Vapers Digest 15th March

Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Pregnancy and Smoking: little knowledge of quitting methods ~ A ROADMAP TO A SMOKE FREE SOCIETY ~ We Asked an Expert if Smoking Ciggies Can Actually Help You Quit Vaping ~ Innco Weekly Issue ~ Big Threat | COP10 Bureaucrats to Decide Future of Vaping ~ No New Vape Crackdown ~ UKVIA Releases Prevention Guide ~ Vapeclub Addresses Disposables Issues – 1 ~ Banning Vape Flavours Hurts Adults! ~ White House’s Crystal Ball Gazing Does Nothing to Reduce Smoking ~ Youth Vaping Has Declined In New Hampshire ~ Major League Ballplayers Trade Dip for Nicotine Pouches ~ Queensland’s parliamentary inquiry into vaping. Interview ABC Brisbane radio, 14 March 2023

Pregnancy and Smoking: little knowledge of quitting methods

Center of Excellence for the acceleration of Harm Reduction, CoEHAR

In the study, three psychological reasons for the onset of smoking were found and analyzed: feelings of stress, nervousness, and loneliness. Moreover, most of the women stated that they started smoking during adolescence or pre-adolescence. Quite unexpectedly, researchers were surprised to find out that there is a lot of distrust and little knowledge of official smoking cessation therapies, and because of this, participants stated that they can quit smoking whenever they want and only with their own willpower.

A Roadmap To A Smoke Free Society

SMOKE FREE SWEDEN 2023, www.smokefreesweden.org

Sweden is on the brink of a world first in public health – one that provides a roadmap to save tens of millions of lives across every continent on the globe. The developed Scandinavian country with a population of just over ten million will, based on current trends, soon become the first nation to give up cigarettes.

Sweden’s Stunning Smoke Free Success Provides a Road Map

That Could Save Lives of Millions – Major New Report

Jessica Perkins, Yahoo Finance

PUBLIC health experts launched a major new report today (TUESDAY) to mark Sweden approaching the historic milestone of becoming Europe’s first ‘Smoke Free’ country.

Sweden is on course to drop below a 5% tobacco smoking prevalence rate in the coming months. This is the level below which the country will be considered officially ‘Smoke Free’.

No other country in the European Union is even close to replicating this achievement and none are currently on track to even achieve it by the EU’s target of 2040, in 17 years time.

We Asked an Expert if Smoking Ciggies Can Actually Help You Quit Vaping

Julie Fenwick, Vice

There’s a rumour going around that’s been plaguing the nicotine-crazed community since vaping firmed up its unsexy chokehold on the world: Can switching back to ciggies help when you’re trying to quit? And which is the lesser of the two evils, anyway?

After speaking to some experts, I’m gonna cut to the chase and give it to you straight. The answer to the first question is, basically: No. But there’s a few things going on here.

Innco Weekly Issue | Mar 13th, 2023

International Network of Consumer Organizations (INNCO)

Hi Dear Friends,

We hope you are doing amazingly well. The European Commission recently launched part 2 of its Evaluation of the Legislative Framework for Tobacco Control. It is a public consultation to collect stakeholders’ perceptions on the current legislative framework for Tobacco Control, including the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and Tobacco Advertising Directive (TAD). The consultation ends on 16 May. For more information on how to participate, please read ETHRA’s article here.

Big Threat | COP10 Bureaucrats to Decide Future of Vaping | RegWatch

Brent Stafford, Regwatch

COP10 presents a massive threat to vaping as treaty members consider several new regulations, which include: a ban on open systems, an effective nicotine cap, and a redefinition of smoke to include vapor, putting vaping in the same category as combustible cigarettes.

In this episode of RegWatch, Martin Cullip, International Fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and prolific writer on harm reduction policy, walks through the threats COP10 poses to the future of vaping.

Three from Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

No New Vape Crackdown

Planet of the Vapes spoke to three parliamentary sources prior to the publication of our article saying that the Government was giving serious consideration to a vape tax, published on 27 February. The i newspaper has confirmed that these discussions were taking place between government departments, but now goes further to reveal that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has rebuffed the idea of a new tax.

UKVIA Releases Prevention Guide

The UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) has released an updated version of its ‘Preventing Underage Sales Guide’, aimed at UK retailers. It contains advice on implementing a ‘Challenge 25’ policy, maintaining a ‘refusals register’, staff training, and using Digital ID to ensure that sales aren’t made to underage purchasers.

Vapeclub Addresses Disposables Issues – 1

Vapeclub, one of the UK’s leading online vape retailers, has taken steps to address the current focus on disposable ecigs and related issues. Planet of the Vapes is covering Vapeclub’s important contribution to the debate in a series of three articles this week. This first piece looks at the evidence and waste issues.

Banning Vape Flavours Hurts Adults!

New research shows once again that adults prefer various flavours over being restricted to tobacco flavourings. The debates around banning vape flavours have been ongoing for years, with politicians and public health experts weighing in on both sides, particularly in the United States, Europe, and Canada. These debates have significant implications for tobacco harm reduction (THR), as flavoured vapes are often favoured by smokers trying to quit smoking.

White House’s Crystal Ball Gazing Does Nothing to Reduce Smoking

Martin Cullip, DC Journal

The White House unveiled its 2022 Unified Regulatory Agenda and Regulatory Plan in January. Among the many proposals for lawmaking were details of potential Food and Drug Administration actions on tackling tobacco, most notably prohibiting the sale of menthol cigarettes and an enforced maximum limit of nicotine allowed in combustible tobacco.

One would need a time machine to gauge if these tobacco control ideas are to be successful.

Youth Vaping Has Declined In New Hampshire

Lindsey Stroud, Independent Women’s Forum

The New Hampshire Department of Education recently published the state’s results for the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). While data for traditional tobacco product use, including cigars, cigarettes, and/or smokeless tobacco, is not available for 2021, youth vaping has declined among New Hampshire high school students, similar to national survey data.

In 2021, among New Hampshire high school students, 31% reported having ever tried an e-cigarette, which was a 37.8% decline from 2019 when nearly half (49.8%) of students had ever tried vaping.

Major League Ballplayers Trade Dip for Nicotine Pouches

Jim McDonald, Vaping 360

As Major League Baseball teams transition from spring training to the regular season, players say they’re replacing their once-ubiquitous cans of smokeless tobacco with modern, tobacco-free nicotine pouches. And, according to Fox Sports, U.S. pouch market leader ZYN is the brand most big leaguers like best.

Of course, ballplayers might just refer to all nicotine pouches as “zyn”—the same way people call all facial tissues “kleenex.”

Queensland’s parliamentary inquiry into vaping.

Interview ABC Brisbane radio, 14 March 2023

Colin Mendelsohn

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