Vapers Digest 2nd June

Wednesday’s News at a glance:

WHO has gone rogue on tobacco policy – millions at risk from tired dogma and a refusal to grasp innovation ~ Happy World Vape Day! ~ World Vape Day: Millions of Adult Smokers Have Quit, But Danger Looms ~ S3 E11: Taxing Vaping For Harm Reduction ~ Vaping: part of the solution for Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan? ~ Why developing nations are facing obstacles to tobacco harm reduction ~ India Scored A Self-Goal With Its E-Cigarette Ban ~ Tobacco control: What we’re missing ~ We won the fight against smoking ~ NRA takes shot at the AMA for protecting vaping monopoly ~ BAT Publishes 10-Year Review of Vaping Science ~ Missed Opportunities in New Zealand ~ Menthol E-liquid Demand Surge ~ GFN 21 “Fives” Are Live ~ Time for some serious talk on tobacco? ~ ETHRA May news roundup ~ The Best In Vape-Related News: May 2021

WHO has gone rogue on tobacco policy –

millions at risk from tired dogma and a refusal to grasp innovation

Clive Bates, The Counterfactual

A message for World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2021

If you just want to go straight to our unforgiving and detailed letter to WHO – it is here.

A response to WHO’s terrible press release

Comments on tobacco harm reduction from expert stakeholders

Addendum: it’s all about the smoke (Lynn Kozlowski)

Addendum: environmental vapour risk (Roberto Sussman)

Addendum: pro-THR statements by organisations (via Charles Gardner)

Addendum: The WHO and tobacco policy: a seven-point reform agenda

Asian Pacific consumer group says WHO’s latest tobacco report confusing to public health

World No Tobacco Day exposes Big Public Health’s failure

Time Is Overdue to Rename World No Tobacco Day to World No Cigarette Day

Make May 31 World No Smoking Day, Not No Nicotine Day

World No Tobacco Day: Here’s why WHO’s approach to tobacco cessation needs an overhaul

Happy World Vape Day!

Christopher Snowdon, Velvet Glove Iron Fist

When I tried my first e-cigarette in 2008 (or was it 2009?), I didn’t imagine that public understanding of their risks, relative to smoking, would have gone backwards by 2021. Nor would I have predicted that the World Health Organisation would have gone to war on them or that the European Commission would be gearing up for another bash at regulating them into the dust.

World Vape Day: Millions of Adult Smokers Have Quit, But Danger Looms

Lindsey Stroud, Taxpayers Protection Alliance

Today, May 30, is World Vape Day. Created by consumers of e-cigarettes, World Vape Day is the day to celebrate the millions of American adults that have quit smoking with the use of vapor products. It is also a day to combat the World Health Organization’s (WHO) anti-science stance on tobacco harm reduction products.

Testimonials & Statements

Canadian Vapers Unite for World Vape Day

The WHO’s Opposition to vaping could cost millions of lives

‘Vaping can save millions of lives,’ speakers say on the occasion of World Vape Day

S3 E11: Taxing Vaping For Harm Reduction

Podcast: C. D. Howe Institute

Cigarette smoking is the single largest cause of avoidable premature death in Canada. It’s estimated to cut 10 years off a smoker’s life. Cigarettes have gotten a 21st century makeover since they were first introduced in the 19th century. Concordia University economics professor Ian Irvine says Ottawa should tax vape-based products as a harm reduction strategy aimed at kicking the habit. But by how much?

Vaping: part of the solution for Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan?

World Vapers’ Alliance, The Parliament Magazine

The potential benefits of vaping have been hotly contested since the first e-cigarette entered the market. The potential benefits and risks see individuals, health advocates and even health authorities divided, with some viewing it as a great innovation to reduce smoking rates and smoking related illnesses and others seeing it as a major risk and potentially a gateway to smoking.

Why developing nations are facing obstacles to tobacco harm reduction

Dr Sree Sucharitha, Daily O

Low and middle-income countries are heavily burdened with tobacco use, especially among low-income populations and marginalised groups. Migrants, women and sexual minorities experience the consequences of tobacco use disproportionately. Tobacco harm reduction ought to be explored in more meaningful ways in these populations for the potential it holds in alleviating their conditions.

India Scored A Self-Goal With Its E-Cigarette Ban

Samrat Chowdhery, Outlook India

Celebrated by many in the tobacco control field, India with much ado banned the sale of e-cigarettes two years ago. The decision was taken to protect the country’s youth following news from the US about alarming rise in teen use, with the final straw being the spate of deaths there due to e-cigarettes.

Tobacco control: What we’re missing

Kerean Watts, Health issues India

The latest data has shone a spotlight anew on one of the foremost global public health menaces: tobacco use. Focusing on tobacco control is vital.

Published in The Lancet ahead of World No Tobacco Day – observed May 31st – the research posits the number of deaths due to tobacco use in 2019 alone at almost eight million.

We won the fight against smoking

APN News

New Delhi: Smokers have long struggled to quit, with most finding it difficult to kick the butt despite numerous attempts. E-cigarette users across the globe who have managed to win their personal battles against smoking by marking May 30 as the World Vape Day. Although commercial activity is banned, the use of e-cigarettes is not prohibited in India.

https://twitter.com/CGTNEurope/status/1399380597051637766?

NRA takes shot at the AMA for protecting vaping monopoly

Deborah Jackson, Convenience & Impulse Retailing

The National Retail Association (NRA) has created the inaugural ‘Dirty Mirror Award’ and bestowed it on the Australian Medical Association (AMA) for its “breathtaking hypocrisy in public affairs”.

BAT Publishes 10-Year Review of Vaping Science

Tobacco Reporter

British American Tobacco has published a comprehensive review of the scientific evidence for vaping products, their potential health effects and their role in tobacco harm reduction.

THREE from Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

Missed Opportunities in New Zealand

Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy (AVCA) says that the New Zealand government’s budget missed an opportunity by not providing extra funding to support ‘vape to quit’ programmes. But, it adds, there were positive moves which can be built on to promote vaping and reduce tobacco related harm.

Menthol E-liquid Demand Surge

The demand for menthol e-liquid has risen one year on from ban of same flavoured cigarettes indicating that many menthol smokers have switched. A survey by the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) reveals that 70% of vaping retailers have seen a surge in demand in the wake of the Government’s menthol cigarette ban. The trade body has called upon the Government to “recognise the important role” vaping plays in reducing smoking numbers.

GFN 21 “Fives” Are Live

The first Global Forum on Nicotine “Fives” are now live on its website with a lot more coming as they get processed – ready for the GFN’21 conference in Liverpool during June. The event focusses on the role of safer nicotine products and The GFN Fives are a new way to play an active part in the conference.

Time for some serious talk on tobacco?

Shantanu Guha Ray, The Times Of India

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation has spent a little over three and a half discussing ways to handle the big tobacco crisis. Now, in 2021, scientists and thinkers are discussing the possibility of reducing nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels, triggering a fundamental change in the tobacco industry and public health.

AMAM: Study found vape can help smokers quit

The Sun Daily

PETALING JAYA: More than 80 practitioners attended the 11th National Conference on Addiction Medicine (11thNatCAM) which was organised by the Addiction Medicine Association of Malaysia (AMAM) and the Federation of Private Medical Practitioners’ Association Malaysia (FPMPAM) on the May 23.

ETHRA May news roundup

THE BEST IN VAPE-RELATED NEWS: MAY 2021

Saddle Horse Blues

May was a busy month for reporting on tobacco harm reduction and vaping in particular. A lot of the news from around the world has been bad, with policy makers pushing for restrictions or outright prohibition. People are questioning the ethics of these policies at an increasing level though, as the reporting is starting to reflect. That can be expected to continue with the consequences of prohibition under the spotlight right now.

On this Day…2015

Electronic cigarettes safer than tobacco

Says Dr Derek Yach – Vitality Institute:

VITALITY Institute head Derek Yach on Tuesday urged doctors to promote electronic (e)-cigarettes to their smoking patients, saying they offered a safer alternative to traditional tobacco products. Tobacco products kill six million people a year, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)….

World No Tobacco Day

ACSH:

Instead of the WHO’s “World No Tobacco Day,” we’d be better off with a new event: “World No Tobacco Control Day,” says ACSH’s Gil Ross on Science 2.0. “Public health’s” focus on prohibition of all tobacco and nicotine is harmful to benefiting health by harm reduction…

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