Vapers Digest 2nd April

VApril Puts Education First ~ 100s Apply for Misinformation Post ~ Vape Club Comments on the Vape Bill ~ ASH Welcomes the Bill Vote ~ Science Reflective of Real-World Experience is Essential to Effective Tobacco and Vapor Policy ~ Pharmaceutical Drug Regulation and Mortality: Evidence from Electronic Cigarettes ~ Mindset Shift Needed On Tobacco Harm Reduction ~ Saskatchewan’s 6% PST on Vaping Undermines Harm Reduction, Fuels Illicit Market ~ Let’s talk e-cigarettes, March 2025 ~ Leading stop smoking campaign puts public education at the top of the agenda ~ Vapes Increasingly Pushed Underground in the US and UK ~ Luxembourg criticised for proposing de facto ban on nicotine pouches ~ France’s vape and nicotine pouch bans could trap millions in smoking, report warns ~ Measure to remove cigarette tax from heated tobacco moves in House ~ FDA tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership ~ Brian King Out at FDA Tobacco Center ~ Big Tobacco targets Trump in hope – and fear – of change ~ JAY GOLDBERG: Carney should embrace harm reduction for smokers ~ What’s going on in the Netherlands? with Ivan Bik | Ep. 77 ~ DEBUNKING THE GATEWAY EFFECT

Four from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

VApril Puts Education First

VApril, “the largest and most successful vape awareness campaign in the world”, is returning for its eighth year amid record-high misperceptions about the stop smoking tool. This year, the UK Vaping Industry Association is placing public education at the top of the agenda.

100s Apply for Misinformation Post

Hundreds of potential candidates have applied for the vape industry’s first ever Chief Misinformation Officer job, according to the employer who created the role. The job vacancy was opened through quit smoking missionaries, Riot Labs, in a bid to tackle the “flood” of misinformation on vaping in recent months.

Vape Club Comments on the Vape Bill

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill had its third and final reading in the Commons last week, with MPs voting 366 to 41, approving the bill for transition to the House of Lords. Dan Marchant, CEO and founder of the UK’s largest vaping retailer, Vape Club, has commented on how the final reading and the Bill’s transfer to the House of Lords is going to impact the vaping industry and the UK’s journey to becoming smokefree by 2030.

ASH Welcomes the Bill Vote

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has welcomed the UK Parliament voting 360 to 42 in favour of sending the Tobacco and Vapes Bill to its next stage in the House of Lords. The charity said the MPs voted to pass the “historic” Tobacco and Vapes Bill “which will phase out the sale of tobacco to the next generation”.