Vapers Digest 29th January
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
WVA Criticizes Polish Tax ~ Parliament 2 ~ Group Responds to Pouch Decision ~ Let’s Talk E-Cigarettes ~ New Study Confirms: Flavoured Vaping Products Helps Canadian Adults Quit Smoking ~ The FDA’s Proposed Ban On Cigarettes Will Fail Just As Prohibition Did ~ Nicotine Pouches Under Attack in Ireland ~ US FDA finds nicotine pouches are ‘lower risk’, help smokers quit ~ Is there a secret “endgame?” ~ Pharmacists must not be ‘criminalised’ for promoting vapes as stop smoking aid, say UK MPs ~ Belgium’s Disposable Vapes Ban Could Be First of Many ~ Complete Switch to E-Cigarettes Shows Measurable Health Gains: Findings from 8-Year PATH Study ~ A Critical Analysis of Simon Chapman’s Claims on Vaping ~ Addressing Claims About Vape Poisoning and Regulation in Australia ~ Opinion: Kids have stopped smoking. Someone please tell the anti-vape zealots ~ Vaping Indoors: Risks, Rules and Etiquette ~ HBHI Webinar: Challenges Regulating the Tobacco Industry
THREE from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes
WVA Criticizes Polish Tax
The World Vapers’ Alliance (WVA) says it strongly opposes the recent bill adopted by the Polish Council of Ministers, which aims to impose an excise duty on nicotine pouches and other nicotine products, including vapes. The WVA called the legislation proposed by the Minister of Finance a “misguided policy”, adding that it threatens to undermine public health efforts by making less harmful alternatives to smoking more expensive and less accessible.
Parliament 2
Questions relating to vaping, smoking and tobacco harm reduction were posed to the Department for Housing, the Department for Health and Social Care, and the Home Office. Politicians were interested in extending bans, advertising to kids in vape stores, and how many illegal vapes are being intercepted at the UK’s borders.
Group Responds to Pouch Decision
Smoke Free Sweden has responded to the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to authorise nicotine pouches for marketing and sale in the United States of America. The harm reduction organisation calls the authorisation “a landmark moment for Harm Reduction”.
Let’s Talk E-Cigarettes
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, Nicola Lindson, University Of Oxford
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Nicola Lindson discuss emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and talk about the findings of their newly published Cochrane review of interventions for quitting vaping. Associate Professor Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Associate Professor Nicola Lindson discuss the new evidence in e-cigarette research. Jamie and Nicola share the findings of their new Cochrane review of interventions for quitting vaping published in January 2025 and funded by Cancer Research UK (https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD016058.pub2). This new review included nine studies in just over 5,000 participants.
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
UK to ban disposable vapes…
Restrict flavours and do more stupid stuff
Clive Bates, The Counterfactual
The UK government has decided it will ban disposable vapes and suggests it will ban vape flavours. This will trigger more smoking, more illicit trade and more workarounds. The problem of youth vaping is a non-problem and the government is reacting to a moral panic it doesn’t understand.
How to rig a public consultation
Christopher Snowdon
When plain packaging for tobacco was being considered in the mid-2010s, a government consultation received more responses from opponents of the policy than from supporters. This was awkward for the Department of Health who said something along the lines of ‘it’s not an opinion poll’ and made it clear that it was the quality of the evidence and arguments that mattered, not the quantity. And that is fair enough. Consultations are primarily for people to provide evidence and expertise to guide policy-making.
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