Vapers Digest 3rd July
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Ban on Retail Sales of Nicotine-Free Vapes Makes No Sense At All
Paul Gregoire, Sydney Criminal Lawyers
As of Monday, 1 July 2024, vapes are only available at pharmacies throughout Australia and for the first three months, sales of the products that are designed to be a safer alternative to smoking are by prescription only.
The main reasons for these changes are said to have been a rise in young people using vapes, as well as cases of youths presenting at hospitals sick, after having ingested too much nicotine.
Quit Like Sweden Comes Under Heavy Fire From TabakNee Zealots
Joseph Hart, The Daily Pouch
Harm reduction advocacy group Quit Like Sweden thinks the Scandinavian nation should be a smoke-free role model. The tobacco control organisation TabakNee suggests we should instead take inspiration from Turkmenistan, a country that Human Rights Watch states has “made no improvements to its dire human rights record in 2023.”
The truth continues to be stranger than fiction.
Thinking ’bout THR Newsletter
Skip Murray, Skip’s Corner, Let’s Talk!
Supreme Court Will Hear Crucial Triton Vapes Case. “It might still be another year before we know the Supreme Court’s decision on Triton. But tobacco harm reduction advocates hope the outcome will cement earlier legal victories in the struggle to guarantee people’s access to effective smoking cessation tools.”
Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
Eurobarometer Report Response
The latest Eurobarometer 2024 reveals a startling failure in the EU’s approach to achieving its smoke-free target of a 5% smoking rate. At the current trend, the smoking rate will only fall below 5% by the year 2100, 70 years past the goal of 2030, according to the World Vapers Alliance.
Thai Weed Club Raided
A crack Thai police enforcement team has raided ‘The Weed Club’ in Patong and an associated address in nearby Phuket town. The operation was reported by the Royal Thai Government national news service as being targeted at the sale of illegal products – but in a bizarre twist of logic, these products were normal vapes that smokers use to quit tobacco.
Legalise Safer Nicotine Alternatives, New Zealand!
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is strongly encouraging the New Zealand Government to legalise snus and oral nicotine pouches as part of its tobacco harm reduction strategy. The organisation argues that these products have proven highly effective in reducing smoking rates in Scandinavian countries, particularly Sweden and Norway, which now boast some of the lowest smoking rates in Europe.
Two more From Skip Murray
Supreme Court Reverses Chevron
Skip’s Corner, Let’s Talk!
When a law is ambiguous, Chevron deference gave regulatory authorities the power to fill in the gaps, relying on their expertise. In the lower courts, when a company sues a regulatory body because it feels that its treatment by regulators violates the law, those cases can be challenging to win because the courts used Chevron to rule in the regulators’ favor, to the detriment of small businesses.
Supreme Court Will Hear Crucial Triton Vapes Case
Skip Murray, Filter
s of July 1, the United States Supreme Court had four vape cases on its list for the last conference of this session. On July 2, one of the four—FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., dba Triton Distribution, et al.—was granted its certiorari, or judicial review, and will be heard by the court during the next session, which begins in October.
Supreme Court Will Hear Triton Appeal
Jim McDonald, Vaping 360
The Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court decision that found the FDA acted improperly when it denied marketing applications by Texas-based vape manufacturer Triton Distribution. The FDA petitioned the high court to accept the case.
The decision to hear the case marks the first time the Supreme Court will consider a challenge to the fairness of the FDA’s vaping regulations. The court has previously declined to consider several vaping industry petitions.
Vapes: Supreme Court will decide if FDA unfairly blocked marketing of flavored e-cigarettes
Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY
Jimmy The Juice Man Peachy Strawberry? Suicide Bunny Mother’s Milk and Cookies? Killer Kustard Blueberry? The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will decide if the federal government is unfairly blocking the marketing of flavored e-cigarettes. The industry contends the Food and Drug Administration has imposed a de facto ban on non-tobacco flavored products.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s defense of the agency’s rejection of applications by two companies to sell flavored vape products that it has determined pose health risks for young consumers.The justices took up the FDA’s appeal filed after a lower court ruled that the agency had failed to follow proper legal procedures under federal law when it denied the applications to bring their nicotine-containing products to market.
Nicotine use: Stringent policies drive mushrooming black market
Dr. Mercy Korir, Business Daily Africa
Nicotine use can be traced back to 12,300 years ago. Global tobacco trends show a decline, with 1.25 billion people still smoking. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 19 million stopped smoking two years ago which is a positive step. However, the demand for nicotine is persistent and unlikely to dissapate.
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