Vapers Digest 16th September

Wednesday’s News at a glance:

NNA Issues Guidance ~ Britain Doesn’t Have a Vape Problem ~ ASH Demanding Public Health Response ~ What Would a Legal Vape Shop Look Like? ~ Taiwan: You Are Welcomed to Smoke, You Are Punished for Vaping ~ Killing Europeans by banning nicotine pouches ~ A country can look open and still be closed ~ UPDATE – CAPHRA announces the Asia-Pacific Declaration call for Safer Nicotine Access ~ Consumers are stakeholders too ~ FDA’s Koplow on Tobacco Harm Reduction and Illicit Market ~ FDA Rolls out New Features in CTP Portal NextGen to Enhance Application Submission Process ~ New Study Finds E-Cigarette Directory Laws Did Not Lead to Sustained Reductions in Sales of Flavored E-Cigarettes, Which Are Known to Appeal to Youth ~ FDA authorises JUUL2 as second vape with age-gating technology ~ Tobacco Harm Reduction: Myths, Facts, and Their Impact on Your Health ~ When Tobacco Is Illicit ~ The Smokeless Word – Episode 7 – Theo Foukkare ~ Which Oral Nicotine Products Carry the Greatest Risk?

Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

NNA Issues Guidance

The New Nicotine Alliance (NNA), the UK’s only charity promoting evidence-based nicotine policy, has produced a guide to taking part in the government’s consultation on “Tobacco and vapes: packaging, appearance and display”. The charity is truly independent of commercial interests in relevant industries and is urging all vapers to make sure they take part and submit their opinions.

Britain Doesn’t Have a Vape Problem

Britain doesn’t have a vape problem; it has an enforcement problem and the government’s seven new restrictions won’t fix it, says Riot Labs. The vape juice manufacturer has checked how often councils check stores and believes the burden is disproportionately falling on law-abiding retailers.

ASH Demanding Public Health Response

Anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is telling public health workers that they should contribute to the Government’s consultation on proposals to restrict the packaging, appearance and display of vapes. It is doing so in response to the New Nicotine Alliance’s (NNA) Save Vaping campaign, and insinuating that it is being driven by the industry.

What Would a Legal Vape Shop Look Like?

Alan Gor

Imagine an Australian shop built around helping adults leave cigarettes behind. A person who has smoked for twenty years walks through the door, speaks to someone who understands the practical challenges of switching, and leaves with a regulated product, clear instructions and somewhere to return if they need help. They receive patient advice, know what they are buying and can check who supplied it. The whole experience treats their decision to move away from smoking as something worth supporting.

A country can look open and still be closed

Quit Like Sweden

Suely Castro, Founding Director, Quit Like Sweden, participated in a GTNF 2026 panel “The Forgotten Smoker”, Lisbon, 10 September 2026.

Quit Like Sweden’s approach is built on three principles, alternatives to cigarettes must be accessible, acceptable and affordable. These three pillars have been instrumental in Sweden reaching a smoking rate below 5 per cent, the lowest in Europe, together with having the lowest rates of lung and oral cancer on the continent.

UPDATE – CAPHRA announces the Asia-Pacific Declaration call for Safer Nicotine Access

Manila Times

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has launched the Asia-Pacific Declaration, a formal call on health ministers and public health officials across the WHO South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions to legalise safer nicotine alternatives for adults who smoke.

New Nicotine Alliance UK (NNA)

FDA’s Koplow on Tobacco Harm Reduction and Illicit Market

Chris Allen, LinkedIn

There was a real buzz in the room for the closing session, with FDA’s Director of the Center for Tobacco Products Bret Koplow, who was confirmed in the permanent role on Tuesday.

Three priorities were identified:

Preventing youth initiation, especially of combustible products. Helping adults who smoke to stop or switch to products that pose meaningfully lower risk. And making sure the people making those choices, consumers and the clinicians advising them, have accurate information on the continuum of risk, driven by the following

FDA Rolls out New Features in CTP Portal NextGen to Enhance Application Submission Process

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

As part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ongoing work to promote efficiency and effectiveness, and to improve the overall tobacco product document submission process, FDA is announcing additional updates to the Center for Tobacco Products Portal Next Generation (CTP Portal NextGen). With the rollout of these new features, FDA is also announcing that it will phase out the use of eSubmitter forms for PMTA and SE submissions.

New Study Finds E-Cigarette Directory Laws Did Not Lead to Sustained Reductions in Sales of Flavored E-Cigarettes, Which Are Known to Appeal to Youth

CDC Foundation, PR News

In a study published today in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the CDC Foundation found that e-cigarette directory laws, also known as e-cigarette registries, in Alabama, Oklahoma and Louisiana were not associated with sustained reductions in sales of flavored e-cigarettes. This is the first known study to rigorously evaluate the impact of e-cigarette directory laws on e-cigarette sales and product availability.

FDA authorises JUUL2 as second vape with age-gating technology

Tim Hong, Clearing The Air

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorised JUUL2, making it the second vaping device cleared by the agency to incorporate technology designed to restrict access by young people.

The decision adds to signs that technology-based age controls could play a growing role in how the FDA weighs the benefits of vaping for adult smokers against the risk of youth use.

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