Vapers Digest 6th October
Monday’s News at a glance:
Time to Stoptober – AI Uncovers Support for Harm Reduction – FCTC’s Failure to Uphold Harm Reduction Risks Global Public Health – Voices of Harm Reduction Pt 9: Derek Yach – Ex-WHO expert urges harm reduction in APAC smoking – How Australia Got the Story of Tobacco Harm Reduction So Wrong – New MDO Appeal Challenges Undeclared FDA Flavor Ban – The fate of the premarket tobacco product application – The fight over Denver’s flavored tobacco ban starts to heat up – BAT Announces 70% of Policy Experts Continue to Misidentify Nicotine as Primary Cause of Smoking-related Disease – Why is the government making vapes harder to buy than cigarettes? – Swindon Council shares woman’s journey to quit smoking – Over 60 vape shops in Perak must cease operations by Jan 1 2026 – The EU’s crackdown on safer nicotine alternatives risks driving smokers back to cigarettes – Times Of War | Trump’s FDA Escalates the Fight Against Vaping
Two From Dave Cross, Planet of The Vapes
Time to Stoptober
This October, Stoptober once again encourages smokers across the UK to take the first step towards quitting. But with Swedish nicotine pouch brand, KLAR’s recent research revealing that 73% of smokers and vapers in the UK plan to quit this year, the question remains: do they have the right tools to succeed?
AI Uncovers Support for Harm Reduction
FCTC’s Failure to Uphold Harm Reduction Risks Global Public Health
Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA), GlobeNewswire
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has serious concerns over how The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) defines tobacco control as including harm reduction, yet the current COP11 agenda dangerously ignores this core principle.
Voices of Harm Reduction Pt 9: Derek Yach
As we count down to the WHO’s bi-annual summit on tobacco control – which is increasingly used to spread misinformation about harm reduction, we sat down with former WHO Director for Non-Communicable Diseases Derek Yach. Derek’s had a long and fascinating career in public health, so we’ve made this a two-parter.
You started your career in the South African government as the country was transitioning from apartheid to to democracy. What was that period like?
I did medical school and student politics during the height of apartheid. So I saw my role in medicine and public health as helping to address the inequities of the past and to try and tackle the health problems of the future. Even though my employer, the SA Medical Research Council, was seen as conservative, we published a lot during that decade that eventually became important for the incoming ANC to use in their policy.
Ex-WHO expert urges harm reduction in APAC smoking
Sunstar
A FORMER World Health Organization (WHO) director has urged urgent action on tobacco harm reduction in the Asia-Pacific region, where smoking prevalence remains the highest in the world.
Professor Tikki Pang, senior global health consultant at the Center for Healthcare Policy and Reform Studies in Jakarta and previously a Director of Research Policy and Cooperation at the WHO, made the call during a webinar hosted by the Asia Forum on Nicotine (AFN) on August 17.
A new appeal of FDA marketing denial orders (MDOs) issued to six small vapor manufacturers challenges the agency’s marketing authorization process on grounds that were not decided in the Supreme Court Triton Distribution decision.
If the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rules against the FDA, as it did in Triton, the FDA is likely to ask the Supreme Court once again to validate its premarket tobacco application (PMTA) review process.
The fate of the premarket tobacco product application
Diane Adam, Convenience Store Products (CSP)
In January, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew its proposed rules to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. The announcement came on President Donald Trump’s second day in office and convenience-store retailers were instrumental in these efforts.
This insight comes from Executive Director David Spross with the National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO), who told a room full of c-store tobacco category managers and operators on Sept. 17, at CSP’s Tobacco Plus Forum in Schaumburg, Illinois, that they should be credited with their engagement on this issue.
The two sides in Denver’s ballot battle over flavored tobacco have together raised more than $650,000.
So far, the nicotine industry is winning the fundraising battle.
That’s according to campaign filings posted Friday on the website of the Office of the Denver Clerk and Recorder.
The fight is about whether to keep or repeal Denver’s ban on flavored tobacco. The Denver City Council banned the sales last year, and voters will decide this November whether to keep the ban in place.
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
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