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October 14, 2022 by recyclinginternational.com

Although it’s a relatively new market, the global e-cigarette and vape sector was already worth US$ 18.1 billion (EUR 18.6 billion) in 2021 and this year is projected to reach US$ 22.4 billion. The US leads the market with sales at around US$ 7.5 billion. It’s estimated the worldwide market will grow 30% by 2030.

Let those stats sink in for a moment – on International E-waste Day. Bear in mind we’re talking about a mostly disposable waste stream that includes aroma and nicotine cartridges, a metal mouthpiece, heating element and, of course, (lithium-ion) batteries. Depending on how much you smoke or, sorry, vape, a single cartridge lasts for about 200-400 puffs.

October 13, 2022 by filtermag.org

Nicotine vapes contain no tobacco but are routinely called “tobacco products.” A 2019 lung disease outbreak is still known as “EVALI” (e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury), when nicotine vapes had nothing to do with it. The war of disinformation against tobacco harm reduction relies on a host of inaccurate and outright misleading terms that leave the public asking, “Make it make sense.”

October 12, 2022 by wishtv.com

According to a new study by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vaping remains common for teenagers. The study estimates more than 2.5 million middle school and high school students used E-cigarettes this year. Of the teens who used e-cigarettes, more than one quarter of them reportedly were using daily. Nearly 85% of teens who vape say they use flavored E-cigarettes. I spoke with WISH-TV’s medical expert and former U.S. Surgeon General about this report.

October 11, 2022 by vox.com

New York City’s crisp autumn air has a distinct scent to it, and this year that scent is weed. Many of the city streets have a fresh look to them, too — marijuana and cannabis products are for sale, out in the open, everywhere. New York legalized recreational marijuana in the spring of 2021, but the state is still in the process of doling out licenses to legally sell it, which makes the situation ... confusing.

So I recently treated myself to a little NYC cannabis secret shopping-reporting tour to try to figure out what was going on. [...]

October 11, 2022 by vaping360.com

On Oct. 6, the FDA marked the release of preliminary 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) results with a press release. A large part of that document was dedicated to playing up the agency’s get-tough approach to disposable vapes, and specifically highlighted new actions taken against Puff Bar importers and the manufacturer of Hyde disposables.

Hyde was named as the sixth most popular vape brand (7.3 percent) among vaping middle and high school students who listed a brand in their NYTS responses, according to the authors of the CDC report released last week. [...]

October 10, 2022 by vaping360.com

After the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey showed a massive decline in youth vaping, officials at the government agencies that conduct the annual NYTS went out of their way to explain that the results couldn’t be trusted because half of the students took the survey online from home, rather than in school.

What will the CDC and FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) use as an excuse this year, when overall numbers of school-age vapers barely increased from 2021? High school and middle school vaping in 2022 remained well below even the levels seen in 2020, which themselves represented a 29 percent decline from the 2019 teen vaping peak.

October 10, 2022 by regulatorwatch.com

Is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration intentionally trying to wreck the U.S. nicotine vaping industry?
It’s a fair question to ask, considering every regulatory action the FDA has taken toward nicotine vaping products appears myopic and prohibitionist. And these actions are causing significant damage to the lives of people who vape and smoke.
Amanda Wheeler and Greg Conley from the American Vapor Manufacturers Association are joining us to discuss the never-ending saga of the FDA’s war on vaping. We take a deep dive into FDA’s dysfunctional PMTA process, the damage caused by years of misinformation, the continuing destruction of U.S. vape businesses, [...]

October 07, 2022 by ft.com

Disposable vapes are to Juul what TikTok is to Vine: wildly more successful despite being virtually the same in every way. And like Vines, Juuls could be about to go the way of the dinosaurs.

Pity Marlboro cigarette maker Altria, which paid nearly $13bn for roughly a third of Juul Labs in 2018. In late July, weeks after the Food and Drug Administration backtracked on its June decision to all but ban the sale of Juuls in the US, Altria valued its investment at $450mn, after slashing the valuation several times. Notably, a 2020 agreement said Altria can create its own e-cigarette products if the value of its Juul investment falls below $1.3bn.

October 07, 2022 by reason.com

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to prevent smoking-related deaths by making cigarettes less appealing. Toward that end, the FDA plans to ban menthol cigarettes and limit nicotine content to "reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes."

Meanwhile, the FDA seems determined to make vaping products, the most promising harm-reducing alternative to cigarettes, less appealing to smokers. The perverse combination of these two regulatory strategies would undermine public health in the name of promoting it.

October 07, 2022 by nytimes.com

High school students resumed taking the annual National Youth Tobacco Survey in school this year and 14 percent of them reported using e-cigarettes, underscoring how an upstart industry is dodging regulators’ efforts to spare a generation from nicotine addiction.

The number shows a slight change from 11 percent last year, but researchers cautioned against drawing comparisons to 2021’s survey, which was conducted differently because it took place when many schools were closed during the pandemic. The latest results were released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.