Category: Vaping News

“The sale of flavoured vaping products will be prohibited in Quebec as of Oct. 31. A new regulation announced Wednesday morning by the Quebec government will also limit the maximum nicotine concentration of these products, and require certain information be included on the products and their packaging.”

ARTICLE LINK:  Quebec to ban flavoured vaping products on Oct. 31

“The study included 1,140 pregnant women who were trying to stop smoking, who were divided into two groups. Half of the women received e-cigarettes; the other half received nicotine patches. Both approaches were equally safe. The only meaningful difference was that fewer women in the e-cigarette group had children with low birthweight (weighing less than 2,500 grams). The researchers say this is most likely because e-cigarettes were more effective in reducing the use of conventional cigarettes. At the end of their pregnancy, women reported whether they had quit. However, some women had quit smoking using a product they were not assigned, mostly women given patches, who stopped with the help of e-cigarettes they had procured for themselves. When the researchers looked at successful quitters who only used the treatment they were allocated, they found that almost twice as many women had quit with e-cigarettes as with nicotine patches.”

ARTICLE LINK: E-cigarettes may be better than nicotine patches to help pregnant women stop smoking, reduce the risk of low birthweight

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 “Directors of public health in London have joined others in urging those working with adult smokers to encourage them to swap cigarettes for vapes to help them stop smoking. The London Tobacco Alliance, a partnership created to accelerate efforts to eliminate smoking in London, has published its position on the use of nicotine vapes as an aid to help adults quit smoking. The statement also supports recently announced measures to make vaping less accessible and appealing to children. The alliance, which includes the London Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH), argues that alongside free behavioural support and licensed stop smoking aids, nicotine vapes play a ‘significant role’ in reducing the harm caused by tobacco.”

ARTICLE LINK:  Anti-smoking alliance backs vaping as quitting aid

“Vaping has surged in U.K. prisons since a smoking ban went into effect in 2017 (in England and Wales). In the 2021–2022 financial year, prisoners spent close to £8 million on vapor products. Prisoners have access to vapes as well as nicotine-replacement therapy. While the surge in vaping has been positive in terms of harm reduction, the abrupt change has had its challenges. With the prohibition of smoking in prisons came illicit cigarettes and trading/selling other personal property, including meals, in order to obtain cigarettes. Despite this, the number of prisoners who have turned to vaping and stuck with it is promising. “The fact that many people have access to vaping products is welcome news from a tobacco harm reduction perspective,” said Debbie Robson, senior lecturer in tobacco harm reduction at King’s College London. “Great progress has been made in creating a smoke-free prison estate despite doubting it was achievable given the high smoking rates in prison settings.” Robson speaks with formerly incarcerated individuals while conducting research, and many have expressed that their first vaping experiences were in prison, and “some have stayed smoke-free ever since.””

ARTICLE LINK: Vaping Up in U.K. Prisons

“I am not a smoker, but know why people take it up and how many want to quit but cannot. I have been working with MPs across the political spectrum to highlight the benefits that vapes offer smokers. I support the government’s commitment to vaping as a way of achieving ambitions for a smoke-free future by 2030. We must defend the nation’s public health from those around the world who would try and force the UK to chart a different and more harmful course. The World Health Organisation is rabidly anti-vaping, although it could help one billion smokers around the world to stop. We should be sceptical about their plans. Vaping and maybe heat-not-burn products can do the job of curbing clearly dangerous cigarettes, and that would be an advance. Of course, in an ideal world people would stamp out smoking altogether. But we cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good.”

ARTICLE LINK:  MP Mary Glindon column: Vapes are a healthier option

“In February 2022, the World Journal of Oncology published an article by a team of 13 researchers claiming that vapers are about as likely to get cancer as people who smoke traditional cigarettes. Citing this article, Stanton Glantz, a tobacco-control activist and retired professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, claimed that not only are there “some carcinogens in e-cigarette aerosol,” but “now there is also direct evidence that people who use e-cigarettes are at increased risk of some cancers.” And then the World Journal of Oncology’s editors retracted the study because “concerns have been raised regarding the article’s methodology, source data processing including statistical analysis, and reliability of conclusions.” The study is indeed riddled with errors.” 

ARTICLE LINK:  Do Studies Show Vaping Causes Cancer? No.