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Vapers Digest 7th January

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Mischief from EU Chief ~  ~ Parliament Matters ~ Essex Introduces Toolkits for Kids ~ E-Cigarettes May Help People Quit Smoking ~ The People Missing From Tobacco Control ~ Cuando la salud pública automatiza el dogma ~ When Public Health Automates Dogma ~ S.A.R.A.H.: When Promised Access Leads to a Void ~ Smoking Should Not Be a Footnote in Cervical Cancer Prevention ~ Be Like Michael & Scott – See Opportunities ~ Tech startups stock free nicotine pouches as productivity perk ~ ANALYSIS: Europe’s Nicotine Rulemaking – The Path Ahead ~ COP11 insider speaks out: censorship, influence, and lost trust ~ The Cost of Prohibition: Tobacco and Vape Crackdowns Are Fueling Black Markets and Endangering Public Health ~ Missouri’s Tobacco Tax Plan Undermines Harm Reduction ~ Pouches safer than smoking but nicotine levels a concern, says government ~ 2Firsts Interview | Bengt Wiberg: Why the Oral Health Risks of Nicotine Pouches Merit Further Study ~ Media Watch: WSJ on Pouces as Tech Perks ~ Africa’s nicotine moment: What to watch in 2026 ~ UK Government Acknowledges Nicotine Pouches as Harm Reduction Tool ~ 22nd Century Files PMTA Renewal ~ Charlie’s Holdings (OTCQB:CHUC) Signs Agreement with IKE Tech to Commercialize Transformational Age-Gated Vapes that Will Address FDA Concerns Related to Youth Access ~ Vapers face price hike as new duty hits 5.1 million users ~ Denver’s flavored vape ban sends customers across city lines ~ Honest Science, Safer Choices, and THR | GFN Wishes for with Tikki Pang and ‪@GrimmGreen‬

Three from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes

Mischief from EU Chief

The World Vapers Alliance has slammed the EU Health Commissioner for spreading misinformation about vaping while the EU is missing its smoke-free target. In an exclusive interview with Euractiv, he told them that he is 100% convinced that new products such as vapes are as harmful as cigarettes – running contrary to all known evidence and common sense.

Parliament Matters

The final report from parliament for 2025 sees us enjoying the Mary Glindon show – it’s not a real show and we strongly suggest no production company makes it for television. This isn’t a slight on Mary Glindon MP, more on the robotic repetition of answers she received from Ashley Dalton when asking about the importance of vape flavours in eliquids.

Essex Introduces Toolkits for Kids

Youth vaping toolkits have been launched by Essex Public Health and the Essex Safeguarding Children Board “to help address the growing issue of youth vaping”. They say the kits have been developed with input from education settings and parents, with the aim of reducing the uptake of vaping among young people.

FDA introduces ‘chain of risk’ framework to advance tobacco harm reduction

The Statesman

The US FDA has introduced a “chain of risk” framework to regulate tobacco products based on their relative health impact rather than blanket bans. The move has intensified global debate and opened fresh discussions on adopting harm reduction strategies in countries like India.

Considering the increasingly diverse development of tobacco products, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to formally implement a “chain of risk” framework to classify and regulate tobacco products based on their relative harm to public health.

E-Cigarettes May Help People Quit Smoking

Lana Pine, The Educated Patient

Short-term use of both cigarettes and e-cigarettes was associated with better long-term quitting outcomes, according to research published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research.

“The sooner smokers quit, the better, but for those who find it difficult to stop smoking abruptly, vaping can help with doing it gradually over time,” said lead investigator Francesca Pesola, Ph.D., senior lecturer in Statistics at Queen Mary University of London.

The People Missing From Tobacco Control

Alan Gor, Substack

Modern tobacco control describes itself as comprehensive, compassionate, and evidence-based. Its language is saturated with concern: protecting children, preventing addiction, reducing harm. On paper, it appears to leave no one behind.

In practice, it does.

Two From Ivan Garay, Ivan Garay THR

Cuando la salud pública automatiza el dogma

Spanish version: La Organización Mundial de la Salud presentó a S.A.R.A.H. como un avance hacia el acceso equitativo a información confiable, empática y basada en evidencia. En el papel, la propuesta parece incuestionable. ¿Quién podría oponerse a una herramienta que promete ayudar a las personas a tomar mejores decisiones sobre su salud?

When Public Health Automates Dogma

English version:

The World Health Organization introduced S.A.R.A.H. as a step toward equitable access to reliable, empathetic, and evidence-based information. On paper, the proposal seems beyond dispute. Who could oppose a tool that promises to help people make better decisions about their health?

S.A.R.A.H.: When Promised Access Leads to a Void

The search for S.A.R.A.H. resembles less a journey through innovation in digital health and more an exercise in journalistic verification. Not because the technology does not exist, but because real access seems to dissolve among links that promise conversation and pages that offer nothing more than institutional discourse.

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Two From Skip Murray

Smoking Should Not Be a Footnote in Cervical Cancer Prevention

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Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women. In 2022, there were an estimated 660,000 diagnoses and about 350,000 deaths worldwide. That works out to someone dying from cervical cancer every two minutes.

Somewhere in statistics like those are people like my Grandma.

One of my favorite places in the world was the log cabin my great-grandpa built in 1924, along the shores of Lake Sylvan outside Pillager, Minnesota. I spent a lot of time there with my grandparents. 

Be Like Michael & Scott – See Opportunities

Skip’s Corner – Let’s Talk!

Happy New Year!

While the Opportunities listing does not usually include a commentary, I’m going to take advantage of the opportunity to do this one differently. You never know if there is a better way to do something unless you are willing to #MakeNewMistakes. In honor of the two gentlemen I’m going to write about, I hope all of us will make an effort to try new things, to talk to more people, to judge less, and get to know others as people—and not just as their viewpoint on a contentious issue. Scott and Michael saw an opportunity each time they interacted with someone else. They did not believe in wasting those opportunities!

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

Popular Advocate Forced to Close…

Her Small-Town Vape Shop – Alex Norcia

For the past couple of years, Skip Murray has updated a Twitter thread every time a vape shop shuts down. On December 31, 2021, she added her own.

Since 2018, Murray had run Lakes Vape and Rec Supply in Brainerd, Minnesota, a small town and tourist destination a few hours north of Minneapolis. A fierce consumer advocate and self-described “optimist,” she knew that she’d one day have to close her store, even if she could never quite admit it to herself.

Tobacco and Nicotine Policy Is in Disarray

Martin Cullip

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), led at the time by then-Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, published a regulatory plan in July 2017 to reduce tobacco-related disease and death.

Visit Nicotine Science & Policy for more News from around the World

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