Vaping Digest 16th September
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
A Ban On E-cigarettes Would Harm Public Health ~ Majority of Surveyed Doctors Misattribute Tobacco Harms to Nicotine ~ Snus Market Expected to Reach $1.7 billion by 2027 ~ Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan Town Hall ~ Plain packaging for e-cigarettes?!? ~ Katter’s Australian Party calls for vaping to be legalised in Australia ~ Webinar For Kiwi Vapers Attracts World-leading Experts ~ Fake Flavour Fears ~ Docs Confused Over Nicotine ~ Teen Vaping Declined 29% in 2020, CDC Survey Shows ~ Harm Reduction Can Reduce Smoking Rates In Kenya ~ Vaping scrutiny has faded amid COVID, but research continues ~ E-cigarette use and COVID-19 in youth and young adults: serious questions about data reliability and call for retraction ~ P.E.I. to ban flavoured vape, e-cigarette products effective March 1
A Ban On E-cigarettes Would Harm Public Health
Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan Town Hall
European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates
Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan(EBCP) is a key EU initiative put in place to combat cancer, a leading cause of death in the EU, claiming an estimated 1.3 million lives each year. The initiative was launched on February 4th at an event in the European Parliament in Brussels, and includes two public consultations: the roadmap and a public consultation.
Plain packaging for e-cigarettes?!?
Christopher Snowdon, Velvet Glove Iron Fist
The Netherlands is on the brink of introducing plain packaging for e-cigarettes. To my knowledge, the only other country to have gone down that path is Israel. Not many countries have introduced plain packaging for tobacco products, let alone vaping products, because it doesn’t work. The Dutch government also plans to ban (non-tobacco) e-cigarette flavours.
Katter’s Australian Party calls for vaping to be legalised in Australia
Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association
Webinar For Kiwi Vapers Attracts World-leading Experts
New Zealand’s 200,000 vapers are being encouraged to attend an online conference on Saturday, 26 September.
The virtual event will bring together public health policy experts, scientists, professionals, and consumers who believe smoke-free nicotine products are a much safer alternative to cigarettes and a fundamental human right.
In two weeks we’ll welcome visitors from far & near to @ThirdWardMKE for our World Premiere pop up Drive-In experience.
To ensure our guests have a safe, fun, & memorable time, we’re sharing our crew’s favorite things to do in the area.
Check it out:https://t.co/FcujoyXYKu pic.twitter.com/icD5W8dsKf
— You Don’t Know Nicotine (@KnowNicotine) September 12, 2020
TWO from Dave Cross, Planet of The Vapes
Fake Flavour Fears
The European Lung Foundation (ELF) ignores science to promote fake fears over the flavours in vape liquids. It invents its own reality where “chemicals in e-cigarettes mix together to form new, unexpectedly toxic compounds”, following on from a recent history of attacking vaping as a harm reduction tool.
Docs Confused Over Nicotine
“Nicotine,” says the research paper, “is responsible for the highly addictive nature of tobacco products, but most tobacco-caused disease is not directly caused by nicotine, but rather by other chemicals”. Worryingly, researchers at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania found that far too many American doctors do not understand this simple fact.
Harm Reduction Can Reduce Smoking Rates In Kenya
Tobacco Harm Reduction Kenya
ONE in every three Kenyan smokers has tried to quit. Yet, only a tiny fraction succeed. Just how do we help them kick this deadly habit? And how do we persuade other smokers that it is a good idea to follow suit? A sensible start would be to reject calls for tobacco-style restrictions on nicotine pouches.
Advocates for Tobacco Harm Reduction, like myself, believe that such knee-jerk reactions against innovation are dangerously counter-productive and block routes to a healthier future.
Vaping scrutiny has faded amid COVID, but research continues
Ohio State University received $5.5 million in funding in July from the American Heart Association to conduct research on vaping in kids.
James Jarvis feels like he’s spent the last year or so jumping from crisis to crisis in his industry.
Jarvis, who owns Vapor Station in Gahanna, had to temporarily close his business because of the COVID-19 pandemic while also dealing with fallout over lung injuries that developed in some people who used e-cigarettes and other vaping devices.
PDF version for those without access: Vaping scrutiny has faded amid COVID, but research continues
E-cigarette use and COVID-19 in youth and young adults:
serious questions about data reliability and call for retraction
Konstantinos Farsalinos, Raymond Niaura, Quios
In a recent study, Gaiha et al. examined the association between e-cigarette use and COVID-19 in an online cross-sectional study of people aged 13-24 years conducted from May 6 to May 14, 2020. We have noticed serious issues in population weighting, response bias and biological implausibility. The suggested conclusions and interpretation of the study findings cannot be considered reliable. These issues raise the question of retracting the study.
P.E.I. to ban flavoured vape, e-cigarette products effective March 1
CBC News Canada, Yahoo
As of March 1, 2021, the sale of flavoured vape and e-cigarette products will be banned on Prince Edward Island.
The regulation changes were passed by cabinet last month. It comes as part of a private members bill from PC MLA Cory Deagle, which received unanimous support from the legislature in 2019, to crack down on nicotine use among young people.
On this Day…2019
Is Vaping Really Killing People?
Here are the Facts – Lee Johnson
You’d have to have been living under a rock, with no cell phone, hundreds of miles away from society and with your fingers in your ears to have missed the recent furor over the “vaping related deaths” in the US.
With the death count recently rising to six, the finger is pointed firmly at vaping, with the CDC stating, “Until we know more, if you are concerned about these specific health risks, CDC recommends that you consider refraining from using e-cigarette or vaping products.”
The secretary of the Department of Health and Environment for Kansas went even further, saying, “If you or a loved one is vaping, please stop. The recent deaths across our country, combined with hundreds of reported lung injury cases continue to intensify.”
Why the Proposed US Vape Flavors Ban…
Risks Global Harm – Chelsea Boyd, Carrie Wade
The Trump administration’s announcement of plans to ban all flavored vaping products will cause more harm than good. It will put vapers at risk of either purchasing adulterated products through the illicit market or turning back to smoking combustible cigarettes. The move also circumvents existing federal efforts to make vaping as safe as possible for adults.
At a higher level, it adds to the hysteria surrounding tobacco harm reduction internationally. As countries look to just a few examples of sane approaches to e-cigarette regulation, the United States has once again signaled that our regulatory agencies and public health bodies are in disarray.
Why the Proposed US Vape Flavors Ban…
Risks Global Harm – Chelsea Boyd, Carrie Wade
The Trump administration’s announcement of plans to ban all flavored vaping products will cause more harm than good. It will put vapers at risk of either purchasing adulterated products through the illicit market or turning back to smoking combustible cigarettes. The move also circumvents existing federal efforts to make vaping as safe as possible for adults.
At a higher level, it adds to the hysteria surrounding tobacco harm reduction internationally. As countries look to just a few examples of sane approaches to e-cigarette regulation, the United States has once again signaled that our regulatory agencies and public health bodies are in disarray.
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