Vapers Digest May 13th
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
LibDems Attack “Cowboy” Vendors ~ GFN Announces Science Lab ~ Vapes Now Legal in Argentina ~ EU health chief repeats false claims on nicotine products despite scientific backlash ~ Considerate Pouchers raises concerns over Portugal’s proposed nicotine pouch regulations ~ Quebecers turning to cigarettes after flavoured e-cigarettes banned: survey ~ Canada’s vape flavour ban stalls as evidence mounts against smoking ‘gateway’ fears ~ Deluded wowsers ~ Glas – Reactions to FDA Authorization ~ See Opportunites ~ CAPHRA Marks World No Tobacco Day with a Call for Science-Based Policy ~ The Question Warsaw Still Asks ~ GFN at Twelve: The Unfinished Question of Nicotine and Public Health ~ Two Americas of FDA Tobacco Regulation ~ FDA Commissioner Makary Forced to Resign Following Vape Fiasco ~ Marty Makary’s Irrational Resistance to Flavored Nicotine Vapes Drove His FDA Resignation ~ Makary Resigns, Diamantas New Interim FDA Head ~ Makary’s time atop FDA over, Diamantas named acting commissioner ~ What We’re Really Afraid Of (And What We’re Not) ~ Imperial Brands Pulls myblu Vape Business From U.S., Citing Prolonged FDA Approval Process ~ EU TED Negotiations Expose a Political Gamble, Not a Public Health Strategy ~ Várhelyi cornered by MEPs on EU budget and tobacco rules ~ Why it’s wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking ~ The $4.2 Trillion Illegal Empire: How Illicit Tobacco Funds Terrorism | Hayley van Loon
Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
CAPHRA Marks World No Tobacco Day with a Call for Science-Based Policy
Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA)
“Despite overwhelming scientific evidence supporting the reduced risk of vaping compared to combustible tobacco products, the WHO continues to ignore the facts and mislead the public,” said Nancy Loucas, a prominent New Zealand public health consumer advocate and executive coordinator of CAPHRA.
Products such as e-cigarettes, snus, and heated tobacco products (HTPs) provide a significantly less harmful alternative for millions of adult smokers seeking to reduce their health risks.
Two From Disobedient Margins
The Question Warsaw Still Asks
The deadliest nicotine product ever invented remains legal, visible, and routine. It is there in convenience stores, in the crumpled packs carried in a pocket, in the break during the workday, on the corner, in the habit itself. Almost everywhere, the combustible cigarette remains so readily available that its chemical violence nearly dissolves into the landscape.
GFN at Twelve: The Unfinished Question of Nicotine and Public Health
The Core Tension
The combustible cigarette remains legal, visible, and widely available.
Lower-risk nicotine products — vapes, snus, nicotine pouches, heated tobacco — are often treated with greater suspicion than cigarettes.
Since 2014, the Global Forum on Nicotine has served as one of the main spaces where this contradiction is openly examined.
The central dispute is not only scientific, but moral, regulatory, economic, political, and communicational.
The 2026 theme, Prohibition and Public Health, returns to the unresolved question: what is public health protecting when the deadliest product remains available while less harmful alternatives are restricted?
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