Vapers Digest 20th September
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
“Too Much Time Has Been Wasted”: PMI CEO Challenges Governments Across the Globe to Embrace Smoke-Free Alternatives to End Cigarettes Faster ~ WHO asked to protect a billion smokers ~ E-Cigarettes And The Cochrane Review ~ Debunking the myth that vaping causes popcorn lung ~ What are the long term risks of vaping? ~ Statement: Disposable vaping ban could affect some of the most vulnerable ~ CAPHRA Calls for Disbanding of Vaping Regulatory ~ EFP Leaves Bad Taste in the Mouth ~ Parliament ~ Countries asked to reject measures that will deprive billion smokers of better alternatives ~ Campaign encourages people to swap cigarettes for a vape ~ France to Ban Disposable Vapes This Year in “Dangerous” Move
“Too Much Time Has Been Wasted”:
PMI CEO Challenges Governments Across the Globe to
Embrace Smoke-Free Alternatives to End Cigarettes Faster
David Fraser, Philip Morris International
A potential tenfold reduction in smoking-attributable deaths is possible if people who currently smoke were to switch to smoke-free products, Jacek Olczak, CEO of Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE: PM) will state in a speech today. He will explain the role smoke-free products can play in ending cigarette smoking globally and the human consequences of inaction.
“For over a decade, PMI has championed a smoke-free future. Having invested more than $10.5 billion to scientifically research, develop, and commercialize smoke-free products—which today account for more than a third of our total net revenues—we are living this future,” says Olczak. “Yet, inexplicably, there are countries stuck in the past where smokers can easily access cigarettes—the most harmful form of nicotine consumption—but not the better option of smoke-free alternatives.”
WHO asked to protect a billion smokers
Manila Standard Business
Debunking the myth that vaping causes popcorn lung
Michelle Minton, Reason
Popcorn lung, formally known as bronchiolitis obliterans, is a disease that causes an irreversible narrowing of lung airways. This rare condition initially gained media attention in the early 2000s due to a cluster of cases among microwave popcorn plant workers. In recent years, news media have frequently purported a link between the disease and vaping nicotine. But is there really a connection between popcorn lung and vaping?
World Vapers Alliance
Yes, yes, “we don’t know”, but it is necessary to put a context on this negative assessment. In particular, we need to challenge rhetorical arguments using this lack of knowledge as an argument to oppose THR.
We don’t know in absolute terms, we might never know it with full precision, as the complexity of human biology makes it a daunting problem given the diversity of individual responses and potentially affected biological systems.
Statement: Disposable vaping ban could affect some of the most vulnerable
Dr Stuart Griffiths, Yorkshire Cancer Research
Yorkshire Cancer Research welcomes measures that will help prevent young people who do not smoke from accessing vaping products. It is clear that a ban of disposable vaping products is likely to have some impact. However, we are concerned that a complete ban on single-use vapes could make it harder for adults from specific, vulnerable groups to quit smoking.
Vaping is an effective stop smoking tool that successfully helps thousands of adults who smoke reduce their risk of cancer every year. Unfortunately, disposable vaping products have proven particularly appealing to young people.
Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
CAPHRA Calls for Disbanding of Vaping Regulatory
Kiwi vape company Vapo took the New Zealand government to court and won over confused maximum eliquid nicotine strength messaging and ‘threats’. The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is now calling for the disbanding of the Ministry of Health’s Vaping Regulatory Authority (VRA) in light of the recent court case.
EFP Leaves Bad Taste in the Mouth
The European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) has made a claim that vaping is as harmful to gum and oral health as traditional tobacco cigarette smoking. It claims, “despite the fact that the vaping phenomenon is relatively new compared to smoking, meaning research details are still incomplete, evidence does show a clear link between e-cigarettes and poor gum and oral health.” The statement has been criticised by Dr Richard Holliday, an expert in restorative dentistry and periodontics.
Parliament
Politics has resumed at the Palace of Westminster despite many government ministers wishing it hadn’t. As we enter the extended home straight leading up to the next general election, some have turned their minds back to protecting the health of the nation and begun discussing vaping and tobacco harm reduction once more.
Campaign encourages people to swap cigarettes for a vape
Joe Willis, Hambleton Today
NHS chiefs in the county are encouraging anyone who smokes to reduce their risk of cancer by swapping cigarettes for a vape this September.
As part of the NHS’s new Swaptember campaign, Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership and Yorkshire Cancer Research are aiming to raise awareness of vaping as a significantly less harmful and highly effective alternative to tobacco smoking.
France to Ban Disposable Vapes This Year in “Dangerous” Move
France is planning to ban disposable vapes, or “puffs” as they’re known in the country, by the end of the year. The government is citing concerns over youth as justification—and claims that banning the vapes will help reduce smoking.
On September 3, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne described an impending “new national plan to fight against smoking with, in particular, the prohibition of disposable electronic cigarettes, the famous ‘puffs’ which give bad habits to young people.”
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