Vapers Digest 30th January
Friday’s News at a glance:
Parliament Matters 2 ~ Oxford Store Fined Fined & Fined ~ Anti-Vax Levels Of Science Denial ~ EU Opinion Sparks Backlash ~ Vaping in Taiwan: What Tourists Need to Know Before Traveling ~ Walgreens Will Sell Vapes Again ~ When Evidence Threatens Power: Vaping, NGOs, Governments, and the Crisis of Public Health ~ Continuing to vape linked to lower risk of smoking relapse, UK trial finds ~ Japan sees smoking halve as heated tobacco use rises ~ When Prohibition Fails: Brazilian Prosecutors Push to End Vape Prohibition ~ Is Africa at a Turning Point on Nicotine Policy?
Four From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
Parliament Matters 2
Bob Blackman wanted to know about the resources required by the MHRA for testing vapes, a timetable for the vape verification scheme, and details about the forthcoming testing regime. Blackman is the co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Smoking and Health, an APPG for which the anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health acts as the secretariat.
Oxford Store Fined Fined & Fined
Multiple owners of a shop on Cowley Road, Oxford, have been fined for selling illegal tobacco and vape products following test purchases by Oxfordshire County Council’s trading standards team. It is yet another group of business owners that have fallen foul of the law, thinking that they could get away with supplying illicit vape devices and bottles of eliquid.
Anti-Vax Levels Of Science Denial
The European Commission is engaging in “anti-vaccine-style science denial” according to leading health experts after it rejected overwhelming evidence supporting reduced harm products such as vapes, nicotine pouches and heated tobacco products. Smoke Free Sweden says that the evidence showing the vaping reduces smoking and smoking-related disease is “overwhelming”.
EU Opinion Sparks Backlash
A draft report on the European Union cardiovascular diseases strategy has sparked a backlash, according to the World Vapers’ Alliance. Produced by Rapporteur Romana Jerković for the Committee on Public Health, it claims to emphasise “the importance of strong regulatory measures to reduce the affordability, appeal and harmfulness of tobacco and nicotine products, heated tobacco products, e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches, including through flavour bans, limits on nicotine”.
