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Vapers Digest 4th February

Kevin CrowleyPosted on Posted in Latest News

 

 

Wednesday’s News at a glance:

UKVIA Publishes 2025 report ~ Study: Vaping Prevents Relapse ~ Vaping & Your Health: What We Know 12 Years Later ~ The future. Like it or loathe it? ~ Smoke-Free Products Nearing 50% of the Nicotine Market Thanks to Tobacco and Vaping Companies But In Spite of the Actions of Most Tobacco Control Groups ~ Ends, Means, and Bodies ~ Conflict of Interest – Redefined to Mean Only Industry ~ Youth vaping halves and smoking drops to historic lows in New Zealand, ASH finds ~ OPINION: does tobacco control understand how science even works? ~ Clearing the Air Shines a Light on NGO Impact Unfiltered ~ Up to Six Months in Jail for Vape Use in Bangladesh ~ Mexico’s Vaping Ban: A Gift to the Cartels ~ Norway’s Snus Debate: Regulation, Risk, and Regulatory Drift ~ FDA Signals Green Light for ZYN Modified Risk Status — A Turning Point for Nicotine Harm Reduction ~ Scientific review backs smoke-free products in tobacco harm reduction ~ The Great Mango Divide: Why UK Vapers Still Enjoy Triple Mango — While the U.S. Debates Flavor Bans ~ Exclusive: EU Commission shields tax data and defies CJEU transparency ruling ~ Vape sellers sue to block Texas law banning e-liquids from China and other “foreign adversaries” ~ UK vape retailer VPZ to expand manufacturing, open 40 stores in 2026 ~ Fiscal benefit, not health, strongest indicator for vape bans – Contributed by Samrat Chowdhery ~ Southeast Asia vape bans are moral panic posing as public health ~ A Total Vape Flavour Ban Could Cause 1,660 Ex-Smokers in Wexford to Return to Cigarettes ~ What the EU Can Learn from Sweden on Nicotine Regulation and Harm Reduction?

Two  from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

UKVIA Publishes 2025 report

The UK Vaping Industry Association has published its 2025 Annual Report, “setting out what has been one of the most consequential years to date for the UK vaping sector”. The trade body says that the report comes following a period of “significant regulatory change, political transition and heightened scrutiny”.

Study: Vaping Prevents Relapse

A new study led by Wolfson Institute of Population Health (WIPH) researchers, at Queen Mary University, provides the first evidence that smokers who successfully stop smoking with the help of e-cigarettes (EC), and continue to use them, may be reducing their risk of relapse. The trial was funded by The National Institute for Health Research, Cancer Research UK, and was supported by the Barts Hospital Charity.

Vaping & Your Health: What We Know 12 Years Later

Ana-Marija Dolaskie, American Council on Science and Health (ACSH)

Twelve years ago, ACSH produced a video based on our publication titled: The Effects of Nicotine on Human Health. In a recent interview, ACSH’s Director of Bio-Sciences, Cameron English, and Video Producer Ana-Marija Dolaskie revisited the topic to discuss how much, if anything, has changed on vaping and its safety, and whether or not the video’s core message remains true today, more than a decade later.

The future. Like it or loathe it?

Clive Bates,The Counterfactual by Clive Bates

I came across a great presentation by Goldman Sachs’ seasoned tobacco analyst, Bonnie Herzog. In it, she describes the state of the U.S. tobacco and nicotine market and its dynamics, with an outlook out to 2035. The presentation was for the National Association of Tobacco Outlets conference on 19 November 2025.

Smoke-Free Products Nearing 50% of the Nicotine Market Thanks to Tobacco and Vaping Companies But In Spite of the Actions of Most Tobacco Control Groups

Dr. Michael Siegel, The Rest Of The Story

A new report from the nation’s leading tobacco market expert – Bonnie Herzog at Goldman Sachs – reveals that smoke-free nicotine products now account for 48% of the overall nicotine market and are projected to comprise 75% of the market within 10 years. Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of the smoke-free market is also tobacco-free, meaning that not only are combustible tobacco products on the decline but tobacco products themselves are on the decline. The major players in the smoke-free, tobacco-free nicotine market are e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches.

The Rest of the Story

Here’s the sad part of the story. This transition from combustible cigarettes to smoke-free, tobacco-free electronic cigarettes and nicotine pouches is almost entirely due to innovations from tobacco and vaping companies, not because of the hard work of tobacco control and public health organizations.

Two From Alan Gor

Ends, Means, and Bodies

Tobacco control likes to present itself as pragmatic. Hard-headed. Evidence-led. Willing to make “tough decisions” for the greater good. When challenged about the human costs of its policies, the response is usually some variation of the same moral reassurance: yes, there may be harm, but the end justifies the means.

Conflict of Interest – Redefined to Mean Only Industry

In tobacco control, “conflict of interest” has quietly undergone a semantic narrowing so severe that it now means almost one thing and one thing only: proximity to industry. Not proximity to power, not proximity to government, not proximity to advocacy organisations, not proximity to one’s own past statements or professional brand, just industry. Funding from a tobacco or nicotine company is treated not merely as a potential source of bias, but as a moral contaminant that disqualifies arguments in advance. Meanwhile, other forms of interest, ideological, reputational, institutional, and career-based, are waved through as if they were morally neutral, or worse, invisible.

Two From Clearing The Air

Youth vaping halves and smoking drops to historic lows in New Zealand, ASH finds

Ali Anderson

Youth vaping in New Zealand has fallen sharply and smoking among teenagers is at historic lows, according to new national data from the ASH Year 10 Snapshot Survey.

Health experts say the findings directly challenge claims that vaping acts as a “gateway” to smoking for young people.

The survey, which questioned more than 31,000 Year 10 students aged 14 and 15 in 2025, shows continued declines in vaping alongside consistently low smoking rates.

OPINION: does tobacco control understand how science even works?

Roberto Sussman

The author is Associate Professor at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Politico’s coverage of an event held by the European Respiratory Society reminds me just how “tobacco control” has become a toxic ocean full of “experts” indulging in abject ignorance, dogma and stubborn denial.

One such expert, Frank Borm – supposedly a pulmonologist at the Amsterdam Cancer Institute – called harm reduction “complete bullshit”.

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Clearing the Air Shines a Light on NGO Impact Unfiltered

Joseph Hart, The Daily Pouch

Clearing the Air has published a great piece of investigative journalism looking into the shenanigans of a small Brussels-based anti-nicotine non-profit, Impact Unfiltered. 

Clearing the Air co-founder Peter Beckett and ACVODA’s Hans Molenaar have published an explosive article that examines Impact Unfiltered, an NGO whose stated mission is to “support and mobilise public-health advocates across the continent, ensuring they have the evidence, alliances, and voice to reclaim tobacco regulation in the public interest.”

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