Vapers Digest 19th June
Friday’s News at a glance:
Families Benefits from Vape Switch ~ Speak Up, Vapers ~ Parliament Matters ~ ACS Welcomes Plans for Dodgy Shops ~ The International Covenant Betrayal: How Australia’s Vaping Ban Undermines the Right to Health ~ Journal Entry – What Is Within My Control Today? ~ Media Watch: The Trends Wire Muddies the Waters on Pouches ~ Setback in fight against smoking as European Parliament rejects landmark nicotine ruling ~ Study claiming vaping weakens lung cancer benefits challenged by its own peer reviewer ~ Fruit-flavoured vapes lead UK stop-smoking services as quit rates beat other support ~ Netherlands throws out disposable vapes ban plan ~ Tobacco Harm Reduction IS Harm Reduction ~ Closing the Harm Reduction Gap: EMPOWERing People Who Smoke ~ An interview with Derek Yach about his recent report: “Nicotine 2030” ~ South Africa’s Next Generation of Nicotine Addicts? Before We Accept That Narrative, Let’s Examine the Evidence. ~ Growing Calls to Integrate Tobacco Harm Reduction Into Drug Services ~ Challenging the Obsession About Youth Uptake, Data Show That US Tobacco Policy Is Focusing on the Wrong Issue ~ The Effect of Online Sales Bans on E‑Cigarette Use ~ European Parliament rejects Commission’s plan to hike taxes on nicotine products ~ European Parliament rejects EU tobacco tax report
Four From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
An interview with Derek Yach about his recent report: “Nicotine 2030”
Jean-François Etter, Nicotine, tobacco and smoking cessation
Growing Calls to Integrate Tobacco Harm Reduction Into Drug Services
Kiran Sidhu, Filter
“It’s time drug treatment and harm reduction services got involved with tobacco harm reduction,” Gerry Stimson told the audience.
Stimson, a public health social scientist and emeritus professor at Imperial College London, was speaking at the Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN) in Warsaw, Poland, in early June. He emphasized the extremely high prevalence of tobacco smoking, and related harms, among people who use banned drugs.
Challenging the Obsession About Youth Uptake,
Data Show That US Tobacco Policy Is Focusing on the Wrong Issue
Diane Caruana, Vaping Post
For years, tobacco harm reduction experts have highlighted that nicotine policy should follow one simple principle: people smoke for nicotine, but they die from combustion. Yet, repeating a pattern unfortunately witnessed all across the globe, in the United States, regulators are increasingly focusing on restricting nicotine itself rather than accelerating the decline of cigarette smoking. Recently, there have been ongoing legal battles over flavoured vapes and states piling on taxes for smoke-free products, on the premise that youth uptake must be discouraged.
The Effect of Online Sales Bans on E‑Cigarette Use
Charles J. Courtemanche, Dhaval M. Dave, Daniel L. Dench, Shubhsri Rajendra, Jooyoung Kim, & Joseph J. Sabia, Cato Institute
The tobacco product landscape has dramatically changed in the past two decades due to electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), particularly electronic cigarettes (e‑cigarettes). Since their introduction to the US market in 2007, e‑cigarettes have surged in popularity, particularly among young people. In 2014, they surpassed conventional cigarettes as the most widely used tobacco product among consumers under the age of 18. From 2017 to 2018, past-month e‑cigarette use nearly doubled among high school students, from 11.7 to 20.8 percent, and increased among middle school students from 3.3 to 4.9 percent over the same period. This rapid increase prompted the US surgeon general to declare youth vaping a national epidemic.
European Parliament rejects Commission’s plan to hike taxes on nicotine products
World Vapers’ Alliance
The European Parliament rejected the European Commission’s plan to establish minimum excise tax rates on vapes, nicotine pouches and heat-not-burn products. In two sequential votes on the revision of the Tobacco Excise Directive (TED), MEPs first rejected the ECON committee’s amended report, and then rejected the Commission’s proposal outright.
The ECON report authored by Czech MEP Tomáš Kubín, which proposed lower excise duties than the Commission’s original proposal and enshrined a “less harm, lower tax” principle was rejected by the narrowest of margins: 308 in favour, 320 against. The Commission’s original proposal, put to the vote immediately after, was rejected by an overwhelming margin of 439 votes to 181.
European Parliament rejects EU tobacco tax report
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