Vapers Digest 24th May
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Why vapes and e-cigarettes are bad for the planet ~ Ban won’t stop vapes flooding in: Border Force chief ~ New ASH Survey Reveals Positives ~ Don’t Ease Up on Enforcement ~ Parliament ~ Nicotine pouches: A reduced risk complement to smoking? ~ Bill To Ban Flavored Tobacco, E-liquid Products In Vermont Dies ~ Vaping: How do you quit e-cigarettes?
Why vapes and e-cigarettes are bad for the planet
Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill
Millions of people in the United States now use electronic cigarettes or vapes, fueling growing concerns for users’ health and about the threat the practice poses to the environment.
The electronic smoking devices are adding to plastic waste, environmental experts warn, while their batteries pose a risk of sparking fires, potentially worsening air quality.
Natassia Chrysanthos, The Sydney Morning Herald
The head of the Australian Border Force says the government’s plan to abolish retail vape sales is a “work in progress” with no funding attached to the crackdown in this month’s federal budget.
Commissioner Michael Outram warned that banning vapes at the border won’t be enough to stamp out a rampant black market, as his organisation was already only managing to detect a quarter of illicit drugs making their way into Australia.
Simon Chapman in the mud.
Again. https://t.co/JYq2NbRMb6— Jukka Kelovuori (@jkelovuori) May 24, 2023
Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
New ASH Survey Reveals Positives
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has published headline results for its 2023 vaping surveys [1] to inform responses to the government consultation on how to reduce youth vaping which closes on 6th June. [2] Surveys carried out by YouGov for ASH this Spring find that the proportion of children who have experimented with vaping has grown significantly since last year (up from 7.7% to 11.6%). In contrast there is no significant change since last year in the proportion of children currently smoking (4.8% in 2022 and 3.6% in 2023) or currently vaping (6.9% in 2022 and 7.6% in 2023). [3]
Don’t Ease Up on Enforcement
New research from UK charity Action on Smoking and Health shows there’s been ‘no significant change’ in the proportion of 11-to-17-year-olds ‘currently vaping’ over the past year. Though this is welcome news for tobacco harm reduction advocates and the vape industry, one regulatory expert says it cannot afford to rest on its laurels when it comes to addressing youth vaping.
Parliament
Dr Caroline Johnson wants the Prime Minister to meet with her and support her push to ban disposable vapes. Labour’s Rachael Maskell wants the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to push for higher taxes on vape products, a vape ban in public places and cars, and introducing plain packaging.
Nicotine pouches: A reduced risk complement to smoking?
Business Mirror
The popularity of nicotine pouches is rising in some European countries and the United States, with experts predicting considerable market growth for this product by 2028.
In the Philippines, adult smokers continue to seek alternative ways to smoke, leading to an increased demand for Reduced Risk Products such as e-cigarettes or vapes. With the market’s interest in products that lessen the risks associated with smoking combustible tobacco, is there potential for nicotine pouches to be a reduced risk alternative or complement for Filipino adult smokers?
Bill To Ban Flavored Tobacco, E-liquid Products In Vermont Dies
Charlie Minato, Half Wheel
The Vermont General Assembly has adjourned for the year, meaning that a bill that would have banned the sale of flavored tobacco products and flavored e-liquid products has died.
S.B. 18 would have banned the sale of tobacco products and e-liquids that have a characterizing flavor other than tobacco. Like bills recently introduced in other states, the bill contained a provision that said if a company claims that the product has “a distinguishable taste or aroma other than the taste or aroma of tobacco, ” it would be considered flavored.
Vaping: How do you quit e-cigarettes?
BBC News
Quitting ain’t easy. But vaping’s helped millions of people to ditch traditional cigarettes.
It’s widely considered less harmful than smoking tobacco – and the UK government endorses vapes as a quitting aid.
But what do you do when you want to take the next step and quit completely?
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