Vapers Digest 24th November
Monday’s News at a glance:
Pouch Considerations – EU Members Spike COP Plot – Emily Banks at COP11: A Masterclass in Selective Science and Moral Panic – COP11, Media Spin, and the Manufactured Narrative of “Industry Interference” – COP11 Day 4: First Cracks in the ideological wall – COP11: EU Commission and Denmark Continue Push of Backdoor Vape Ban – COP11: Increased concerns over EU approval of smoke-free nicotine ban – ”100,000 jobs at risk” – Outrage over Sweden’s COP11 cop-out on harm reduction to ‘health fascists’ – The WHO’s Anti-Vaping Blind Spot Is Undermining Its Own Tobacco Goals – The WHO is a billion dollars in the red – The Conference That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen – Revealed: Secret push for total nicotine prohibition at COP11 – Defying member states and risking over one million EU jobs – Bureaucrats and busybodies: COP11’s “experts” SA can do without – WHO Woes & Pre-Budget Jitters – Evidence summary: The health effects of nicotine – Can vaping help wean people off cigarettes? Anti-smoking advocates are sharply split – Smoke-Free Youth, Stalled Adults: From 30 Years of Progress to the Next Frontier in Tobacco Policy – US FDA panel to weigh bid to market nicotine pouches as lower-risk than cigarettes – Communications ConCOPtions – Belgium plans sweeping vape flavour ban amid policy gridlock – Youth vape risk measures may be overstated, suggests new study – Virginia Defends Ban on Unauthorized Flavored E-Cigarettes in Federal Court – Africa’s tobacco crisis demands smoke-free solutions – Crackdown on fake vapes to include digital QR tags – COP Live Day Five #COP11 – COP Live Day Six #COP11 – GOOD COP 2.0 | Day 5 of 5 | RegWatch (LIVE) – TPA’s Good COP 2.0 (Day 5) – WHAT’S THE TRUTH ABOUT HARM REDUCTION IN NIGERIA? – GFN.TV Interviews | TOBACCO SCORECARD | Real Progress Tobacco Control Fails to Admit
Two From Dave Cross, Planet of The Vapes
Pouch Considerations
David Phillips from Alternix:
Many smokers are considering the newer forms of safer nicotine products and even vapers are considering nicotine pouches for when they are in situations where they can’t vape. David Phillips from Alternix has shared five things to consider when switching from cigarettes to nicotine pouches.
EU Members Spike COP Plot
The Conference That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen
Claudio Teixeira, Disobedient Margins
In Geneva, where silence skirts the status of an official language and the corridors of multilateral forums operate under a code of opacity, something broke protocol this European autumn.
Less than two kilometers apart, but separated by worldviews that neither speak to nor tolerate each other, two gatherings disputed the same symbolic ground: the map of global health and the right to narrate it.
Revealed: Secret push for total nicotine prohibition at COP11 – Defying member states and risking over one million EU jobs
A leaked EU negotiation document from the COP11 WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) meeting in Geneva has exposed a covert attempt by the European Commission (DG SANTE) and the Danish EU Council Presidency to force through a sweeping, unprecedented prohibition on all novel nicotine products.
Bureaucrats and busybodies: COP11’s “experts” SA can do without
Martin van Staden, Daily Friend
This week the richest country on Earth is hosting the biennial banquet-ball of bankers, bureaucrats, and busybodies.
The Eleventh Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is unfolding in Geneva, with the usual band of self-styled public health experts again gathering to dictate public policy for billions worldwide.
It is a party we as ordinary people were not invited to – and never will be.
WHO Woes & Pre-Budget Jitters
Christopher Snowdon, Institute of Economic Affairs
Last week saw the World Health Organisation hold its biennial anti-nicotine conference in Geneva. With the unwieldy title of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Conference of the Parties, it used to be an anti-tobacco meeting but the WHO is now explicitly at war with what it calls the “nicotine industry”. There is no economic or moral justification for using state coercion to pursue a “nicotine-free world”, and there are strong health arguments for allowing low-risk nicotine products to displace cigarettes. What we are seeing is turbo-charged mission creep and a classic example of Not Invented Here Syndrome.
Evidence summary: The health effects of nicotine
Action on Smoking and Health (UK)
This briefing summarises the current evidence on the health effects of nicotine and outlines the key implications for policymaking. It has been produced by ASH with input from Prof Ann McNeill, King’s College London; Prof Jamie Brown and Prof Lion Shahab, University College London; Prof Nick Hopkinson and Prof Alan Boobis, Imperial College London; Prof Sanjay Agrawal, Chair, Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group; Prof Jacob George, University of Dundee; Dr Jasmine Khouja, University of Bath; and Dr Andy McEwen, Chief Executive, National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training.
Can vaping help wean people off cigarettes? Anti-smoking advocates are sharply split
Smoke-Free Youth, Stalled Adults: From 30 Years of Progress to the Next Frontier in Tobacco Policy
Jeffrey S. Smith, RStreet
Over the past 30 years, cigarette smoking among high school–aged youth in the United States has fallen to historic lows. In the early 1990s, more than one in four high school students smoked, and cigarettes were still widely marketed and socially accepted. Since then, policy interventions, public health campaigns, and regulatory action have driven shifts in social norms and a dramatic reversal of once-common behavior.
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