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Vapers Digest 10th February

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Monday’s News at a glance:

Gateway Evidence Evaluated ~ Cochrane Explains Latest Research ~ Reaction to clickbait from the HSE. ~ Hong Kong proposes ban on vaping and e-cigarettes by mid-2026 ~ Breaking Free: How Africa Can Tackle Smoking with Innovation, Not Prohibiti … ~ New Zealand’s liberal vaping laws linked to faster smoking decline compared to Australia: Study ~ FDA’s Authorization of Zyn Nicotine Pouches a Step in the Right Direction ~ How Tucker Carlson’s Nicotine Pouch Became the Latest Front in the Culture War ~ FDA Recognizes Value of Tobacco Harm Reduction ~ Can Vaping Help You Quit Cigarettes? What Are The Risks? ~ Episode 29: Roger Bate ~ BEHIND THE FEAR | Dr. Mark Tyndall on the Fight for Safer Nicotine Products

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Gateway Evidence Evaluated

A new systematic review conducted by a team at University College London has been published in the journal Addiction evaluating the evidence for a gateway effect from vaping to smoking among young people. The results, according to Dr Sarah Jackson, show little evidence that vaping is causally linked to smoking uptake.

Cochrane Explains Latest Research

Cochrane has released its latest podcast, a companion to the electronic cigarettes Cochrane living systematic review and Interventions for quitting vaping review, and shares the updated evidence from the monthly searches. Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discussed the emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and talked about the findings of their newly published Cochrane review of interventions for quitting vaping.

Reaction to clickbait from the HSE.

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It is with regret we see this article in the Irish Examiner claiming vaping causes cancer. It is with dismay we read that this claim is from the HSE. “A senior HSE official has pleaded with the public to avoid vaping, saying emerging research has linked vapes to cancer in a similar way to cigarettes. ”

Hong Kong proposes ban on vaping and e-cigarettes by mid-2026

Catharina Cheung, Time Out

Hong Kong’s health minister announced on Sunday, February 9, that the government will clamp down on e-cigarettes in the city, proposing a ban on the possession and use of e-cigarette cartridges in public by the middle of 2026. The import, manufacture, and sale of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products has been banned since April 2022. Those who import e-cigarettes can be charged with a $2 million fine and up to seven years in jail, while sellers and manufacturers can face a six-month jail term. However, this law does not cover the personal possession and usage of e-cigarettes, and vaping remains fairly common in Hong Kong.

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Breaking Free: How Africa Can Tackle Smoking with Innovation, Not Prohibiti …

Joseph Magero, World Vapers’ Alliance

It is 2025, and once again Africa has a unique opportunity to pivot toward innovation and adopt lessons from Sweden’s successful cessation model to combat its smoking epidemic. Sweden recently became the first smoke-free country in Europe, thanks to its progressive approach of encouraging smokers to switch to less harmful alternatives, such as oral nicotine pouches.

New Zealand’s liberal vaping laws linked to faster smoking decline compared to Australia: Study

Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Tobacco Treatment

OUR NEW STUDY PUBLISHED THIS WEEK IN THE JOURNAL ADDICTION has revealed that the smoking rate in New Zealand fell twice as fast as in Australia between 2016 and 2023. The decline was especially notable in disadvantaged and Indigenous populations. The findings suggest that more liberal regulation of nicotine vaping in Australia could speed up the reduction in smoking and improve health and financial disparities.

FDA Recognizes Value of Tobacco Harm Reduction

Alec Mena, Citizens Against Government Waste

Since the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has conducted extensive scientific reviews of all new products that contain nicotine to determine how their introduction to the American market would affect public health. More than four years after Scandinavian tobacco company Swedish Match submitted a premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) for approval in March 2020, the FDA approved its nicotine pouch products for sale to American consumers on January 16, 2025.

Can Vaping Help You Quit Cigarettes? What Are The Risks?

Science Friday

The harms of smoking cigarettes are pretty clear. Smoking causes cancer as well as heart and lung diseases, and it’s the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. When it comes to vaping, or electronic cigarettes, the risks are a bit more tricky to parse, especially if you read media reports about them. The outbreak of Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury, also known as EVALI, in 2019 and 2020 made things even more confusing.

Episode 29: Roger Bate

Taxpayers Protection Alliance

In this episode of Across the Pond, Lindsey and Martin sit down with Roger Bate, a scholar at the International Center for Law & Economics and a fellow at the Institute for Economic Affairs. They explore the history of the World Health Organization (WHO), the impact of the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control treaty, and the broader implications for future global health agreements. The discussion also highlights how misinformation from international health organizations and philanthropists is affecting consumers worldwide.

BEHIND THE FEAR | Dr. Mark Tyndall on the Fight for Safer Nicotine Products

Global Forum on Nicotine

In Canada, youth vaping dominates the public health debate—but what about the millions of adult smokers left behind? Dr. Mark Tyndall reveals how fear, misinformation, and political convenience are obstructing access to safer nicotine products. Is Canadian public health failing its most vulnerable by rejecting harm reduction?

On this Day…2023

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

U.S. & UK Vaping Rates Similar …

Among Youth & Young Adults – Brad Rodu

I have previously commented on the so-called American teen vaping “epidemic”.  Using federal data, I have shown how the CDC and the FDA exaggerate the magnitude of vaping, portraying a fake crisis (here, here, here, here, here, here and here).

Biden’s Anti-Vaping Policies …

Undermine Cancer Moonshot – Guy Bentley

In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden celebrated his reignition of the “cancer moonshot,” intending to slash cancer deaths by 50 percent over the next 25 years. A key plank in this ambitious agenda is tackling the country’s leading preventable cause of cancer, smoking.

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