Vapers Digest 6th March
Wednesday’s News at a glance
SD: “Introduce harm reduction in tobacco policy” ~ The WHO Proves It Is Interested Only in Its Own Power, Not Health ~ Possible UK Vape Tax & Industry Responses ~ Vape Tax ‘is scientifically and economically illiterate’ ~ British American Tobacco chief embraces new UK vape tax ~ Rising Numbers of Brits Who Smoke Don’t Know That Vaping Is Safer ~ AACS Provides Warning for the UK from Australia ~ WHO’s Disregard Called Out ~ Deborah Arnott to Retire ~ The Advocates Voice – March 2024 ~ A Smoke-Free Nigeria: Lessons From Sweden ~ Don’t Block Escape Route For Smokers, Say Activists ~ It just got much harder to stop smoking ~ Shocking moment 13-year-old boy is thrown to the ground by police after he was caught with a vape
SD: “Introduce harm reduction in tobacco policy” ~
The WHO Proves It Is Interested Only in Its Own Power, Not Health
Martin Cullip, Tobacco Harm Reduction
As evidence of the effectiveness of reduced risk products to help people quit smoking grows, and as more countries start to recognise that prohibiting or heavily restricting their use is futile and contrary to public health goals, the desperation of the World Health Organization (WHO) to defend its stubborn anti-science approach has begun to turn distinctly ugly.
In her closing speech to the 10th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the WHO’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), Head of the FCTC Secretariat, Adriana Blanco Marquizo, shockingly singled out a quote during the week of the conference from a youth group as being particularly praiseworthy.
Possible UK Vape Tax & Industry Responses
Michelle, EcigClick
The UK Chancellor will release his Spring Budget on Wednesday 6th March 2024 – will vaping be subject to a tax?
According to many publications this will likely be the case.
The budget is where the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Jeremy Hunt) reveals the financial planning for the UK. Usual areas discussed include taxation, spending commitments and benefits.
Rising Numbers of Brits Who Smoke Don’t Know That Vaping Is Safer
KIRAN SIDHU, Filter Magazine
English adults who smoke are increasingly unaware that vapes are less harmful than cigarettes, new data reveal. That’s in a country where vapes have been broadly welcomed, and embraced as harm reduction by official messaging—but one where media and policies have more recently muddied the picture.
More than 28,000 adults in England who smoke were quizzed on how they perceived vapes between November 2014 and June 2023. A study presenting the outcomes, published in JAMA Network Open on February 28, concluded that: “harm perceptions of e-cigarettes have worsened substantially over the last decade.”
Three From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes
Shocking footage captured the moment a 13-year-old boy was wrestled by two police officers before being thrown to the ground after he was busted using a vape.
The boy is understood to have been with his mother and another boy outside a shopping centre on Harding Street at Deniliquin, regional NSW, on February 27.
Two NSW Police officers then approached the teenager and asked him to hand over his vape or they would have to ‘use force’.
On this Day…2023
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
Altria Dumps Share in Juul, Buys NJOY…
For $2.75 Billion – Jim McDonald
Altria Group has bought NJOY Holdings, just three days after trading its 35 percent share in Juul Labs for rights to some Juul intellectual property. The Juul deal marks the end of Altria’s equity ownership in the troubled vape manufacturer, and ends all underlying agreements between the companies.
MLB players turning to nicotine pouches
Jake Mintz
In 1912, the American Tobacco Company advertised its popular “Bull Durham” brand of loose-leaf chewing tobacco by erecting enormous wooden bull statues beyond outfield fences in the majority of MLB stadiums.
Any player who struck a homer off the bull would win a $50 check and 72 “sacks” of tobacco as a reward.
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