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“Northamptonshire is now one of the world leaders as its Stop Smoking Service has embraced vaping as a means to switch away from smoking. Public Health Northamptonshire are implementing a series of innovative changes to their Stop Smoking Service, to help reach the government target of a smoke-free generation by 2030. From February 2020, smokers in Northamptonshire have the option to choose a free e-cigarette starter kit and a supply of e- liquid when they take part in the 12 week stop smoking programme.”

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Northamptonshire To Promote Vaping

“Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced Tuesday that his office and other state attorneys general are looking into marketing and sales practices of e-cigarette maker Juul. The 39-state coalition, which is being led by attorneys general from Connecticut, Florida, Oregon and Texas, is investigating Juul’s practices of “targeting of youth, claims regarding nicotine content, and statements regarding risks, safety and effectiveness as a smoking cessation device.”

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Nevada, 38 other states probing e-cigarette maker’s sales practices

“The Canadian Cancer Society is asking the provincial government to take a legislative approach to address vaping, by raising the minimum age to 21, cutting access to flavour pods that can attract young people to e-cigarettes, and changing other sales regulations.”

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Cancer Society calls on N.L. government to raise tobacco age to 21

“Try as they might, politicians just can’t seem to stop contradicting themselves. Take, for instance, an anti-vaping bill up for debate this month from Congressman Frank Pallone (D-NJ). Pallone says he wants to make smoking less widespread. But his bill would just make it harder for current smokers to quit by enshrining FDA restrictions, like flavor bans on vaping products and the legal smoking age of 21, while also extending the flavor ban to conventional tobacco products and prohibiting online vape sales. In the process, it’ll decimate small businesses in the vaping space—to the benefit of the cigarette industry. That’s a shame, because since vapes hit the market, smoking rates in the United States have taken a freefall. By comparison, rates in comparable nations like Australia, which bans nicotine vaping, have remained stagnant.”

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Rep. Pallone’s Anti-Vaping Bill is Just a Win for Cigarettes

HR 2339:

Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act of 2019

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“Acclaimed Houston trial lawyer Richard “Rick” Meadow of The Lanier Law Firm has been named to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in litigation against e-cigarette maker Juul in California state court. Nearly 100 cases have been filed so far in the Judicial Council Coordinated Proceeding, or JCCP, which follows a similar process to federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) by consolidating similar legal claims against a common defendant. The lawsuits are brought by school districts across the state, alleging that Juul created an ongoing vaping epidemic through aggressive marketing of e-cigarettes to teenagers. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ann Jones appointed Mr. Meadow to the committee, which will continue to investigate and develop the claims while also overseeing the coordination, preparation, and presentation of the cases.”

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Rick Meadow Appointed to Committee Driving State Litigation Against Juul

“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

“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

“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