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Vapers Digest 12th May

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Swedish MEP calls out Commission ‘dishonesty’ on snus and cancer ~ The WHO and tobacco policy: a seven-point reform agenda ~Worlds apart – while others ban e-cigs, UK hospitals hand them out for free ~ Helping smokers quit ~ “END ENDS” Bill Would Cap Nicotine Levels in Vapes, Encourage Smoking ~ Want Fewer Teen Smokers? Stop Banning Vapes. ~ Study: Youth Vaping Down Dramatically During Pandemic ~ Rep. Krishnamoorthi’s E-Cigarette Nicotine Cap Proposal ~ The Advocates Voice – Episode 5 ~ New Adam Smith Report on Ecigs ~ New Organisation For Latin America ~ 95% Safer Figure Still Holds ~ NTR Clarifies Tobacco Industry Policy ~ Death & Taxes | U.S. Approach to Vaping

Swedish MEP calls out Commission ‘dishonesty’ on snus and cancer

Snusforumet

Swedish MEP Sara Skyttedal believes the European Commission’s “ideological opposition” to all tobacco and nicotine leaves ignorant on the science on Swedish snus and cancer. And progress on the EU’s Beating Cancer plan may suffer as a result.

“The fact that the Commission nevertheless persists in the view that snus causes cancer is both surprising and, to be honest, quite remarkable,” Skyttedal tells Snusforumet.

The WHO and tobacco policy: a seven-point reform agenda

Clive Bates, Tobacco Reporter

In the light of the global pandemic, there have been calls to abolish, repurpose or revitalize the World Health Organization. I am firmly in the revitalize camp. Naturally, most of the hindsight has focused on the WHO’s response to infectious diseases. In April 2021, Covid-19 deaths are approaching 3 million worldwide. However, according to the WHO, tobacco-related deaths exceed 8 million annually. So what would new thinking on the WHO’s approach to tobacco policy look like? Here is my seven-point reform plan.

Worlds apart – while others ban e-cigs, UK hospitals hand them out for free

Aidan Semmens, ECigIntellegence

It seems hard to imagine now, but it’s not so many years ago (in the UK, at least) that one might slip out of a ward into the hospital corridor to smoke. More recently you would find the smokers congregating outside the hospital entrance. Now almost anywhere in the grounds might be a smoke-free zone.

Helping smokers quit

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For a brief period last year, I witnessed an extraordinary phenomenon. In 2016, government figures showed that 15.5 per cent of UK adults smoke, equating to around 6.1 million in the population.

However, as the pandemic took hold in the UK and the risk of more adverse outcomes linked to smoking started to emerge, scores of people, primarily young adults, came into the pharmacy to get cessation aids. It seemed as though Covid-19 would going to deliver what all the government policies and health messages had for years failed to achieve.

“END ENDS” Bill Would Cap Nicotine Levels in Vapes, Encourage Smoking

Alex Norcia, Filter Magazine

On May 7, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois reintroduced his END ENDS Act—a federal bill that would cap e-cigarette nicotine levels at 20 milligrams per milliliter.

The intention was clear: The Ending Nicotine Dependence from Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Act—“END ENDS”—seeks to decrease the nicotine concentrations in vapes in order to make them less “addictive” and appealing to teenagers.

Want Fewer Teen Smokers? Stop Banning Vapes.

Lindsey Stroud, Inside Sources

It sounds like a Massachusetts public health miracle. In 2007, nearly one-quarter (23.6 percent) of cigarette smokers in the Bay State were 18-24 years old. By 2017, that number had plunged by a whopping 68.6 percent. Just 7.4 percent of cigarette users were under age 25 — an all-time low.

But then, youth smoking began to rebound, shooting back up to 10 percent in 2018 before leveling out above the previous lows. A state that had led the way in reducing smoking among young people is suddenly getting left behind as rates in other states continue to fall.

Study: Youth Vaping Down Dramatically During Pandemic

Asher Lehrer-Small, The 74

Youth vape and e-cigarette use has dropped precipitously during the pandemic, according to a recent study — reversing a years-long explosion in teen use.

“About two-thirds of [adolescent and young adult] e-cigarette users were either quitting or cutting back,” Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, co-author of the study and a developmental psychologist at Stanford University, told The 74.

Rep. Krishnamoorthi’s E-Cigarette Nicotine Cap Proposal

Will Increase Youth Cigarette Smoking, Ravage Business

Karl Abramson, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)

Earlier this month, U.S. Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois) introduced H.R. 3051 which seeks to implement a cap on nicotine concentration in e-cigarettes at 20 milligrams per milliliter. The proposed bill, titled the END ENDS Act (Ending Nicotine Dependency from Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems), is aimed at “making e-cigarettes less addictive and appealing to youth”. While well-intentioned, Rep. Krishnamoorthi’s proposal would increase youth smoking, prevent adult cigarette smokers from quitting, and devastate countless small businesses across the country.

The Advocates Voice – Episode 5

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 FOUR from Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

New Adam Smith Report on Ecigs

The Adam Smith Institute has released a report detailing the “golden opportunity” currently being offered, and how Global Britain can lead on tobacco harm reduction and save millions of lives. It states that the United Kingdom, “has taken a world-leading role in promoting the life-saving ‘harm reduction’ approach to smoking cessation.” The report has been welcomed by The UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA).

New Organisation For Latin America

The Latin American Network for the Reduction of Damage Associated with Smoking (RELDAT) is a new organisation set up to fight for vaping and tobacco harm reduction across the entirety of Latin America. It consists of doctors, scientists, and social health professionals from several countries working together to promote the principle of reducing the damage caused by smoking.

95% Safer Figure Still Holds

Anti-vaping crank Simon Chapman has contributed to a paper attempting to refute the 95% safer figure, but the authors ended up producing an “empty and feeble piece of work” according to Clive Bates. Point by point, Bates dissects the paper to assess how valid their critique is.

NTR Clarifies Tobacco Industry Policy

In an editorial written by Marcus Munafo, the Nicotine & Tobacco Research journal has provided clarification on its policy regarding publishing manuscripts written by the Tobacco industry. It amounts to a breath of fresh air where research evidence should be debated on the science and not focussed on the organisations producing it.

Death & Taxes | U.S. Approach to Vaping

Brent Stafford, Regwatch

For everyone, there’s nothing in life more certain than death and taxes. Yet if you are a smoker the risk of death and pain of taxation increases by orders of magnitude, often thanks to ill-conceived government action.

On this Day…2015

5 Respected Scientists Weigh In On Ecigs

Far too often, we are inundated by negative reports about electronic cigarettes. The good news is that there are some scientists and medical professionals out there that are willing to taking a stand for vaping and share some facts to help reverse the myths. These courageous scientists have a lot to lose and many of them could face cuts to their research funding just for offering public support to vaping. That’s why their opinions really stand out as important. Check out what these 5 respected scientists have said about ecigs and how they impact your health….

Smoke-free tobacco can save lives

By Dr. Brad Rodu University of Louisville James Graham Brown Cancer Center

Tobacco policy in the U.S. is driven by prohibitionists who insist that smokers quit nicotine and tobacco altogether. They ignore the fact that nicotine, although addictive, is not the major cause of any disease associated with smoking. Nicotine is similar to caffeine, which is addictive but safely consumed by millions daily in coffee, tea and cola drinks. Science shows that it’s the smoke that kills, yet the government refuses to tell smokers about far safer alternative products like smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes….

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