Vapers Digest 18th September

Friday’s News at a glance:

Doctors Orders ~ Parliament Matters ~ Retailers Urged to Prepare ~ Vapers Urged to Defend Vaping ~ CAPHRA: Election-Season Tobacco Push Ignores New Zealand’s World-Leading Smoking Decline ~ Canada’s Own Numbers Just Undercut the Vaping Gateway Theory ~ The European Parliament Is Drifting Toward Evidence on Nicotine ~ Europe Is Protecting Cigarettes from Their Competitors ~ Would Charles Schulz Have Done It This Way? ~ Column: ”Following the election, I dare to be a little optimistic about smoke-free nicotine” ~ The EU postpones decision on nicotine taxes – awaiting the formation of a new Swedish government ~ Global health chief urged to take UK’s pragmatic approach to tobacco control worldwide ~ Did Anyone Ask the Adult Consumer? ~ Vapes and hubbly-bubblies could be banned under proposed tobacco bill ~ EU Tobacco Tax Reform Targets November Push as Sweden Holds Nicotine-Pouch Minimum at €20 per Kilogram ~ Sinn Féin leader says adults should be free to choose whether to vape ~ Senior German lawmaker calls for nicotine pouch legalisation ~ Le Pen pledges tobacco tax freeze and calls for clearer vaping rules

Four From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

Doctors Orders

A major new report in America’s most prestigious medical journal has declared that vapes should be offered by doctors to smokers trying to kick the habit for good. The landmark study was compiled by a panel of 24 top experts from the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. It concludes that vaping is FAR less dangerous than smoking and even outperforms traditional quit-smoking aids like patches, gum and lozenges that have lined pharmacy shelves for decades.

Parliament Matters

Welcome back! A week is a long time in politics, they say – but a minute spent listening to politicians discuss vaping always seems to feel like a lifetime. Who needs evidence or the testimony of millions of vapers that product diversity is what makes vaping the leading smoking cessation tool when you can have ill-informed ministers spouting nonsense. What nonsense, you ask? Read on, McDuff.

Retailers Urged to Prepare

Retailers of vape products are being urged to get ready for the next phase of the Tobacco and Vapes Act which come into effect from the beginning of October. In a joint statement issued by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, Action on Smoking and Health, ASH Northern Ireland and ASH Wales, they urge retailers to check the Government’s published guidance on changes coming into force in October 2026 and January 2027.

Vapers Urged to Defend Vaping

Britons are being urged to speak up and defend the tools helping their country eradicate cigarettes. Politicians in London are planning new restrictions on safer nicotine alternatives, which have helped drive UK smoking to its lowest level ever, says Smoke Free Sweden.

CAPHRA: Election-Season Tobacco Push Ignores New Zealand’s World-Leading Smoking Decline

Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA)

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is calling out Health Coalition Aotearoa (HCA) for blatant political grandstanding, after the lobby group ran an election-season survey of political parties demanding tougher tobacco and vaping restrictions just weeks before New Zealanders go to the polls. CAPHRA says the timing, and HCA’s silence on New Zealand’s own record, exposes the exercise for what it is.

Two From World Vapers’ Alliance

Canada’s Own Numbers Just Undercut the Vaping Gateway Theory

Amanda Matos

Health Canada updated its national tobacco and vaping data tool this year, and the youth numbers are worth sitting with. In 2024, 3.6% of Canadian teens aged 12 to 17 had smoked a cigarette. Current smoking, daily, occasional, or otherwise, sat at 1.5%. Five years earlier, in 2019, those numbers looked meaningfully worse: 5.2% had already smoked at least once, and 2.1% were current smokers. Teen smoking in Canada has been falling, and it kept falling right through the years, when vaping was most popular among teens.

The European Parliament Is Drifting Toward Evidence on Nicotine

Alberto Hernandez

The European Parliament passed in plenary today its response to the Commission’s Safe Hearts Plan, the EU’s first cardiovascular health strategy. The report itself is mostly about blood pressure targets, cholesterol screening and access to cardiac care. But buried inside it is a section on tobacco and nicotine that matters directly to vapers and pouch users, and it looks meaningfully different from where the file started.

Europe Is Protecting Cigarettes from Their Competitors

Roger Bate

The European Union is proposing new minimum taxes on vaping products and nicotine pouches. Germany, meanwhile, is being urged to preserve its effective ban on nicotine pouches, even though cigarettes remain widely available.

This apparent idiocy is one of the principal reasons I wrote The Politics of Acceptable Addiction: Coffee, Nicotine, and the Collapse of Proportional Risk, which is out next month from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Would Charles Schulz Have Done It This Way?

Skip Murray, Skip’s Corner – Let’s Talk!

I always identified with Charlie Brown. He was anxious and vulnerable. He wanted to try things, even when he wasn’t very good at them. He wanted to fit in and to be liked. And somehow, despite everything that happened to him, he kept putting himself out there and trying again. He was kind, on the shy side, and loved his dog.

I also understood what it was like to be surrounded by Lucys. Not necessarily bad kids, but kids who could be OK one day and horribly cruel the next.

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Vapers Digest 18th September

Friday’s News at a glance:

Four From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA)

Two From World Vapers’ Alliance

Amanda Matos

Alberto Hernandez

Roger Bate

Skip Murray, Skip’s Corner – Let’s Talk!

Two From Stefan Mathisson, Vejpkollen

Smoke Free Sweden

Lillian’s Compliance Reset

Renthia Kaimbi, Windhoek Observer

2Firsts

Three From Clearing The Air

Tim Hong

Ali Anderson

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

Christopher Snowdon, Velvet Glove Iron Fist

Fergus Mason, Vaping Post

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