Vapers Digest 22nd January
Monday’s News at a glance:
Life in the Old Disposable Dog Yet – Nick Me Baby, One More Crime – FDA Denies PMTAs for Suorin Air and blu PLUS+ – WHO/FCTC Needs to Respect Science, Consumer Rights in COP Meeting – What’s in a name? – Stringent regulations on novel nicotine products give cigarettes market advantage – Bonditunes Interview With Dr Colin Mendelsohn – Will Not Stop | Tobacco Control Unlikely to Validate Nicotine Vaping
Two from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes:
Life in the Old Disposable Dog Yet
Disposable vapes use the same battery technology as found in regular vape devices. The lithium-ion cells in almost all single-use products end up being discarded in the disposable. New research from University College London and the University of Oxford, supported by The Faraday Institution, has shown that extracted batteries “can continue to perform at high capacity for hundreds of cycles”.
The full report, published in Joule, highlights a growing environmental threat from disposables because they are not designed to be recharged.
Nick Me Baby, One More Crime
Authorities have uncovered illegal tobacco and vapes worth thousands of pounds stored in spy film style hidden hatches in Huddersfield. In part of coordinated swoops, officers also conducted a test purchase operation at a number of retailers in South Elmsall and South Kirkby, seizing illegal vapes worth over £5,000 from a shop in South Kirkby
The Huddersfield Town Centre Team and West Yorkshire Trading Standards say that enquires remain ongoing after officers found hundreds of packets of illegal cigarettes and vapes stored behind a false wall in a Huddersfield retailers.
FDA Denies PMTAs for …
Suorin Air and blu PLUS+ – Jim McDonald
The FDA has denied marketing applications for a popular refillable pod vape, and also a rechargeable cartridge-based cigalike-style device and refill cartridges. The marketing denial orders (MDOs) came at the end of the same week during which the agency issued its first MDOs for open-system products that contain no e-liquid or nicotine.
The FDA has authorized just seven vaping devices, along with tobacco-flavored refills for each, since it assumed regulatory authority over vaping products in 2016. The agency hasn’t authorized a single vaping product since current FDA Center for Tobacco Products Director Brian King assumed the post in July 2022.
Last week, Karyn Smith MP acknowledged those who wrote to express concerns about COP10. Thanks to all who did so after our call to action.
It’s not too late to have your say before the meeting on 5th Feb. See our guide here: https://t.co/u1dHYXr6TMhttps://t.co/ze4WWHH93P pic.twitter.com/AWPfTsUoOl
— NNAlliance (@NNAlliance) January 22, 2024
WHO/FCTC Needs to Respect Science,
Consumer Rights in COP Meeting – Martin Cullip
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s Consumer Center accused the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) of ignoring science and the rights of consumers in its pursuit of restrictive tobacco control measures, as the global body prepares for its 10th Conference of the Parties (COP) this year.
Martin Cullip, an international fellow at TPA issued the statement criticizing the WHO FCTC’s focus on policies known as MPOWER, which rely solely on restrictions on the supply and demand of tobacco products while ignoring other proven measures to help smokers quit.
What’s in a name?
Plenty, when we can’t seem to agree on industry terminology
Barnaby Page, Tobacco Intelligence
Perception is often at least as important as reality in forming policy-makers’ and the public’s opinion where novel nicotine products are concerned – and, to a lesser extent, in the public-health debate, too.
But there’s a persistent problem with terminology. Words are used without definition; deliberate partisan distortion, or accidental miscomprehension can easily result. Even scientific researchers can’t always agree on precisely what a term like “smoking” actually means.
Stringent regulations on novel products
Give cigarettes market advantage – Manila Bulletin
Stringent regulations on novel nicotine products like vapes, heated tobacco and oral nicotine could be giving traditional cigarettes a market advantage and discouraging smokers from switching to less harmful alternatives, according to health policy experts.
Professor David Sweanor, chair of the advisory board of the Center for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, said such regulations essentially hand the market to the incumbent, deadly products.
“Such regulations give the incumbent deadly products a marketplace advantage and reinforce misinformation about cigarettes being no more hazardous than smoke-free alternatives,” he said.
Bonditunes Interview
With Dr Colin Mendelsohn
I talk to Dr. Colin Mendelsohn about the benefits of vaping and we discuss his book “Stop Smoking Start Vaping. The healthy truth about vaping”.
Will Not Stop
Tobacco Control Unlikely to Validate Nicotine Vaping | RegWatch
Despite a steady drumbeat of scientific studies showing nicotine vapes help people switch off smoking, including those with no intention to quit. Many within tobacco control continue to devote resources and press policies to restrict or ban e-cigarettes and other safer nicotine products.
Even good news about the dramatic drop in teen vaping and a massive decline in youth smoking rates seems to have had little impact.Joining us today to talk through the science and debate over nicotine vaping in the U.S. is Dr. Raymond Niaura, Interim Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at NYU School of Global Public Health where he’s also the Co-Director of the Tobacco Research Lab.
Is it possible tobacco control could one day validate vaping? Find out!
On this Day…2023
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
Advocates Highlight Retractions
Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
Tobacco harm reduction advocates have pointed out research paper retractions to delegates in advance of the World Health Organisation’s COP10. Nine member organisations of the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) have written to FCTC delegation heads, and health ministers and leaders, to help inform their respective country’s position on e-cigarettes (ENDS) and nicotine.
COP10 will be held in Panama in November 2023. It is hosted by the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
With governments from around the world sending delegates, CAPHRA is keen to bring clarity to recent controversies surrounding the science on nicotine and vaping.
Old Farts Vaping…
Michelle – ecigclick
I am extremely late to the party here but loving the content on Twitter under the #OldFartsVaping hashtag! Which as is obvious is various people telling their vaping stories of being Old Farts Vaping !
I did briefly touch on this in my news article in March 2022 when there was a reply to Javed Khan’s Tweet.
Many countries are reporting an issue with underage vapers. I remember a time when youngsters thought vaping was “sad”!
We can debate this until we are Blue in the face, but nobody wants underage vaping. But there is the valid argument that these underage vapers would be smokers if they didn’t vape, which as we know is more dangerous. Anyway that’s a heated debate for another day!
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