The top-selling Vuse electronic cigarette of R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. is widening the market-share gap with Juul in both monthly and yearly comparisons.
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December 16, 2022 by filtermag.org
End Vape Misinformation, Tobacco Control Experts Urge Surgeon General
In a new paper, a group of leading tobacco control experts urge the US surgeon general and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to correct widespread misinformation surrounding nicotine vapes.
The article, which appears in Addiction, an esteemed peer-reviewed scientific journal, notes that the CDC does not have a clear definition of an e-cigarette. It suggests that the center adopt “e-cigarettes are electronic devices that transform a liquid containing nicotine into aerosol that is inhaled via a mouthpiece.”
December 15, 2022 by filtermag.org
Memos Show FDA Overruled Science-Office Call to OK Menthol Vape
New evidence provides the clearest signal yet that the Food and Drug Administration is opposed categorically to authorizing non-tobacco flavored vapes—something indicated by reams of rejections under its premarket tobacco product applications (PMTA) process, but never explicitly stated.
Two memos reviewed by Filter indicate that the office of Brian King, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), intervened to push back against the CTP Office of Science’s recommendation to authorize menthol vaping products for the first time. [...]
December 15, 2022 by journalnow.com
Reynolds' Vuse e-cigarette continues to expand market-share lead
The latest Nielsen analysis of convenience-store data, released Tuesday, covers the four-week period ending Dec. 3
Vuse’s market share rose from 40.4% in the previous report to 40.7%, compared with Juul declining from 27.6% to 27%.
Vuse expanded its year-over-year advantage to 34.9% to 30.7% compared with 34.4% to 31.5% in the previous report.
December 13, 2022 by washingtonpost.com
Ask a Doctor: Is marijuana as bad for me as alcohol?
We have decades of research on the health effects of drinking. But research on cannabis is still evolving and the public health consequences of its commercialized use — in new products and doses — will take years to understand.
From a medical standpoint, there is no level of alcohol use that is completely safe, as studies have shown harms even with light drinking.
If my patient drinks daily, I advise that they reduce their drinking. If they can’t reduce their drinking despite trying, I offer treatments to help cut back or stop: [...]
December 13, 2022 by wiley.com
United States public health officials need to correct e-cigarette health misinformation
The Surgeon General of the United States (SG) recently launched an initiative to reduce health misinformation. In an advisory, he wrote: ‘Health misinformation is a serious threat to public health. It can cause confusion, sow mistrust, harm people’s health, and undermine public health efforts. Limiting the spread of health misinformation is a moral and civic imperative.’
We agree and applaud the SG for addressing this important issue, which has garnered media attention primarily due to COVID. Questions related to risks of e-cigarettes constitute another area where there is widespread misinformation. [...]
December 13, 2022 by reuters.com
Vape retailer Avail loses challenge to denial of FDA approval
A seller of flavored liquid used in e-cigarettes has lost its appeal of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's refusal to approve its products, the latest in a series of court orders upholding the agency's tightening regulation of the e-cigarette industry.
A unanimous panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday found that the FDA had acted within its authority as it tackled the "daunting task of ensuring that another generation of Americans does not become addicted to nicotine and tobacco products," rebuffing an appeal from Virginia-based Avail Vapor LLC.
December 05, 2022 by eurekalert.org
Children are ditching alcohol for marijuana, as 20-year national US study shows a 245% increase
Adolescent cannabis abuse has increased 245% since 2000 in the US, while alcohol abuse has steadily declined over the same period.
That’s according to a national, peer-reviewed study tracking intentional misuse and abuse reported to the National Poison Data System (NPDS) up until 2020.
Findings [...] find over 338,000 instances of intentional abuse or misuse amongst American children aged 6-18.
The majority of ingestions occurred in males (58.3%), and more than 80% of all reported exposure cases occurred in young people aged 13 to 18.
In total, over 32% of instances resulted in “worse than minor clinical outcomes”.
December 05, 2022 by filtermag.org
Tobacco and Vape Companies Ask Supreme Court to Stop CA Flavor Ban
On November 29, R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco and vapor companies filed an emergency application for writ of injunction with the United States Supreme Court, requesting that enforcement of California’s nicotine flavor ban be halted.
The move will be framed as Big Tobacco’s attempt to thwart the will of California voters, who on November 8 overwhelmingly passed a ballot measure—Proposition 31—to ban the sale of almost all flavored nicotine products (hookah and some premium cigars are exempt). The legislation on the ballot, SB 793, had been delayed by constant pushback from tobacco harm reduction (THR) advocates and the industry. [...]
December 01, 2022 by futurity.org
FDA BAN ON FLAVORED E-CIGS DIDN’T STOP VAPERS
On February 6, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration banned the sale of many flavored e-cigarettes, with some important exceptions. The researchers point to policy loopholes as the main reasons the policy failed to push people to quit. Survey results, published in Tobacco Control, show that less than 5% of the 3,500 adult e-cig users who responded to the survey quit using e-cigs in response to the flavored e-cig ban. The rest of the respondents switched to other forms or flavors of e-cigs not covered by the ban or other types of tobacco products.
November 21, 2022 by regulatorwatch.com
Unhinged | Public Health’s Manufactured Crisis Over Vaping | RegWatch
Fueled by the moral panic over teen vaping, voters in California passed a statewide flavor ban that’s certain to force some vapers back to smoking while denying current smokers easy access to safer nicotine products which could save lives.
Charles Gardner, executive director of INNCO, joins us to discuss the impact of the California flavor ban, the CDC’s deliberate exaggeration of youth vaping rates, and the shocking revelations from the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s review of the FDA’s PMTA decision-making process.