Vapers Digest 10th July
Friday’s News at a glance:
Sweden Opposes Pouch Tax ~ 5 Point Plan Proposal ~ UKVIA Focussing on Vape Policies ~ When Ideology Speaks Louder Than Evidence: The Tobacco Control Establishment Defends a Failed Model ~ Who Benefits from the Status Quo? – Part 1 ~ Congratulations, You Made Vaping Look Deadly ~ What the assault on the US Centers for Disease Control’s Office on Smoking and Health means for the USA and Global Public Health ~ Most UK Smokers Now Think Vaping Is as Harmful as Smoking ~ ‘Cigarettes during wars were more important than food.’ Interview with professor about real harm of tobacco ~ UK plans plain packaging for vapes in child marketing crackdown ~ Vape packaging and flavouring face restrictions under UK plans to reduce appeal to children ~ Pipikaula Corner: Hawai‘i’s fraudulent vape ban ~ When Mutual Recognition Becomes Optional ~ Can Ireland be trusted to get EU’s new nicotine rules right? ~ Flood of anti-science is trapping smokers with deadly cigarettes ~ For The First Time FDA Authorises Modified Risk Claims for Nicotine Pouches: A Milestone for International Public Health ~ UK government intensifies anti-vaping, pro-smoking agenda
Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
When Mutual Recognition Becomes Optional
POUCHFORUM
The Commission’s answer to a parliamentary question on the French nicotine pouch ban should worry anyone who still believes that the internal market is meant to mean something. It is obvious that maintaining a disproven dogmatic position on the dangers of nicotine pouches is more important than the fundamental internal market principle of mutual recognition. If nicotine pouches can be banned in markets where 24% of the population smokes on the basis of public health concerns it would be possible to ban anything anywhere.
Can Ireland be trusted to get EU’s new nicotine rules right?
Snusforumet
As Ireland takes over the rotating EU presidency, negotiators in Brussels continue wrangling over proposed revisions to the Tobacco Products Directive. What can Ireland’s own experience with tobacco control tell us about what to expect over the next six months?
On July 1st, Ireland assumed the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It does so at a crucial moment for nicotine and tobacco policy, with the EU continuing work on how to update rules and taxes covering tobacco and nicotine products.
Flood of anti-science is trapping smokers with deadly cigarettes
Smoke Free Sweden
An anti-science campaign that misrepresents the risks of safer smoke-free nicotine products is trapping millions of smokers with cigarettes that will ultimately kill them, international experts warn today.
The alert comes as major new research shows that more than half of adult smokers in the UK wrongly believe vaping is as harmful as, or more harmful than, smoking cigarettes – and that number is growing.
Those misconceptions make smokers less likely to switch to products that expose them to far fewer toxic chemicals than cigarette smoke.
For The First Time FDA Authorises Modified Risk Claims for Nicotine Pouches: A Milestone for International Public Health
For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorised nicotine pouch products to be marketed with modified risk claims, marking a significant development in tobacco harm reduction (THR).
The decision applies to 20 specific ZYN nicotine pouch products, owned by Philip Morris International (PMI), that underwent the FDA’s extensive Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) scientific review. These products are now authorised to communicate that completely switching from cigarettes to them reduces the risk of several serious smoking-related diseases.
Nicotine pouches are tobacco-free oral products similar to traditional Swedish snus, but they do not contain tobacco and are designed to deliver nicotine without combustion. Placed under the upper lip, they release nicotine through the oral mucosa. Because they do not involve burning tobacco, they expose users to substantially lower levels of harmful chemicals than cigarettes and are intended for adults.
UK government intensifies anti-vaping, pro-smoking agenda
Clive Bates, The Counterfactual by Clive Bates
The government has issued a crowd-pleasing press release on new anti-vaping measures, which it describes as a “crackdown”. I am going through it, putting the government’s text in grey boxes below, but first a summary.
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