Vapers Digest 11th March
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Swap to Stop Success ~ Bill’s Report Stage Completed ~ OPSS Launches Safe Vapes Campaign ~ Fire! ~ CAPHRA Says Nicotine Should Not Be Criminalised Over Illicit Vape Products ~ Sweden pressures Austria over nicotine pouch restrictions ~ Nicotine pouches: I Want My Pouches welcomes Alberta’s intervention and urges Ottawa to listen to Canadians ~ After the Memo: When the Evidence Refuses to Behave ~ Invisible Success: The Harm Reduction Paradox Public Health Doesn’t Talk About ~ Vapor Is Not Smoke ~ See Opportunities ~ Irish Government Grows Ever More Hostile to Vaping ~ UK addiction doctors back vapes as a stop-smoking option in new clinical guidelines ~ Will New FDA Flavor Guidance Change Anything? ~ FDA Formalizes a Flavor-Specific PMTA Framework as Youth Vaping Continues to Decline ~ Study Claiming that Vaping Causes Lung Cancer Fails to Document that a Single Case Occurred After the Person Started Vaping ~ F.D.A. Opens Door to More Flavored E-Cigarettes ~ IS THE UK AND EU CLOSING THE NET ON SAFER NICOTINE? ~ #GFN26 APPROACHING! | Prohibition, Public Health and the Future of Safer Nicotine
Four from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
Swap to Stop Success
The National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Unit in Addictions at King’s College London and University College London has released a new study. The research team found that the introduction of the Government’s Swap to Stop scheme resulted in a significant increase in the number of people using vapes to help quit cigarette smoking.
Bill’s Report Stage Completed
The Report Stage for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill has been completed and peers have agreed to a set of amendments to the original draft of the Bill. The government says that its set of amendments have been designed to strengthen how the regulations will work in the real world.
OPSS Launches Safe Vapes Campaign
The government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards has launched safe vapes usage and disposal awareness campaign to encourage better understanding of responsibilities and dangers. The campaign has provided resources targeted at “younger people” and is being welcomed by the Independent British Vape Trade Association.
Fire!
A fire broke out in a vape store near Glasgow Central Station on Sunday afternoon, causing disruption in the city, chaos on the railway and damage to an historic Victorian building. Initially, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service mobilised six appliances and specialist resources to the scene. VPZ | The Vaping Specialist spoke to Planet of the Vapes to confirm it was not one of their stores.
Vapor Is Not Smoke
Claudio Teixeira, Disobedient Margins
Some words begin by describing the world and end up defining what can or cannot be done within it. Smoke is one of them. For decades, the word ceased to name merely a byproduct of combustion and came to carry a public judgment: the idea that no one should be forced to breathe what someone else chose to light.
From that shift emerged the moral and regulatory prestige of smoke-free spaces, one of the most durable victories of tobacco control.
See Opportunities
Skip Murray, Skip’s Corner – Let’s Talk!
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