Vapers Digest 17th May
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Rethinking U.S. tobacco and nicotine regulation (part 2) ~ Can Vaping Help People Quit Smoking? It’s a Fact ~ Will a Change of Leadership End the CDC’s Vaping Misinformation? ~ Avail Vapor wants to take its battle with the FDA to the U.S. Supreme Court ~ UK advertising watchdog cracks the whip against promotion of vaping on TikTok ~ Free vapes to be offered to e-cigarette users if they recycle their used ones through Royal Mail ~ New Airport Vape Room ~ A WHO FCTC Explainer ~ Tobacco-Free Kids Leader Matthew Myers Will Retire ~ Kenya must heed lessons from smoke-free pioneers
Rethinking U.S. tobacco and nicotine regulation (part 2)
Clive Bates, The Counterfactual
Can the United States develop a federal regulatory approach to tobacco and nicotine that addresses the overwhelming public health problem, namely, adult smoking, especially in disadvantaged populations?
Can the US do this while providing a rational basis for regulating a much safer legal consumer nicotine market that will persist indefinitely?
Can it find a realistic approach to controlling youth nicotine use, taking all aspects of welfare into account and a realistic approach to youth risk behaviours?
Can Vaping Help People Quit Smoking? It’s a Fact
Dr. Brad Rodu, Tobacco Truth
Simon Chapman, emeritus professor in public health at the University of Sydney in Australia, is a long-time anti-tobacco activist and frequent contributor to The Conversation, which bills itself as “the world’s leading publisher of research-based news and analysis.” Undercutting that claim is a May 3 article Chapman authored, titled, “Can vaping help people quit smoking?” Chapman predictably answered that “It’s unlikely.”
Will a Change of Leadership End the CDC’s Vaping Misinformation?
Avail Vapor wants to take its battle with the FDA to the U.S. Supreme Court
Jack Jacobs, Richmond Biz Sense
Two years after it ceased operations in the face of an unfavorable FDA decision, Richmond-based Avail Vapor – or at least what’s left of it – is renewing a legal battle to right what its founder sees as a regulatory wrong.
The remnants of the local e-cigarette company last week filed a request for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower court’s ruling against an appeal Avail had filed following the FDA’s denial of the company’s application to continue to sell its vaping products.
Free vapes to be offered to e-cigarette users if they recycle their used ones through Royal Mail
Benjamin Butterworth, I News UK
A major scheme to recycle single-use vapes is to be launched this month, with consumers given free vape sticks in exchange for returning used products.
Under the plans, to be initially rolled out in London, Birmingham and Manchester at the end of May, consumers will be able to send used vapes off to a recycling center through Royal Mail at no cost.
Two From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
New Airport Vape Room
“A vaping room will be ‘boarding’ at an airport near you”, says international vape company ANDS as it opens a vaping lounge in Beirut. Travellers will now be able to vape without having to mix with smokers before they board their flights, the company says. It comes following the success of its launch of alternative nicotine solutions at Beirut Duty Free, offering passengers a wide range of potentially less harmful products, in 2022.
A WHO FCTC Explainer
The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction project (GSTHR) has released a new Briefing Paper covering the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and the Conference of the Parties (COP) and calls for bigger role for tobacco harm reduction. Vaping will come under the spotlight at the forthcoming COP10 to the FCTC in Panama in November.
Tobacco-Free Kids Leader Matthew Myers Will Retire
Jim McDonald, Vaping 360
Anti-vaping leader Matthew Myers will step down as president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids on July 1. He will continue to advise the organization.
Myers has been involved in almost every major event in the tobacco control sphere since the 1980s. He has been instrumental in shifting tobacco control focus from battling with tobacco companies to blocking the adoption of vaping and other low-risk nicotine products.
Kenya must heed lessons from smoke-free pioneers
News Trends
THESE are ground-breaking days in the global fight to reduce the deadly toll of smoking cigarettes. In the UK, lawmakers have just announced a pioneering scheme to give free vapes to one million smokers in an effort to help them quit their tobacco habit.
It’s the first initiative of its kind in the world and part of the UK government’s commitment to reduce smoking rates to 5% by 2030, the level at which a country is officially classified as ‘smoke-free’.
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