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Vapers Digest 29th December

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

A Year of Change for Tobacco Harm Reduction ~ Tobacco Excise Directive Revision: What is it and how could it affect users of safer nicotine products ~ Stop Smoking | Healthy Truth About Vaping ~ Snusforumet’s most-read articles of 2021 ~ 2021 – NNA End of Year Review ~ Without Us \\ SPOTLIGHT Series ~ House Bill Would Treat Synthetic Nicotine as Tobacco ~ Committed adult smokers who start vaping more likely to drop cigarettes ~ E-cigarettes may help you quit smoking, even if you don’t want to ~ E-cigarettes may help smokers quit even if they don’t intend to, study finds ~ Association of e-Cigarette Use With Discontinuation of Cigarette Smoking Among Adult Smokers Who Were Initially Never Planning to Quit ~ Daily Vaping Dramatically Ups Quit Rate in Heavy Smokers Not Aiming to Quit ~ Vaping Helps Smokers Quit — Even When They Don’t Plan To

A Year of Change for Tobacco Harm Reduction

Derek Yach, Global Health Strategies LLC

Some things never seem to change in the world of tobacco control. At the end of 2021,there are still more than 1 billion smokers in the world, and about 8 million deaths each year from tobacco-related diseases, most of them in lower-to-middle-income countries. The World Health Organization and the Secretariat that oversees the landmark agreement, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, was still stressing the need for a nicotine-free world while demonizing tobacco harm reduction (THR) and reduced risk products (RRPs).

Tobacco Excise Directive Revision:

What is it and how could it affect users of safer nicotine products

European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates, ETHRA

What is the Tobacco Excise Tax Directive?

Excise duties are indirect taxes on the sale or use of goods such as alcohol/alcoholic drinks, fuel or tobacco products.

Today, Directive 2011/64/EU “on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to manufactured tobacco” (Tobacco Excise Directive) covers product definitions, excise tax structure (how excise tax is calculated), tax base (what exactly is taxed, for example a cigarette stick or a kg of fine-cut tobacco), and tax level (how much the minimum tax per unit must be) for combustible tobacco (cigarettes, fine-cut tobacco, cigars, cigarillos, pipe and other smoking tobacco).

Stop Smoking | Healthy Truth About Vaping

Brent Stafford, Regwatch

For many, quitting smoking with public health “approved” methods is an arduous task fraught with failure. Yet, vaping has proven to be a successful method for millions of people, even though public health refuses to acknowledge its benefits.

In this holiday edition of RegWatch, we are joined by Dr. Colin Mendelsohn to discuss his new book “Stop Smoking Start Vaping: The Healthy Truth About Vaping.”

Snusforumet’s most-read articles of 2021

SnusForumNet

Which stories were the most popular with Snusforumet readers during the last year? We’ve compiled a list of Snusforumet’s most-read articles to make it easier for readers to find, read, and share the “greatest hits” of the past 12 months.

2021 – NNA End of Year Review

New Nicotine Alliance, NNA

The NNA began the year by being invited to give oral evidence to the APPG for Vaping’s inquiry into the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control COP9 meeting which was to take place in November 2021. The resultant report, which you can read here, was released at the end of March.

Without Us \\ SPOTLIGHT Series

VIDA Voices

In this piece, Aaron Biebert (Director – A Billion Lives, You Don’t Know Nicotine) wraps up our SPOTLIGHT Series in Canada by reflecting on the past seven years covering this topic and all the people our team has met along the way.

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House Bill Would Treat Synthetic Nicotine as Tobacco

Jim McDonald, Vaping360

Responding to outcry from tobacco control groups, a bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to regulate products made with synthetic nicotine. The Clarifying Authority Over Nicotine Act, HR 6286, would give the FDA Center for Tobacco Products regulatory authority over consumer products containing nicotine from any source.

Committed adult smokers who start vaping more likely to drop cigarettes

Nicole Wetsman, The Verge

Adult smokers who say that they don’t plan to quit smoking but who start using e-cigarettes are more likely quit than those who don’t start vaping, according to a new study. People who say they’re not trying to quit often aren’t included in studies of the potential benefits of e-cigarettes for adult smokers, and the new data shows that the group should be considered during that type of analysis.

E-cigarettes may help you quit smoking, even if you don’t want to

Kamal Saini, RevYuh

A US study of 1,600 smokers who did not initially use e-cigarettes and had no plans to ever quit smoking found using e-cigs daily increased the chances of them quitting the smokes by eight times, compared with smokers who didn’t use e-cigs at all.

Brian P. Dunleavy, UPI

Daily electronic cigarette use motivates smokers to transition from traditional cigarettes, even if they have no plans to quit the habit, a study published Tuesday by JAMA Network Open found.

Among 1,600 active smokers who had no intention to quit at the start of the study, 28% who used e-cigarette, or vaping, devices daily stopped smoking traditional cigarettes within 12 months, the data showed.

Association of e-Cigarette Use With Discontinuation of Cigarette Smoking

Among Adult Smokers Who Were Initially Never Planning to Quit

JAMA Network

Key Points

Question  Is e-cigarette use associated with discontinuation of cigarette use among smokers initially not planning to ever quit?

Findings  In this US nationally representative cohort study of 1600 adult daily cigarette smokers who did not initially use e-cigarettes and had no plans to ever quit smoking, subsequent daily e-cigarette use was significantly associated with an 8-fold greater odds of cigarette discontinuation compared with no e-cigarette use.

Daily Vaping Dramatically Ups Quit Rate in Heavy Smokers Not Aiming to Quit

Roswell Park

Since the introduction of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, to the United States in 2006, intense debate has surrounded the marketing, regulation and use of these nicotine-delivery products. Surprising new research led by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that adult smokers with no plans to quit are more likely to quit smoking traditional combustible cigarettes if they switch to daily vaping.

Vaping Helps Smokers Quit — Even When They Don’t Plan To

Cameron English, American Council on Science and Health, ACSH

Mounting evidence shows that e-cigarette use (vaping) can help smokers give up combustible tobacco for good, even if they have no intention to quit. According to a just-published study of 1,600 people in JAMA Open Network, daily smokers who used e-cigarettes every day were eight times more likely to quit cigarettes than smokers who didn’t try vaping. The researchers utilized four waves of data collected between 2014 and 2019 as part of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study.

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