Vapers Digest 27th October
Monday’s News at a glance:
The SGF Delivers Pouch Advice – EU Vape Tax Hike Attacked – Expert statements on FCTC and tobacco harm reduction (2025) – UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill: why so many are wrong to support it – The Crossroads of Health: Tobacco Harm Reduction and the FCTC COP11 – A Game-Changer for Bangladesh: Prioritizing Health, Embracing Innovation! – Trump Can Still Fulfill Campaign Promise to “Save Vaping” – Opinion: B.C.’s voodoo vaping legislation – Behind Closed Doors: The Influence of Major Health Advocacy Groups – Why a tax-hike on e-cigarettes is prompting vapers to bulk buy – GOVERNMENT TO BACK VAPING AT COP 11 – Fairness for all businesses? Why Fresno’s smoke shop ordinance misses the mark – Denver’s Flavor Ban a Poor Solution Looking for a Problem – Six things you need to know about the tobacco, vape and next gen category – Exclusive / Has Taiwan Pride Turned into an International Vaping Parade? WHO: 119 Countries Tax and Regulate E-Cigarettes – CAPHRA announces “Asia Day” event to take place at The Good Cop 2.0 Conference Highlighting Harm Reduction in Asia Pacific
Two From Dave Cross, Planet of The Vapes
More than a year ago, while campaigning, President Donald Trump claimed to have saved “flavored vaping” and promised voters he would do so again. Nearly ten months into his current administration, that promise remains unfulfilled – if not outright broken – for the more than 20 million American adults who rely on flavored vapor products to reduce or quit smoking combustible cigarettes.
It’s a shame. Rather than protecting adult choice, the Trump administration has launched a crusade against the very products adults want – spending taxpayer dollars to eliminate consumer options, shutter small businesses, and prop up dwindling cigarette sales. That’s the opposite of making America healthy again.
Opinion: B.C.’s voodoo vaping legislation
Ian Irvine, Financial Post
The public health vanguard in British Columbia is again showing the world how not to legislate on vaping. Attorney General Niki Sharma has just introduced Bill 24, which will enable her government to recover health damages attributable to vaping by both fining and suing vendors.
Vaping is not a public health problem. It is the solution to a public health problem, a serious one, the damage done by tobacco. This dreadful bill stigmatizes and frustrates the solution. Its main effect will be to drive more of the industry underground.
Behind Closed Doors: The Influence of Major Health Advocacy Groups
Kevin Crowley, Vaping Links
Here, you will see exactly how advocacy groups in Montana worked to
shapenarrate, and manipulate Gallatin City-County Health Department’s public health policy, particularly through the amendment of Montana’s Clean Indoor Air Laws (CIAA) to regulate e-cigarettes in 2018.With groups like Tobacco Free Kids, Pave, and Truth Initiative
poweringhaving their way with regulation with influence, this focuses on the strategic use of narratives and visuals by American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACSCAN) to influence both public perception and policy decisions.
Why a tax-hike on e-cigarettes is prompting vapers to bulk buy
Mark Murphy, Dr Garrett McGovern, RTE
Editor Note: Podcast
GOVERNMENT TO BACK VAPING AT COP 11
Maddison King, Daily Pouch
Department of Health to promote harm reduction at Geneva conference
“Smokers must be told the truth about safety of vapes,” says We Vape
The UK government has pledged to back vaping in front of a hostile audience at the World Health Organization’s COP 11 next month.
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