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Vapers Digest 12th January

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Flavor Ban Risks Lives, Warns Cardiologist ~ Expert reaction to study looking at second hand nicotine vaping in the home and respiratory symptoms in young adults ~ The Philippines take an enlightened approach to vaping, prohibitionists in the mud ~ Ten Underlying Reasons Behind Opposition to Vaping ~ Remaining smokers in Norway don’t really want to quit ~ Astroturf Vaping Group Exposed (For the Second Time) ~ NCSCT Supporting Quit Services ~ Improved Cancer Survival ~ When Smokers With No Plans to Quit Try Vaping, They Often Quit Anyway ~ Meet Lukas Reimann, the MP and ex-smoker who helped legalise snus in Switzerland ~ SOVAPE ne partage pas l’avis du HCSP, l’association rend public ses travaux (SOVAPE does not share the opinion of the HCSP, the association makes its work public) ~ INNCO Weekly Issue

Flavor Ban Risks Lives, Warns Cardiologist

Tobacco Reporter

Restrictions on flavors in vaping products would be a drastic setback in the battle to reduce the 48,000 Canadian lives lost every year to smoking, according to a new independent study released on Jan. 11.

The review, covering more than 340 articles of evidence on e-cigarette flavorings, concludes that they are “inextricably linked” to smoking cessation and should be made more accessible and affordable to adults trying to quit.

Expert reaction to study looking at second hand nicotine

vaping in the home and respiratory symptoms in young adults

Prof Lion Shahab, Prof Peter Hajek, Science Media Centre

A  study published in Thorax looks at second hand nicotine vaping at home and respiratory symptoms in young adults.

The Philippines take an enlightened approach to vaping, prohibitionists in the mud

Christopher Snowdon, Velvet Glove Iron Fist

The Philippines have had enough of Mike Bloomberg sticking his nose and money into their business. The wrinkly prohibitionist was caught last year funding numerous ‘public health’ groups in the country and giving pay outs to the Philippines FDA – the agency that regulates e-cigarettes.

The legal status of e-cigarettes has been all over the place in the Philippines in recent years. As far I can tell, they were effectively banned by the nation’s autocratic president in February 2020, but they have now been deregulated in a conscious bid to encourage smokers to switch to them.

Ten Underlying Reasons Behind Opposition to Vaping

Colin Mendelsohn, Filter Mag

For decades, tobacco control and public health organizations have sought to stigmatize tobacco, nicotine, smoking and smokers. The invention of vaping, a far safer nicotine alternative which looks like smoking, is a threat to their strongly-held views and the traditional approach.

Remaining smokers in Norway don’t really want to quit

 Ida Irene Bergstrøm, Science Norway

“The results of our study shows that it might be about time to better facilitate a transition from dangerous tobacco products to less harmful ones, such as e-cigarettes and snus (dry snuff)”, says tobacco researcher Karl Erik Lund at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH).

He is one of the authors behind an article about willingness to quit among those who still smoke (link in Norwegian).

Astroturf Vaping Group Exposed (For the Second Time)

Jim McDonald, Vaping 360

A Daily Beast story published last weekend tells the story of the worst-kept secret in vaping—that British American Tobacco is behind the World Vapers’ Alliance, a supposed grassroots vaping advocacy group.

The tobacco giant’s involvement with WVA was no secret among vaping advocates, which is probably a major reason why the organization only has 20,000 individual members, despite extensive social media efforts.

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TWO from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

NCSCT Supporting Quit Services

The National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training (NCSCT) has issued a guide to help UK smoking cessation teams to incorporate vaping into their services. The support has been welcomed by Martin Dockrell, the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA), and the services which already offer smokers the opportunity to switch to vaping.

Improved Cancer Survival

Good news for smokers who have received a diagnosis of tobacco-related cancer: research from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer shows that quitting or switching to vaping following a cancer diagnosis is linked to improved survival rates. The study findings have been published as the NHS pushes its annual drive to encourage smokers to quit or switch.

When Smokers With No Plans to Quit Try Vaping, They Often Quit Anyway

Alex Norcia, Filter Magazine

Smokers who did not intend to stop but nonetheless began vaping drastically increased their likelihood of quitting cigarettes, according to a new study. The paper, published at the end of December 2021 in JAMA Network Open, a journal run by the American Medical Association, found that the quitting odds of such smokers who started vaping daily were multiple times better compared to those who never used e-cigarettes.

Meet Lukas Reimann, the MP and ex-smoker who helped legalise snus in Switzerland

SnusForumet

Swiss MP Lukas Reimann explains how a chance encounter with Swedish snus helped him kick a 20-year smoking habit, legalise snus in Switzerland, and become an outspoken ambassador for smokeless nicotine products.

Lukas Reimann entered the National Council, the Swiss parliament’s lower house, in 2007. He was 25 at the time, making him the youngest MP in parliament.

He was also a heavy smoker.

SOVAPE ne partage pas l’avis du HCSP, l’association rend public ses travaux

Translation: (SOVAPE does not share the opinion of the HCSP, the association makes its work public)

SOVAPE

Début 2021, l’association SOVAPE se réjouissait d’être sollicitée par le Haut Conseil de la Santé Publique (HCSP) pour une contribution en vue de la mise à jour de l’Avis relatif aux bénéfices-risques de la cigarette électronique.

Translation: In early 2021, the SOVAPE association was delighted to be approached by the High Council for Public Health (HCSP) for a contribution with a view to updating the Opinion on the benefits and risks of electronic cigarettes.

INNCO Weekly Issue

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