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If these findings prove causal, there would be a "compelling rationale" for banning the use of e-cigarettes and other vaping devices in public spaces, conclude the researchers.
Despite the popularity of vaping, little is currently known about the possible health effects of secondhand exposure to nicotine vapor from e-cigarettes and other vaping devices, say the researchers.
And while secondhand exposure to particulate matter from e-cigarettes is lower than that from conventional cigarettes, levels of ultrafine particles in e-cigarette aerosol can be higher. This aerosol also contains volatile compounds and metals known to harm lung tissue.
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The N.W.T. is on track to ban most flavoured vape products in the territory starting this March.
Advocates say this will help keep kids from getting addicted to nicotine but people working in the industry say their sales are already highly regulated to keep their products away from children, and the new law might force them to close for good.
Under the territorial government's proposed amendment to the Tobacco and Vapour Products Control Act, only flavourless or tobacco-flavoured vape products would be allowed to be sold in the N.W.T.
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Spike Babaian is the Swiss Army Knife of vaping. She is a fierce advocate for tobacco harm reduction, a vape business owner who has helped hundreds if not thousands of smokers to quit, a published researcher, an educator and an activist against flavor bans. At her store in East Harlem, a predominantly low-income Latinx and Black neighborhood, she helped people with some of the highest rates of smoking switch.
“We quit smoking and we thought everyone should have that chance, and the government took it away.”
“Even though there isn’t a lot of money in East Harlem, there are a lot of smokers,” Babaian told me [...]
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Regular smokers are at heightened risk of developing cardiovascular disease, but crushing the butts in favor of a "smokeless" alternative like chewing tobacco, snuff or tobacco lozenges may go a long way toward bringing the danger down to a more normal level, a new UCLA-led study shows.
The findings also indicate that the primary culprit in smokers' increased risk is not nicotine but other chemicals found in tobacco smoke. Both cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products contain large quantities of nicotine.
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Heated tobacco products are designed to heat tobacco without burning it or producing smoke. The popularity of these products soared in Japan after the release of an electronic device called IQOS in 2016. Heated tobacco products are now available in many countries, but questions remained about their effect on cigarette smoking and health, so we set out to review the evidence.
Our new review covers data from 11 studies with over 2,600 people. The headline finding is that people who switched from cigarettes to heated tobacco had lower levels of exposure to harmful chemicals than those who kept smoking [...]
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On any given Saturday night, Alan from Express Hookah, a shisha delivery service in Sydney, will make 30-40 deliveries.
He told The Feed that in the three years he’s worked at the business its “growth has been huge”.
“It’s [Shisha] becoming more accessible so people are doing it all year round.”
“Our regular customers are in their 30s and 40s while people in their late teens and early 20s tend to have it at one-off events,” he said.
While the business is a popular one, Alan told The Feed it is not a lucrative one because of Australia’s tobacco taxes.
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To get FDA approval to sell a prescription drug in the United States, you have to prove that the drug is safe and effective. What is required to get FDA to clear an e-cigarette for marketing approval?
We don't talk about “approving” tobacco products, because tobacco products are inherently harmful, and are not judged by the same standard as drugs. Instead, we talk about marketing “authorizations.” But it's a very important distinction between the safety and efficacy standard for approving drugs and the one needed to issue marketing authorization for e-cigarettes. [...]
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Toxins in e-cigarettes could cause damage to the user’s eyesight, a US study suggests.
People who use the devices, or “vape”, were 34 per cent more likely to suffer from visual impairments compared with those who had never tried e-cigarettes, while former users were 14 per cent more likely, researchers from the University of California found. The study assessed 1,173,646 adults aged between 18 and 50 between 2016 and 2018. They were asked in a questionnaire if they smoked or vaped, and if they suffered from visual impairment.
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A California company planning to pursue drug approval for an inhaled nicotine replacement therapy product appears to also run a website containing false allegations that a scientist commissioned by Public Health England had financial ties to the tobacco industry.
The company, Respira Technologies, Inc., has also engaged in a smear campaign suggesting Juul Labs and other vaping product manufacturers may be responsible for causing some of the “EVALI” lung injury cases, and has encouraged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adopt standards that would prevent most consumer vapor products from being authorized for sale.
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The HSE’s national lead on the Tobacco Free Programme has said the consumption of e-cigarettes among young people represents a “worrying trend”, as a TD called for strict advertising and sales restrictions on such products.
The HSE’s Martina Blake said that the use of e-cigarettes represents a “real risk” and a “real worry” for younger age groups, and heightens the chances they may become tobacco smokers in later life.
According to recent Healthy Ireland surveys, those aged under 25 are more likely to have used e-cigarettes with 14% having tried them at some point and 4% who currently use them.
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With nine out of 10 Filipino smokers believing that the government should enact laws to encourage them to switch to less harmful alternatives to cigarettes, Senators who voted to pass the so-called vape bill believe the measure can actually save the lives of smokers and end the smoking epidemic in the country. A recent study conducted by ACORN Marketing & Research Consultants found that 94 percent of 2,000 Filipino respondents agree that the government should enact policies to encourage adult smokers to switch to less harmful alternatives to cigarettes, while also ensuring these products are not used by minors.
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January is a popular month to quit smoking, so if you’re thinking about stopping tobacco use, there are some helpful tools available from Fondation Cancer, Ligue Médico-Sociale and Ministry of Health in Luxembourg.
Figures from a study produced for Fondation Cancer in 2020 show that 26% of people in Luxembourg smoke, although only about 17% smoke daily. About half these smokers want to give up, and studies show that professional support increases your chances of quitting.
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If giving up tobacco is one of your New Year’s resolutions, know that it won't be easy but don't give up. Fifty million ex-smokers in the United States are proof that it can be done. "More than 70% of smokers want to quit smoking and 40% will make an attempt this year, but only between 4% and 7% can quit without support," Jennifer Folkenroth, national senior director of tobacco programs with the American Lung Association.
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TOBACCO products kill over eight million people globally per year, most of them living in low- and middle-income countries. [...]
In South-East Asia, more than half a million people die from tobacco-related diseases every year.
The situation in Malaysia is also bleak. According to the 2019 National Health and Morbidity survey, more than 27,200 of Malaysians deaths annually are related to smoking. The report found the smoking prevalence among Malaysians aged 15 and above to be 21.3%, with an estimated 4.8 million currently smoking. The prevalence of smokers in the 15- to 19-year-old age group was 12.3%.
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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.
Gottlieb proudly announced that “envisioning a world where cigarettes would no longer create or sustain addiction, and where adults who still need or want nicotine could get it from alternative and less harmful sources, needs to be the cornerstone of our efforts.” His plan was to encourage smokers to quit using combustible tobacco either through abstinence or by switching to reduced-risk nicotine products such as e-cigarettes or heated tobacco.
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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.
“Realistically, I knew this was going to happen,” Murray told Filter. “But I kept hoping that something—something—would change. I was holding out hope that the world would come to its senses.”
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If you're one of many Beijingers who lives life in a cloud of vape juice, then you may have heard tell of shifting tides in the electronic cigarette industry. Some of you may have even been urged by your suppliers to stock up on your favorite flavor [...]
In fact, there is good reason to believe that flavored vapes may soon be banned. Earlier this month, the government released a draft bill to the public for comment that, in its current form, would “forbid the selling of flavored e-cigarettes such as marijuana flavor and other flavors that can easily induce minors.” [...]
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KUALA LUMPUR: Maintaining sensible regulations to support the vape industry is important as it plays a critical role in smoking cessation.
According to The Independent British Vape Trade Association (IBTVA), a UK-based association for the vaping sector, it also mimics consumer smoking behaviour and is a very efficient nicotine delivery system.
IBVTA chairman Marcus Saxton said it is crucial to implement policies and comprehensive regulations while being mindful of the potential consequences if governments do not set regulatory frameworks rationally.
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Sales of all cigarettes in Massachusetts declined by up to 33% after the state instituted a ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes, an analysis published Tuesday by JAMA Internal Medicine found. "We learn from Massachusetts that a menthol flavor ban effectively reduces both menthol and overall cigarette sales," study co-author Samuel Asare told UPI in an email. "Smokers who strongly preferred these flavors needed to quit or switch to non-flavored cigarettes," said Asare, principal scientist for tobacco control research for the American Cancer Society.