Vapers Digest 19th September
Friday’s News at a glance:
Another Shop Keeper Fined – ASH Bemoans Ad Awareness – EU Cardiovascular Health Plan Call for Evidence – Combustion, Not Nicotine, Linked to Graves’ Disease Complications – Small, White, Invisible, and Painless – The Deadliest Disinformation in Tobacco Control: Nicotine Equals Cancer – A full guide to vape aerosols: Post 10, environmental aerosols (part 3, the “particles”) – The Commission’s “Pouches Pose Comparable Risk to Smoking” Claim – When Science Is Reduced to “Alternative Facts” – Consumers in Berlin Call on Lawmakers: “Pouches. Meine Wahl” – Germany Needs Smart Regulation Now – Fighting for nicotine pouches in the EU – but the opposition is massive – Sabine Benoit: Ottawa’s nicotine policy is failing smokers – Rapid switch from smoking to vaping helping close New Zealand’s major health gaps, expert says – Rapid switch from smoking to vaping helping close New Zealand’s major health gaps, expert says – Nyeri Traders petition Senate to Reject Proposal Banning Flavours in Nicotine Products – Commission says Sweden’s snus will contribute to EU budget – From Florida to Washington, vape regulation is failing the public | Opinion – Protecting kids vs. returning to cigarettes: Readers weigh in on Wisconsin’s new vape law – MCPS vape sensors bombarded administrators with false alarms – When Bans Backfire: Flavor Restrictions May Push Young People Toward Cigarettes – The Tobacco Wars Part IV: Alive Strikes Back – Malaysia’s nationwide vape ban plan sparks clash between health advocates and retailers ~ Oregon Supreme Court Will Decide Vape Packaging Case – Wisconsin vape shop fights to survive after state ban cuts sales – FDA Launches Program to More Efficiently Review Nicotine Pouch Applications – Burned Again | FDA Crackdown & WHO’s Sly Corruption | RegWatch
Two From Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
Another Shop Keeper Fined
Lancashire County Council’s Trading Standards has conducted a series of “stings” on a local store which has resulted in a Haslingden shop owner being fined more than £4,500. Burnley Magistrates Court heard how staff sold a vape to an underage teenager and that illicit vapes were found hidden in a secret compartment in their shop.
ASH Bemoans Ad Awareness
Action on Smoking and Health says that data from its latest research “shows an alarming surge of awareness” of heated tobacco products among children in four years. The charity claims the proportion of children who report having ever used the products also increasing significantly.
Rapid switch from smoking to vaping helping close New Zealand’s major health gaps, expert says
Tim Hong, Clearing The Air
New Zealand’s rapid decline in smoking rates – driven by a rapid switch to vaping – is helping to narrow some of the country’s starkest health inequalities, according to a public health expert.
“A Pākehā [New Zealander of European descent] boy born in Waikato [a region in New Zealand’s North Island] today can expect to live eight years longer than his Māori [the Indigenous people of New Zealand] neighbour,” said Ruth Bonita, Emeritus Professor of Population Health at the University of Auckland.
