Vapers Digest 11th December
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Welcome To Wroxham ~ Shocking Tory FOI Findings ~ Why Does Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes (PAVE) Have to Lie in Order to Scare Parents? ~ Reducing the Toll of Tobacco in Indonesia: A Vision for 2060 ~ 692,000 Lives at Stake: The Game-Changing Solution Ireland, Taiwan, and Chile Need ~ Vapers for a Smoke-Free Canada Holds a News Conference ~ Why the FDA Should Move Fast to Regulate Nicotine Pouches ~ Big tobacco and Chemist Warehouse battling to gain market share in Australia’s pharmacy vape market ~ Mexico Will Amend Constitution to Ban Vapes ~ Mexico’s new law to ban vapes passes major hurdle ~ From Legislation to Litigation: The Battle Over Tobacco Harm Reduction ~ DENMARK TAKES AIM AT POUCHES | Düring highlight’s Denmark’s latest nicotine pouch restrictions
Two from Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
Welcome To Wroxham
Quit smoking missionaries, Riot Labs, have jumped onto the Wrexham AFC Hollywood success story by sponsoring the lowly Norfolk Isthmian league Wroxham FC to share their story of how they missed out on star-studded investment by just ‘one letter’. Wroxham FC, the non-league football club who claim they missed out on celebrity owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney by just ONE letter, have gone viral after a staggered release of their 3-part documentary sharing their unique story.
Shocking Tory FOI Findings
New Freedom of Information (FOI) data reveals shocking lack of investment in stop smoking campaigns under the previous Conservative government, according to the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA). The current Labour Government has been called upon to prioritise public education on smoking and vaping, to address the years of serial Tory underfunding.
Why Does Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes (PAVE) Have to Lie in Order to Scare Parents?
Michael Siegel, The Rest Of The Story
If I seriously thought that one-fourth of today’s youth were vaping e-cigarettes daily, I would be quite alarmed. Daily use suggests possible addiction and so if 25% of all youth were vaping daily, we would be talking about 6.25 million middle-school and high-school students who are vaping every day. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of every day youth e-cigarette users are not just vaping nicotine, but they are also using THC vapes, mostly off the black market. So if this statistic were true, it would drastically change my assessment of the relative benefits of electronic cigarettes for adult smoking cessation compared to the risks for youth vaping and addiction.
Patti Zielinski, Rutgers
In a commentary published in JAMA, experts at the Rutgers Institute for Nicotine & Tobacco Studies have issued a call to action to head off the proliferation of nicotine pouches based on lessons learned from electronic-cigarette regulation.
Authors Cristine Delnevo, director of the institute, and Mary Hrywna, associate professor, argue the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should act swiftly now to exercise its regulatory authority – both by granting marketing orders for nicotine pouch products that meet its standards and penalizing those who violate the law – to prevent the newest segment of the market from mutating as uncontrollably as e-cigarettes did.
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
New Zealand’s tobacco endgame U-turn –
A reversal or an advance? – Clive Bates, The Counterfactual
New Zealand’s incoming coalition government says it will reverse tobacco ‘endgame’ legislation. That will allow New Zealand to pursue better policies based on consent rather than coercion. It is an advance, not a reversal.
Real Reason Why COP10 Was Postponed?
Diane Caruana – Vaping Post
Last month the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the tenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) and the third session of the Meeting of the Parties (MOP3) to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, were going to be delayed until 2024.
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