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“New Zealand’s Asthma and Respiratory Foundation (ARFNZ) is once again making health claims without providing any evidence. If they want their warnings to be taking seriously, they need to provide some proof,” says Nancy Loucas, co-founder of AVCA (Aotearoa Vapers Community Advocacy). [...] AVCA says ARFNZ should read the internationally published medical studies by Professor Riccardo Polosa. He is an award winning and renowned expert in respiratory health and Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR).

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Cigarette smoking has killed millions of Americans, yet, in recent years, novel tobacco harm reduction products, e-cigarettes and vapor products, have shaken up the marketplace, leading to significant declines in combustible cigarette use. Despite this, lawmakers and regulators are being influenced by billionaires that will stop at nothing to see the end of e-cigarettes in America, regardless of their significantly reduced harm. Public health should be promoting the use of tobacco harm reduction products, not stunting adult access to these innovations.

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Kim McAuliffe was glancing out the window of her favorite restaurant on the Far Northwest Side when she noticed an unfamiliar banner reading: “Smokes N Kicks.”

Hanging above a storefront on Northwest Highway in Edison Park, the canvas was emblazoned with an illustration of a hookah instrument wrapped around a pair of red-and-white Nike flattop gym shoes as smoke billows in the background. A bullet-point list advertised the sale of footwear, vapes and more. Inside were rows of designer shoes, a mural of the Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan and shimmering glass bongs resting on a counter.

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The modern sweet shop has long removed from its window the screw-top glass jars full of gobstoppers and lemon sherbets that used to tempt kids to spend their pocket money on the way home from school. Instead, there is an array of slim boxes in a rainbow of bright colours. “Banana ice”, “pink lemonade”, “blueberry sour raspberry”, “cotton candy ice”, they are labelled.

The jewelled boxes contain Elf bars: disposable e-cigarettes. The rules say they are for adults only. Under-18s are not allowed to buy them, even if they wander in to look at the confectionery that is also for sale in some of these shops. [...]

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The sale of e-cigarettes and vaping products to under-18s is set to be banned, the Irish Independent can reveal.

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly is to seek Cabinet approval to ban the sale of “nicotene inhaling products” to those aged under 18 from early in the new year.

Vaping products are already banned in a number of European countries, as there is clear evidence that exposure to nicotine in adolescence can have long-term consequences for brain development.

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Idon’t think I’d ever heard of the annual National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), conducted annually by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But in 2018 it crashed into my life, as someone who had finally been able to quit smoking after 10 years, through the use of nicotine vapes.

That was the year that Scott Gottlieb, then commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), responded to the NYTS data by announcing that youth vaping was an “epidemic.” This pronouncement threw vaping into the headlines, making it Public Enemy Number One as panic over youth use exploded. A rash of restrictions and bans have followed.

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According to tobacco control policy expert Clive Bates, Canada’s new excise tax on nicotine vaping products will lead to more smoking, illness, and death.

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Watch this interesting Live talk about smoking harm reduction. Feat. Joseph Magero from Campaign for Safer Alternatives (CASA).

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Several leading international Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) experts have compiled and published extensive research which slams the World Health Organization’s (WHO) official health claims about vaping.

Titled ‘The Subversion of Public Health: Consumer Perspectives’, the recently released white paper hits back at the WHO’s claim that ‘never-smoker minors who use ENDS (Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems) can double their chance of starting to smoke tobacco cigarettes later in life.’

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People who vape have lower levels of exposure to a tobacco-related carcinogen than cigarette smokers, according to a new study of urinary biomarkers.

Lower concentrations of a carcinogen metabolite in urine suggest that "switching completely from combustible cigarettes to e-cigarettes may provide significant health benefits," said Hongying Daisy Dai, PhD, professor and associate dean of research in the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, who is the corresponding author of the study.

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Juul Labs Inc., the maker of the No. 2 U.S. electronic cigarette, is attempting to stave off a federal bankruptcy filing through eliminating up to 400 jobs and obtaining financing from its earliest investors. Juul said in a statement to the Winston-Salem Journal that it "has identified a path forward, enabled by an investment of capital from some of our earliest investors."

"This investment will allow Juul Labs to maintain business operations, continue advancing its administrative appeal of the FDA’s marketing denial order, and support product innovation and science generation."

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California voters on Tuesday passed a ballot measure to uphold a 2020 law that banned the sale of most flavored tobacco products, giving anti-tobacco advocates an expected victory in a multiyear fight against the industry to mitigate a youth vaping crisis.

Proposition 31 was placed on the ballot soon after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 793, the Legislature’s bipartisan effort to crack down on e-cigarettes and other products popular with kids. The law banned the sale of certain flavored tobacco products in stores and vending machines, including menthol cigarettes, but with exceptions for hookah, premium cigars and loose-leaf tobacco.

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Morocco is preparing to increase taxes on waterpipes, commonly known as “shisha” and electronic cigarettes over concerns for public health.

Morocco’s Finance and Economic Development Committee reportedly approved the new round of taxes on Wednesday following a vote. The tax means that for every kilo of shisha smoking material, consumers would have to pay MAD 675 ($63).

To impose the new tax, the government first voted to introduce an amendment to the Finance Bill of 2023 that aims to extend the tax base to include shisha without tobacco, and electronic cigarettes.

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The EU is reviewing its regulatory instruments on tobacco, as planned in the EU beating cancer plan. Experts and stakeholders are hoping that the revisions will target the loopholes that exist in directives.

Łukasz Balwicki, a professor at the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland, and a doctor at a smoking cessation clinic, has been involved in the tobacco control field for about 20 years.

“I wish there were bigger changes in Poland,” he said, reflecting on the evolution in tobacco control in his country during those years.

“After those 20 years, I see that we could probably do more in this field,” Balwicki told EURACTIV [...]

 

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There are ‘strong indications’ that filter cigarettes on sale in the Netherlands may break official EU limits on tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide, judges in Rotterdam said on Friday. The ruling, which derives from a European Court of Justice ruling in February, gives the Dutch food and product safety board NVWA six weeks to start ensuring the law is followed properly and that cigarettes do not exceed EU limits. The court case follows tests carried out by public health institute RIVM in 2018 which showed the amount of tar in a cigarette can be up to 26 times the official norm and that nicotine and carbon monoxide levels are also far too high in most brands.

 

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In a new review released early Monday morning, researchers from Action on Smoking and Health say the modelling underpinning the Government's plan to mandate cigarettes be sold without nicotine is "significantly flawed".

ASH director Ben Youdan told Newsroom the findings are not about saying that New Zaland shouldn't do bold policies and actions to get rid of the harms of smoking. "It is about making sure that when we're doing actions that are going to have such a profound effect on the smoking population [...]

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Tobacco companies and retailers sued California one day after voters overwhelmingly approved a law banning flavored tobacco sales, including flavored vaping products.

The lawsuit filed in San Diego federal court on Wednesday said the state is overstepping its bounds in banning all sales of flavored tobacco products and enhancers.

“Under the federal Tobacco Control Act, states and localities have broad authority to regulate the sale of tobacco products. But one thing they cannot do is completely prohibit their sale because they do not meet the state or locality’s preferred ‘tobacco product stand,’” the lawsuit said.

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Amid intensifying debate over the regulation of novel nicotine products, the Philippines—despite being known for the murderous drug war waged by former President Rodrigo Duterte—has charted a regulatory course that could be a template for other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia and beyond.

“For the first time in the legislative history of our country, we have achieved a national differentiated regulatory framework governing vaping products and HTP [heated tobacco products],” said Dr. Lorenzo Mata, a central figure in the Philippine movement for balanced regulation and head of the nonprofit Quit for Good. [...]

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More than 3 million US middle and high schoolers – about 11% of those students – reported current tobacco use in 2022, according to a new study from researchers at the US Food and Drug Administration and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Youth use of tobacco products – in any form – is unsafe,” said the report, which was released Thursday. “Such products contain nicotine, which is highly addictive and can harm the developing adolescent brain. Using nicotine during adolescence might also increase risk for future addiction to other drugs.”

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Californians have an opportunity on Tuesday to protect the health of their children by voting yes on Proposition 31, which would be a vote to prohibit the sale of nearly all flavored tobacco products in the state. It’s a much-needed move, and one that every state in the nation should be taking.

Flavored e-cigarettes have addicted a new generation of Americans to nicotine. In the past decade, the use of flavored e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) by youth and young adults, as well as by others who did not previously use tobacco products, has grown substantially, hitting a peak among high schoolers in 2019. [...]

  1. More adolescent e-cigarette users report vaping within five minutes of waking up, new study finds
  2. Health literacy videos to evaporate confusion around e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products
  3. Using models disconnected from reality to justify huge ‘endgame’ interventions
  4. Nicotine is not a cause of disease – health policy makers
  5. 'Teen vaping crisis' drives public unease
  6. Switzerland and UK Lead “Effective Anti-smoking Policies Global Index,” EU with Opportunities to Improve
  7. Review of: Tobacco endgame intervention impacts on health gains and Māori:non-Māori health inequity: a simulation study of the Aotearoa-New Zealand Tobacco Action Plan
  8. Philip Morris finally wins backing for £13bn Swedish Match deal
  9. Hong Kong Mulls Generational Cigarette Ban
  10. Big Tobacco Heralds a Healthier World While Fighting Its Arrival
  11. Protected: Oral Nicotine Products – an underused option for people wanting to quit smoking?
  12. Chaos, waste and failure: what is wrong with FDA tobacco regulation, and how could it improve?
  13. High levels of sweet and fruit-flavour chemicals in ‘tobacco-flavoured’ e-cig liquids
  14. CA Voters May Pass Nicotine Flavor Ban Bankrolled by Bloomberg
  15. Vape Experts Release White Paper On WHO ‘guidance’
  16. Cleveland Clinic Pushes Dangerous Anti-Vaping Propaganda
  17. Vaping has similar impact on heart as cigarettes, study warns
  18. Is vaping safe? Why UK scientists are calling new research on the effects of e-cigarettes ‘irresponsible’
  19. Think Tank Publishes Alternative Smoking Strategy
  20. The Stigmatization of Smoking Is Not Harm Reduction

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