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Vapers Digest 20th March

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Friday’s News at a glance:

NNA Ireland Addresses the Flavour Ban ~ GFN To Explore Prohibition Risks ~ Swapping to Vapes Improves Blood Vessels ~ WVA Reacts to Belgian Flavour Ban ~ FDA Authorizes Age-Gated Glas Vape Device ~ Fontem Sues FDA Over Refusal-to-File Decision for Nicotine Pouch PMTAs ~ Commentary: Banning nicotine pouches will hurt veterans ~ How Wrong Can a Government Be? ~ The War on Nicotine Is Creating the Crime It Claims to Fight ~ Media Watch: More Propaganda Language Games About Nicotine Pouches ~ Review linking vaping to cancer retracted after “serious flaws” found ~ Four in ten frequent vapers quit cigarettes within three years, new PATH study finds ~ Nearly half of Europe’s vape market comes from irregular sources, study finds ~ Vaping Is Safer Than Smoking: Now It’s Official in France ~ Dealing with Gutkha menace ~ If Brussels ignores science on safer nicotine, it risks losing public trust ~ World Oral Health Day in Africa: Separating Fear from Facts on Nicotine, Smoking, and Oral Nicotine Alternatives ~ GERMANY’S VAPE FLAVOUR CRACKDOWN?

Four From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

NNA Ireland Addresses the Flavour Ban

The Irish government has announced its intention to add further regulation to vapes and other nicotine products. NNA Ireland says that some of the proposed changes are welcome and should have been implemented when the age restriction legislation was written – while “other proposals will not benefit the reduction of smoking and will instead, increase smoking and the health burden that goes with it.”

GFN To Explore Prohibition Risks

Organisers of this year’s Global Forum on Nicotine 2026 (GFN26) say that it is set to explore why the prohibition of safer nicotine products risks, and does not protect, public health. Themed ‘Prohibition and public health’, this year’s event will examine the deep structural contradiction emerging between science and global public health policy.

Swapping to Vapes Improves Blood Vessels

The damage caused to blood vessels by smoking has been shown to be reversed by swapping to vaping, in a new study by researchers at the Centre of Excellence for the acceleration of Harm Reduction (CoEHAR). The systematic review, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, examined 23 clinical studies to understand what happens to vascular health after quitting smoking or switching completely to e-cigarettes.

WVA Reacts to Belgian Flavour Ban

Consumer organisations are urging the Belgian government to reconsider proposed ban on vape flavour, says the World Vapers’ Alliance. It told Planet of the Vapes that eight consumer organisations representing thousands of citizens across Europe have issued an open letter to the Government of Belgium to push for a reversal of the proposal.

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Vaping Is Safer Than Smoking: Now It’s Official in France

Kiran Sidhu, Filter

France’s national health and safety agency, ANSES, has published a report concluding that vaping is substantially safer than smoking.

It’s something we already knew. Yet in a world where misinformation obscures this basic fact from millions of people who smoke—and from over 90 percent of the French population—official acknowledgement by another major nation matters.

Dealing with Gutkha menace

Samrat Chowdhery, Derek Yach, The Pioneer

India’s attempt to ban gutkha is celebrated as a triumph of public health legislation. Over the past decade, the central and state governments systematically outlawed the toxic blend of chewing tobacco, areca nut and flavourings. Optimism surged when the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS-2) projected a comforting 4.5 per cent decline in smokeless tobacco prevalence. But sweeping prohibitions rarely rewrite ground realities.

If Brussels ignores science on safer nicotine, it risks losing public trust

Daniel Deyl, EU Perspectives

When it comes to effective smoking regulation, few people are more in the know than Clive Bates. The former senior civil servant in Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Strategy Unit and director of Action on Smoking and Health, a leading anti-smoking advocacy group, has been a vocal opponent of both smoking and misguided regulation against it. Following an open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen—which he co-signed with other experts in response to Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi’s statements on lower-risk nicotine products—Mr Bates spoke to EU Perspectives about the delicate balance policymakers must strike when regulating tobacco use, lest the cure prove worse than the disease.

World Oral Health Day in Africa: Separating Fear from Facts on Nicotine, Smoking, and Oral Nicotine Alternatives

Joseph Magero, Health Times

As Africa celebrates World Oral Health Day, the emphasis usually lies on brushing, dental visits, and preventive care. But one of the most persistent threats to oral health across the continent, cigarette smoking, calls for a more nuanced, evidence-based response.

For years, public messaging has treated all nicotine use as equally harmful. However, emerging research from institutions such as the Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of Harm Reduction, CoEHAR highlights an important distinction: it is not nicotine itself, but the toxic chemicals produced by burning tobacco that drive most smoking-related oral disease, including oral cancer.

GERMANY’S VAPE FLAVOUR CRACKDOWN?

Global Forum on Nicotine

In this episode of GFN News, Joanna Junak speaks with Will Godfrey of Filter about Germany’s proposed regulation to ban flavoured e-liquids containing cooling agents. The draft measure would prohibit menthol and other “iced” vape products that rely on cooling additives. Supporters of the proposal, including Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, argue that cooling effects may make vaping easier to inhale and potentially increase nicotine intake – particularly among young and inexperienced users.

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

CALL TO ACTION:

The World Health Organization is planning a global assault on vaping
New Nicotine Alliance

Today, we are calling on our supporters, consumers of reduced risk nicotine products, and others who understand the benefits of harm reduction to act on significant threats planned by the World Health Organization (WHO) later this year.

Shoddy Research Reinforces Narrative

Jacob Sullum

In 2019, The Journal of the American Heart Association published a study suggesting that nicotine vaping doubles the risk of a heart attack. The authors claimed e-cigarette use is “independently” associated with a heightened risk of myocardial infarction, which is “similar” to the risk among cigarette smokers.

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