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Vapers Digest 7th October

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Vape Sales Doubled ~ ASH’s Consultation Claims ~ The Smoke Has Simply Become Tax-Compliant ~ When “Online Safety” Makes Health  Information Harder to Find ~ Why “Safer” Matters ~ She Was Told to Smoke. Then She Was Told to Stop Trying to Quit. ~ Rethinking Population Health Implications in an Era of Declining Cigarette Smoking ~ You Can’t Comply with What You Can’t See ~  Asia’s Nicotine Divide Goes Under the Microscope at AFN26 in Manila ~ CAPHRA Questions Why WHO Overlooks Its Tobacco-Control Success Stories ~ ETHRA September news roundup ~ “Market Freeze” Would Lock In Cigarettes and Lock Out Safer Alternatives Warn Consumers ~ One million UK people who have never smoked are now vaping ~ EU Nicotine Consultations: The Value of 120,000 Lived Experiences ~ 8 EU countries call for “market freeze” on all nicotine products ~ Dutch minister wants vaping as expensive as smoking under new tax plan ~ Tobacco Products: FDA Should Monitor Timeliness of Application Reviews ~ FDA’s common sense approach to tobacco regulation ~ A Major Victory for Businesses, Vapers and Public Health ~ Flavored vapes and pouches are abundant. Youth use is near record lows. ~ Nicotine Strips as an Alternative to Pouches: How Far Will It Go? ~ On-Site Report | After FDA Announces Review of PMTA Framework, CTP Director Details Reform Priorities ~ GAO Audit Finds Nearly 132,000 FDA Tobacco Applications Waiting an Average 1,266 Days as Nicotine Pouch Pilot Practices Move Into Vape PMTA Reviews ~ Vaping and Tobacco Harm Reduction in India ft. Shrey Madaan | Ep. 95 ~ Why Australia’s Crackdown Fuels the Black Market?

Two From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

Vape Sales Doubled

Sales data obtained on the final day before the vape tax was implemented, from the UK’s largest online vaping retailer, Vape Club, shows that sales surged by over 100% on the Wednesday. The Vaping Products Duty tax came into force last Thursday, October 1st. The company told Planet of the Vapes that some of the most popular products sales increased by up to 125% compared to the average day’s trade.

ASH’s Consultation Claims

Anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health managed to mobilise over 1700 health, education and public health professionals to push the government for anti-vape measures – or, as the charity put it, “to stand firm on tobacco and vape regulations”. Those involved co-signed a letter to the Health Secretary to “protect children” from “nicotine marketing”.

Two From Alan Gor

The Smoke Has Simply Become Tax-Compliant

Apparently, Big Tobacco’s sales figures can become a success story as long as the government collects its share.

What an extraordinary turnaround. We have spent years being told that the tobacco industry’s business depends on a product people should stop buying. Now, a recovery in legal cigarette sales is evidence that policy is working. The cigarette is still being smoked, but the transaction has become respectable.

When “Online Safety” Makes Health Information Harder to Find

Imagine an adult who has smoked for decades, tried to stop several times and is looking online for another way forward. They want to understand the evidence, hear from people who have stopped smoking, and figure out what questions to ask a health professional.

Now imagine that the information most useful to them becomes harder to find because a platform decides that discussing nicotine is more trouble than it is worth.

Why “Safer” Matters

Charles A. Gardner, PhD, Medium

For decades, public health experts have talked about “nicotine” as if that word is synonymous with the deadly consequences of smoking. But just to state the obvious, nicotine and smoking are two different words. This distinction matters because there are, now, many safer nicotine alternatives. You may think that’s a controversial claim. It isn’t.

She Was Told to Smoke. Then She Was Told to Stop Trying to Quit.

N.E. Loucas, Wherever You Go, There You Are

Not warned off them. Not permitted them as a lesser evil. Prescribed. Sometime in the 1950s, a doctor looked at a young woman struggling with anxiety and told her to smoke to alleviate it. That was the medicine of the era. Nicotine and tar, recommended by a man with a medical degree, for nerves.

Rethinking Population Health Implications in an Era of Declining Cigarette Smoking

Arielle Selya PhD, Selya Behavioral Science Substack

Last week I presented at the 79th Tobacco Science Research Conference. I was grateful to be invited as part of a session called “How Can a Smoke-Free Future Be Realized and Sustained in the United States?”

This was an excellent opportunity to start some uncomfortable discussions that need to be had sooner rather than later about the long-term sustainability of THR. I want to emphasize that these are my own personal views (not my clients’) as a researcher who has extensively studied population trends.

You Can’t Comply with What You Can’t See

Lillian’s Compliance Reset

September was a stretch of back‑to‑back thoughtful and engaging conversations at the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum, Tobacco Science Research Conference, New Approaches, each one discussing the same problem from a different angle: the illicit market and how it isn’t just an enforcement challenge. It’s also a visibility challenge.

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ETHRA September news roundup

European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (ETHRA)

ETHRA’s September roundup of news: CVD strategy and SANT vote – TPD3 next steps – Tobacco Tax Directive delay – country updates from across Europe – Cochrane review update – must-read analysis from Farsalinos, Bates, Etter and Lund – and finally, something to watch on vaping restrictions and smoking. Read on for more.

“Market Freeze” Would Lock In Cigarettes and Lock Out Safer Alternatives Warn Consumers

Michael Landl, World Vapers’ Alliance

The Netherlands’ Health Minister has sent the European Commission an open letter, co-signed by Belgium, Finland, France, Hungary, Latvia, Slovenia and Spain, calling for a “market freeze” on any nicotine product not already on sale in the EU. The letter, tied to the upcoming revision of the Tobacco Products Directive and the Tobacco Advertising Directive, also pushes for an EU-wide flavour ban, nicotine caps, plain packaging, and freedom for member states to ban nicotine pouches.

Michelle Roberts, BBC

More than a million people who say they have never smoked are now vapers, latest data for 2025 reveals – up from around 940,000 in 2024.

People aged 25-34 are vaping more than any others, overtaking 16 to 24-year-olds, with 16.4% using e-cigarettes daily or occasionally.

For the second year in a row, more over-16s in Great Britain are using vapes or e-cigarettes than smoking cigarettes, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Three From Clearing The Air

EU Nicotine Consultations: The Value of 120,000 Lived Experiences

David Zaruk

During the summer, the European Commission conducted not one, but two consultations to gather information for its revision of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), the first being a call for evidence that closed on June 15, and the other being a questionnaire that remained open until August 14. Commission officials are now processing the results of the consultations to feed them into their wider impact assessment to guide the next steps in their proposed revision of the directive.

8 EU countries call for “market freeze” on all nicotine products

Neil McLaren

“This can be achieved by banning all non-TPD [Tobacco Products Directive] regulated products containing nicotine or substances with nicotine-like properties as consumer products”, the letter concludes. It calls for products that remain legal to be subject to reduced nicotine levels, flavour bans, standardised packaging and (where relevant) standardised devices.

Dutch minister wants vaping as expensive as smoking under new tax plan

Tim Hong

State Secretary for Finance Eelco Eerenberg has drafted legislation for a national tax, saying the Netherlands does not want to wait for the European Union to agree a common approach.

The level of the proposed duty has not yet been announced. The government currently intends to introduce it from 1 January 2029, with the bill expected to be submitted to the Dutch parliament in early 2027.

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