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Vapers Digest 21st August

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Friday’s News at a glance:

Miscarriage Risk Debunked ~ Government Crackdown Provokes Response ~ Beliefs About e-Cigarette Regulation Among a Cohort of Long-Term Adult Users: A Thematic Analysis ~ expert reaction to RCPCH review of the impact of vaping on children ~ The Report That Finally Said the Quiet Part Out Loud ~ Nicotine nonsense ~ US teens are smoking and vaping less than their peers abroad ~ UK politicians are turning their back on success – tell them they are wrong ~ Vaping is not smoking ~ The Truth Initiative’s Marketing is Getting Weirder ~ Tobacco sales continue to fall ~ Summer 2026 Road Trip: Day 5 ~ Summer 2026 Road Trip ~ Summer Road Trip Day 7 ~ Tobacco Bill under scrutiny by MPs ~ Tobacco: the European Commission’s consultation has just closed, and a transparency row is already erupting ~ 1 year after law took effect, Northeast Wisconsin vape shops are struggling ~ Tobacco Control: Evolving Strategies for a Smoke-Free Future with Dr. Derek Yach | MedSynapse ~ The Smokeless Word: Live from the Lab – Episode 26 – Dr Charles Gardner ~ Can Governments Enforce Their Way Out of the Illicit Market Crisis?

Two From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

Miscarriage Risk Debunked

Experts have offered their reaction to a study looking at the effect of vanillin (an e-cigarette vanilla flavouring) on human embryonic stem cells via TRPV4 activation. The study was conducted by two researchers at the University of California, published in the journal Human Reproduction for peer review, and involved subjecting stem cells to the chemical in a petri dish.

Government Crackdown Provokes Response

Earlier this week, Planet of the Vapes detailed how the Prime Minister claims that high streets

have been “hollowed out by the unchecked spread of vape stores, betting shops, and rogue businesses that do little to serve local communities”. Following his announcement of a crackdown, the UK Vaping Industry Association, Riot Labs and the Local Government Association have all responded.

expert reaction to RCPCH review of the impact of vaping on children

Science Media Centre

A review published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood looks at the impact of vaping on children.

Dr Nicola Lindson, Associate Professor at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, said:

“As noted by the authors of the paper, the types of evidence included in their review make it very difficult to establish whether vaping causes the health harms discussed in their paper. Many of the studies included were surveys which do not provide the strongest evidence on health harms.

Beliefs About e-Cigarette Regulation Among a Cohort of Long-Term Adult Users: A Thematic Analysis

Gail C. D’Souza-Rushton, Candace R. Bordner, Sophia I. Allen, Nicolle M. Krebs,
Andrea Hobkirk, Jonathan Foulds, Jessica M. Yingst, DrPH, Sage Journals

Abstract/Introduction

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a regulatory authority with the ability to regulate tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). Few studies have investigated the beliefs and attitudes about e-cigarette regulation, from the perspective of long-term users of e-cigarettes. The purpose of the current study was to understand the beliefs about e-cigarette regulation among former and current users of e-cigarettes using a qualitative approach.

The Report That Finally Said the Quiet Part Out Loud

Alan Gor

For years, Australians have been told that the explosion of illicit tobacco and vaping is primarily an enforcement problem. We have been promised more inspectors, larger seizures, tougher penalties, stronger border controls and new powers to close offending shops. Yet the black market has continued to expand in plain sight. It has become easier in many communities to buy an illegal cigarette or disposable vape than to obtain a regulated vaping product through the legal pharmacy system. Now a New South Wales parliamentary committee has finally said what governments and much of the public health establishment have been reluctant to admit: enforcement is not enough when government policy keeps creating the demand, the price incentive and the commercial opportunity that organised crime exploits.

Nicotine nonsense

Christopher Snowdon, The Critic

It is not unheard of for politicians to say one thing and do another, but you would hope that a government that has made it its mission to banish “dodgy vape shops” and clean up the high street would be doing all it can to support legitimate retailers.

Instead, it is quietly planning to burden them with yet more regulation which, by its own admission, will cost them hundreds of millions of pounds. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is currently running a public consultation on a slew of anti-vaping policies and has been conducting a cost-benefit analysis of them.

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Tobacco sales continue to fall

Hon Casey Costello, Beehive.govt.nz

Newly published data shows a continued decline in the sale of cigarettes and tobacco, Associate Health Minister Casey Costello said today.

“The figures are encouraging and are consistent with the long-term fall in smoking rates,” Ms Costello says.

“The latest annual tobacco returns show the volume of tobacco sold in New Zealand fell by more than 20 percent in 2025 compared with the previous year and has more than halved over the past decade.

Three From The Nicotine Project

Summer 2026 Road Trip: Day 5

I knew we were going to find illegal nicotine pouches in Ontario. I just didn’t think we’d find this many even in the most remote parts of the province.

When we started this adventure the plan was: pile into an RV, drive across Canada, talk about nicotine policy and see what the market actually looks like outside the Ottawa bubble. I knew that we would find pouches, I just didn’t know how easy it would be.

Let me break down the numbers. We visited 15 stores in Ontario. At 12 we bought pouches. That’s an 80% success rate. All in all we came out of Ontario with 42 tins. Also this wasn’t just one brand, we found different products everywhere we went. There are no duplication. Each of the 42 products is unique in this haul.

Summer 2026 Road Trip

We came to Manitoba expecting to find illegal nicotine pouches sitting on shelves and tucked under counters. Why wouldn’t we, that is what we saw in Ontario. Instead, we kept hearing the same two words: SOLD OUT!

And that may tell us more about Canada’s nicotine-pouch policy than finding another bag full of illegal products ever could.

Our stops in Manitoba are part of the Unlock the Pouch Summer Road Trip, where we’re crossing the country trying to understand what the nicotine-pouch market actually looks like on the ground. We know what the antis are telling us, that the policy is working, but what we see in the real world it doesn’t match. So instead of relying on out of touch government funded organizations we are hitting the streets.

Summer Road Trip Day 7

Day 7 of our road trip was supposed to be another day of walking into stores, asking for nicotine pouches, seeing what was available and trying to understand what the market looks like on the ground.

Except I felt something was off. I kept hearing “No, we don’t have any.” “Nope. We don’t sell them.” “Can’t sell those.”

Tobacco Bill under scrutiny by MPs

Juta Medical Brief

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health this week began analysing the wording of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill’s preamble and definitions, clause by clause, reports IOL.

The deliberation came after a public participation process in which the committee received written and oral submissions from stakeholders and the public, including during hearings held across all nine provinces.

Tobacco: the European Commission’s consultation has just closed, and a transparency row is already erupting

Annachiara Magenta, EU News

The future of European tobacco regulations remains undecided, but the first round of discussions has ended amid criticism. The meeting concluded on Friday night (14 August) with the European Union’s public consultation on the review of the rules governing tobacco products, advertising, and sponsorship. This step will help shape the legislative proposal expected by the end of 2026. Brussels wants to update a regulatory framework that has worked well but must now come to terms with a “profoundly changed market.”

The consultation follows the call for evidence, which is based on the Commission’s assessment of the European tobacco control framework, according to which EU regulations have helped to significantly reduce “the number of smokers and smoking-related deaths, particularly among young people.”

1 year after law took effect, Northeast Wisconsin vape shops are struggling

 David Go, FOX11News

Ben Hall has closed three of his seven Northeast Wisconsin vape stores, Johnny Vapes. Sales are down about 80% in the last year, he said.

“We’ve seen a lot of customers shopping out of state, either online or heading up to Michigan,” he said.

Many of his shelves are empty, as a law that took effect last September wiped out about 90% of his inventory. Only state-approved vapes that have been approved by the FDA can be sold in stores, mostly less popular devices made by ‘Big Tobacco’ companies.

Tobacco Control: Evolving Strategies for a Smoke-Free Future with Dr. Derek Yach | MedSynapse

MedSynapse

In this insightful KOL (Key Opinion Leader) interview, we speak with Dr. Derek Yach, a Public Health Expert and Global Health Advocate from Southport, Connecticut, United States, on an important global health challenge—Tobacco Control: Evolving Strategies for a Smoke-Free Future. Tobacco use continues to be a major public health concern worldwide, while the tobacco and nicotine landscape continues to evolve. In this discussion, Dr. Yach shares his perspective on the changing approaches to tobacco control, the role of public health policy, prevention strategies, emerging nicotine products, and the challenges of building a smoke-free future.

The Smokeless Word: Live from the Lab – Episode 26 – Dr Charles Gardner

BAT

Dr Charles Gardner was once skeptical of tobacco harm reduction. Now he’s a tobacco harm reduction expert. He joins The Smokeless Word: Live from the Lab to discuss what changed his mind, the evidence shaping the debate, and why listening to people who have switched matters. From the misconceptions surrounding nicotine to the evidence from countries embracing smokeless products, Charles unpacks with Dr James Murphy, BAT’s Director of Science and Research, the case for tobacco harm reduction and why the voices of those who have switched could be the missing piece of the conversation with policymakers and public health officials.

Can Governments Enforce Their Way Out of the Illicit Market Crisis?

Global Forum on Nicotine

Can governments enforce their way out of the illicit market crisis? Brent Stafford speaks with Asa Saligupta and Rohan Pike about the consequences of prohibition, the limits of enforcement, and whether tougher government action can truly curb the growing illicit nicotine market.

On this day…2017!

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

Mixed news for US vapers

But problems emerge in UK hospice system
Fergus Mason, Vaping Post

In what looks like a concerted drive to penalise the city’s vapers, New York’s council has just passed a raft of laws aimed at reducing access to reduced harm products. At the same time more research shows that the “gateway” argument on teen vaping is pure speculation that isn’t supported by the data….

British and international vaping advocates reacted with outrage this week as it emerged that a British hospice, run by the National Health Service, had deprived a dying woman of her e-cigarette. Blogger Susanne Nundy, better known as Anna Raccoon, had been suffering from cancer which had moved into a terminal stage…

A Smoker’s Manifesto

Frank Davis

A few days ago I listed about 10 cultural movements that have arisen over the last 70 years. They had a great many predecessors, and they will have a great many successors. And one of those successors, given the current global War on Smoking (and upon Smokers), may confidently be predicted to be a global Smokers’ Movement. And so it is entirely appropriate (and necessary) for there to be a smokers’ manifesto that sets out their cause.

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