weakness of evidence against risks of “passive vaping” (exposure to “second hand” or the aerosol exhaled by vapers).

Complementing and expanding Chris Snowdon’s latest Substack on passive vaping Part 2

This is the second post (see first post) complementing and expanding the excellent Substack by Chris Snowdon on the weakness of evidence against risks of “passive vaping” (exposure to “second hand” or the aerosol exhaled by vapers).

This Substack post continues my previous critique of studies mentioned by Chris. I will examine what happens under special conditions with multiple vapers producing a large mass of exhaled vaping aerosol (EVA).

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Kenya is an interesting case in the forever information war about nicotine. It has a mix of harm reduction advocates who are steeped in pragmatism. It also harbours some frankly bonkers prohibitionists who faithfully tow the WHO line, typically with arguments that wouldn’t stand up to a light breeze.

Exhaled vape aerosol fades to background levels within seconds, new study finds

Ali Anderson

Researchers measuring airborne particles from two popular vape devices found exhaled aerosol returned to near background levels within around 20 seconds.

Each puff produced a short spike in particle levels of about 500-900 particles per cubic centimetre.

Measurements were taken two metres from the person vaping in a real-world indoor environment.

The study says vape aerosol particles “rapidly decrease in the environment due to evaporation.”

Singapore passes sweeping anti-vaping law with jail terms of up to 20 years

Tim Hong

Singapore’s parliament has passed sweeping new anti-vaping legislation that dramatically increases penalties for vaping-related offences, including prison sentences of up to 20 years in some cases.

The Tobacco and Vaporizers Control Act, approved on 6 March, strengthens the city-state’s already strict rules on nicotine products and replaces parts of the earlier Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) Act.

Jay Goldberg, Calgary Sun

The chorus calling for common-sense policy change on nicotine pouches just got louder.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is now lending her voice to the cause. In a letter co-authored with Dale Nally, Alberta’s red-tape reduction minister, Smith is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to undo a Trudeau-era ministerial order that forced nicotine pouches out of gas stations and convenience stores and restricted their sale to pharmacies.

Two From Global Forum on Nicotine

CAN VAPING AND SUSTAINABILITY COEXIST?

TURN ON THE SUBTITLES!

In this episode, we unpack the hidden environmental cost of vaping – from millions of discarded devices and batteries to ecosystem contamination – and why awareness isn’t translating into action. The conversation highlights a major gap: many users recognize the harm, but far fewer know how (or where) to recycle, and only a minority actually do.

CIRCULAR VAPE RECYCLING AND THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE THR

TURN ON THE SUBTITLES! In this GFN News interview, Aylen Van Isseldyk (creator of the global research project Circular Vape Recycling) explains the hidden environmental impact of vaping devices—from hard-to-degrade plastics and lithium batteries to the structural barriers that make e-cigarette recycling so difficult. ​

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

Content and trend analysis of user-generated nicotine sickness tweets:

A retrospective infoveillance study

Tobacco Induced Diseases

Introduction:
Exposure to pro-tobacco and electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) social media content can lead to overconsumption, increasing the likelihood of nicotine poisoning. This study aims to examine trends and characteristics of nicotine sickness content on Twitter between 2018–2020.

Science of tobacco harm reduction

Lanre Odusile, The Punch

In the 40 years since Professor Michael Russell, a South African scholar and specialist in the field of smoking behaviour, pioneered the logic that smokers smoke for nicotine but are killed by tar, the assertion has largely remained incontrovertible despite the opposition to it in some quarters.

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