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Vapers Digest 23rd September

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Malaysia’s Alarming Vape Ban ~ NNA Responds to ASH Implication ~ When ‘vape-free’ should mean ‘smoke-free’: third-hand e-cigarette residues and the developing lung ~ Youth vaping has collapsed, but lawmakers want $500 million to fight it anyway ~ FactFind: Are vapes ‘nearly worse’ than cigarettes? ~ Media Watch: Follow The Money’s Big Tobacco “Expose” is Paranoid, Naive, and Anti-Industry ~ Alex Wodak: ‘The safer nicotine option should be the easier option’ ~ While Europe Remains Divided About Risk-Based Nicotine Regulation, New Development Gives Hope ~ Bloomberg Tobacco Grants Face Scrutiny as New GSTHR Report Highlights Global Shift to Safer Nicotine ~ European Commission approves Poland’s disposable nicotine vape ban ~ We Vape questions vape display plans over ‘incomplete evidence’ ~ Special Report | Can Nicotine Be Replaced? 6-MN Is Already on the Market While Key Human Evidence Is Still Missing ~ What Does Real-World Use Tell Us About Blu?

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Malaysia’s Alarming Vape Ban

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has sounded the alarm regarding Malaysia’s ban on vape products. The consumer organisation is warning that the “accidental” nicotine vape ban is no longer just a legal technicality; it is now a fast-moving legal and financial crisis and the Ministry of Health has days, not months, to fix it.

NNA Responds to ASH Implication

Increasingly disappointed by the attitude of politicians toward tobacco harm reduction in the United Kingdom, the New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) started a Save Vaping campaign. Wrongly, anti-tobacco charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has implied that the NNA – the UK’s leading independent charity operating to promote evidence-based policy and standing up for nicotine consumers – is working in cahoots with the vape industry to promote an agenda.

When ‘vape-free’ should mean ‘smoke-free’: third-hand e-cigarette residues and the developing lung

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#1 Roberto A. Sussman comment accepted September 2026

Description.

The author of this published Comment [1] presents a brief review of “third hand e-cigarette aerosol” (“THEA”) described as residues from exhaled vaping aerosol (EVA, the “second hand” emission) that deposit onto indoor surfaces and “can be re-emitted, ingested, or absorbed through the skin”.

Youth vaping has collapsed, but lawmakers want $500 million to fight it anyway

Guy Bentley, Reason Foundation

A recent joint press release from the offices of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) trumpeted a bill that would provide $500 million in funding for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initiative targeting an “alarming rise” in youth vaping. However, both the press release and the proposed initiative get the entire direction of youth e-cigarette consumption backward. Youth vaping is declining, not rising.

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Media Watch: Follow The Money’s Big Tobacco “Expose” is Paranoid, Naive, and Anti-Industry

The Daily Pouch

Follow The Money is a Dutch investigative journalism outlet founded in 2010. It’s posted some interesting work over the years, including an expose of shady business practices that led to the resignation of the chairman of the Dutch VVD party, and last year’s excellent investigation into the financial networks supporting Russia’s sanctions-evasion oil trade.

Alex Wodak: ‘The safer nicotine option should be the easier option’

Snusforumet

One of the moments that shaped Alex Wodak’s career came in 1971, during his first year as a doctor.

A hospital where he worked was being rebuilt. The plans had been drawn up before seatbelt legislation took effect, but by the time construction was underway, road-crash injuries had fallen sharply.

Beds once expected to be occupied by accident victims could instead be used for cancer, heart disease and other conditions.

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While Europe Remains Divided About Risk-Based Nicotine Regulation, New Development Gives Hope

Europe’s nicotine debate is entering a potentially decisive phase, with competing approaches emerging over flavours, vaping, nicotine pouches and taxation. While some policymakers are beginning to acknowledge that nicotine products carry different levels of risk, others continue to favour prohibition or increasingly uniform restrictions. The divide is particularly visible in Sweden, Germany and Brussels.

Bloomberg Tobacco Grants Face Scrutiny as New GSTHR Report Highlights Global Shift to Safer Nicotine

A new round of Bloomberg-funded tobacco-control grants has reignited debate over how international donors influence nicotine policy in lower- and middle-income countries, just as new evidence suggests millions of consumers are moving away from combustible cigarettes towards smoke-free alternatives.

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