Vapers Digest 20th May
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
ASH Push For Wider Bans ~ GFN to Address Economic Impacts ~ Toxicant Exposures After Switching From Cigarettes to a Pod-Based Electronic Cigarette ~ Salt-Nicotine E-Cigarettes Triple Smoking Cessation Odds ~ WHO spurns the world’s most successful anti-smoking story ~ WHO Strategy Has a Cigarette-Shaped Hole in It~ WHO chooses ideology over Sweden’s evidence on nicotine ~ Nicotine After the Cigarette ~ The Generation Vape Report Accidentally Exposes the Collapse of Australia’s Nicotine Control Model ~ Same evidence. Same values. Same goal. So why do we disagree? ~ Call For Content ~ STOP BILL 208 ~ Poland wants to ban vapes and nicotine pouches must taste like tobacco ”only favours the cigarette trade” ~ Aussie smoking market warning for NZ over illegal supply ~ FDA’s first fruit-flavoured vape approval exposes the flaw in America’s anti-flavour policy ~ Argentina Repeals Vape Prohibition After 15 Years ~ Flavored vapes led to a major shake‑up at the FDA – 3 health policy analysts explain the science behind the controversial products ~ How Zyn Became All the Rage Inside Trump World—Including With RFK Jr. ~ FDA’s flavored smoke-free products rules should protect children and respect adults ~ Clickbait Obsession: Makary’s FDA Exit Revealed Media’s Preference for Political Theater Over Science ~ RegWatch Briefs | Chris Allen | E-Vapor Law Symposium 2026 ~ RegWatch Briefs | Jessica Zdinak | E-Vapor Law Symposium 2026 ~ RegWatch Briefs | Azim Chowdhury | E-Vapor Law Symposium 2026
Two From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
STOP BILL 208
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In mid-April, MLA Chelsea Petrovich proposed Bill 208, and Alberta legislature is moving quickly. If passed, all disposable flavoured vaping products would be removed.
Generate a letter to your MLA in minutes using our tool and speak up with a clear message about Bill 208 and how it will impact you as an Albertan.
Poland wants to ban vapes and nicotine pouches must taste like tobacco ”only favours the cigarette trade”
Stefan Mathisson, Vejpkollen
Poland wants to ban both disposable vejps and virtually all flavoured nicotine pouches. The government’s draft law has now been sent to the European Commission – and is facing fierce criticism from both consumer organisations and the vejp industry. – Prohibition does not work in practice. It creates a black market and protects cigarette sales, critics warn.
Aussie smoking market warning for NZ over illegal supply
Dr Ruth Bonita, Newsroom
Comment: How worried should we be about reports of a growing illicit tobacco market in Aotearoa New Zealand? We don’t yet know the extent of this market but it’s estimated to be 5-10 percent of the tobacco market, and we should take it seriously enough to avoid ending up like Australia, where it’s estimated that more than half of the total tobacco market and more than 90 percent of vapes come from illicit sources.
Once illegal supply becomes embedded, it is difficult and costly to reverse. The situation in Australia is so bad that there are suggestions that smoking is increasing again, especially for young people. Recent research showed that almost two thirds of 18-24 year olds who smoke report using illicit tobacco.
Argentina Repeals Vape Prohibition After 15 Years
Kiran Sidhu, Filter
Argentina has ended its prohibition of vapes and other safer nicotine products. Tobacco harm reduction advocates welcome the repeal as an overdue admission that bans do not work. But they still have some worries about the country’s new direction.
Since 2011, Argentina had banned the sale, advertisement, distribution and importation of vapes and related products, which many people use to quit smoking.
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