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Vapers Digest 25th July

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Friday’s News at a glance:

Raids Raids Raids – Uzbekistan Causing Unnecessary Deaths – The EU’s War on Harm Reduction – A Public Health Calamity – European Commission Wants High Taxes on Low-Risk Nicotine – Post # 7. In vitro and in vivo systems exposed to aerosol generated by high powered vape devices – Australia has become the global village idiot on quitting smoking – Vapes, violence and the law of diminishing returns: rethinking Australia’s nicotine strategy – New Category: Healthcare – Vape rule requiring removeable batteries being lifted – Smokeless nicotine is at the heart of Sweden’s smoking decline, says leading expert – It’s Time to Clear the Air on Juul – How the Need for Vapes Struck Me—and Why They’re Still Vilified – Why Dr. Mark Tyndall Is Taking a Stand for Tobacco Harm Reduction

Two From Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

Raids Raids Raids

Trading Standards departments across England and Wales continue to be keen to show that they are taking action on retailers who are breaking the law. From Powys to Walsall and Northampton, more raids have unearthed illegal vape products and shop owners have suffered the consequences.

Speaking about the illegal vapes seized in multi-agency operation, Powys County Council says that three convenience stores across the county were raided as part of Operation CeCe. The operation, which targeted convenience stores in Brecon, Llanymynech, Newtown and Welshpool, took place in early July.

Uzbekistan Causing Unnecessary Deaths

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Australia has become the global village idiot on quitting smoking

Fiona Patten, The Sidney Morning Herald

When it comes to reducing the harms from smoking, Australia finds itself cast as the global village idiot – clinging to policies that perpetuate harm, empower criminals, and squander opportunities to save lives. While we once stood as pioneers in public health and particularly harm reduction, we are now the cautio

Vapes, violence and the law of diminishing returns: rethinking Australia’s nicotine strategy

John Coyne, Henry Campbell, The Strategist — The Australian Strategic Policy Institute Blog

There’s a new war on Australian streets, and it’s not just about tobacco or vapes; it’s about control, cash and crime. While Australia once led the world in cutting smoking rates, the rise of illicit vapes and tobacco-related violence shows that what worked yesterday may now be making things worse.

Current tobacco and vape controls have created a highly profitable illicit market in which organised crime violently competes for market share. If we are serious about reducing harm and keeping communities safe, it’s time to rethink our approach. Law enforcement alone cannot solve a public health problem we’ve evolved into a major criminal threat.

New Category: Healthcare

Skip Murray, Skip’s Corner – Let’s Talk!

A new section, Healthcare News & Views, will appear in newsletters from time to time. If you come across anything interesting, please share it with me for consideration for inclusion in a future newsletter.

I am crunched for time this week. In the middle of several projects, so instead of a commentary, I’ll start this newsletter with the new section.

I’ll kick it off with an interesting development in Sweden that pertains to funding for NGOs that help people stop smoking (I consider quit smoking services a part of “healthcare”).

Smokeless nicotine is at the heart of Sweden’s smoking decline, says leading expert

Tim Hong, Clearing The Air

Smokeless nicotine products – not abstinence – are driving Sweden’s dramatic drop in smoking, according to a leading clinical psychologist.

“Smokeless nicotine is at the heart of Sweden’s smoking decline,” said Karl Fagerström, a prominent researcher who spent his career developing smoking cessation therapies.

Fagerström is best known for founding Niconovum in 2000, the company that created the world’s first tobacco-free nicotine pouches. It uses pharmaceutical grade nicotine, the same kind found in patches and gum. The rationale was to create a better way to stop smoking.

It’s Time to Clear the Air on Juul

Joe Nocera, The Free Press

Last week, after a five-year delay, the Food and Drug Administration finally authorized the marketing of Juul’s e-cigarettes. To my great surprise, there was very little outcry.

Oh sure, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which has waged war against Juul for nearly a decade, called the authorization “a big step backward for preventing youth e-cigarette use,” and the American Lung Association said it was “deeply troubled” by the decision. But only one legislator of note, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, a Democrat, took the opportunity to criticize the decision, while the American Cancer Society, another Juul hater, didn’t even bother to put out a press release.

Two From Filter Magazine

How the Need for Vapes Struck Me—and Why They’re Still Vilified

Mark Tyndall

As a community-based researcher, I always tried to involve community members in the planning, conduct and presentation of the research. Over the years I learned to embrace the “nothing about us without us” philosophy. I know from my researching drug use and harm reduction that the success of the studies was greatly enhanced by the community connections and relationships. After all, they were the people who were using the drugs and would be in the best position to know what would work and what interventions were just wishful thinking.

When I arrived in Ottawa in 2010, my research focus was people who used illegal drugs and how to reduce the health and social harms. As a first step I wanted to establish a community advisory group in Ottawa to identify priority areas of research and advocacy. I initially contacted Sean LeBlanc, who was a community leader and organizer. Sean had just launched an organization called DUAL (Drug Users Advocacy League) that advocated for people who use drugs in Ottawa. Sean agreed to help me create a community advisory group that would assist in designing and overseeing the work.

Why Dr. Mark Tyndall Is Taking a Stand for Tobacco Harm Reduction

Helen Redmond

The tobacco harm reduction movement has long needed doctors to unapologetically make the case that it’s a matter of life and death to get safer nicotine products to the most vulnerable groups of people who smoke. Mark Tyndall is the ideal doctor. He has the bonafides and he brings the receipts.

For decades, Tyndall’s medical practice with people who have HIV and/or use drugs has been based on the philosophy of harm reduction, of meeting people where they’re at. In Canada, he was on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and ‘90s. More recently, he worked with people who use drugs in Vancouver’s Downtown EastSide, amid the devastating opioid-involved overdose crisis.

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

Vape clouds produced indoors by e-cigarettes break down within SECONDS

Cheyenne Macdonald, Daily Mail

Researchers measured particle concentrations indoors after participants exhale

They found particles evaporated within seconds after exhalation from vaping

For cigarettes, it took 30-45 minutes for air quality to return to normal levels

Plain packaging a graphic study in failure

Sarah Ray, The Spectator Australia

Twelve years since they were introduced and nearly six years since branding and logos were removed from cigarette packets, we now find out that Australians are increasingly desensitised to those gnarly graphic health warnings on the packets.

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