Vapers Digest 15th April

Evidence-Based Policymaking: A Growing Credibility Crisis in EU Nicotine Regulation ~ Health Policy Without Accountability: The Rise of Global Health DoDOs ~ It’s High Time UK Life Insurance Companies Stopped Shafting Vape and Pouch Users ~ Swedish nicotine pouches reignite EU row over taxation and the free movement of goods ~ Open letter to Director General of DG Sante on behalf of Smoke Free Sweden ~ Sweden Is Now the World’s First “Smoke-Free” Country ~ The “Clean Nicotine” Thought Experiment ~ Operation Epic Fury, Brought To You By Nicotine ~ Dutch vape flavour ban backfires: New report shows rise in youth use, illicit trade, and smoking ~ High School Smoking Almost Gone, Vaping Way Down Too ~ People with Lived Experience(s) ~ Consumer Groups Across Europe Write to Commission: Stop the War on Harm Reduction ~ Advanced warning for smokers and vapers as huge price increase coming ~ ‘280% spike’ – Smokers smashed with huge tax increase ~ OPINION: The Commission just buried its own report on tobacco law. Why? ~ Orbán loses in Hungary. Could this spell the end for  Olivér Várhelyi as Health Commissioner? ~ Vivanco: Save lives — don’t tax nicotine products ~ Swedish Politicians Ask European Commission to Clarify Legality of France’s Nicotine Pouch Ban ~ WHY IS THE MEDIA IGNORING THE RECORD LOW IN YOUTH SMOKING?

Evidence-Based Policymaking: A Growing Credibility Crisis in EU Nicotine Regulation

Tobacco Harm Reduction

Across Europe, a fundamental tension is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. The debate over tobacco harm reduction (THR), once centred on the scientific evidence, is now shifting into something more consequential: whether policymakers are willing to act on that evidence.