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Vapers Digest 5th May

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Monday’s News at a glance:

Greece Flavour Ban Threat ~E-cigarettes, heated tobacco, nicotine pouches effective for quitting smoking – report ~ Defining the Risk of Oral Tobacco Products ~ Uncovered: the UK’s fake cigarettes epidemic ~ Uzbekistan Bans Vapes and Heated Tobacco Products ~ Federal Judge Grants Injunction, Blocks Iowa PMTA Registry For Now ~ Tobacco Industry Sympathizers ~ Media Watch: NY Post in Sensationalist Article Shocker ~ OLDCORN: Australia’s tobacco tax fiasco offers Canada a smoking hot warning ~ Cutting China and WHO down to size starts with U.S. vape reform ~ The insanity of the war on vapes | Last Orders ~ TAX TRAP | How Safer Nicotine Products Get Treated Like Tobacco

Greece Flavour Ban Threat

Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

Consumer organisations and vaping advocates from Greece and across Europe, including the Greek Vapers’ Alliance and the World Vapers’ Alliance, are sounding the alarm over the Ministry of Health’s proposed ban on all vape flavours except tobacco and menthol. They warn that this measure risks reversing Greece’s hard-won progress in reducing smoking rates.

E-cigarettes, heated tobacco, nicotine pouches effective for quitting smoking – report

Inquirer.net

Harm reduction tools such as e-cigarettes, heated tobacco, and nicotine pouches are highly effective in helping smokers quit, the World Vapers Alliance (WVA) reported.

The WVA said scientific studies show that harm reduction works. E-cigarettes are at least 95 percent less harmful than traditional cigarettes, a finding supported by Public Health England.

Defining the Risk of Oral Tobacco Products

Dr. Brad Rodu, Sensible Medicine

In my recent Sensible Medicine article, “Six Urban Myths About Smoke-Free Nicotine”, I noted that American dip/chew products do not pose any appreciable risk for head and neck cancer among American men. Surprised? What follows is an explanation of the evidence for that statement.

The idea that oral, non-smoked, tobacco causes head and neck cancer can be traced directly to an NEJM article published 44 years ago.1[i] That study, authored by Deborah Winn and colleagues, appeared the same year that I began my 24-year faculty career at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine as an oral and maxillofacial pathologist.

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Uncovered: the UK’s fake cigarettes epidemic

Jim Armitage, The Times

At Dodo’s Mini Market and vape shop on Endike Lane in Hull, Griff, a three-year-old brown and white springer spaniel, barks manically at a shelf of cough sweets and Mentos, his tail wagging in circles like a Spitfire propeller. Humberside police and Trading Standards officers have already found two bin liners full of counterfeit cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco in the ramshackle backyard, but they’ve called in the sniffer dogs in case there’s more.

(Non-Paywall version: Uncovered: the UK’s fake cigarettes epidemic)

Two from Jim McDonald, Vaping 360

Uzbekistan Bans Vapes and Heated Tobacco Products

Uzbekistan will ban the sale of vaping products, including devices and e-liquids. The new law will also prohibit heated tobacco products (HTPs). Most of Uzbekistan’s Central Asian neighbors have similar vape bans.

Uzbekistan is the most recent of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia to prohibit vape sales. Kyrgyzstan adopted a ban last June that will take effect July 1, Kazakhstan imposed a ban last year, and Turkmenistan prohibited vapes in 2013. In the region—which has over 80 million residents—only Tajikistan allows the sale of vaping products.

Federal Judge Grants Injunction, Blocks Iowa PMTA Registry For Now 

A federal judge has issued an injunction preventing the state of Iowa from enforcing its PMTA registry law while a lawsuit challenging the registry plays out. Chief Judge Stephanie Rose of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa found in favor of the vaping industry plaintiffs yesterday.

Registry bill HF 2677 was passed by the state legislature last April and signed into law by the governor in May. An Iowa vaping industry association, IFAST, along with several individual businesses, sued the state in December 2024, seeking to block enforcement of the law, which was set to begin in February.

 

Related: Federal court blocks Iowa vaping law in lawsuit from e-cigarette manufacturers, retailers

Tobacco Industry Sympathizers

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

The latest volley started with a tweet by Vital Strategies. It states, “Harm reduction saves lives. Our Overdose Prevention team is at the Harm Reduction International Conference #HR25Bogotá this week. We’ve teamed up with author Jessica Hoppe to spread the word on the pivotal role of health-centered solutions, including harm reduction, to end the overdose crisis.” The tweet includes the link to Hoppe’s video, where she shares her story.

OLDCORN: Australia’s tobacco tax fiasco offers Canada a smoking hot warning

Christopher Oldcorn, Western Standard

Australia is living proof that punishing taxes on nicotine can backfire, and Canada should take notice.

Tobacco excise revenue there will tumble to $7.4 billion AUD this year, down from $12.6 billion AUD in 2022‑23, and a peak of $16.3 billion AUD in 2019‑20.

That is a collapse of more than 50% in five years, even though every cigarette now carries about $1.40 AUD in excise and an extra 10% a year in compound hikes.

Smokers did not all quit.

Cutting China and WHO down to size starts with U.S. vape reform

Mark Anton, American Thinker

Amid the ongoing tariff war between President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping, another critical front is emerging — one with serious implications for more than 20 million American adults: the battle to lead in the manufacturing of tobacco harm reduction (THR) products. Chief among these are electronic cigarettes, which remain under intense scrutiny due to their origins and market share competition.

While then-candidate Trump pledged in 2024 to protect flavored vaping, recent congressional hearings and 2025 state legislative sessions reveal that substantial work remains.

Spiked

The great Claire Fox joins Chris Snowdon and Tom Slater for another episode of Last Orders, the spiked podcast all about freedom and the nanny state. They discuss the latest on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, the anti-terror law that shut down a flower show, and the scourge of the anti-smoking playbook.

Global Forum on Nicotine

New research reveals governments are taxing safer nicotine products like cigarettes, sabotaging tobacco harm reduction and blocking smokers from switching. Correcting these policies could accelerate global declines in smoking.

A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…

Wisdom From Cessation Pioneers

Brad Rodu, Tobacco Truth

A search of the medical literature on the topic “smoking cessation” finds 32,446 published articles, yet, surprisingly, there are no articles linked to this topic until the year 1980, and only 27 articles were published from 1981 to 1990.  Medical researchers primarily focused on smoking cessation in the last three decades — 1991 to 2000 (4,481 articles), 2001 to 2010 (10,976 articles), and 2011 to the present (16,964 articles).  Despite this impressive volume of research, the U.S. still records 480,000 deaths annually due to smoking.

The EU’s Demented Attack

On Harm Reduction – Mark Oates

Whatever you think about the pros and cons of Brexit, if you’re trying to stop smoking, leaving has some benefits for Britain. The EU’s deranged and misguided attempts to reduce smoking have extended to punishing tobacco harm-reduction products, including nicotine pouches.

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