Vapers Digest 23rd January
Monday’s News at a glance:
Advocates Highlight Retractions – The Advocates Voice – CAPHRAorg – Old Farts Vaping – Criminalising nicotine vaping in Australia could cause ‘further harm’ – Tempe Delays Action on Proposed Flavored Nicotine Ban – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest
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.
The Advocates Voice
CAPHRA
The Advocates Voice is back for 2023. With the CoP 10 happening this year, it is vitally important we get ourselves organised and collaborate to fight the tide of lies. A live discussion follows. Join Us on 5 February 2023
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!
“Increased ENDS sales were significantly associated with otherwise unexpected declines in cigarette sales, showing a possible population-level impact of ENDS on reducing smoking”https://t.co/SpWxtutmw3
— European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (@europethra) January 23, 2023
Our Chair, @grannylouisa, was interviewed by @vapekitcouk and described her “incredible journey” with harm reduction. https://t.co/MeVOKUiqtP
— NNAlliance (@NNAlliance) January 20, 2023
Criminalising nicotine vaping in Australia
Could cause ‘further harm’, drug experts warn – Tory Shepherd
The criminalisation of nicotine vaping risks “unintended consequences” including fuelling the black market, causing worse health outcomes and even potentially putting people in prison when we should be trying to keep them out, the Australian Alcohol and other Drugs Council (AADC) says.
It is an offence in all states and territories to supply a nicotine vape to someone without a prescription, and to either possess or use one without a prescription.
Despite the restrictions, nearly one million Australians now regularly vape, double the number in 2019-2020, according to the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA). An estimated 11% of 16-to-24-year-olds are regularly vaping, PHAA said.
Tempe Delays Action…
On Proposed Flavored Nicotine Ban
Tempe is dawdling over a decision about a ban on flavored tobacco products in the city.
Tempe is on a months-long campaign to become the first Arizona city to criminalize flavored nicotine products. Yet the effort has stalled again after members of the public and news reports highlighted problems with the ordinance in December.
At a Tempe City Council meeting on December 8, council members urged dozens of people who intended to speak out against the ban to defer with the promise of a public hearing on January 12. Yet that hearing didn’t make it on the agenda for the session last week.
On this Day…2022
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
Study: Snus use has no impact…
On cardiovascular disease risk – Snusforumet
A new study from the United States reveals that the risk of cardiovascular disease among snus users is no higher compared to people who have never used tobacco.
Habitual smokers run an increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease compared to non-smokers.
But using smokeless tobacco products like snus doesn’t result in any increased risk, according to a new study led by researchers at UCLA.
Signs of Anxiety in the Anti-Vaping Camp
Alex Norcia
On January 14, a collection of public health nonprofits and tobacco control groups—including the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK), the American Heart Association and Truth Initiative—sent a letter to Mitch Zeller, the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). The groups—many of which are funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg and all of which want to clamp down on vaping—urged the agency to “expedite” its decisions on products that remain on the market without authorization. It had been more than four months, they noted with palpable agitation, since CTP had blown past court-ordered deadline to review vapor companies’ premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs)—submissions, the FDA has stressed, that would be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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