Vapers Digest 29th May
What does the UK General Election mean for Nicotine Pouches? ~ NNA responds to the Vape Duty Consultation ~ Urgent: Vape Tax ~ New All-Party Parliamentary Group for Responsible Vaping Has Been Established by UK MPs ~ Youth vaping – the facts ~ Vape shops at war in Australia: Why so many are going up in flames ~ Australia’s vaping crisis laid bare as e-cigarette policy firms as looming election battle ~ No one wants kids vaping. But is Labor criminalising adults who flout the crackdown? ~ FDA’s Mixed Messaging on E-Cigarettes Undermines Public Health ~ Expert Rips Into WHO Report! ~ Calling out fake news part 4: prohibitionists getting owned by community notes ~ Policy sought for tobacco harm reduction ~ Deep Impact | Bloomberg’s Influence on the WHO & US Vaping Policy | RegWatch ~ BLOOMBERG FUNDING IN SPOTLIGHT IN INDIA | Featuring Samrat Chowdhery ~ Polling reveals overwhelming support for regulation of vapes
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Youth vaping – the facts
Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, Tobacco Treatment
THE AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION and public health organisations are engaged in a media blitz on youth vaping to pressure MPs to pass the Vaping Reform Bill and entrench the prescription model. However, much of the case against youth vaping is based on “moral panic” and is emotive and misleading. Many of the risks are exaggerated.
Vape shops at war in Australia: Why so many are going up in flames
Eliza McPhee, Daily Mail
A violent war has erupted between motorcycle gangs and Middle Eastern crime syndicates over the illegal trade of black market vapes – with dozens of tobacco shops going up in flames.
There’s been more than 40 arson attacks across Australia that are understood to be related to the sale of black market tobacco, with Victoria copping the worst of the violence.
Sarah Blake, The Nightly
Back when Donald Trump was newly elected, his communications adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke with a straight face about “alternative facts” to explain the discrepancy between the crowd size Team Trump said was at his swearing in and the number that people’s eyes were telling them was actually in attendance.
As Australia confronts a generational challenge in young people’s addiction to vapes, we find ourselves in similar territory.
No one wants kids vaping. But is Labor criminalising adults who flout the crackdown?
Paul Karp, The Guardian
The Australian Medical Association was in Canberra on Friday pushing for parliament to pass laws to crack down on vaping, expected to be voted on in June.
It hasn’t been smooth sailing for Labor’s proposed ban on importation and penalties for commercial possession of vapes.
FDA’s Mixed Messaging on E-Cigarettes Undermines Public Health
Lindsey Stroud, DC Journal
The Food and Drug Administration is failing to deliver a clear and important message about e-cigarettes, particularly to adults who smoke and the physicians treating them. Recent efforts by the Center for Tobacco Products fall short of informing the public about the potential of e-cigarettes as a harm-reduction tool.
In April, a commentary by Brian King, the director of CTP, was published in the journal Nature Medicine. It offered limited guidance to healthcare providers on the “considerations” of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes. In “conjunction” with the commentary, CTP launched a “new webpage aimed at educating the public about the relative risks of tobacco products.”
Expert Rips Into WHO Report!
Michelle, EcigClick!
The World Health Organisation (WHO) have published a report on May 23rd 2024 examining vaping and young people. As you can imagine it is very “Anti Vaping” and not necessarily accurate.
You can download the publication here “Hooking the next generation: how the tobacco industry captures young customers“. I will be honest, I am feeling a bit nauseous as I write this, so subjecting myself to the 28 pages of anti-vaping bull crap churned out by WHO is not ideal.
Calling out fake news part 4: prohibitionists getting owned by community notes
Deep Impact | Bloomberg’s Influence on the WHO & US Vaping Policy | RegWatch ~
Samrat Chowdhery, Brent Stafford, Regwatch
Joining us today to explore Bloomberg’s significant impact on the World Health Organization and US vaping policy is Marc Gunther, a seasoned journalist with nearly five decades of experience in covering politics, government, media, and business. Gunther is renowned for his investigative prowess, notably in the influential series “The Great Vape Debate.”
BLOOMBERG FUNDING IN SPOTLIGHT IN INDIA | Featuring Samrat Chowdhery ~
Global Forum on Nicotine
When India’s government added nicotine replacement therapies to its list of essential medicines, tobacco harm reduction advocates celebrated a win for smokers looking to quit. But was this success short lived, and has India returned to an anti-nicotine frame of mind? Joining us today to discuss India’s track record with nicotine is journalist Samrat Chowdhery.
On this Day…2020
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
The WHO Doubles Down…
On Its Incompetence – Dick Puddlecote
You’d think, wouldn’t you, that after the damning political and media criticism the World Health Organisation has rightly been subjected to over fucking up the health of every nation on Earth – with their pitiful and incompetent response to the Coronavirus – that they would have learned a lesson on getting their priorities right.
The W.H.O ignores science:
The world pays the price! – Joseph Magero
The World No Tobacco Day 2020 is here,with the year not having been such a stellar success for the World Health Organization’s FCTC efforts on its own terms, especially in developing countries.They have yet again missed their target of reducing cancer,heart and lung disease,as 8 million more people will die from smoking related diseases this year.
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