The odd part is that whereas vaping products are gaining popularity among adults, cigarette use and vaping among young people are falling. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of high-school students who smoke cigarettes dropped from 22 percent to 14 percent between 2011 and 2016. And for e-cigarettes, high school users dropped from 16 percent to 11 percent from 2015 to 2016.

Read the entire article HERE!

I had the opportunity to speak with Doctor Akbar Khan at CVE Edmonton.

Doctor Khan has graciously accepted my invitation to join us on a future episode of The Smoker’s Show and I’m looking forward to it!
We’ll let everyone know when Doctor Khan will be on.

Here’s a brief interview… FEAR VS. SCIENCE!!

The Video:

*NOTE: Any use of these videos in part or in their entirety without Phil Busardo’s expressed written consent is strictly prohibited.

Nicely done Dimitris!

Because these products contain dramatically fewer toxicants and chemicals when compared to smoking, there is a growing understanding in the public health community that vaping is much less harmful than cigarettes. A recent study by Public Health England says vaping— or e-cigarette usage— is 95 percent less harmful than smoking.

Read the entire article HERE

A step in the right direction?

Based on currently available evidence, using current generation e-cigarettes is less harmful than smoking cigarettes

These individuals should be encouraged to switch to the least harmful form of tobacco product possible; switching to the exclusive use of e-cigarettes is preferable to continuing to smoke combustible products.

Yeah, there’s some shitty stuff in there too, but let’s focus on the good for now.
Read the entire article HERE.

Thanks to ‎Michael Torsiello for the heads up!

Note – This is an older publication, but still a good one!

More from the fine folks in the UK… and from a site called “Cancer Research UK” no less…

Dear FDA… PLEASE READ HERE.

Why can’t we figure this out and support it here in America?  Money perhaps?

DEAR FDA,

Recent estimates of additional quitters resulting annually from the availability of e-cigarettes, using the same dataset but 2 different methods, resulted in similar figures within the range of 16,000 to 22,000. Varying the assumptions, and updating these estimates for 2016, resulted in an upper bound estimate of around 57,000 additional quitters annually resulting from e-cigarettes (lower bound around 22,000). While caution is needed with these figures, the evidence suggests that e-cigarettes have contributed tens of thousands of additional quitters in England.

Read the entire article HERE.

Here’s the latest from Brent Stafford at Regulator Watch:

No lung damage. That’s the key finding from the first of its kind long-term study investigating the health impacts of vaping.

Conducted by Dr. Riccardo Polosa, world-renowned researcher and director of the Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at the University of Catania in Italy, the study measured and tracked the health outcomes of a cohort of daily e-cigarette users for 3.5-years.

The results shatter the myths promulgated by public health propagandists in the Progressives’ war against vaping.

Get the story in this exclusive interview with Dr. Polosa—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford

Released December 19, 2017

GET THE STUDY HERE!

WEB EXTRA!

Schizophrenia. It’s one of the most challenging mental illnesses to treat as thought, emotion and behavior is held in fine balance and is easily knocked out of whack.

Nicotine and the ritual of smoking play an enormous role in helping schizophrenia patients cope with their illness and experts say nicotine replacement products such as patches, gum and sprays are ineffective treatments.

Could vaping be a magic bullet? Find out in this exclusive interview with Dr. Riccardo Polosa, world-renowned researcher and director of the Institute for Internal Medicine & Clinical Immunology at the University of Catania in Italy.

Produced by: Brent Stafford

Released December 19, 2017

Here’s the latest from Brent Stafford at Regulator Watch:

Forget about the morality and look only at the science and you come to the conclusion that vaping is categorically safer than combustible cigarettes. This is the medical opinion of Dr. Gopal Bhatnagar, Head of Cardiovascular Surgery at Trillium Health Center and one of the leading practitioners of ‘beating heart’ surgery in North America.

In this extended edition of RegWatch we sit down with ‘Dr. Gopal’—just minutes after he finished surgery and as we rushed to the airport to head back west.

We do a deep-dive into the complexities and contradictions of the public health war against vaping; how public health lobbies such as Heart, Cancer, Lung misinterpret or misuse data in an effort to mislead the public about the potential health risks of vaping; And, much more—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

Produced by: Brent Stafford
Released December 7, 2017

Contact: Gregory Conley
Tel: 609-947-8059
Email: gconley@vaping.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 20, 2017 at 9:30 AM

Landmark Long-Term Study on Vaping by Never-Smokers Finds No Negative Health Impacts

Despite fears of activists, no harm seen after three and a half years of vaping

LONDON, ENGLAND — In a first of its kind long-term study published in the journalNature, researchers have found no negative health impacts from the daily use of electronic cigarettes by young adult never-smokers.

Researchers from the University of Catania, led by Dr. Riccardo Polosa, tracked nine electronic cigarette users with no history of smoking, as well as twelve lifetime non-smokers and non-vapers, over the course of three and a half years. The researchers found no impact on a variety of health outcomes, including blood pressure, heart rate, lung function, exhaled breath nitric oxide, exhaled carbon monoxide, and CT scans of the lungs. 

“In spite of previous health scares, our study shows for the first time no risk in long-term vapers who have never smoked in their life,” said Polosa, who presented the study at the fifth annual E-Cigarette Summit in the United Kingdom on Friday, November 17th.

Polosa notes that while even longer-term research is needed to rule out any possible negative impacts, changes in spirometry and CT scans can be seen in young smokers after approximately two years of cigarette usage. With the vapers, no signs of lung damage, including COPD, lipoid pneumonia, and popcorn lung, were found in CT scans, even among the study participants with the highest consumption of e-liquid.

In the United States, far less than 1% of adult never-smokers are current vapers, with an even smaller proportion reporting vaping daily, according to the CDC’s 2015 National Health Interview Survey. Despite this, much of the concern in the media and scientific circles revolve around fears of the impact of vaping on nonsmokers. 

“Mouse and cell studies may generate salacious headlines about the supposed dangers of vaping, but they are no replacement for studies on actual humans,” said Gregory Conley, President of the American Vaping Association, a nonprofit that advocates for truthful information about vapor products. “If no negative health impacts can be seen from daily vaping among those who previously did not smoke, how is it ethical to continue warning smokers away from using these products?” 

In addition to this groundbreaking research, Polosa also recently published a review of the evidence on the impact of vapor products on COPD patients.

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About the American Vaping Association

The American Vaping Association is a nonprofit organization that advocates for policies that encourage the growth and sustainability of small- and medium-sized businesses in the rapidly growing vaping and electronic cigarette industry. The AVA was founded by Gregory Conley, a consumer and industry advocate with a long track record of advocating for vapor products dating back to 2010.

We are dedicated to educating the public and government officials about public health benefits offered by vapor products, which are battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine or nicotine-free solution and create an inhalable vapor.  The AVA is not a trade group and does not speak for any particular businesses, including our industry sponsors.

You can learn more about AVA and vaping by visiting the AVA website. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Here’s the latest from Brent Stafford at Regulator Watch:

Reality is stark and often quite difficult to acknowledge. But, ignoring the appalling state of public opinion towards the potential health benefits of vaping should not be an option. According to Action on Smoking and Health UK the number of adults that believe vaping is as harmful or even more harmful than smoking has quadrupled from 7% in 2013 to 26% in 2017.

How could this be the case in 2017?

Considering the preponderance of news stories biased towards the potential health risks of vaping, it’s not hard to understand why public perception has so dramatically turned against vaping. Join RegWatch for an in-depth examination of media bias in vaping news coverage and hear why Dr. Lynne Dawkins co-author of the British Psychological Society’s Briefing on Electronic Cigarettes says mixed messages on vaping could put smokers’ lives at risk—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.

RegulatorWatch.com – November 7, 2017.

WEB EXRA: Could Low Nicotine Levels Cause Harm? | Web Extra

“Electronic cigarettes are not a magic cure,” says Dr. Lynne Dawkins co-author of the British Psychological Society’s briefing on Electronic Cigarettes. That’s why improving ease of use and “not restricting levels of nicotine in the liquid to arbitrary low levels” should be a priority for the industry and regulators, in order to encourage smokers to make the switch.

In this RegWatch Web Extra hear more Dr. Dawkins on why she thinks capping the levels of nicotine could do more harm than good—only on RegWatch by RegulatorWatch.com.