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“By exploiting fear and confusion, e-cigarette opponents amassed support among the public and lawmakers for restrictions on e-cigarettes. Cities and states instituted onerous new rules, including banning all e-cigarette sales (but not traditional cigarettes), prohibiting flavored e-cigarettes, restricting sales to in-person transactions, and criminalizing possession of certain e-cigarettes. Last week, the FDA submitted a request to delay the PMTA deadline by four months, but even if granted, this would merely push the inevitable end of the e-cigarette industry to September 2020. In the meantime, anti-nicotine advocates are still trying to spread misinformation, slip state-wide vaping bans around the normal legislative process, and, ludicrously, link COVID-19 deaths to e-cigarette use—for which there is zero evidence.”

BILL TARLING — Reminder that a lot of the services and labs that are needed in order to do the required testing (which can take months with the backlog), which must be filed with the PMTA submission, are still closed too or not operating at full capacity given their huge backlog — so even with just a 4 month extension, most PMTA submissions cannot be met [except for BT products since they have their own in-house testing labs]

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Four-Month FDA Extension Not Sufficient

“Records show the public health agency sent warning letters to 54 different smoke shops. The biggest violator in the group were Smoker Friendly stores. Nine of its stores were given warning letters which threatened legal action for failure to comply. Licensed medical and retail dispensaries are classified as critical businesses, according the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), but smoke shops and vape shops were not considered essential.”

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Tri-County Health sent warning letters to 54 vape shops for violating stay-at-home-order

The Smoker’s Show S02E16 – RETRO NIGHT!

Tonight on the Smoker’s Show we take a trip down the vaping innovation highway.
We’ll watch the old Ecig Tech video I did years ago and discuss what is still accurate and what’s been updated. We will make fun of me in the process. 🙂
Dimitris will be doing a Retro Unboxing!
Phil we be punching a carto and setting up a carto tank and using one for the first time in years!

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“Using e-cigarettes damages the arteries and blood vessel function much like smoking traditional cigarettes, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association, and funded through the Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science of the American Heart Association.”

𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗘: Of 400+ people, the “study” only used “36 e-cigarette users and 52 dual users who smoke combustible cigarettes and use e-cigarettes”. All the e-cigarette users were also previously smokers: “Combustible cigarette smokers and dual users were older than non-smokers and e-cigarette users, while e-cigarette users were more likely to be younger, male and white. All e-cigarette users were former smokers of traditional cigarettes.” (i.e. smoking likely already caused the damaged before they switched to vaping — yet the study attributes vaping to be the cause). The entire study bases their headline conclusion on 36 vapers (who previously smoked), out of 400 people (of which over 75% are or were smokers). They didn’t use any vapers that were not previously smokers when reaching their conclusions.

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E-cigarette users experience vascular damage similar to that of smokers of combustible cigarettes

“The New England Convenience Store & Energy Marketers Association (NECSEMA) is asking Gov. Charlie Baker to delay the implementation of the state’s flavored tobacco ban, which is set to begin June 1. The request comes as convenience stores face declining sales as the country deals with the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Jon Shaer, executive director of NECSEMA, overall sales are off roughly 30 percent to 50 percent. In addition, the ban is expected to lead to another 20 percent loss in revenue, Shaer said in a letter to Baker. That number could be even higher in urban markets, he added. “By the end of May, it is estimated 200 stores will be permanently closed; if the menthol, mint and wintergreen ban goes into effect then the number is estimated to grow to 800 within a month or two, and most urban and inner-city stores ‘are not expected to survive,'” he wrote.”

ARTICLE LINK:

NECSEMA Asks Massachusetts Gov to Delay Statewide Flavored Tobacco Ban

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“Fontem US LLC (Fontem US) today announces that it has submitted Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTAs) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking authorization for the continued marketing of a wide range of its myblu electronic vaping products. The PMTA submissions include data from a comprehensive range of laboratory and clinical scientific studies, including product analyses, behavioral data, nonclinical health risk information, and information on the impact to both users and non-users of tobacco products”

BILL TARLING — You can expect Big Tobacco companies to very soon start pushing the narrative “we paid a fortune to submit our PMTA, so little companies should have to do it to or be pulled off the competition market — we know they can’t afford the PMTA submission costs.

ARTICLE LINK:

Fontem US LLC Submits Premarket Tobacco Applications for myblu Electronic Vaping Products

“World Health Organisation mouthpieces have been busy sharing a statement issued by Matthew Myers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, who calls the statistics reported from France as “misleading”. Meanwhile France has swiftly restricted access to nicotine products as it fears people might use nicotine “too much”. Matt Myers earns a very healthy living from being paid to oppose vaping. To maintain his Bloomberg-funded cushy lifestyle, he needs to ensure the attacks keep on coming. “There is no evidence to suggest smokers are protected from COVID-19,” he misdirects. It’s the same way he repeatedly denounces claims that “vaping is safe” when nobody is saying that.”

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Nicotine Nightmare for the Antz

“Vaping has emerged as the most discussed trend, generating 48% of all Twitter conversations related to tobacco alternatives by leading industry experts during the first quarter (Q1) of 2020, tracked by GlobalData. In terms of intensity of discussions, the UK, the US, Austrailia, Canada and China emerged as the top five most mentioned locations among vaping conversations. The conversations about the UK were largley related to the fact that the UK’s top public health experts asked tobacco consumers to ignore new warnings about vaping issued by WHO. An analysis of conversation related to ‘Flavors’ revealed ‘menthol’ and ‘mint’ as the most mentioned flavors among vaping discussions, followed by chocolate, strawberry and ice-cream. Charles A. Gardner, Director of Health Science and Technology at Foundation for a smoke-free world, was the top contributor on vaping on Twitter, followed by Edward Hubert, American editor and publisher and Gregory Conley, President of American Vaping Association.”

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Vaping top discussed trend among tobacco alternatives on Twitter in Q1 2020

“The City of Lewisville will make city parks tobacco-free sites in early May. The changes were unanimously approved at the city council meeting on Monday, April 20. The use of tobacco or “electronic nicotine devices” will be prohibited at any city park.”

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Lewisville Parks to Become Tobacco-Free Sites