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Vapers Digest 17th April

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Website Promotes Opposition to UK Vape Tax ~ Creeping ministerial powers: the example of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill ~ Mark Eastwood: Sweeping powers of Vapes Bill could push people back into smoking ~ Are Vape Aerosols Really Toxic? ~ Could nicotine pouches help you quit smoking? ~ Vapes Seem to Have Become More Effective as Smoking Cessation Tools ~ Tobacco researchers suggest health care providers talk with adult patients who smoke about relative risks of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes ~ Health care providers should talk with adult smokers about relative risks of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes ~ The Relative Risks of Tobacco Products ~ CTP Director Co-Authors New Journal Commentary on the Relative Risks of Tobacco Products ~ CoEHAR Founder Riccardo Polosa addresses the Australian Senators on vaping reform ~ Democrats Should Join the Call for FDA to Accelerate Approval of Smokefree Products ~ Just More Talking Points: FDA Commissioner Visits with the House Oversight Committee ~ The panic over vaping is pure hysteria ~ Kentucky’s new anti-vaping law ignites constitutional challenge ~ THE WHO’S INFODEMIC PROBLEM | Will Godfrey explores the WHO’s latest Twitter scandal

Website Promotes Opposition to UK Vape Tax

Jim McDonald, Vaping 360

Two non-profit groups dedicated to vaping and nicotine consumers have launched a website to help mobilize opposition to the British government’s recently announced vape tax proposal. The site, called NoVapeTax.uk, is a collaboration between advocacy group the New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) and vaping news aggregator vapers.org.uk.

The proposed tax will increase the prices of all vape products that contain e-liquid, including zero-nicotine products like shortfills. It will send many vapers back to smoking and expand the already-growing black markets for both vapes and tobacco. The NNA calls the proposal “highly damaging and ill-thought-out.”

Creeping ministerial powers: the example of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill

Matthew England, Handsard Society

 The Government’s flagship Tobacco and Vapes Bill will ban the sale of tobacco to anyone born after 2009. The genesis of the delegated powers in the Bill – dating back a decade – tells an important story about the way in which incomplete policy-making processes are used by Ministers to seek ‘holding’ powers in a Bill, only for that precedent to then be used to justify further, broader powers in subsequent Bills. This ‘creeping’ effect in the legislative process undermines parliamentary scrutiny of ministerial action.

Mark Eastwood: Sweeping powers of Vapes Bill could push people back into smoking

Mark Eastwood, Conservative Home

Ahead of today’s Second Reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which will create sweeping Henry VIII style powers to restrict vape flavours, point of display and packaging of vaping and other nicotine products, it is vital the Government takes a comprehensive evidence-based approach to future vaping regulation.

Are Vape Aerosols Really Toxic?

Dr. Brad Rodu, Tobacco Truth

My readers know that I have focused on exaggerated or fraudulent population-based research on vapor products.  But anti-tobacco crusaders have also published numerous studies, predominantly funded by the National Institutes of Health, that widely exaggerate the toxicity of vape aerosols and, through university press releases taken up verbatim by uncritical media, spread like an uncontrollable virus.

There is an antidote, in the form of Dr. Roberto Sussman, an astrophysicist based at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico.  He offers the following review that I am proud to post.

Could nicotine pouches help you quit smoking?

Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Tobacco Treatment

Nicotine pouches are small bags of nicotine (in various doses) that are placed between the upper lip and gum for about an hour, and steadily release nicotine. They do not contain tobacco and are used as a safer substitute for smoking. Vapers also use them to provide nicotine when it is not convenient to vape or when extra nicotine is needed.

Vapes Seem to Have Become More Effective as Smoking Cessation Tools

Kiran Sidhu, Filter Magazine

People in the United States have become increasingly likely to find that nicotine vapes help them quit cigarettes, according to new research.

The study, published in the Nicotine & Tobacco Research journal, evaluated US population-level trends in adult cigarette quitting rates between 2013-2021.

Tobacco researchers suggest health care providers talk with adult patients

who smoke about relative risks of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes

Leslie Cantu, Medical University of South Carolina

Health care providers who are working with adult patients struggling to stop smoking should consider discussing e-cigarettes as a potential tool if they’ve already tried FDA-approved medications, say tobacco researchers with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.

Health care providers should talk with adult smokers about relative risks

of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes

Medical University of South Carolina, Medical Xpress
Health care providers who are working with adult patients struggling to stop smoking should consider discussing e-cigarettes as a potential tool if they’ve already tried FDA-approved medications, say tobacco researchers with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center.
Benjamin Toll, Ph.D., director of the MUSC Health Tobacco Treatment Program, and Tracy Smith, Ph.D., associate professor in the Addiction Sciences Division of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, partnered with Brian King, Ph.D., director of the Center for Tobacco Products at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to write a commentary in Nature Medicine that lays out the relative risk of e-cigarettes compared with traditional combustible cigarettes.

Two from U.S. Food and Drug Administration

The Relative Risks of Tobacco Products

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CoEHAR Founder Riccardo Polosa addresses the Australian Senators on vaping reform

Center of Excellence for the Acceleration of HArm Reduction (CoEHAR)
According to the studies, “CoEHAR research in patients with COPD patients, asthma, high blood pressure, schizophrenia show clear benefits with objective evidence for harm reversal after switching from smoking.. and also showed that lung function and respiratory symptoms and muco-ciliary clearance improve after switching from smoking to vaping”.
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Democrats Should Join the Call for FDA to Accelerate Approval of Smokefree Products

Martin Cullip, Town Hall

In a welcome and overdue development, it has been reported that a group of nearly 70 House Representatives has written to the Biden Administration urging for the approval process for smokefree products to be accelerated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

This is positive news for the public health of Americans. It is also disappointing that none of the signatories are Democrats.

Just More Talking Points: FDA Commissioner Visits with the House Oversight Committee

Jeffrey S. Smith, R Street

On Thursday, April 11, Dr. Robert Califf, current commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), met with the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. It is clear that Califf leads a diverse and complex agency that, in most areas, functions well to protect Americans’ health; however, several comments related to tobacco harm reduction merit attention.

Delay, Excuse, Delay

Califf was questioned on the activities of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). Several committee members voiced concerns about the availability of illegal electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS, also referred to as vapes or e-cigarettes), which are often imported from Chinese manufacturers.

The panic over vaping is pure hysteria

Rob Lyons, Spiked

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past 60 years, you’ll know that smoking tobacco can be bad for your health. What’s more, quitting is easier said than done. Thankfully, in the past decade or so, a safer alternative to smoking has emerged in the form of vaping. And yet some campaigners and health authorities still seem determined to scare us off it.

Kentucky’s new anti-vaping law ignites constitutional challenge

Sarah Ladd, Kentucky Lantern

Four vape shops, the Kentucky Vaping Retailers Association and the Kentucky Hemp Association have filed suit in Franklin Circuit Court seeking to strike down a new state law outlawing the sale of some of their products.

Greg Troutman, a lawyer for the Kentucky Smoke Free Association, which represents vape retailers, said he’s “hoping that we can get a resolution to this well before” the law is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1.

“Basically, what we’re asking for is that HB 11 be thrown out, because it’s unconstitutional,” Troutman told the Lantern.

Global Forum on Nicotine

The WHO has recently stirred controversy by sharing widely criticised claims about vaping on its social media accounts, so in today’s episode of GFN News we ask, what’s this all about? And has this happened before? Joining us today is Will Godfrey who filled us in on the latest chapter of the WHO’s infodemic problem.

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