Category: Vaping News

“Utah legislators this session are pushing to add a state tax to e-cigarettes, limit the sale of flavored products to specialty tobacco stores and raise the state’s legal tobacco age. An outright flavor ban — as some vape shop owners have feared and some health advocates have pleaded for — has not been proposed in legislation. According to proposed bill SB0037, vaping and e-cigarette products would be considered the same as tobacco products and subject to the same rules. “It establishes, hopefully, one of the best preventive measures, and that is it puts a significant tax on vaping e-cigarettes and vaping products, which will be the same tax which is on other tobacco products,” said Christensen, the bill’s sponsor. That tax would be 86% of the manufacturer’s sale price, Christensen explained, as it is for tobacco products. The bill would also restrict online sale of vaping products and carry a large fine for the seller.”

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Utah lawmakers look to continue efforts to stem youth vaping

PROPOSED UTAH BILL SB0037

“The Truth Initiative hasn’t yet blamed global warming, shrinking Mars bars or the ending to Game of Thrones on vaping – but give it time. It does say vaping has nothing to do with declining rates of teen smoking in the USA, and now it is promoting a study claiming that using an ecig could encourage teens into a lifetime of drug use. There is no evidence to say that vapers go on to smoker and take drugs, the suggestion is beyond stupid. There is evidence that vaping is a gateway out of smoking and that the Truth Initiative only cares about securing future funding. This was an example of data manipulation to produce a required result; a big lie.”

BILL TARLING – “The Truth Initiative” is often referred to as “The UnTruth Initiative” due to their extensive range of misleading and intentionally deceptive fabricated claims and anti-vaping propaganda that defies any common sense logic, and is filled with more head scratching blunders than even an old ’50 Sci-Fi low budget B-Movie could come up with

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Vaping Causes Everything

“Hawaii can expect to see more federal oversight of tobacco and vaping sales beginning this month, now that the federal government has caught up with Hawaii in prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to anyone under 21. The Hawaii Department of Health issued a warning this week to companies that make, distribute or sell flavored cartridge- or pod-based e-cigarettes to stop sales by the end of January, or risk penalties by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Some Hawaii legislators are considering a ban on the sale of all flavored e-cigarette products. Others are considering raising penalties for minors who are caught with vaping paraphernalia.”

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More Oversight Of Vape Shops Expected Under New Federal Ban On Tobacco Sales

“In a rare move in the competitive tobacco industry, South Korea’s KT&G established a strategic alliance with Philip Morris International on Wednesday, to expand the market worldwide for its heat-not-burn cigarette brand lil. Under the contract, KT&G will provide PMI with three of its heated tobacco products — lil Hybrid, lil Plus, lil Mini — and one e-vapor product, lil Vapor, for distribution. They did not reveal the specific dates and countries for the first release. KT&G calls its heated tobacco products heat-not-burn (HNB) cigarettes, while PMI calls the category tobacco heating system (THS). The two sides are also in discussions for parallel branding of lil and PMI’s Iqos for overseas markets, KT&G said.”

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Rivals join hands for global heated tobacco market

“With Vermont lawmakers poised to pass legislation this year banning flavored nicotine and vaping products, the tobacco industry is putting its energy and money into opposing just one aspect of the bill: a ban on menthol. Bracing for the legislation, tobacco companies have spent tens of thousands of dollars on lobbyists to prevent the forced removal of menthol cigarettes and e-cigarette products from the market. Since September, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, which also owns the vape brand Vuse, has spent nearly $40,000 on lobbyists in Vermont, according to disclosure forms. The tobacco giant Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris, which owns 35% share of the popular e-cigarette company Juul, has spent about $46,000 on lobbyists in the same period. R.J. Reynolds has hired the lobbying firm MMR to represent it in Montpelier. Altria and the lobbying firm it has hired, William Shouldice & Associates, did not respond to requests for comment. Last year, Vermont also took action to restrict vaping use, raising the age to purchase the products to 21, levying a 92% tax on the devices and nicotine “pods” and banning online sales of the products. The tobacco industry spent $200,000 on lobbyists in 2019 — primarily to oppose the online ban and tax measures”

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Tobacco industry targets Vermont’s proposed ban on menthol products

“The House committees on health and trade and industry approved on Tuesday, January 28, the creation of a technical working group (TWG) that would craft stronger regulation of minors’ use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or e-cigarettes. This comes about a week after President Rodrigo Duterte signed Republic Act 11467 on new excise taxation rates for alcohol and tobacco products. The law also now prohibits the sale of e-liquids or “juices” that are not tobacco- or menthol-flavored, in an effort to reduce the appeal of e-cigarettes to young people. The House TWG will consolidate the 11 bills so far seeking to regulate the use, sale, packaging, distribution, and advertisement of ENDS.”

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House seeks stronger regulation of e-cigarette use by minors

“The Board of Supervisors today formally approved a one-year moratorium on the sale and distribution of electronic smoking devices in unincorporated areas of San Diego County, along with a ban on the sale of flavored and smokeless tobacco products. The ban also applies to outdoor smoking at restaurants. Regulations and the moratorium will take effect July 1. Hookah tobacco use is exempt from the ordinance for the time being. The board’s vote was 3-2 — with Supervisors Jim Desmond and Kristin Gaspar opposed.”

BILL TARLING – Don’t you love government, where 3 people get to dictate and impose their personal beliefs which must be obeyed by the public

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County Supervisors approve ban of flavored, smokeless tobacco products

“The council said yesterday that a plan is now being actioned to make the Taupō district “smoke and vape free”. The affected areas will include the CBD and civic spaces, reserves and parks including the lakeside, sports grounds, outdoor dining venues, council events, council buildings, bus stops and social housing. The ban will not be a by-law, so will not have any penalties for those who refuse to co-operate.”

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Taupō introduces smoking and vaping ban, but it won’t be enforced

“The United States Centres for Disease Control (CDC) is “concealing and suppressing information” according to leading harm reduction expert Professor Michael Siegel. The consequence, he contends, is that potential harms are being “overhyped … in order to deceive the public”. “The number one cause of severe, vaping-related health damage to youths is not electronic cigarettes,” says Siegel. “although you would not know that from reading the CDC’s literature on youth vaping.””

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We CDC You

“The Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health has decided that warning people about vaping during Canada’s National Non-Smoking Week is just the thing to help reduce tobacco related disease. While saying “smoking continues to pose a significant risk”, the council is keen that smokers only quit using traditional approaches that failed to work for millions until the advent of electronic cigarettes. Instead, the council recommends Canada bans “all flavoured vaping products”, regulates “a minimum set of flavours to support smokers” and places a limit on “the nicotine content in vaping products, including pods, to a maximum of 20mg/ml”. It also wants to limit the performance of mods and regulate power delivery and the use of nicotine salts. It wants to see punitive sin taxes applied to vaping products, limit use to over-21s, and carry out enhanced “surveillance and reporting of vaping product use”.”

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Canada Docs Hate Vaping