Vapers Digest 9th November
Monday’s News at a glance:
The Week in Tobacco Harm Reduction ~ The $26,000 the Government Never Collected From Me ~ When the Evidence Finds Nothing: The Missing E-Cigarette Marketing Story ~ A Sea Change in US Nicotine Use ~ Who Loses When Cigarette Sales End? ~ TPA Interviews Dr. Tikki Pang: Who Will Lead the World Health Organization Next? ~ Hawaii’s Vape Crackdown: New Bans, Strict FDA Requirements and Fewer Options for Adults ~ Belgium’s deputy PM pushes to legalise nicotine pouch sales ~ Vapes boost smokers’ chances of quitting by 76 per cent, UK trial finds
Three From Alan Gorley
The Week in Tobacco Harm Reduction
Welcome to The Week in Tobacco Harm Reduction. My weekly look at the evidence, decisions and debates shaping how people move away from smoking. I bring together developments worth your time, examine what the evidence actually shows, and ask what they mean for people whose lives are affected.
The $26,000 the Government Never Collected From Me
There is something extraordinary about looking back over fourteen years and calculating how much money you haven’t given to the government. Not because you avoided paying taxes or found a loophole, but because you stopped smoking. For fourteen years, I have not purchased tobacco or paid the excise and GST associated with those purchases. More importantly, I have not inhaled the smoke from burning tobacco. It raises an interesting question: what happens when a government loses revenue because someone has achieved precisely what tobacco-control policy is supposed to encourage?
When the Evidence Finds Nothing: The Missing E-Cigarette Marketing Story
There is an important question at the centre of the #DigitalMob study: what kinds of commercial messages are reaching Aboriginal Australians in their everyday digital lives? That is worth investigating, particularly when communities already experience substantial health inequalities and when digital advertising is difficult to observe because algorithms personalise what each person sees. But a worthwhile question does not automatically produce a strong answer, and this paper should be read for what it actually is: a small exploratory pilot involving 31 Aboriginal adults, recruited largely through researcher and community networks, who recorded only part of their screen use over two days.
Two From Charles A. Gardner, PhD, Medium
A Sea Change in US Nicotine Use
A seismic transformation in nicotine consumption has gone unnoticed over the past six years. The number of US adults who vape nicotine skyrocketed while adult use of deadly cigarettes plummeted. And US teen use of nicotine vapes and deadly cigarettes both plummeted.
The CDC’s National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) documents this adult transformation. The CDC/FDA National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) tracks changes among middle and high school students.
What happens when a product that kills 490,000 Americans every year disappears faster than anyone expected? And why aren’t health professionals all dancing in the streets? It is tempting to consider perverse incentives and ask: Who loses when the Age of Cigarettes ends?
Hawaii’s Vape Crackdown: New Bans, Strict FDA Requirements and Fewer Options for Adults
Alli Boughner, Mi-Pod
Hawaii is preparing to sharply narrow the vaping products available in its market. Two enacted laws bring major changes in 2027: a state directory requiring FDA marketing authorization and a separate restriction on certain disposable devices.
For manufacturers and vape retailers, the central issue is straightforward: a pending PMTA does not qualify a product for Hawaii’s directory. The state requires an actual FDA Marketing Granted Order, or MGO.
Vapes boost smokers’ chances of quitting by 76 per cent, UK trial finds
Ali Anderson
Smokers offered a vape starter kit without ongoing counselling were 76 per cent more likely to quit for six months than those sent NHS stop-smoking emails.
Six-month quit rates were 11.3 per cent with vapes alone, compared with 6.4 per cent with supportive messages. That’s around five extra quitters for every 100 people.
Adding telephone support increased the quit rate to 21.1 per cent, almost double the rate achieved with vapes alone.
At a year, quit rates remained higher in both vape groups, although the evidence for vapes alone versus emails was less certain at this later stage.
On this day…2022!
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
Bill Wirtz, Maria Chaplia, Michael Landl, Consumer Choice Center
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Vaping is an innovative harm reduction tool which has been recognised as a safer alternative to smoking by Public Health England, Cancer Research UK, Ministry of Health New Zealand, among many others. Millions of smokers globally choose vaping as a means to quit smoking. Despite its indisputable successes in bringing about the end of the smoking pandemic, vaping is subject to a wide array of myths. Understanding the prevalence of these myths, as well as the fundamental beliefs surrounding them is key to breaking the vaping stigma.
Dr Eric Crampton, Newsroom
Under the Government’s proposed rules to set very low nicotine content for tobacco and cigarettes, the illicit market will be the only place to find a real cigarette
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