Vapers Digest 26th June
Friday’s News at a glance:
The Michael Russel Oration ~ Parliament Matters ~ The Budget Says Tobacco Control Is On Track. Reality Suggests Otherwise. ~ The Predictable Consequence of Prohibition: Australia Created the Market It Now Warns You About ~ The Question Australia Refuses to Ask: Why Is New Zealand Succeeding? ~ Another Sham E-Cigarette Study is Retracted; Can We Trust Any of this Literature? ~ The Population Is Shifting to a Less Harmful Form of Nicotine ~ The Cleveland Clinic’s very bad advice ~ Aotearoa New Zealand: Battleground of Tobacco Harm Reduction Perceptions ~ New UK vape tax expected to raise £565m as border rules tighten ~ Italy fines Philip Morris €7m as smoke-free ruling clashes with FDA evidence on safer nicotine ~ US adults are moving from smoking to vaping, US study finds ~ Tobacco and Vapes Act: Regulating the Graveyard ~ Historic Youth Tobacco Declines Highlight the Need for Regulatory Reform ~ Tiny Pacific Nation Applies for Global Nicotine Ban. Who’s Behind It? ~ Media Statement: Committee on Health Adopts the Motion of Desirability of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill ~ Where’s the Outrage? | Lack of Urgency Mires U.S. Nicotine Industry | RegWatch
Two From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
Lindsey Stroud, Tobacco Harm Reduction 101
Long-awaited details from the 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) have finally been published, and the findings are significant: youth tobacco use has fallen to historic lows, while youth e-cigarette use has reached its lowest level in more than a decade.
Although the NYTS is administered by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the raw 2025 data were quietly released in March by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The full research report, published on June 23 in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, marks a notable departure from the CDC’s longstanding practice of publishing NYTS findings through its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Regardless of the delay, the results are encouraging.
Tiny Pacific Nation Applies for Global Nicotine Ban. Who’s Behind It?
Kiran Sidhu, Filter
One of the smallest countries in the world has set its sights on radically restricting—effectively banning—the global community’s access to nicotine.
On June 10, the Republic of Palau, an island nation in the Western Pacific with a population of 18,000, formally applied for a World Health Organization review of nicotine, under Article 2 of the 1971 UN Convention on Psychotropic Substances. This would have the potential to place nicotine under similar international drug restrictions to GHB, say, or methamphetamine—making the sale of non-medical nicotine products illegal.
Media Statement: Committee on Health Adopts the Motion of Desirability of the Tobacco Products
and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill
Parliament of the Republic of South Africa
The Portfolio Committee on Health adopted a motion of desirability of the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill in its meeting today. Of the 11 members of the committee, 10 voted in favour of desirability and only one voted against.
The committee Chairperson, Ms Faith Muthambi, told the committee that the extent of the public participation on this Bill showed democracy in action, as the committee took the Bill to 27 municipalities, across all nine provinces. Nearly 7 900 South Africans attended public hearings, and 1 113 rose to make oral submissions.
Where’s the Outrage? | Lack of Urgency Mires U.S. Nicotine Industry | RegWatch
Brent Stafford, Regulator Watch
On this day…2015!
