Vapers Digest 11th September
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Vape Industry Anxious for Triton Hearing ~ Mixed Feelings at PMTA Anniversary ~ Czech Republic to ban flavoured vapes and hike tax ~ Teen vaping in U.S. hits 10-year low ~ ERS Makes More Wild Claims ~ Lords Debate Children Vaping ~ Experts React to Unpublished Abstract ~ Youth Vapor Product Use at Historic Lows, Use of New Oral Nicotine Products Still Low ~ New regulations cause nicotine pouch shortage across Canada ~ Opinion: Nicotine pouches are helping me quit smoking. Ottawa shouldn’t ban them ~ A Primer on the City of Stockholm’s attempts to revoke Snusbolaget Norden’s sales permit ~ Stanton Glantz Demands FDA Bans Nic Salts and Pouches in Light of New CDC Use Figures ~ “Speech Regulation and Tobacco Harm Reduction” ~ Experimenting with different vapes could be crucial to help people quit smoking ~ Vape experimentation could be vital to help people quit smoking
Two From Tobacco Reporter
Representatives of the U.S. vapor industry expressed mixed feelings at the four-year anniversary of the filing of the first premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs).
Since the Sept. 9, 2020, deadline, the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has received applications for 26 million novel tobacco products, mostly electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes.
Two From Ali Anderson, Clearing The Air
Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
ERS Makes More Wild Claims
Already featuring in a Guardian article, a press release promoted by the European Respiratory Society claims young people who vape perform worse than non-vapers in tests designed to measure their capacity for exercise. It states the findings come from a study presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Vienna, but the work has not been peer-reviewed.
Lords Debate Children Vaping
Liberal Democrat Lord Storey led a debate by asking the Government what plans they have to address the number of children using vaping products. What follows is a compilation of feelings and misinformation, so it is important to remember that the number of non-smoking teens vaping in Great Britain has fallen – not risen – according to the latest figures from Action on Smoking and Health.
Experts React to Unpublished Abstract
Yesterday, we published an article about an unpublished conference abstract presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress 2024, making claimed associations between exercise performance and vaping. Experts at Cochrane and the Open University have been swift to pull holes in it.
Youth Vapor Product Use at Historic Lows, Use of New Oral Nicotine Products Still Low
Lindsey Stroud, Independent Women’s Forum
In an unusual move, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released preliminary findings from the 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). This annual survey tracks the use of tobacco and other nicotine products among middle and high school students in the U.S. The CDC’s early release focuses on the usage of e-cigarettes and oral nicotine pouches. The data reveal that e-cigarette use among U.S. middle and high school students has hit record lows, although nicotine product usage has seen a slight increase in recent years but remains low overall, without the sharp uptick observed in 2019’s youth e-cigarette use.
New regulations cause nicotine pouch shortage across Canada
Christopher Oldcorn, Western Standard News
New rules stopping convenience stores from selling nicotine pouches have left many Canadians scrambling to find the product.
On August 28, the federal government stopped the sale of nicotine pouches in convenience stores and banned flavours.
They can only be sold behind the counter in pharmacies.
Users have found it difficult to find the nicotine pouches, as many pharmacies do not have them in stock yet.
Kurt Laver, Financial Post
I’m a plumber who owns his own business in the Niagara Region, and I’ve been a smoker for 14 years. I have no relationship — personal, paid, professional, whatever — with the tobacco industry, except that I am a longtime user of their products.
Over the last six months I’ve been using nicotine pouches to try to get away from cigarettes. I’ve managed to go from smoking as many as 16 cigarettes a day to just one or two, all because of nicotine pouches. I am sure other people have experienced similar benefits from pouches.
Two From The Daily Pouch
Attempts to revoke Snusbolaget Norden’s sales permit
Maddison King
Bureaucracy—AKA the art of making the possible impossible—is alive and well in Sweden. The Licensing Unit of the City of Stockholm has threatened to revoke the Swedish sales permit for traditional snus manufactured by Swedish Match over differing interpretations of age verification rules for online deliveries. Let’s try and make sense of it all.
Stanton Glantz Demands FDA Bans Nic Salts and Pouches in Light of New CDC Use Figures
Joseph Hart
Stanton Glant’s reputation as both a researcher and a human being has taken a beating in recent years. These days, he’s the embodiment of St. George in Retirement Syndrome, incapable of telling the difference between smoking harm-reduction products that cause insignificant harm and his mortal enemy, the combustible cigarette.
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
The Butler Express. …
Coming to a town near you! – Colin Mendelsohn
MINISTER BUTLER’S UPDATED VAPING REGULATIONS are outlined in a recent Consultation Paper. Consultation has been sought as a box-ticking exercise, with 2 weeks to respond! Based on past experience, it is almost certain that the plan will be submitted for legislation with minor, if any, changes.
Tobacco exceptionalism?
Christopher Snowdon, Velvet Glove Iron Fist
Is tobacco a unique product or not? Let’s ask comedy professor Anna Gilmore.
Anna Gilmore, 2007:
‘The International Monetary Fund encourages privatization of state-owned industries, including tobacco industries, to help address macroeconomic problems and promote economic growth; however, it fails to consider the unique nature of an industry whose product kills.’
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