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Vapers Digest 3rd June

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

GSTHR and Reducing Harms ~ GFN Week Arrives ~ EU Tax Proposals Criticised ~ European Parliament declares Sweden smoke-free ~ The Aftermath of World Vape Day vs World No Tobacco Day: A Campaign Detached From Reality ~ The Origins, Growth, Industry Involvement, Regulation, and Future of Vaping: A Scientific and Regulatory History ~ How To Lose A Cigarette in 10 Days: The Swedish Way Starts With a Tin ~ The WHO Found Its Spokeswoman. She Lives in a Palace. ~ World No Tobacco Day 2026: When all you have is a hammer, every problem start looking like a nail ~ GFN26 preview: Europe’s nicotine crossroads, Sweden’s smoke-free success ~ World Health Organization Misses the Whole Point About Nicotine Pouches ~ 2026 WVD/WNTD ~ ASH Scotland CEO Shares Their “Expertise” on STV News ~ Study shows loved ones benefit when smokers switch to non-combustible alternatives ~ South African Tobacco Control Has Lost Touch With Reality ~ Oliver Várhelyi and the Trumpification of EU Health Policy ~ Opinion | As EU Reviews Tobacco Rules, Experts Warn Against Overlooking Smokers’ Alternatives ~ Opinion: Dunleavy should veto Alaska’s overreaching nicotine tax ~ Gold rush on black market tobacco ~ Fighting the Righteous Zealots (2020s Version) ~Pakistan’s first vaping survey finds many smokers cut cigarette use, raises concerns over youth access ~ Vapes may beat patches and gum for quitting smoking, but the evidence comes with a warning ~The Zyn can has become a Trade Street staple ~ ZYN USA ~ World No Tobacco Day and the war on freedom | David Ansara & Dr Martin van Staden

Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

GSTHR and Reducing Harms

Two new publications from the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (GSTHR) have been published with the aim of supporting drug treatment practitioners to reduce smoking-related harms among their clients. People in drug treatment smoke at rates two to four times higher than average and so integrating harm reduction for tobacco with other support can improve health outcomes and support overall wellbeing.

GFN Week Arrives

The Global Forum on Nicotine is finally here, the only conference that welcomes nicotine consumers into the debate as experts present findings and debate the role of safer products. With three days of sessions, many streamed online for free and translated into Russian and Spanish, GFN26 is a golden opportunity for those interested in vaping and tobacco harm reduction in general.

EU Tax Proposals Criticised

Leading international economists are warning that the European Union’s proposed new taxes on smokeless nicotine products (such as vapes and pouches) could undermine efforts to reduce smoking, discourage smokers from switching to safer alternatives and even fuel illicit trade.

European Parliament declares Sweden smoke-free

Smoke Free Sweden

International health experts celebrated World No Tobacco Day with news from the European Parliament that Sweden has become the first EU nation to achieve smoke-free status.

In a post published on its X channel on Sunday (May 31), the Parliament stated: “According to recent national data, Sweden has become the first EU country to achieve the 5% EU target (for smoke-free status) in 2025.”

The Aftermath of World Vape Day vs World No Tobacco Day:

A Campaign Detached From Reality

Alan Gor

The days following World Vape Day and World No Tobacco Day revealed a growing divide in global public health, one that is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. On one side stood consumers, harm reduction advocates, clinicians, researchers, and former smokers who used World Vape Day to share real stories of transformation, stories of people who had spent years trapped in cycles of smoking, illness, failed quit attempts, and hopelessness before finally finding a pathway out through vaping. On the other side stood the annual campaign driven by the World Health Organisation, repeating familiar warnings and escalating rhetoric that framed nicotine alternatives not as a breakthrough in harm reduction but as a threat to be feared and suppressed.

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The Origins, Growth, Industry Involvement,

Regulation, and Future of Vaping: A Scientific and Regulatory History

Robert Innes

Vaping, as it is understood today, emerged from a convergence of personal tragedy, technological ingenuity, and a global public‑health landscape struggling to reduce the harms of combustible tobacco. Although nicotine inhalation devices had been imagined for decades, the modern e‑cigarette traces directly to the work of Chinese pharmacist Hon Lik, who filed his first patent in 2003 for a “non‑combustible electronic atomisation cigarette” (https://patents.google.com/patent/CN1760303A/en).

Two From Juan Taborcia, Considerate Pouchers

How To Lose A Cigarette in 10 Days: The Swedish Way Starts With a Tin

I wasn’t expecting much from a Sunday breakfast date.

We met the way people meet in 2026. A German girl in Madrid. We agreed on breakfast. I’m more of a drinks person but something about it felt right.

We met at one of those hidden courtyard terraces in Malasaña. The kind you don’t see from the street. City noise stays outside. You forget you have a phone.

The WHO Found Its Spokeswoman. She Lives in a Palace.

Once a journalist. Now a palace spokeswoman for the WHO.

Queen Letizia spent years as a journalist. Good ones check the science before they go on camera. But she recorded a four-minute video for WHO’s World No Tobacco Day, put cigarettes and pouches in the same sentence, and left the science out entirely. She built a career asking uncomfortable questions. Apparently that was a long time ago.

World No Tobacco Day 2026: When all you have is a hammer,

every problem start looking like a nail

POUCHFORUM

On the final day of European Week Against Cancer, which also happens to be World No Tobacco Day on 31 May, Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi issued a statement on the future of EU tobacco control.

At first, there is little to object to.

GFN26 preview: Europe’s nicotine crossroads, Sweden’s smoke-free success

Snusforumet

As delegates prepare to head to Warsaw for the 13th Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN26), Snusforumet catches up with Patrik Strömer to discuss Sweden’s smoke-free success, the ongoing debate about nicotine pouches, and what upcoming EU decisions could mean for millions of smokers and nicotine consumers.

World Health Organization Misses the Whole Point About Nicotine Pouches

Kiran Sidhu, Filter

The World Health Organization has released its first-ever report on nicotine pouches, portraying the safer nicotine products as a health threat and Big Tobacco marketing ploy. This has been met with a barrage of criticisms from scientists and tobacco harm reduction advocates, including a litany of community notes on social media.

2026 WVD/WNTD

Skip Murray, Skip’s Corner – Let’s Talk!

Below, you’ll find links to content about World Vape Day and/or World No Tobacco Day. They are listed in no particular order; instead, they are in the order I found them or in which the links were shared with me.

ASH Scotland CEO Shares Their “Expertise” on STV News

Joseph Hart, The Daily Pouch

Ash Scotland is a separate charity from the main UK ASH (Action on Smoking and Health). However, it has the same penchant for occasional ill-advised comments that seem to target and discredit smoking-alternative products more often than cigarettes.

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