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Vapers Digest 5th January

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Safer nicotine use survey ~ New Zealand Sees Largest Decline in Smoking Ever Recorded Thanks to E-Cigarettes ~ Smoke Without Fire ~ Goodbye, 2021 ~ The awesome power of vaping ~ Quit For ‘22 ~ “Laughable” Report Slammed ~ Suisse : le Conseil Fédéral a publié son projet de taxe sur la vape ~ ETHRA December news roundup ~ News-n-Views 28th December/3rd January ~ THE BEST IN VAPE-RELATED NEWS: DECEMBER 2021 ~ FDA Authorizes Reduced-Risk Claims for Cigarettes With Very Low Nicotine ~ NZ and US Pass Laws to Reduce Smoking Harms, While Australia Makes it Harder to Quit ~ Will Biden’s FDA Commissioner Pick Continue the War on Vaping? ~ Tobacco: Calculated risks can save many lives ~ Vaping flavour bans will put lives at risk says lobby group ~ If you can’t give up smoking, vape, says vascular specialist ~ Kirklees Council to help smokers quit by offering e-cigarettes

Safer nicotine use survey

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New Zealand Sees Largest Decline in Smoking Ever Recorded Thanks to E-Cigarettes

 Michael Mirsky, Americans for Tax Reform

A shining example for the rest of the world to follow, New Zealand has recently passed legislation to regulate vaping as a consumer product, resulting in the lowest smoking rates in the country’s history. The Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act, which strikes a balance between making vaping products available as a tool for smoking cessation and ensuring these products are kept out of the hands of those who are too young, has led smoking rates to fall faster in one year than they have ever fallen.

Smoke Without Fire

Nabil Tahir, Tribune

Everyone around the world is working on saving lives one way or another. The governments are playing their role to avoid conflicts among countries. Major steps are being carried out to stop Covid-19 and other diseases from spreading. The law and order forces are trying to maintain peace in the cities. At the same time, there is a silent killer that needs to be stopped or reduced its damage. It’s the damage done by cigarette smoking, and as it is difficult for the smoker to quit altogether. For this reason, scientists have invented some better alternatives that can reduce the risk of cigarette smoking by 95 per cent, called e-cigarettes.

Related: Anti-smoke bill ‘can save lives’

TWO from Christopher Snowdon, Velvet Glove Iron Fist

Goodbye, 2021

It’s time to bid 2021 a fond good riddance and hope for better days ahead. It feels like it passed quickly, but looking back on the year’s blog posts I’m reminded that a lot went on.

The awesome power of vaping

I don’t post many studies about e-cigarettes and smoking cessation these days. The science was settled years ago, regardless of how much the WHO-Bloomberg spin machine tries to muddy the waters. Nevertheless, it cannot be said too often that vaping is remarkably good at getting people to stop smoking even when they have no intention of quitting. I have personal experience of this and it has been shown empirically in observational studies.

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TWO from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

Quit For ‘22

It’s time for a new you in ’22 is the message as the annual NHS push to get smokers to quit for New Year is underway. It comes against a backdrop of household finances being strained and the government detailing of the impact of parents smoking on their children. Trade body UKVIA is promoting its SmokeFree app to smokers to help them to quit for good.

“Laughable” Report Slammed

An anti-vaping report carried in the Lancet has been described as “incredulous, laughable, untrue and extremely worrying” by the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA). The authors were responding to the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency announcing that it is considering the prescription of e-cigarettes on the National Health Service.

Suisse : le Conseil Fédéral a publié son projet de taxe sur la vape

Philippe Poirson, Vapolitique

Comme s’il voulait cacher au public les chiffres réels. Le communiqué du Conseil fédéral aux médias sur son projet de taxe anti-vape enrobe son annonce dans un nébuleux taux de 77 % de réduction de taxe par rapport aux cigarettes. Pourtant les chiffres concrets sont simples. Le texte propose un impôt spécifique de 2 cts par mg de nicotine pour les e-liquides, ce qui signifierait 4 Fs pour une fiole de 10 ml à 20 mg/ml de nicotine. Les pods seraient taxés à 50 cts par ml, quelle que soit leur teneur en nicotine. La TVA à 7,7 % vient aussi s’appliquer sur ces taxes. Par contre, les e-liquides de recharge sans nicotine ne seraient pas l’objet de surtaxe spécifique.

Translated: (Switzerland: the Federal Council has published its draft tax on vaping)

As if he wanted to hide the real numbers from the public. The Federal Council’s press release to the media on its anti-vaping tax plan wraps its announcement in a nebulous 77% tax reduction rate compared to cigarettes. Yet the concrete figures are simple. The text proposes a specific tax of 2 cts per mg of nicotine for e-liquids, which would mean 4 Fs for a vial of 10 ml at 20 mg / ml of nicotine. Pods would be taxed at 50 cts per ml, regardless of their nicotine content. 7.7% VAT is also applied on these taxes. On the other hand, refill e-liquids without nicotine would not be subject to a specific surcharge.

ETHRA December news roundup

European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates

ETHRA’s monthly roundup of news: BECA report adopted – BVRA joins ETHRA – Countries propose anti-vaping measures – Tobacco Tax Directive revision – UK leads the way in tobacco harm reduction – INNCO position statement on flavours. Read on for more.

News-n-Views 28th December/3rd January

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We gather weekly the most important Vaping news.

THE BEST IN VAPE-RELATED NEWS: DECEMBER 2021

Saddle Horse Blues

Happy new year, everyone! Have you caught up on all of the news on vaping and tobacco harm reduction from the month of December? We’ve rounded up 55 articles for the month. Each article is linked so that you can read it in full. Brief excerpts are included for your browsing convenience and the articles are listed in order from most recent to oldest. Enjoy, and all the best to you in the coming year!

FDA Authorizes Reduced-Risk Claims for Cigarettes With Very Low Nicotine

Alex Norcia, Filter Magazine

On December 23, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized two combustible cigarettes with low nicotine levels to be marketed as “modified risk tobacco products” (MRTPs). The designation allows 22nd Century Group, which describes itself as “a leading agricultural biotechnology company focused on tobacco reduction,” to advertise its VLN King and VLN Menthol cigarettes under reduced exposure claims.

NZ and US Pass Laws to Reduce Smoking Harms, While Australia Makes it Harder to Quit

Paul Gregoire, Sidney Criminal Lawyers

The NZ government launched its Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan on 9 December. A decade in the making, the policy proposes to see less than 5 percent of the population smoking in four years’ time, within a country that sees a little over 13 percent of the overall populace currently lighting up.

Will Biden’s FDA Commissioner Pick Continue the War on Vaping?

Alex Norcia, Filter Magazine

On December 14, Dr. Robert Califf, President Joe Biden’s pick to be the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), faced questions from senators about how he would lead the agency over the next three years.

Tobacco: Calculated risks can save many lives

Business Daily

New research by the University of Nairobi shows Kenyans are using a variety of oral stimulants and each carries its own varying degree of risk.

The study titled, “Review of the Risks and Toxicants of Smokeless Tobacco, Areca Nut And Khat Products Available in Kenya” shows users are more likely to consume the riskier products such as chewing tobacco, areca and khat.

Vaping flavour bans will put lives at risk says lobby group

Bay Today CA

Restrictions on flavours in vaping products would be a “drastic setback” in the battle to reduce the 48,000 Canadian lives lost every year to smoking, according to a study released by a lobby group called e cigarette research.

If you can’t give up smoking, vape, says vascular specialist

Towler Road

Switching to vaping can be a safe first step on the way to giving up smoking, says one vascular physician – provided giving up tobacco does not succeed by other means.

“The e-cigarette route involves an immediate massive risk reduction,” says Professor Martin Storck of the German Society for Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine, arguing that the goal should be to stop smoking, even if it means switching to another addiction.

Kirklees Council to help smokers quit by offering e-cigarettes

Yorkshire Live

Smokers who want to start the new year off by kicking the habit are being offered vaping devices by Kirklees Council and the charity Yorkshire Cancer Research.

The devices are being offered as part of the Kirklees Wellness Service, a council funded initiative that supports over 18s in Kirklees to live healthier lives.

Related: KIRKLEES COUNCIL TO OFFER E-CIGARETTES TO HELP SMOKERS QUIT TOBACCO

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