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Vapers Digest 29th June

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Monday’s News at a glance:

Electronic cigarette use after smoking cessation and lung cancer risk ~ Can nicotine protect the brain? Some researchers think it might ~ EU Recognises Swedish Success ~ Australia’s Vaping Reforms Are Already Being Declared a Success. The Science Says the Evidence Isn’t There Yet. ~ Queensland’s War on Illicit Tobacco and Vapes Has Become an Admission of Policy Failure ~ CAPHRA: Philippine anti-vape commentary asks the wrong public health question ~ How New Zealand Dramatically Cut Smoking Rates and What the World Can Learn From It ~ Sweden’s smoke-free success: Understanding gains of tobacco harm reduction ~ Sweden health minister attacks France pouch ban as ‘idiotic’ ~ Southern California’s total tobacco bans aren’t helping public health ~ Opinion: Philip Morris is trying to reduce cigarette smoking. FDA is slowing them down ~ 5th Circ. Backs FDA’s Block on Vape Marketing ~ PMI to Launch IQOS in Argentina by End-2026 After Regulatory Shift, Targeting About 7 Million Smokers ~ BLACK MARKET MAJORITY | 76% of Global Vaping Is Now Illicit

Electronic cigarette use after smoking cessation and lung cancer risk

Gal Cohen, Pubpeer

(Editor note: Comment on paper)

Commentary on Kim et al., Nature Medicine (2026)

Gal Cohen, Rose Research Center; Steve Cook, University of Michigan

This nationwide cohort study is notable as one of the first population-based analyses to examine lung cancer risk among former smokers who used e-cigarettes after quitting, in a country with high rates of cigarette smoking and rapid adoption of noncombustible tobacco and nicotine products. [1] Its large sample size, prospective design, and cancer ascertainment through a validated national registry are important strengths. Kim et al. report a pooled adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) of 1.56 (95% CI 1.24–1.97) for former smokers who switched to e-cigarettes, compared with former smokers who quit without e-cigarette use. The corresponding estimate for continued smoking was 1.78 (95% CI 1.74–1.82).

However, a close reading suggests several issues that complicate the interpretation. The central concern is residual confounding by time since cigarette smoking cessation

Can nicotine protect the brain? Some researchers think it might

Lalain D. Aquino, Vital Record

For decades, nicotine has been cast as a harmful substance—infamous for its highly addictive properties that make people want to smoke despite its health risks. Its presence in almost every tobacco product has made smoking a notoriously hard habit to quit.

But scientists with the Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine at Texas A&M Health are re-examining nicotine from an unexpected angle. They’re investigating whether nicotine and nicotine-like compounds may have protective neurological effects, potentially guarding the brain from diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.

EU Recognises Swedish Success

Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

The European Parliament has, for the first time, formally acknowledged that Sweden has reached the smoke-free target – accepted as having less than 5% of the population as smokers. In a post published on its X channel on Sunday (May 31), the Parliament stated: “According to recent national data, Sweden has become the first country to achieve the 5% EU target (for smoke-free status) in 2025.”

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CAPHRA: Philippine anti-vape commentary asks the wrong public health question

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA)

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) says a recent Philippine commentary on vaping and heated tobacco misframes the science by focusing on whether smoke-free nicotine products are harmless instead of whether they are safer than cigarettes for adults who would otherwise continue smoking.

CAPHRA said this distinction is central to sound public health policy. No credible tobacco harm reduction advocate claims that vaping or heated tobacco products are risk-free. The real question is whether non-combustible nicotine products reduce exposure to the toxicants most responsible for smoking-related disease.

How New Zealand Dramatically Cut Smoking Rates and What the World Can Learn From It

Quit Like Sweden

A new study in The Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific documents one of the most striking public health reversals in recent memory — and the evidence points squarely at harm reduction.

For decades, New Zealand did everything right according to traditional tobacco control. It taxed tobacco heavily, banned smoking in public spaces, introduced plain packaging, and set one of the most ambitious smoke-free targets in the world. And for decades, smoking declined, slowly, stubbornly, nowhere near fast enough.

Then, almost without warning, the curve broke.

A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…

“This Lobby Is Impossible To Satisfy”

Dick Puddlecote

In 2007, a staff member at Puddlecote Inc who smokes commented on the inception of the smoking ban by saying “ASH may as well pack up now, they have everything they want”. I replied that they will never stop because if they did it would threaten the most precious thing to them … their salary.

Public health putting millions at risk

Satyajeet Marar

The current House of Representatives inquiry into the legalisation of personal vaporisers should be welcomed and not criticised, as tedious, tendentious public health fascist Simon Chapman whinged in the Sydney Morning Herald yet again last week. This inquiry is a response to an international consensus of independent public health bodies that vaping is not only a substantially safer alternative to smoking cigarettes, but that tobacco smokers should be advised to switch to vaping as an effective cessation strategy.

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