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““Huge news! The January 1st nicotine import ban has been defeated…for now,” declared Legalise Vaping Australia (LVA). The Australian Therapeutic Goods Association (TGA) has announced that Greg Hunt’s plans to place a de facto ban on vaping has been postponed and advocates are hoping this could lead its permanent scrapping. Dr Colin Mendelsohn has been arguing for a more open-minded Australian approach to tobacco harm reduction for years. He recently told journalists: “Vaping nicotine has the potential to disrupt the cigarette market and significantly reduce smoking rates in Australia. However, excessively harsh and restrictive regulation as proposed by the Health Minister will reduce its potential impact and lead to more smoking-related deaths. No other western country requires vapers to have a prescription to obtain nicotine liquids. Low concentrations of nicotine liquid are not medicines. They are a safer consumer product used to replace an existing consumer product: lethal cigarettes.”

Another Setback For The Oz Nic Ban

“The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday took a step toward adopting a tobacco retail license ordinance covering unincorporated areas in an attempt to reduce usage by minors and hold retailers more accountable. After an approximately 90-minute public hearing and debate, the board voted 3-2, with Supervisors Jim Desmond and Kristin Gaspar opposed. The board will consider formal adoption at its Nov. 17 meeting. If passed, the ordinance would: allows the county to enforce minimum age laws and a previously adopted ban on flavored tobacco products”

BILL TARLING — Kristin Gaspar has been an amazing defendant against e-liquid vape flavor bans, and recognized the factual science based Harm Reduction aspects they provide adult smokers wanting to break away from health damaging cigarettes. While she neither vapes, nor is she involved in the vape industry in any way; she has always been a very attentive listeners, and is one of the few Politicians that bases her opinions and decisions on actual facts, rather than Political agendas. She presents very balanced and logical arguments, such as during the 2019 San Diego Flavor Ban Hearing

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Supervisors Consider Ordinance To Further Curb Youth Tobacco Use

“A proposal to ban the sale of all flavored tobacco products in Missoula goes back to committee for some fine-tuning. The Missoula City Council made that decision Monday night after some legal questions arose. The proposed ordinance would ban the sale of all menthol, candy and mint flavored tobacco, smokeless tobacco and e-cigarette products. Missoula took up the idea after the state health department earlier this year offered and then pulled back a more limited state-wide proposal on banning flavored e-cigarette products. Opponents say the ordinance would devastate local retailers, who point out they already only sell to adults over the age of 21. Critics also note that Montana’s “Youth Access to Tobacco Products Control Act” prohibits local governments from making regulations more stringent than those already imposed by the state. That specific interpretation is echoed by Missoula’s city attorney.”

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Missoula City Council Will Re-Examine Flavored Tobacco Ban

A PBusardo Introduction – The latest member of the Z-Coil fam – The Innokin/Platform Series Kroma Z!

This is an introduction video for the Innokin/Platform Series Kroma Z Pod Mod. We are proud to welcome the Kroma-Z to the Z-Coil family of products!

We’re also going to find out who won the last two “Not A” Contests and kick off a new one to win your very own Kroma-Z!

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“After a briefly heated discussion, the Grand Rapids City Commission approved a ban on smoking and vaping in all public parks — except for a city-owned golf course. The ban on smoking, vaping and all types of marijuana and tobacco products from city parks and playgrounds was approved by a 6-1 vote Tuesday evening, Oct. 27, by the Grand Rapids City Commission. The ban, issued in the form of an ordinance amendment to the city’s Clean Air Ordinance, goes into effect Jan. 1, 2021.”

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Grand Rapids bans smoking in parks, but not at city-owned golf course

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“Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have looked at ex-smokers who lapse back to tobacco use. Sarah Victoria Gentry, Emma Ward, Lynne Dawkins, Richard Holland, and Caitlin Notley found that smokers who had switched to vaping didn’t consider their quit attempt over if they briefly lapsed – unlike those who tried to quit using other methods. The study, “Reported patterns of vaping to support long-term abstinence from smoking: a cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of vapers”, has just been published in the Drug and Alcohol Review journal. The researchers said that while vapers may occasionally have the odd smoking lapse, “they don’t see it as ‘game over’ for their quit attempt and it doesn’t have to lead to a full relapse. The findings suggest that vaping encourages not just smoking cessation, but long-term relapse prevention.”

ARTICLE LINK:

Relapse Risk

G’day Phil,

Wandering through your back catalogue just now and came across another
example of why you and Dimi are invaluable in this idiotic battle.
When I quit smokes and started on this vaping thing a few short months
ago I had NO idea how effective it would be and NO idea of the stupidity
of governments (the world over) and scientific and private groups who’s
true aim is…. I’m yet to figure that out.

Ok save the children, yes but do it where that is needed…..targeting
vaping is creating a war where none exists.
Kids….
will smoke
will vape
will drink
will drive
will fuck that girl/boy they fancy
will get pregnant
and on and on it goes…..

Do we ban smokes….
Do we ban alcohol
Do we ban cars
Or any of the million things stupid kids do growing up
I was there once a long time ago, I’m allowed to call it stupid.

Can government regulate that, stop that….NO never.
What they can do is educate and hopefully get the message across that
all the above is not a real bright choice in life.

Bring in the old guy who’s dying from lung cancer into the schools.
Bring in the kid who cant walk anymore after crashing dads car he took
for a drive late one night.
Or the girl at 14 who’s pregnant and who’s life has been destroyed at
that age.
Bring in the stupid fucker who wants to vape……I don’t fucking know
what ….Evali, vitamin E acetate ?. I’m ignorant here but I think those
ones are past help.

Teach, educate, and FUND the schools….. show the consequences of
making poor choices. You’ll get the attention of some, perhaps a
lot…not all. Get them when they’re young, I can’t think of a better
way.
All this education is fully funded, no need take money from anyone but
smokers. In Australia 17 BILLION per year is collected in tobacco tax.
Does the Australian government spend 17 billion a year on quit smoking
programs….lol you know the answer.
Nicotine patches and the like should be free here given they are utterly
fucking useless ….they are not.

Ok sorry for the rant here but the video in the back catalogue set me
off. I’ve seen it many times in other videos but none more than in this
one…..

The….
Outrage
Disgust
Maddening Frustration

The…..
Sadness
Stupidity
The raw passion for what should be but isn’t….

Common Fucking Sense….why is that so hard !

Vaping works where nothing else does for most, it’s the safest and best
option there is at present.
I’m 62 and not a fighter, I go with the flow on most issues…..call it
apathy, call it old fucker don’t give a shit cause I cant change it.
I DO CARE about this, smoking kills and vaping FUCKING works to stop
that. You want a study?, study me…..just a few days after getting off
the cigs I wasn’t coughing up a lung in the morning , FACT….that
stopped.
And that was the catalyst, I became my father….on his death
certificate smoking was one of 3 causes. I guess I got scared….or wise.

I don’t know what’s behind all this….Big Tobacco, follow the money or
what. I just don’t know what’s behind all the utter stupidity surrounding
vaping. It Works You Dumb Fuckers !

You and Dimi are worth your weight in gold, you do what most of us can’t.
Be a real shame if you disappeared from Youtube. Love seeing you guys
‘chucking a wobbly’ ….aussie slang for Outrage and Fuck This !
Dimi quite restrained and Phil far less so 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7JzaRBpIe8
Love It !

Cheers to you Both
Wayne

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

One of the most hotly contested issues with regard to vaping is whether or not e-cigarettes are an effective tool in the battle to stamp out smoking.
The very mention of this possibility sends regulators, tobacco enforcement agents, and anti-vaping advocates into a tither.

In most regions, the vaping industry is prohibited by law from making direct health claims or even suggest that vaping is a viable tool for smoking cessation. Yet, 40-million vapers worldwide attest to their efficacy, and each year more research is published demonstrating what so many already know: Vaping is a highly effective tool to quit smoking.

Joining us today on RegWatch is Dr. Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, from the Cochrane Tobacco Review Group. She is the lead researcher on the Cochrane review of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation, which released this month and further supports the growing evidence that vaping is an effective tool to quit smoking.

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Released: October 24, 2020

Produced by Brent Stafford

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“Juul Labs Inc. won a ruling that knocked out racketeering claims from a group of hundreds of lawsuits accusing the e-cigarette maker of deliberately targeting teenagers. U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco on Friday said claims brought by consumers, local governments and school districts under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Practices Act — which could have put Juul on the hook for triple damages — didn’t pass legal muster. But the judge said the plaintiffs can amend their court filings and try to make a RICO case. If government entities and others suing over the e-cigarette marketing tactics aren’t successful in reviving the so-called RICO claims, it will take some pressure off Juul and Altria. The judge refused to throw out claims Juul and Altria officials engaged in a “scheme to defraud” through misleading statements about e-cigarettes’ addiction risk. He’s also letting plaintiffs proceed with allegations that executives “sought to grow the market for nicotine-addicted individuals, particularly youth who did not use traditional tobacco products.””

ARTICLE LINK:

Juul Beats Racketeering Claims in Marketing Suits, For Now