Category: Vaping News

“San Diego State University, supported by a load of anti-vape organisations, is pushing a farcical link between third-hand smoke/vape and catching the COVID-19 virus. Researchers are claiming that “cleaning toxic residue in our homes” reduces risk because of bogus claims that “thirdhand smoke” sticks to surfaces.”

BILL TARLING — San Diego State University is renewing the debunked claim about vaping residue contaminating everything the vapor touches… Once again [as with the same debunked study claims that has been recycled multiple times over the past couple of years], they are pretending this fake ‘new insight’ [which has already been proven fake — including by real scientific testing and proof] is worthy of continued grants and funding to regurgitate — and the simplest way to do it is to make sure you test samples where the desired contaminants are caused by other sources [but leave out that the vapor wasn’t even the cause of the readings]

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3rd Hand Stupidity

“The American Vaping Association (AVA) warns that it’s “another day, another embarrassment” as the World Health Organization (WHO) cites a retracted Stanton Glantz anti-vaping study. Glantz’ claims that vaping caused heart attacks before people began vaping was roundly mocked, but it took months of constant effort to force the publishing journal into making the humiliating withdrawal. The WHO not caring about facts will surprise nobody. In its downloadable document, the WHO lies and delivers half-truths”

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WHO Relies on Lies

“University of Minnesota’s Dana Mowls Carroll led a team of researcher to produce a paper about the ‘polarization within the field of tobacco and nicotine science and its potential impact on trainees’. The paper, published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, warns about the impact on scientific rigor if juniors are influenced by their line managers. A striking case in point is that of the anti-vape/tobacco harm reduction hothouse at the University of California San Francisco. Not even being subjected to sexual harassment, racial slurs and having the authorship of her work stolen by Stanton Glantz shook the institutional brainwashing of Dr Eunice Neeley. The millions of dollars flooding through Glantz’ department corrupted all it came into contact with; academic and scientific rigor fell by the wayside in the quest to produce the kind of findings the funders want to see.“

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Polarised

“The traditional approach of most governments and anti-tobacco organizations to reduce the number of smokers remains to advocate abstinence from all tobacco products, either by spontaneously quitting smoking or by consuming nicotine substitutes that are approved by the medical community (gums, patches, or pharmacological agents). However, technology has now evolved to explain the causes of smoking related diseases and helped provide better alternatives for smokers in the forms of smoke free tobacco and nicotine products. Unfortunately, due to these reduced risk products being associated with either tobacco or nicotine, are mostly cast aside and in most countries advocated against without even being vetted. It is, therefore, time to modernize tobacco control taking into account the harm reduction that new non-combustible tobacco products, in particular electronic cigarettes, can bring.”

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Modernizing the fight against Tobacco

“Vaping manufacturers and retailers pointed to what they called the government’s “whack-a-mole approach to the Appointments Clause” Wednesday in a D.C. Circuit appeal over e-cigarette regulation. Ten companies — among them Moose Joose, Mountain Vapors and Tobacco Harm Reduction 4 Life — brought the challenge here over a final agency rule that the Food and Drug Administration adopted in 2016 to designate vape wares as tobacco products subject to regulation under the Tobacco Control Act. Pillard questioned how the FDA can have individuals who are not duly appointed under the Constitution generating agency actions that are then made valid later on by “periodic blanket ratifications” by appointed officials.”

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E-Cig Companies Say Invalid Appointment Moots FDA Rule

“The Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group (TAG) is hosting the World Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) Day on October 20, 2020, to raise awareness of the need for better evidence to inform healthcare policy, practice and decision making in order to improve health outcomes globally. One thing vapers will have noticed is that many countries around the world fail to rely on evidence, preferring to rely on ideologically-driven papers that simply support their fears, ignorance, or desire to raise money from tobacco harm reduction.”

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World Evidence Based Healthcare Day

“The journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research is currently carrying a meta-analysis by researchers at the Medical University of Vienna. They found that vaping could offer a solution to tobacco-related harm due to how it delivers nicotine and how vapers use their devices, and that the papers they looked out suggest it is better than placebos, traditional NRT, or counselling alone. Grabovac, Oberndorfer, Fischer, Wiesinger, Haider, and Dorner looked at 13950 publications before identifying 12 studies as eligible for systematic review and 9 for random-effects meta-analyses. They say: “Electronic-cigarettes have emerged as a potential and novel aid in smoking cessation interventions providing an experience similar to combustible cigarettes.””

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The Effectiveness of Vaping

“Juul Labs Inc. has the Mafia to thank for the most potent legal claims accusing the e-cigarette maker of igniting an epidemic of youth nicotine addiction. The company will try to persuade a federal judge Monday that consumers and school districts can’t sue it under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which has been called “the litigation equivalent of a thermonuclear device.” The 1970 law was originally designed to prosecute organized crime but has also been used in civil lawsuits, including against tobacco companies. If Juul fails to get the RICO claims knocked out of the lawsuits at the earliest opportunity, it faces the prospect of being on the hook for triple damages and the plaintiffs’ attorneys fees, which is likely to put a lot more pressure on the company to settle. Juul, its founders and Altria Group Inc., which owns a 35% stake in Juul, face hundreds of suits that have been consolidated in federal court in San Francisco and in California state court in Los Angeles.”

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Juul’s Defense of Marketing E-Cigarettes to Youth Targets Use of Organized Crime Law

“The Korean government said Wednesday that taxes on liquids for use in electronic cigarettes, also called “e-liquid” or “vape juice,” will nearly double starting next year. The “health promotion tax” on nicotine solutions, which are heated in the battery-powered devices to produce vapor instead of smoke, will be raised from the current 525 won (45 cents) to 1,050 won a milliliter. The changes to the national health promotion laws were approved by the Cabinet recently, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, which are set to come into effect Jan. 1, 2021.”

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Taxes on vaping to double next year

“” True progress will come when we see all tobacco companies phase out their combustible cigarette businesses. For this to be possible, governments need to implement smarter regulations that support the transition, and WHO should actively support tobacco harm reduction. Bans, such as The Union’s call to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products in LMICs, are not the answer and only impede progress,” said Dr. Yach. Among the six companies who made public commitments to harm reduction, between 30% and 55% of their marketing budgets were still devoted to high-risk products including cigarettes. The Tobacco Transformation Index is the first index to rank the world’s largest 15 tobacco companies (accounting for nearly 90% of global cigarette volume) on their relative performance, commitment, and transparency to deliver material progress in supporting tobacco harm reduction. The 2020 Tobacco Transformation Index ranks Swedish Match, which divested its cigarette business in 1999, in first position. Phillip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Altria, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco, KT&G, ITC Ltd., Swisher International, Tobacco Authority of Thailand, Vietnam National Tobacco, Gudang Garam, Djarum, Eastern Co., and China National Tobacco Corp. follow Swedish Match in the overall rankings.”

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Tobacco Transformation Index Finds Most of the 15 Largest Tobacco Companies are Failing to Advance Harm Reduction