Harry's Blog 117
An Unholy Trinity

Three architects of tobacco harm reduction disinformation land in London. On 15th March, Bloomberg Philanthropies (BP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and Vital Strategies (VP) will co-host the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Summit will bring together mayors and other city leaders from the Partnership global network to discuss strategies to combat the global burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries. [Read More]

Resource highlights
2018-12-31 , Submission deadline
IJERPH is now accepting submissions for a special issue on Tobacco Harm Reduction, on research that advances our understanding of the potential place of tobacco harm reduction strategies within a comprehensive approach to reducing the burden of smoking related disease, and that will assist policy makers to determine what level of regulation is most appropriate for potential reduced risk products.
2018-01-19 , vapetrotter.com
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
We are concerned where we have got to in Australia and the fact is that with the increase in vaping and the creation of the black market that has happened in Australia, which is different to many other countries' approach, we have effectively created a black market by so throttling the supply of vaping products to be prescription-only by a GP. Only 1 per cent of GPs in Australia are registered as prescribers for these smoking cessation products. That is a problem, so what has happened is that smokers who want to get off smoking - long-term, rusted-on smokers who have tried and tried - find it difficult to access a GP and extremely cumbersome so they buy them on the black market.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Another day, another ban. Now the Government is taking aim at the most effective anti-smoking tool ever devised – disposable vapes. Alongside claiming that adults would not be so childish as to enjoy the taste of cola, fruits, or mint, the Government have highlighted the environmental concerns of disposable vapes. This may be a more valid concern than the phoney health argument. However, the industry has already begun innovating their way out of this quagmire. To go back to basics, disposable vapes use lithium-ion batteries to power a metal coil, which heats a tank of glycerine, nicotine, and flavouring (all of which are non-carcinogenic). [...]
Thursday, March 30, 2023
United Kingdom
A ban on exotic flavours of disposal e-cigarettes to stop children smoking them would ruin the industry, the owner of a vape shop said. Ministers are considering the move around fruit and candy-flavoured vapes, according to a report in the Sun, external. "All they are going to do is kill the industry," Andy Connellan, who runs Connect 2 Vapes in Worcester, said. A range of measures were being considered, a Department of Health (DoH) spokesperson said. The latest data showed reported usage of e-cigarettes has risen to 9% among 11 to 15-year-olds in England.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Malaysia
GEORGE TOWN: The possible removal of nicotine from the Poisons Act 1952 is a very big mistake, the Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP) said today. It said such a move would result in more people becoming addicted to nicotine. CAP anti-smoking activist and education officer N. V. Subbarow said they were worried that Malaysian youths would become nicotine addicts rather than drug addicts if nicotine was removed from the Poisons Act. "We are opening a path for our children and youths to become nicotine addicts by removing nicotine from the Poisons Act. As such, CAP doesn't understand the logic behind this move.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: A government proposal currently under consideration to exclude liquid or gel nicotine from the list of controlled substances under the Poisons Act 1952, should not proceed as it contravenes public health priorities, said non-party think tank, Galen Centre for Health and Social Policy CEO Azrul Mohd Khalib, adding that the very consideration is “a shocking development”. “On Jan 25, we issued a statement stating that as it is, vape in Malaysia remains unregulated, unrestricted, and out of control. Some 4.9% of the population currently vape and this number is rising by the day.
Thursday, 09 March

Three architects of tobacco harm reduction disinformation land in London.

On 15th March, Bloomberg Philanthropies (BP), the World Health Organization (WHO), and Vital Strategies (VP) will co-host the inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit with London Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Summit will bring together mayors and other city leaders from the Partnership global network to discuss strategies to combat the global burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and injuries. 

Thursday, 02 February

 Nicotine consumer advocates the world over are fighting for the right to health. Nobody is listening.

There are over 100 million users worldwide of safer nicotine products

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Tuesday, 04 October

The WHO has just published Invisible numbers: The true extent of noncommunicable diseases and what to do about

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Monday, 01 August

Huge disruption has been caused by the evidence that non-combustible vaping and heated tobacco products and Swedish-style snus can have a game-changing impact on reducing death and disease from

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Tuesday, 29 March

As part of my preparation work for the next Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction report, which is due out in November, I was reading Professor Virginia Berridge’s book Demons: Our Changing

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Thursday, 09 June

The WHO awarded a prize to Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) on May 31, the International No Smoking Day. Although the official reason was the approval of a new Tobacco Law, it is evident that AMLO was prized for his five presidential decrees that ban the commercialization and importation of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS e-cigarettes and heat not burn products). 

Commercialization of ENDS has always been illegal in Mexico, but in 2015

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Thursday, 25 November

E-cigarette product regulation requires accurate analyses of emissions. User behavior,

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Thursday, 16 September

Previous to the COVID pandemic, CAPHRA had been making plans to rent a room at a nearby hotel

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Wednesday, 25 August

Within the U.S. public health community, the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH),

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Monday, 12 April

Def. Sea change or sea-change is an English idiomatic expression which denotes a

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