Vapers Digest 27th June
Friday’s News at a glance:
Mexican Hard Line Costs Lives – Tourist Fined in Bangkok – Africa is at a Crossroads – Argentina Must End Vaping Ban – Nicotine Consumer Advocates Share Strategies, Support Amid Hostility – Let’s imagine the nicotine and tobacco market 10 years from now, in 2035 – Changing patterns of nicotine product use and nicotine dependence among United States high-school students: The National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2014–2023 – New National Survey Shows that Youth Nicotine Product Use Has Dropped to an All-Time Low – Nicotine – Events – Misleading vape research threatens public health policy, expert review warns – Australia’s vape crackdown backfires as black market outpaces legal sales 1,700 to one – The Global Echo Chamber: How the WHO’s Tobacco Control Conference Became a Parade of Failure – Lahore High Court orders to de-seal vape shops across Punjab – The EU Case for Innovative Nicotine Products [Briefing Paper] – Banning What Works: Smokers Across Europe Are Being Left Behind
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Mexican Hard Line Costs Lives
A major new report released recently by the harm reduction experts at Smoke Free Sweden warns that Mexico’s hardline approach to safer nicotine products is backfiring, fueling a smoking crisis that is killing 65,000 Mexicans every year. The groundbreaking paper shows that while Sweden has virtually wiped-out smoking through harm reduction policies, Mexico’s prohibitionist approach has seen smoking rates climb to dangerous new heights.
Tourist Fined in Bangkok
A tourist has taken to Reddit to warn vapers that the crackdown on ecigs continues in Thailand, and he was caught and fined for vaping in Bangkok. Relived of around £113, he was threatened with a night in jail. Latest information says that the act of vaping remains illegal in the country and potential visitors need to be aware and possibly use alternative safer (less visible) nicotine products.
Africa is at a Crossroads
In South Africa, on World Vape Day, the Africa Harm Reduction Alliance (AHRA) called upon governments, public health authorities and civil society across the African continent to confront the tobacco epidemic with compassion, pragmatism and science.
Argentina Must End Vaping Ban
At the end of May, the World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA) visited Buenos Aires with the aim of promoting a modern and evidence-based regulation of vaping in Argentina. The end users’ organisation denounced the failure of Argentina’s vape ban and called on the government to replace it with an effective tobacco harm reduction strategy.
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