Author: Bill Tarling

“ETHRA member ANESVAP warns that the Spanish Health Minister is releasing an anti-vape position statement later today. It says that nobody who should have been consulted has been and is asking vapers to join it in voicing the opinions of vapers on social media. “We are asking you all to please show us the same solidarity that we already saw with the first event and have Twitter prepared to give all the war possible. We must publicly remind, once again both the Ministry and SEPAR, with Pfizer and its Champix, that there are 600,000 vapers in Spain, that we are living proof that vaping saves lives, that we are very pissed off and that we have a great capacity for mobilisation.” ANESVAP would like you to use social media to spread these videos “to make war on Twitter”. It specifies three hashtags to help coordinate the fightback: #AltoyClaro, #Salud, and #Vapeo. The individuals and organisations to include in posts are the Minister for Health @salvadorilla and the Ministry itself @sanidadgob.”

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ANESVAP Plea

“In June 2019, a paper by prominent US academics found that people who used e-cigarettes were at greater risk of a heart attack. Eight months later, the paper was retracted. When a paper is retracted it means we can’t trust its results. It’s like being unpublished. The problem is, the paper still exists. It is possible that if the initial data was publicly available, the flawed analysis may not have made it to publication in the first place. It means being aware of “hot stuff bias” where topics that get a lot of media attention attract more bad science than those that are less on the radar. We must all do better to make sure we don’t repeat history when it comes to e-cigarettes. That includes being open and critical about science and thinking twice when we read stories about hotly contested topics in healthcare. Alarming headlines are catchy, but misinformation might actually kill us.”

NICOTINE: “Nicotine is not the harmful ingredient in cigarettes, or in e-cigarettes. It is addictive, so it gets its bad name because it’s part of what makes people keep smoking. But it’s the other ingredients in cigarettes that cause the increased risk of death and disease.”

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Vaping and heart disease: setting the record straight

“Philip Morris International (PMI), one of the world’s biggest tobacco companies, drew up plans for a £1bn tobacco transition fund in the UK to be spent by local authorities and Public Health England on persuading smokers to give up cigarettes in favour of alternatives such as its “heat not burn” smokeless tobacco product, IQOS, leaked documents reveal.”

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Philip Morris drew up plan for £1bn tobacco transition fund

“The Vapour Products Association of South Africa has written an open letter to Finance Minister Tito Mboweni, urging him not to impose excise duty on vaping products in the upcoming National Budget. According to the association, this would have a detrimental impact on the small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) that comprise the vaping industry in South Africa. It would reduce their ability to contribute to the fiscus via taxes. In addition, the implementation of excise on the scientifically proven less-harmful alternative to smoking would increase the price of the product and make it less accessible to millions of smokers, said the association. It represents manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers of vapour products.”

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Budget Speech 2020: Vaping industry’s letter to Mboweni about excise duty

“Flavored tobacco and youth vaping will be appearing on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda with a request for direction from staff members. The timed item, scheduled for 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, will feature a presentation regarding flavored vaping products and the health risks associated with using them. The department will be asking the supervisors to accept the report for information. No vote is expected to be held nor will there be direction. The Butte County Board of Supervisors generally meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Meetings are held at 25 County Center Drive in Oroville and are open to the public.”

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Supervisors asked to decide on vaping, listen to groundwater report

“Juul Labs Inc is halting sales in Indonesia, citing concerns that it can’t stop retailers from selling its high-nicotine e-cigarettes to young people in a largely unregulated tobacco market. A Reuters review of Juul’s Asia marketing found that the firm has promoted e-cigarettes in ways similar to those that raised the ire of regulators in the United States.”

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Juul halts Indonesia e-cigarette sales, throwing Asia expansion in doubt

“The bill, which associate health minister Jenny Salesa is calling “the most significant change to New Zealand’s smokefree laws since they were introduced 30 years ago”, will introduce a complete ban on the sale of vaping and smokeless tobacco products to anyone under the age of 18. The advertising of vaping products and smokeless tobacco is also banned, while e-liquid flavours will be limited to tobacco, mint and menthol in non-speciality stores like dairies and service stations. Last year the government suggested it would prohibit other flavours altogether. But this new bill will allow other flavours to be sold at “approved specialist vape retailers”.”

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Cheat sheet: what’s the deal with the new vaping law?

NZ VAPING BILL:

Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Vaping) Amendment Bill

“Sales of vaping products to under-18s will be banned, flavours restricted and vapers barred from lighting up in smoke-free areas under a law change set to be introduced to Parliament on Monday. Vaping laws will be bought closer to tobacco laws under the proposed law change, including a prohibition on advertising and sponsorship of vaping products and e-cigarettes. But the Government has ruled out a complete ban because it sees vaping as one way to help smokers quit more harmful cigarettes.”

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Vaping crackdown: new law will ban under-18s and advertising

“As the bill is currently written, no vaping products will be able to be sold to people under the age of 18, nor are the products able to be advertised or used in sponsorship. Vaping will also be banned from smokefree areas, so people would only be able to vape where cigarettes are allowed to be smoked. Salesa said the bill will also limit general stores – including dairies and service stations – to selling only three flavours: tobacco, mint and menthol. All other flavours will only be able to be sold at licensed vape stores.”

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Bill to restrict vaping and e-cigarette sales and use in public

“A Bill is being introduced to Parliament on Monday which includes a total ban on all advertising of smokeless products and no sales to under-18s. It will also ban using e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco in smokefree areas, restrict who can sell them, limit some retailers to only three flavours and give the Ministry of Health powers to recall, suspend and issue warnings about vaping products.”

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Government proposes new vaping regulations

“On Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a package of initiatives he supports to combat youth tobacco use, including a ban, contained in his proposed executive budget, on the sale of all flavored vaping products in the state, including menthol flavors. The goal is put the laws on the books after efforts to enact bans via executive order have been rejected by the courts in recent months.”

BILL TARLING – Cuomo wants e-liquid products banned, but has encouraged marijuana availability. Even his anti-vaping petition is strictly one-sided (you can only vote in favor of the ban). New York generates over a Billion Dollars a year in tobacco tax revenue as long as New Yorkers keep smoking. A ban on e-liquid vape products will help protect his State’s smokers revenue stream.

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NY wants to ban flavored e-cigarette products

“New research suggests that last summer’s spate of severe lung illnesses tied to vaping prompted many Americans to consider giving up e-cigarettes. Online searches about how to quit vaping spiked after serious lung injuries among vapers started being reported, the study authors found. Before these lung illness cases were connected primarily with vaping of marijuana and additives, many people who used nicotine-containing e-cigarettes were concerned, the researchers noted.”

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Lung illnesses may have pushed some in U.S. to quit vaping