Vapers Digest 17th April
Friday’s News at a glance:
Calling MLA Petrovic – We have questions ~ The Canadian Players in Tobacco Control ~ Cliff Douglas ~ Will the CDC Finally Abandon the Damaging Term “EVALI”? ~ The Illusion of Consensus: When Uniformity Replaces Thinking ~ The FDA’s Quiet Blockade on Safer Nicotine — And the Lives It’s Costing ~ FDA Vaping Rules: Much Ado About Very Little ~ Media Watch: Nicotine Company on Nicotine Company Violence ~ Quit Like Sweden Calls on EU to Close Evidence Gap in TPD Revision ~ New study challenges nicotine dual use misconceptions ~ ‘You have to learn by our mistakes’: Warning from Australia over black market tobacco ~ Smoke-Free or Nicotine-Free? Clive Bates Unpacks the Split in Tobacco Harm Reduction ~ Dutch Vape Flavour Ban Backfires: New Report Shows Rise in Youth Use, Illicit Trade, and Smoking ~ 9/10 Dutch vapers are using illegal products, new research shows ~ State backing may be key to vape-assisted quitting, commentary says ~ Ireland urged to explore Australia-style pharmacy-only vape sales ~ Exclusive | China Starts Mandatory National Standards Process for Heated Cigarettes and Nicotine Pouches ~ Taxed To Fail | Canada’s Vape Policies Fuel Smoking & Crime | RegWatch
Skip Murray, Filter
Health economist Michael Pesko is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a question it should have answered years ago: Why is the agency still using a deeply misleading name for a health condition?
In an April 4 letter to CDC Acting Director Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Pesko, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, urged the agency to reconsider the term “E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury,” or EVALI.
The Illusion of Consensus: When Uniformity Replaces Thinking
Alan Gor
What stands out from the recent submissions to Australia’s illicit tobacco inquiry isn’t diversity of thinking. It’s a suffocating uniformity that borders on intellectual stagnation.
Across law enforcement bodies, health organisations, councils, and advocacy groups, the same prescription is repeated with near-identical language and logic: more policing, tougher rules, higher pressure.
