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Vapers Digest 8th June

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Monday’s News at a glance:

Warning for Southeast Asia ~ “Let Them Eat Cake”: Harm Reduction Edition ~ As a physician, I know we need to focus on helping the forgotten smoker ~ The Enemy Is Smoke, Not Nicotine: What the Nicotine 2030 Briefings Tell Us ~ The Consumer Revolt Against Expertise ~ The “Every Vape” Campaign Has a Blind Spot It Cannot Acknowledge ~ The Youth Vaping Narrative Strikes Again: A Perspective Piece Built on Assumptions Rather Than Evidence ~ Vaping Theology #26: When Ideology Collides With Reality ~ When Reality Becomes Inconvenient: Croakey’s Refusal to Learn from Australia’s Tobacco Disaster ~ What the Vaping Debate Taught Me About Power, Trust, and Truth ~ New Report Launched at Global Forum on Nicotine Warns Vape Prohibition Hands Markets to Criminals ~ WHO hit with community fact check after calling for flavoured vape bans ~ The Pentagon can’t have it both ways on nicotine ~ Montana Youth Tobacco Use Declines While More Adults Switch to Smoke-Free Alternatives ~ EU Health Commissioner branded the ‘Donald Trump of fake science’ ~ Sweden blocks EU compromise on nicotine pouch tax hike ~ TPD3: Consumers and scientists urged to act as EU prepares new tobacco rules ~ EU talks on tobacco taxation hit a Swedish brick wall ~ Brussels knows how to end smoking, but chooses not to ~ Twilight of the charlatans ~ Illicit tobacco trade surges to 80% of Australian market | 7NEWS

Warning for Southeast Asia

Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is warning Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines not to repeat the policy mistakes that helped fuel Australia’s growing illicit nicotine and tobacco market, leading to a rampaging black market and a frightening level of gang warfare, murders and arson attacks on retail premises.

“Let Them Eat Cake”: Harm Reduction Edition

Jeffrey S. Smith, R Street

In recent weeks, the government of France decided to ban the sales, use, possession, import, and distribution of any oral nicotine products. Violations carry penalties of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 375,000 euros. For a country that has otherwise supported tobacco harm reduction, this is a step backward.

As a physician, I know we need to focus on helping the forgotten smoker

Dr. Tom Price, Fox News

As a physician, former member of Congress, and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I have spent much of my career focused on policies that improve health outcomes. I have also seen the toll of smoking up close. I lost my father to what I often call “Lucky Strike lungs.” That experience has stayed with me — and it underscores a simple fact: smoking remains one of the nation’s most serious and persistent public health challenges.

The Enemy Is Smoke, Not Nicotine: What the Nicotine 2030 Briefings Tell Us

Tobacco Harm Reduction

Over a billion adults still smoke cigarettes today, and despite decades of public health investment, that number has barely moved. In a new four-part briefing series published in June 2026, global health expert Dr. Derek Yach lays out why progress is stalling, and what it will take to change course.

Dr. Derek Yach has spent decades at the centre of global health — leading non-communicable disease and tobacco policy at the WHO, where he helped shape the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and driving health initiatives at the Rockefeller Foundation, PepsiCo, and the Vitality Institute.

Six From Alan Gor

The Consumer Revolt Against Expertise

One of the most important developments in the vaping debate receives surprisingly little attention. While governments, health agencies, academics, and advocacy organisations continue to argue over nicotine policy, an increasing number of consumers quietly conclude their own: they no longer trust official messaging about vaping.

The “Every Vape” Campaign Has a Blind Spot It Cannot Acknowledge

Australia’s public health establishment has become remarkably skilled at producing stakeholder toolkits. Every few months, a new campaign appears accompanied by carefully designed graphics, social media assets, talking points, educational materials, community engagement resources and messaging guides that are distributed throughout schools, health services, local councils and advocacy organisations. The branding changes, the slogans evolve and the imagery is refreshed, but the underlying message remains strikingly familiar. Vaping is presented primarily as a threat, a problem to be solved, a behaviour to be discouraged and ultimately something that should disappear.

The Youth Vaping Narrative Strikes Again:

A Perspective Piece Built on Assumptions Rather Than Evidence

The latest Perspective article published in PLOS Medicine by Raglan Maddox, Becky Freeman, Charlotta Pisinger and Emily Banks presents itself as a warning about the deliberate targeting of young people by the tobacco and nicotine industry. At first glance, it appears to be a serious contribution to the scientific literature, but a closer reading reveals something quite different. Rather than offering new evidence, new data, or new analysis, the article is essentially an advocacy piece that repackages long-standing ideological arguments against tobacco harm reduction while presenting them as settled scientific fact.

Vaping Theology #26: When Ideology Collides With Reality

Simon Chapman’s latest blog is presented as a triumphant rebuttal of tobacco harm reduction advocates, but it reveals a deeper problem that has become increasingly common in the Australian vaping debate: the tendency to replace evidence-based analysis with caricature, mockery and selective interpretation of data.

When Reality Becomes Inconvenient: Croakey’s Refusal

to Learn from Australia’s Tobacco Disaster

The latest Croakey article urging governments to intensify their crackdown on illicit tobacco is remarkable not because it presents any genuinely new ideas, but because it demonstrates how difficult it has become for some parts of the public health establishment to acknowledge policy failure when that failure conflicts with deeply held beliefs. Australia is currently experiencing one of the most dramatic expansions of illicit tobacco trade seen anywhere in the developed world, yet rather than prompting reflection about the policies that contributed to this outcome, the response from many public health advocates appears to be a demand for even more enforcement, even tougher restrictions, and even greater faith in the very approach that has produced the current situation.

What the Vaping Debate Taught Me About Power, Trust, and Truth

When I first started writing about vaping policy, I believed I was entering a debate about public health. I assumed the central questions would revolve around evidence, risk, harm reduction, smoking cessation, and the best way to improve population health. Like many people, I believed that if enough good-quality evidence was gathered and presented honestly, the strongest arguments would eventually prevail. Science, after all, is supposed to be a process of testing ideas, challenging assumptions, and refining our understanding as new evidence emerges.

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WHO hit with community fact check after calling for flavoured vape bans

Clayton DeMaine, Juno News

The World Health Organization was hit with a reader-added fact check after its director-general promoted a World No Tobacco Day video calling on governments to ban flavoured vaping products, restrict advertising and regulate packaging.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted that “at least 40 million children aged 13 to 15 are already using tobacco products” and that 15 million children are using e-cigarettes, claiming tobacco and nicotine companies “continue to drive addiction, particularly for young people.”

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

When Should Force Be Used

To Protect Public Health? – Jacob Sullum

During an April 2 interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News, Surgeon General Jerome Adams compared deaths caused by COVID-19 to deaths caused by smoking and drug abuse. “More people will die, even in the worst projections, from cigarette smoking in this country than are going to die from coronavirus this year,” he said.

Associations of Flavored e-Cig Uptake

With Subsequent Smoking Initiation and Cessation

In this cohort study with 17 929 participants, multivariable analyses of nationally representative, longitudinal survey data evaluated differences in smoking initiation and cessation subsequent to vaping uptake among those who used flavored vs unflavored e-cigarettes, separately by age group. Relative to vaping tobacco flavors, vaping nontobacco-flavored e-cigarettes was not associated with increased youth smoking initiation but was associated with an increase in the odds of adult smoking cessation

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