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Vapers Digest 13th April

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Monday’s News at a glance:

The Impact of Prohibition on Health and Ethics ~ EU Tax Opposed ~ New Zealand Risks Oz-Style Crime ~ The CEO of Philip Morris International Walks Into a Tobacco Control Convention  ~ Still Smoking, Still Failing: What This Study Reveals About a System Stuck in the Past ~ The Policy That Created the Problem It’s Now Investigating ~ What the Curves Conceal ~ From the Soapbox ~ Vaping, smoking and risk of early onset lung cancer ~ Interplay of Metals and Organics in E-Cigarette Aerosols Enhances the Production of Reactive Oxygen Species within Ultrafine Particles: Implications for Passive Vaping Exposures ~ Scrap the Ban, Keep the Controls: CAPHRA’s Message to Bangladesh ~ UC San Diego Gives Government Bans Credit For Ending The Vaping Fad ~ Nicotine Blamed for Lung Cancer: What a Clinician Survey in Eastern Europe & Central Asia Reveals ~ Italy Formally Submits Detailed Opinion to EU Obstructing Ireland’s Disposable Vape Ban ~ What France’s new tobacco research means for India’s evolving public health approach ~ Vaping cancer review sparks expert backlash over ‘deeply misleading’ claims ~ WHY ARE THE SAFER NICOTINE PRODUCTS GETTING BANNED?

Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

The Impact of Prohibition on Health and Ethics

The Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN26) team has announced the first keynote session and that the conference programme is now live for the event set to take place in Warsaw from 3-5 June. Organisers say that the programme will be continually updated online as they announce new speakers and that it is the best place to keep track of the GFN26 lineup.

EU Tax Opposed

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) draft opinion on the revision of the Tobacco Taxation Directive (TED) has met with support from consumers and experts. They are calling on the European Union to follow “a risk‑based taxation approach”, warning that high, poorly designed taxes can fuel black markets, undermine health goals and reduce legal tax revenues instead of cutting smoking.

New Zealand Risks Oz-Style Crime

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates says that New Zealand is risking an Australia-style tobacco crime surge if it ignores the benefits of tobacco harm reduction. Australia has been experiencing gang-related fire-bombings and murder due to its de facto ban on legal vapes. The Coalition says that New Zealand will emulate Australia if it relies too heavily on restriction, high prices, and enforcement.

Three From Alan Gore

The CEO of Philip Morris International Walks Into a Tobacco Control Convention

There’s a moment, just before he steps through the doors, where the irony becomes almost too much to ignore. It lingers in that brief pause between outside and inside, between reputation and reinvention, between what this company was and what it now claims to be becoming. Inside, the banners read “End Smoking” and “A Smoke-Free Future.” Public health professionals fill the space, speaking a language that is firmly defined by prevention, cessation, and abstinence. Outside, standing briefly still, is the CEO of one of the largest tobacco companies in the world.

Still Smoking, Still Failing: What This Study Reveals About a System Stuck in the Past

The paper published in the Australasian Journal on Ageing presents itself as another careful contribution to the evidence base around smoking, health, and ageing. On the surface, it fits neatly into the broader public health narrative. Smoking remains harmful, cessation is difficult, vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected, and the system must continue refining its response. But when you read it closely, something else becomes clear. It is not just describing a problem. It is quietly exposing a system that is failing to solve it.

The Policy That Created the Problem It’s Now Investigating

There is something quietly surreal about watching an inquiry into illicit tobacco unfold in Australia (AGAIN).

Not because illicit trade is new. It isn’t. Every country deals with some level of it. But because of the timing, the tone, and the careful framing of the problem now being examined.

What the Curves Conceal

Claudio Teixeira, Disobedient Margins

Rates have fallen, and cigarettes have moved out of the center of social life.

But tobacco control did not simply reduce smoking. It reorganized where smoking remains, concentrating it among those for whom quitting was never merely an individual choice.

Over the past several decades, few stories have been told with as much consensus as those of tobacco control. It runs through reports, treaties, and scientific papers as one of those rare victories public health likes to display without lowering its eyes: a widespread problem, deeply embedded in social life, gradually pushed to the margins until it seemed, at least on the surface, to be under control.

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Vaping, smoking and risk of early onset lung cancer

Marisa A. Bittoni, David P. Carbone, Randall E. Harris, PubPeer

Gal Cohen comment accepted April 2026

This is one of a series of studies which compared a population of patients diagnosed with lung cancer to a matched case-control sample in a health care system in Ohio from 2013-2021. Incidence of e-cigarette use was compared between the two samples to see if there was an association with lung cancer. The lung cancer sample was taken from a population that was hospital-diagnosed and treated for cancer, while the case-control sample data was taken from the community setting during annual checkups.

Interplay of Metals and Organics in E-Cigarette Aerosols Enhances the Production of Reactive Oxygen Species within Ultrafine Particles: Implications for Passive Vaping Exposures

Wonsik Woo, Linhui Tian, Charles Diamond, Michael Lum, Timothy Lyons, Ying-Hsuan Lin, PubPeer

Roberto A. Sussman comment accepted April 2026

The authors examine laboratory produced aging of vaping aerosol produced by ozonolysis of terpene flavoring chemicals producing organic hydroperoxides, which decompose to form radicals upon aqueous dissolution. These processes enhance metal abundance and production of ultra-fine particles (UFPs) mediated by redox metals with a likely role of Fenton-like reactions. The authors also suggest potential negative implications from the inhalation of aged aerosol and their deposition in the lungs.

Global Forum on Nicotine

Is the EU ignoring the most effective tool to end smoking? In this episode of GFN News, Joanna Junak sits down with renowned physician and public health researcher Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos to discuss his latest review on nicotine pouches. As smoking rates across the globe remain a primary public health concern, Dr. Farsalinos argues that we are overlooking a “promising harm-reduction option” that could save millions of lives.

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

Ban on smoking substitute snus upheld

New Nicotine Alliance

The European Union’s ban on the smoking substitute snus can be upheld according to the European Court of Justice’s advocate general. In his preliminary opinion, ahead of the court’s decision this summer, Henrik Saugmandsgaard said that while the evidence for the ban was not clear cut, the European Parliament had the right to impose the ban in 1992. He said that he did not find that the ban was “manifestly inappropriate”. (The opinionwas released this morning.)

Snus Ban: Let’s Leave The EU..

Dick Puddlecote

As I reported in January, the UK government went in to bat for the EU in favour of upholding the ban on snus everywhere but Sweden when it was challenged in the ECJ.

Overwhelming isn’t the word, snus has just about been given a clean bill of health in every aspect. A Lancet review spoke of no evidence of harm from long-term use of snus ”for any health outcome” (p 1364).

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