Vapers Digest 11th April

5 Takeaways from the Survey – When Policies Ignore the People Who Matter Most

Liza Katsiashvili, World Vapers’ Alliance

We often talk about how vaping policies around the world aren’t focused on consumers. Policymakers may have good intentions—like reducing smoking rates or protecting young people from nicotine—but the policies we end up with often contradict those goals. Is that an oxymoron? Not really. That’s just how prohibitionism works. Or rather—how it doesn’t work.

In the world of tobacco harm reduction, you’ll often meet adults who’ve quit smoking thanks to less harmful alternatives like vapes, pouches, or snus. But in government circles, you’re more likely to hear discussions about banning vape flavours, raising taxes on safer products, or banning vaping altogether. The success stories are often ignored.

Leadership Change at FDA’s Tobacco Center Signals Turbulent Times for US Vapor Policy

Lindsey Stroud, The Well

In a significant development for tobacco and vapor policy, Brian King, director of the Center for Tobacco Products at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, was placed on leave as of April 1. His departure is part of a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that also includes the exit of approximately 3,500 FDA personnel.

Bidi Opens Latest Appeal Against FDA

Tobacco Reporter

Yesterday (April 2), Bidi Vapor LLC urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision denying its application to market a disposable e-cigarette, saying the agency acted unlawfully. In oral arguments in Miami, attorney Eric Gotting told an appellate panel that the FDA’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious and unlawful,” and that the agency admitted adult smokers would likely switch to Bidi’s safer product—a disposable e-cigarette prefilled with tobacco-flavored e-liquid—but still denied the application.