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Vapers Digest 20th January

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Monday’s News at a glance:

Vapes Are 4x More Profitable ~ Bill Already Impacting Business ~ Prevalence of Popular Smoking Cessation Aids in England and Associations With Quit Success ~ A call for science-based regulation of nicotine alternatives ~ American Lung Association Claims that Nicotine Pouches are No Safer than Cigarettes ~ American Lung Association Says that Quitting Smoking is Not Quitting Smoking, Unless You Do It Their Way ~ Fake News: American Lung Association Implies that Zyn Nicotine Pouches Contain Tobacco and Can Cause Cancer ~ US FDA CTP – January 2025 Reactions ~ US FDA CTP – Jan. 2025 Reactions Part 2 ~ My journey into support for harm reduction ~ Fixing the broken and lawless American tobacco and nicotine market ~ FDA Greenlights ZYN Nicotine Pouches: A Boost for Harm Reduction ~ Sales of Zyn nicotine pouches skyrocket in southern Arizona ~ Playing with numbers ~ Vietnam enforces vape ban with tough punishments ~ Episode 28: Samrat Chowdhery

Two from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

Vapes Are 4x More Profitable

Vapes four times more profitable to convenience stores than tobacco products, according to a new analysis by a team at the University of Edinburgh. Small convenience stores are selling less tobacco, and the tobacco products they do sell are much less profitable to them than popular and reduced harm ecigs.

Bill Already Impacting Business

Despite not having completed its legislative progress through Parliament, the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is already having an impact on businesses and the retail sector. Vape brand Chill Brands has announced that the forthcoming June ban on single-use disposable vapes has reduced retail desire to stock the products.

Prevalence of Popular Smoking Cessation Aids in England and Associations With Quit Success

Sarah E. Jackson, PhD, Jamie Brown, Vera Buss, PhD, Jama Network

Key Points

Question  What methods are people using to stop smoking in England and to what extent are they associated with quit success?

Findings  This survey study including 25 094 smokers aged at least 16 years found that e-cigarettes were both the most commonly used cessation aid (used in 40.2% of quit attempts in 2023-2024) and associated with the highest odds of successful cessation. By contrast, other aids found to be associated with increased odds of success in quitting smoking were used in less than 5% of quit attempts.

Meaning  These findings suggest that quit success rates could be improved by encouraging people to use more effective methods.

A call for science-based regulation of nicotine alternatives

Joseph Magero, Capital News

The recent comments from the Public Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni on vapes and nicotine pouches have stirred controversy—not for their insight but for their lack of scientific basis. After declaring last year her intention to “wipe out” these products, the PS’s remarks risk undermining the millions of Kenyan smokers in need of effective cessation tools.

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THREE from Dr. Michael Siegel, The Rest Of The Story

American Lung Association Claims that Nicotine Pouches are No Safer than Cigarettes

In light of the FDA’s approval yesterday of a pre-market tobacco product application (PMTA) for Zyn nicotine pouches, I did some internet searches to see what tobacco control and health groups are telling the public about the health risks of nicotine pouches compared to cigarettes. The fact that the FDA approved this product indicates that the agency determined that nicotine pouches are much safer than cigarettes. This is one determination the FDA must make before it can approve any PMTA.

American Lung Association Says that Quitting Smoking is Not Quitting Smoking, Unless You Do It Their Way

In an inane statement, the American Lung Association asserted that if you quit smoking by switching to nicotine pouches, you have not quit smoking. After noting that 10% of smokers who use nicotine pouches are able to switch completely (that is, quit smoking), the American Lung Association states: “This is not quitting, this is merely switching to another tobacco/nicotine product sold by the tobacco industry to sustain lifelong customers.”

Fake News: American Lung Association Implies that Zyn Nicotine Pouches Contain Tobacco and Can Cause Cancer

The American Lung Association has issued a statement in response to the FDA’s authorization of Zyn nicotine pouches in which it blasts the FDA for approving this product and asserts that it is a “gift to Big Tobacco.” The statement also implies that Zyn contains tobacco and can cause cancer.

TWO from Skip’s Corner, Let’s Talk!

US FDA CTP – January 2025 Reactions

It has been a busy week for those who follow nicotine regulations in the United States! Below are statements, comments, or reactions to the proposed reduced-nicotine rule and the marketing orders granted to ZYN. Please let me know if you know of any comments I need to include. I expect we’ll see more statements next week.

US FDA CTP – Jan. 2025 Reactions Part 2

Today’s collection of reactions builds off of the one I posted yesterday. (I’m multi-tasking today and will edit yesterday’s post as I find new items while I create today’s post.) This time, I’m examining headlines and looking for quotes from individuals shared by various online sources. Both FDA announcements have received widespread coverage. There is too much to cover all of it, so I will attempt to grab a few to give us a glimpse of the message being communicated to the public. There are many I can’t grab because I’m not a paid subscriber. It will also be interesting to see who is quoted. Will this give us a balanced view of all perspectives?

FDA Greenlights ZYN Nicotine Pouches: A Boost for Harm Reduction

Richard Crosby, The Daily Pouch

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration made headlines on the 16th of January 2025 by authorising the marketing of 20 ZYN nicotine pouch products. This is a watershed moment for harm reduction advocates as the FDA recognised these products as having a substantially lower health risk compared to traditional smoking methods. Let’s dive into why this is such a pivotal moment and examine what it might mean for public health and harm reduction efforts globally.

Sales of Zyn nicotine pouches skyrocket in southern Arizona

Sean Mahoney, 13 News

The FDA has officially approved the marketing and sale of nicotine product Zyn in the United States.

The flavored pouches have exploded in popularity, including on college campuses like the University of Arizona.

Students there told 13 News more classmates have started to pick up the product.

“It’s something I see everywhere. I see them littered on the floor sometimes too,” said student Jacob Mooney.

Playing with numbers

Simon Clark, Talking Liberties

Breaking ‘news’.

According to new calculations by the Adam Smith Institute, a leading think tank, promoting safer alternatives to cigarettes could save 19 million years of life by 2030, and up to £12.6 billion every year.

Back in 2018 the ASI claimed that switching to vaping could save one million years of life (an interesting concept that plays into the modern cult of longevity, and a nice round figure to boot).

Vietnam enforces vape ban with tough punishments 

Ali Anderson, Clearing The Air

Vietnam has implemented a blanket ban on all vapes with hefty fines and jail time for offenders. The new legislation – which came into effect on January 1 – prohibits the production, sale, import, storage, transportation and usage of vapes with the aim of ‘protecting people’s health’. Anyone caught vaping or bringing vapes into the Asian country, including tourists, will be fined up to two million Vietnamese dong (€75.2) or face up to five years in prison.

Episode 28: Samrat Chowdhery

Taxpayers Protection Alliance

In the latest Across the Pond, Martin Cullip and Lindsey Stroud are joined by Samrat Chowdhery, a journalist and harm reduction advocate based in Mumbai, India to discuss his work on promoting tobacco harm reduction in lower to middle income countries (LMICs). The three discuss the implications for LMICs, the role of nongovernmental organizations in influencing public policy, and the implications for the future.

On this Day…2023

A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…

“Next Time It Could Be You”-

The McCarthyism in Tobacco Control – Martin Cullip

At the end of November, an extraordinary episode caused outrage: the expulsion of Karl Erik Lund from a conference on e-cigarettes held in France. Dr. Lund is one of the world’s most prominent researchers on tobacco harm reduction. Currently with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, he has published important papers about snus and has testified on behalf of plaintiffs suing the tobacco industry. He has received a preventative medicine award from the Norwegian Medical Association, among many other roles and accolades.

Tobacco Controllers…

Denying Harm Reduction Facts, Promote Orwellian Newspeak
Brad Rodu, Tobacco Truth

Joanna Cohen is the Bloomberg Professor of Disease Prevention and the Director of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.  Together with other editors of the prohibitionist journal Tobacco Control, she published a screed aiming to change the words people use to talk about tobacco, and particularly reduced risk products.

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