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Vapers Digest 1st April

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Vapes Rated As Most Effective ~ Parliament Accepts Amendments to Bill ~ expert reaction to qualitative risk assessment on the carcinogenicity of e-cigarettes ~ What is the impact of smoking on people living with HIV and how could tobacco harm reduction help? ~ Are Nicotine Users “Getting High”? When Language Distorts Public Health ~ From Cells to Headlines ~ Bangladesh Reversing Vape Ban ~ The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat ~ Does Nicotine Raise Your IQ by 10 Points? ~ Why public messaging must be clearer on vapes, e-cigarettes ~ Belgium pushes EU for tougher vape rules as minister warns of “epidemic” ~ Sharpening the knives: the EU battle over tobacco begins ~ Oklahoma Prisoners Can Now Buy “Jail Puff” Vapes and Pouches ~ New Threats of Prison and Caning: Singapore’s “Totalitarian” Vape Ban ~ War on vaping defies science and reality, leading tobacco researcher warns ~ APPG chair urges evidence-based vape rules amid bill concerns

Two From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

Vapes Rated As Most Effective

New research reviewing “the best available evidence worldwide” for smoking cessation has found that vapes are the most effective tool used for stopping smoking. The team says that their overview of systematic reviews pulls together existing evidence and makes the findings more accessible.  The findings should put to bed any accusation that vapes don’t work for smoking cessation or that there isn’t enough evidence.

Parliament Accepts Amendments to Bill

The House of Commons has accepted the amendments made by the Lords to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill – but one politician pledges to scrap some provisions. VPZ | The Vaping Specialist, the UK’s leading vape retailer, welcomed the news with a caveat, while Action on Smoking and Health pointed to public support for the legislation.

Expert reaction to qualitative risk assessment on the carcinogenicity of e-cigarettes

Baptiste Leurent, Stephen Burgess, Peter Shields, John Britton, Lion Shahab, Gavin Stewart, Stephen Duffy, Science Media Centre

A risk assessment published in Carcinogenesis looks at the carcinogenicity of e-cigarettes.

What is the impact of smoking on people living with HIV and how could tobacco harm reduction help?

Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (GSTHR)

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there were 40.8 million people living with HIV at the end of 2024, of which 1.4 million were aged 14 and under.[1] The vast majority live in Africa (26.3 million), but HIV continues to be a global issue, with 4.2 million people living with HIV in the Americas, 3.5 million in South-East Asia, 3.2 million in Europe, 3 million in the Western Pacific, and 610,000 in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Are Nicotine Users “Getting High”? When Language Distorts Public Health

Cliff Douglas

A new study—Patterns and Correlates of Disposable E-Cigarette Use Among US Youth—adds to a growing body of research on adolescent vaping. It highlights an important concern: some youth are vaping—many using disposable e-cigarettes. But it also contains a striking phrase that deserves closer scrutiny.

From Cells to Headlines

Alan Gor

The latest paper in Carcinogenesis (DOI: bgag015) is being circulated as further evidence that vaping may cause cancer. At first glance, it carries the weight of a serious scientific warning: DNA damage, oxidative stress, carcinogenic pathways. The language is familiar, almost deliberately so. It echoes the early discourse around smoking, inviting the reader to draw a straight line from molecular signals to long-term disease. But when you step back and examine what is actually being shown, the certainty dissolves into something far more tentative.

Bangladesh Reversing Vape Ban

Tobacco Reporter

Bangladesh is preparing amendments to its anti-tobacco ordinance that would withdraw the ban on the production, import, sale, and use of e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems, and remove restrictions on displaying tobacco products at points of sale. The ordinance, approved in December 2025 by the interim government, expanded the definition of tobacco products and introduced penalties for activities involving e-cigarettes, vapes, heated tobacco products, and similar devices. These included jail terms, fines, seizure of goods, and possible license revocation for companies.

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The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is a masterclass in self-defeat

Maxwell Marlow, The Critic

Jack Rankin is not a man given to understatement. The Conservative MP for Windsor, who sat through the Tobacco and Vapes Bill’s interminable committee stage, rose in the Commons recently to deliver a verdict on the legislation that might charitably be described as a controlled demolition. The Bill, he told the House, is “driven more by puritan ideology than by evidence or practicality.” It creates “two tiers of adults.” It will “turbocharge an already thriving black market.” And, in a line that deserves to become a bumper sticker: “Labour hates fun.”

Does Nicotine Raise Your IQ by 10 Points?

Joseph Hart, The Daily Pouch

Read some of the junk that passes for tobacco control talking points, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that not using nicotine slashes a person’s IQ by at least 10 points. However, there are some well-known public figures who suggest that using nicotine can make you smarter by the same degree. What is the truth, and where did these claims come from?

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