Vapers Digest 14th November
Friday’s News at a glance:
A New Path for Tobacco Control – 20 is Plenty – Misinformation Is Costing Lives – Thailand Launching Another Crackdown – Cochrane Looking At Pouches – Tobacco Harm Reduction — with Derek Yach and Mark Tyndall – COP11 preview: ‘Why won’t the WHO simply look at what works?’ – Philanthro-Colonialism to Be On Display at COP11 – COP11: 11 Reasons Why the WHO’s Tobacco Treaty Is Failing Harm Reduction – Policy Integrity at COP11: The Imperative for a Technical Review of Tobacco Harm Reduction – When Dogma Overrides Science: Reflections on the WHO’s Stance on Tobacco Harm Reduction – WHO position on harm reduction : enough is enough – EU Again Fails to Agree on Tobacco Control Measures Ahead of COP11 – New WHO paper: Misinformation vs Evidence – Inside One Hospital, a Discreet Project Fights Doctors’ Nicotine Bias – NZ Minister commended for defending science over ideology in tobacco control – New York Youth Tobacco Use Falls to Record Low – Time to Reconsider Prohibition – Youth Shouldn’t Vape—But Don’t Ignore South Africa’s Real Tobacco Crisis – Putin backs plan for total vape ban in Russia – UK engineer powers home using 500 recycled vapes – FULL DOCUMENT: EU won’t push for bans at WHO Tobacco Control summit in blow for Commission – Do You Have a Study for That? – Groupthink Is Killing Tobacco Harm Reduction in Australia – OPINION | Vape tax undermines smoking reduction efforts – Why Harm Reduction Matters More in Africa – Global smoking deaths to be cut in half with harm reduction, low-risk alternatives – ex-WHO directors – Hostile WHO | Exclusionary Tactics Threaten Tobacco Harm Reduction – Nicotine Nightmare | WHO’s COP11 Targets Safer Products Over Smoking – Nicotine pouches ‘significantly’ less harmful than cigarettes – WHO FCTC COP11: Clive Bates Exposes Flaws in Global Tobacco Policy and Harm Reduction Debate
Five From Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
A New Path for Tobacco Control
For decades, tobacco control has been defined by an unforgiving dichotomy: quit or die. Lawmakers have invested billions in campaigns designed to frighten, shame, and prohibit. Yet, despite these efforts, more than one billion people worldwide continue to smoke [1]. The reality is that traditional tobacco control, though well-intentioned, has reached its limits. What we need now is not more moralism, but more realism, argues Professor Heino Stöver, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.
20 is Plenty
20 is Plenty, a campaign backed by We Vape, Considerate Pouchers, and The Snus & Nicotine Pouch Users Alliance, is cautioning against draconian regulations. Campaign organisers are warning that if the government gets its legislation wrong, it risks reducing the volume of people using pouches in order to quit smoking.
Misinformation Is Costing Lives
International health experts at Smoke Free Sweden have warned that misinformation being spread about safer nicotine alternatives such as vapes is endangering millions of lives by convincing smokers to stick with deadly cigarettes. New statistics published by Our World in Data reveals a huge surge in the number of people who now wrongly believe vaping is as harmful – or even more harmful – than smoking.
Thailand Launching Another Crackdown
Thailand has announced that it is launching yet another crackdown on vapes and vaping as a consumer organisation states it risks causing a public health disaster. Amid fear of user rates rising from 80,000 to 400,000, the government is amending its legislation from…err…banning the sale and use of vapes to be a comprehensive…err… ban on the sale and use of vapes.
Cochrane Looking At Pouches
In ongoing efforts to pinpoint the best evidence-based ways to quit smoking, Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, a University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher, has turned her attention to a tobacco-free product gaining in popularity across the country – oral nicotine pouches – adding to the Cochrane Database of Systematic reviews.
