Vapers Digest 22nd February
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
NHMRC statement on vaping seriously flawed – expert review ~ A critique of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council CEO statement on electronic cigarettes ~ Addiction researchers denounce Australia’s NHMRC statement on e-cigarettes ~ Disposable Vapes Debate Flares Up After UK Moves ~ ElfBar insists withdrawal of disposable vapes ‘not on safety grounds’ ~ BBC Talks To Baxter School ~ NNA Comments on Ban Proposal ~ Nursing Times Misinformation ~ UM study: E-cigarettes should be recommended more for smoking cessation ~ No more fines for vaping in Thailand, claims Chuwit
A critique of the Australian National Health and
Medical Research Council CEO statement on electronic cigarettes
Wiley Online Library
ElfBar insists withdrawal of disposable vapes ‘not on safety grounds’
George Nott, The Grocer (Editor note: Paywall)
In a rare communication with media, the Chinese-owned brand emphasised to The Grocer that the withdrawal was not the same as a recall
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— The THR Blog (@BlogThr) February 21, 2023
Three from Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
BBC Talks To Baxter School
The media’s focus on vaping continues with BBC 5Live’s Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards discussing electronic cigarettes with students and staff at Baxter College in Kidderminster. The school has spent £4,000 of its budget to install sensors in the student toilets because “the issue of underage vaping is vexing head teachers around the country,” according to Rachel Burden.
NNA Comments on Ban Proposal
“Proposed restrictions and bans on disposable vaping products are short-sighted and counterproductive”, says consumer charity The New Nicotine Alliance. The announcement comes following Dr Caroline Johnson’s 10-Minute Bill passing its first reading in Parliament. The Bill called for a complete ban on single use “disposable” vaping devices. The Bill now proceeds to its Second Reading on 24 March 2023.
Nursing Times Misinformation
Experts respond to an article published in Nursing Times which “gives misinformation, and perpetuates myths, about e-cigarettes (vaping) to healthcare professionals”. The National Centre of Smoking Cessation and Training’s Louise Ross and Dr Andy McEwen, and the Centre of Addictive Behaviours Research’s Dr Kirstie Soar were swift to point out that “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they’re not entitled to their own facts”.
UM study: E-cigarettes should be recommended more for smoking cessation
The Detroit News
Electronic cigarettes should be recommended more widely for helping some adults stop smoking tobacco, according to a new University of Michigan study.
In a study published last week in Nature Medicine, UM researchers said the e-cigarettes, or vapes, should be recommended more as smoking cessation aids because there is “abundant evidence” they can help some individuals quit smoking. Nature Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal.
On this Day…2016
“Deciding Who Lives And Dies”
Dick Puddlecote
In customarily melodramatic anti-smoker style, Cancer Research UK recently released a video designed to raise cash … for their friends in the state-funded tobacco control industry.
Entitled “Could you decide who lives and dies?”, it’s a typical example of the industry’s overwrought shroud-waving bullshit, as you can see.
Harm Reduction
Giving people the lesser of two evils — for drugs, HIV and smoking – Matt Ridley
When people behave in harmful ways, how do you stop them? You can punish them in the hope of deterrence, as we do murder, theft and fraud. You can hector them, as we do with tobacco, alcohol and sugar. Or you can try to offer safer alternatives, which is how we tackled HIV infection and heroin addiction in this country in particular, and is how we should deal with tobacco….
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