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Vapers Digest 23rd August

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Barnet Council supports adult vaping as an effective aid to reduce tobacco smoking ~ How safe and effective is vaping nicotine? ~ Labour Vaping Policy Declares War On The Corner Dairy ~ Sweden’s path to the lowest smoking rates in Europe ~ French Warning About COP10 ~ Peterborough Vape Trial Delayed ~ Shadow Report on the (NON)-Implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 1 (d) on Harm Reduction Strategies ~ Tobacco-free Bangladesh: Can science offer a solution? ~ I’m proud we made sure vaping was available in UK, says behavioural insights boss David Halpern ~ Hungary Proposes Draft Decree to Legalise Nicotine Pouches ~ How Utah can reduce smoking-related deaths ~ Bloomberg’s Global Crusade Against Safer Nicotine Alternatives Is Impacting LMIXS Significantly

Barnet London Borough

Barnet Council supports the recent statements released by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and London Tobacco Alliance, who are tackling misinformation about vaping by calling for responsible media coverage and sharing clinically proven and accurate information.

Dr Tamara Djuretic, Joint Director of Public Health and Prevention, Barnet Council and The Royal Free London Group, and Cllr Alison Moore, Chair of the Health & Wellbeing Board at Barnet Council, say: “We support the use of nicotine vapes that meet UK regulatory standards as an aid for adults to stop smoking.

How safe and effective is vaping nicotine?

Colin Mendelsohn, ColinMendelsohn.com.au

Is vaping effective?

The latest Cochrane review of 6 randomised controlled trials (November 2022) found that vaping was 63% more effective than nicotine replacement therapy. (Hartmann-Boyce 2022) Cochrane studies are the highest level of evidence that a treatment is effective. It found that if 100 smokers use NRT, 6 will quit. With vaping, 8-12 will quit. The quality of evidence for this conclusion was high, the highest level of certainty.

Labour Vaping Policy Declares War On The Corner Dairy

Scoop Business

Dairy owners are hitting back at the Labour Government blaming dairies for youth vaping, when youth crime stats but massive dairy compliance as sellers, points elsewhere. The Group can also exclusively reveal no one has ever been hospitalised in NZ from vaping from its 2023 Vaping Report.

Sweden’s path to the lowest smoking rates in Europe

Federico N. Fernández, BrusselsReport.eu

In the face of the smoking epidemic that takes approximately 700,000 European lives each year, Sweden emerges as a remarkable outlier with its smoking prevalence reduced to 5.6 percent, compared to the European Union’s (EU) 23 percent. How did Sweden chart this path, and can other nations replicate their success? The We Are Innovation position paper, titled “Leading the way to a smoke-free future: The experience of Sweden,” comprehensively addresses these inquiries. What is captured next is a concise distillation of the report’s most significant insights and revelations.

Two From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

French Warning About COP10

French advocacy groups The SOVAPE association and AIDUCE have detailed a series of anti-vaping measures being proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO is organising COP10 of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) from 20 to 25 November 2023 in Panama City. SOVAPE and AIDUCE say the measures will be pressed onto attending member states.

Peterborough Vape Trial Delayed

Peterborough Councillors have voted to put a positive trial on hold that would have seen vape kits given out to smokers as part of a one-year trial to improve smoking quit rates. Despite research being widely available demonstrating the benefits of free vape kit activity, and the Government pledging to deliver kits to one million smokers, the regional politicians say they need to see further evidence that proves a link between switching to vaping and quitting smoking.

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Shadow Report on the (NON)-Implementation of the Framework Convention

on Tobacco Control Article 1 (d) on Harm Reduction Strategies

Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (PDF)

Article 21 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) requires that each Party must submit to the Conference of the Parties (COP), periodic reports on its implementation of the Convention. As agreed during its fourth session in November 2010, Parties will report at intervals of two years and not later than six months before each regular session of the COP. Based on these reports (‘reporting instrument’) submitted by the Parties, the Convention Secretariat then prepares biennial global progress reports on the implementation of the Convention. The “2021 Global Progress Report on the Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” is the ninth in the series of reports prepared since the entry into force of the WHO FCTC on 27 February 2005.1

Tobacco-free Bangladesh: Can science offer a solution?

Ziaul Huq, Dhakah Tribune

In Bangladesh, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are on the rise, accounting for a significant portion of mortality and disease burden. These include heart attacks, strokes, chronic respiratory diseases, cancers, and diabetes.

Moreover, the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes affects a substantial portion of the population, while cancer cases are alarmingly high.

I’m proud we made sure vaping was available in UK, says behavioural insights boss David Halpern

Tim Gibson, Civil Service World

Behavioural insights expert Professor David Halpern has told CSW one of his proudest achievements is turning around the government’s policy on vaping, to ensure it was available in the UK.

In a wide-ranging interview due to be published in the autumn, Halpern said e-cigarettes had saved an estimated “one million years of life” in the UK.

He said the UK had been “leading the charge” in Europe to get vaping banned. But he and former special adviser Rohan Silva took an e-cigarette to a meeting with then-cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood, as part of a campaign to reverse the government’s policy on the issue.

Hungary Proposes Draft Decree to Legalise Nicotine Pouches

Joseph Hart, The Daily Pouch

Hungary has informed the European Commission of its plans to regulate nicotine pouches. The EU state wants to amend Decree 39/2013 with a new draft tabled on the 8th of August. Let’s take a look at their proposal and see what it means for pouchers in the country.

Details of the new draft Decree

The new decree provides a pathway for the legal sale of nicotine pouches across Hungary. Here are the main points covered in the document.

How Utah can reduce smoking-related deaths

Guy Bentley, Reason Foundation

Revising its nicotine vaping restrictions would allow Utah’s Department of Health and Human Services to correct a mistake and reduce the number of smoking deaths.

In Sept. 2021, Utah banned the sale of e-cigarettes with a nicotine concentration higher than 3%, mostly in response to the rise in youth vaping. Most of the vaping market consists of e-cigarettes that have nicotine in the 4% to 6% range. Now, Utah’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is considering changes as part of a settlement resulting from a legal challenge by the Utah Vapor Business Association.

Bloomberg’s Global Crusade Against Safer Nicotine Alternatives

Is Impacting LMIXS Significantly

SMEStreet

A total of INR 55,449 crore in foreign funding has been received by Indian NGOs in the past three years. While many NGO are important to support the government’s efforts towards public good, it is not a hidden fact that many work with a larger political agenda. These NGOs are guided by both domestic and international forces, which include the donor agencies and their think-tanks to push for a policy agenda in LMICs that may not be suitable for the masses.

For instance, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has been running multi-million-dollar campaigns to try to shape the lives of ordinary consumers.

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