Vapers Digest 24th January
Friday’s News at a glance:
Tobacco and Vapes Bill: Clause 13 ~ WHO: Include Consumer Voices! ~ Does the plan to cap nicotine in cigarettes reveal cracks in US public health policy? ~ Skepticism Over FDA Bid to Mandate Very Low-Nicotine Cigarettes ~ Trump Orders Have Potential to Boost Nicotine Market ~ FDA Halts Plans to Ban Menthol Cigarettes, Flavored Cigars ~ Smoke Free Sweden condemns Poland’s ‘perverse’ vape tax hike ~ Tobacco Bans Hurt Consumers and Taxpayers Alike ~ Ditching, Depression, and Doing the Right Thing ~ Maria’s Opinion Piece for National Non-Smoking Week ~ Vapes prohibition in Mexico: the full story ~ Thailand’s Strict Vaping Ban: Understanding the Policy and Its Consequences ~ Should U.S. Billionaires Dictate Health Policy Overseas? ~ Sweden study: smoking dramatically DOWN since 1980s and snus use UP ~ Vapers face €2,000 fine on 38 Spanish beaches ~ Two thirds of Canadian smokers who switched to vapes use flavours set to be banned, new poll shows ~ UK Disposable Vape Ban: Details Announced, Including Penalties ~ The surprising number of adults who both smoke and vape ~ DR WILLIAM LOWENSTEIN: “FRANCE IS ADDICTED TO PROHIBITION.” ~ LOST TRUST | PART 1: Origin of Public Health’s ‘Campaign of Deception’ on Vaping ~ It’s Time To Embrace Harm Reduction With Dr Colin Mendelson ~ USA withdrawing from the WHO and it’s consequences on vaping and THR | Ep. 73 with Clive Bates
TWO from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
Tobacco and Vapes Bill: Clause 13
The next part of this effective foray into the warped mind of Dr Caroline Johnson, Planet of the Vapes looks at the debate on amendments to Clause 13 of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, where MPs considered ‘Displays of products or prices in England’. The debate took place in a public committee. It began well, very well, but then it went all Dr Caroline Johnson.
WHO: Include Consumer Voices!
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has announced that it has written to Health Ministries across the Asia Pacific region, pressing for the inclusion of consumer voices as countries finalise their positions for the upcoming 11th Conference of the Parties (COP11) of the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
Freddie Dawson, Ecig Intelligence
There appears to be something of a disconnect in US public health policy. In many ways that is not surprising, given the government is in the middle of a handover that will result in a massive shift in philosophical outlook on myriad issues.
Skepticism Over FDA Bid to Mandate Very Low-Nicotine Cigarettes
Kiran Sidhu, Filter
The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has issued a proposed rule that would cap nicotine levels in combustible tobacco products at a very low level. By making cigarettes “minimally or nonaddictive” in this way, the agency declared, “the United States would be the first country globally to take such a bold, life-saving action to prevent and reduce smoking-related disease and death.”
Trump Orders Have Potential to Boost Nicotine Market
Nicotine Insider
After promising to save vaping, the Trump administration has implemented at least three policies so far that could benefit the U.S. nicotine industry. However, the regulatory freeze order may have the most significant impact. Nicotine industry stakeholders celebrated the move and its departure from the previous administration’s policies.
Charlie Minato, Halfwheel
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has withdrawn its two proposals that would ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
Yesterday, Jan. 21, the agency formally withdrew proposal No. 0910-AI60, the action that would have banned the sales of menthol cigarettes.
It means the agency is no longer advancing the proposals, both of which were in their final stages, though the FDA could reverse course at any time.
Maria’s Opinion Piece for National Non-Smoking Week
Maria Papaioannoy, Rights 4 Vapers
It’s National Non-Smoking Week in Canada. I am proud to say that I have been smoke-free since 2010. However, there are still publicly funded organizations that continue to classify me as a smoker. This past week, I visited the nurse at the diabetes clinic in my community. Thankfully, my test results were excellent and I’m well on my way to being in remission from diabetes. Toward the end of my appointment, my nurse, Frances (who is wonderful), brought up the topic of smoking and asked when I planned to quit.
Vapes prohibition in Mexico: the full story
Roberto Sussman, Substack
Mexico is the only country in this world where the prohibition of vapes and all Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) is enshrined (since December 2024) as an article in the constitution. I provide in this Substack an account on how this extreme prohibition resulted from the specific context of a very centralized authoritarian government in Mexico with a synergic collaboration with Bloomberg Philanthropies acting through its funded local NGOs advised by Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids (CTFK).
Thailand’s Strict Vaping Ban: Understanding the Policy and Its Consequences
Asia Harm Reduction Alliance
Should U.S. Billionaires Dictate Health Policy Overseas?
Bill Wirtz, Newsmax
New York’s former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, known for his obsession with paternalistic policies such as banning Big Gulps, or even just the arrogant statement that sin taxes’ regressive effect on poor people is good because they lack the proper education, has continued being active in the world of public health through Bloomberg Philanthropies.
THREE from Ali Anderson, Clearing The Air
Sweden study: smoking dramatically DOWN since 1980s and snus use UP
Smoking rates in Sweden have dropped dramatically since the 1980s while snus use has risen steeply, a new study has found. The paper, published in science journal BMJ Open, reported a “substantial decline” in cigarette smoking from 1986 to 2022 of 26.3 per cent in men and 20.6 per cent in women. This led to an average of just one in 20.4 men and one in 10.3 women smoking by 2022.
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
Jeffrey A. Singer, Cato Institute
What is driving politicians’ irrational fear of nicotine? Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a crackdown on a nicotine pouch sold under the brand name Zyn. He claims the nicotine pouches are a danger to teens who use them as an alternative to e‑cigarettes.
UK Makes Cytisine Available as Prescription Smoking-Cessation Drug
Kiran Sidhu, Filter Magazine
For people in the United Kingdom who wish to quit smoking, a new oral pharmaceutical option, cytisine, became available on prescription through the National Health Service (NHS), as of January 22.
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