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Vapers Digest 24th December

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Doncaster Collecting Vapes at the Kerb ~ EU Plan Attacked ~ In Minnesota, We Refuse to Apply Harm Reduction to Tobacco Use ~ A Rare Case of Open Debate on Tobacco Harm Reduction ~ Switching from cigarettes to vapes improved heart and lung measures in COPD trial ~ FDA Authorizes First Nicotine Pouches Under Fast-Track Program ~

February 10, 2026: Roundtable on Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) Submissions for Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) Products ~ Possible Glas MGO Emerges as Juul Files ITC Suit ~ Ban on safer nicotine product fuels smoking and crime, PDNW and Tholos Foundation tell Chief Adviser ~ Global Forum on Nicotine 2025 Closing remarks by David Sweanor

Two from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

Doncaster Collecting Vapes at the Kerb

Approximately many years after Planet of the Vapes said it was a good idea, Doncaster has launched a kerbside collection for vapes and household batteries. Residents in the city can now recycle their vapes, which contain lithium-ion cells, and household batteries through their kerbside bin collections “in a move intended to reduce fires and make recycling easier for residents”.

EU Plan Attacked

The European Commission’s newly published Safe Hearts Plan promises to tackle Europe’s cardiovascular burden. Instead of using harm reduction as a prevention and smoking cessation aid, it singles out safer nicotine products as part of the problem rather than the solution. This omission guarantees failure, says the World Vapers’ Alliance.

Two from Filter

In Minnesota, We Refuse to Apply Harm Reduction to Tobacco Use

Kim “Skip” Murray

Minnesota has a reputation as a national leader in both tobacco control and harm reduction. But as 2026 approaches, and after decades of watching policies unfold, I find myself asking where exactly Minnesota’s government is leading us in the nicotine space.

I love living here, as my family has done since the 1800s. My memories are full of lakes and forests, and the stick-to-your-ribs, warm-your-soul hotdishes that appear at every community potluck.

A Rare Case of Open Debate on Tobacco Harm Reduction

Kiran Sidhu

“If safer alternatives can save lives, what responsibility do we have to science, to fairness and to the people we serve?”

Suely Castro put that question to an audience at the United Kingdom’s Parliament in London. Hosted by the nonprofit she founded, Quit Like Sweden, the December 4 event examined the implications of Sweden’s approach to tobacco harm reduction: making safer nicotine products “acceptable, affordable and accessible.”

Swedes have ditched cigarettes in favor of oral snus and nicotine pouches on a large scale, and by 2025, this had brought Sweden’s smoking rate down to just 5.31 percent—the lowest in the world.

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Switching from cigarettes to vapes improved heart and lung measures in COPD trial

Ali Anderson, Clearing The Air

Two weeks of vaping instead of smoking did not make any heart or lung test results worse in people with COPD.

Diastolic blood pressure (the “bottom number”) was lower after the vaping phase than after the smoking phase.

In people who really stuck to vaping and stopped cigarettes, a key measure of airway resistance in the lungs improved.

Overall, the results suggest vapes could be a less harmful option than cigarettes for people with COPD who can’t or don’t want to stop nicotine completely.

A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…

Mr Butler, your pants are on fire

Colin Mendelsohn

SORRY TO BE BLUNT MR BUTLER, but your pants are on fire. The talking points you keep repeating about youth vaping are simply not evidence-based and are patently wrong.

This blog challenges seven of your most often repeated falsehoods. Previous fact checks on your past porkies are here, here and here.

Rapid decline in youth smoking

Colin Mendelsohn

The Australian Secondary Students’ Alcohol and Drug Survey (ASSAD) released yesterday found that only 2.1% of 12-17-year-olds smoked in the past week in 2022-23, compared to 4.9% in the previous survey in 2017.

Youth smoking has declined by about 10% per year since the 2017 survey after vaping became popular. In comparison, the decline in smoking was 3.5% per year from 1996 to 2017.

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