Friday’s News at a glance:
NNA Welcomes Estonia’s Decision to Suspend Excise Duty on E-Liquids – Plymouth Vaping Experiment – Four million smoking-related deaths a year – A Burning Issue for Asia – Report Details Failures to Scale Up THR in Asia – Covid stress leads to increase in smoking – UKVIA repeats its call to Government to review vaping regulations – POTV Teams Up With GFN21 – Tobacco Harm Reduction Conference – ELEVATE VAPING AS A SAFE SWITCH – Examining Public Health’s Response to Vaping – Tobacco harm reduction and the high cost of misinformation – Govt’s Smokefree Plan Overlooks Vaping Alternative – Dental group clarifies stand on e-cigarettes – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest
Monday's News at a glance:
Tobacco Products’ Beneficial Antioxidant Properties - Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan - In Overcoming Paralysis, Brussels Must Choose Harm Reduction - A critical review of high-impact studies of vaping - Why a medical expert embraced tobacco harm reduction - News-n-Views 13th/19th April - Another Media Partnership for POTV - YDKN Fact Checks Glantz’ Nonsense Nicotine Claims - Calls to consider e-cigarettes a first line therapy - SJ flavored tobacco ban would hurt small businesses - VCU study finds e-cigs may reduce exposure to tobacco-related carcinogen - Legal uncertainties are cramping the industry - THR key to reducing Asia’s smoking-related deaths - Asian countries told to be cautious about ‘philanthropic colonialism’ - Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
In response to ‘The tragic irony of defending the tobacco industry’ ~ To Increase Smoking Rates Among Young Adults, Keep Hiking Vape Taxes ~ Review of: Finding ‘common ground’ on shifting sands: observations on the conflicts over product regulation ~ Why Africa must embrace science rather than ideology in fight against smoking ~ New GSTHR Briefing ~ UKECRF E-cig Research ~ Companies Push B&Ms To Capitalise On VApril ~ These bans on flavored e-cigarettes could do more harm than good. ~ Biden May Adopt Gottlieb’s Cigarette Restrictions ~ USPS Might Soon Exempt Some Vape Businesses From “Mail Ban”
Friday’s News at a glance:
Clive Bates interview: Fighting for vape’s good name – Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan: A Missed Opportunity – Vaping in New Zealand Versus Vaping in New Zealotsville –Japan cigarette sales plummet after launch of safer alternatives – Indiana Passes a Vaping Tax Without Public Input – The 6 Most Expensive Places to Vape – NNA Estonia Welcomes E-Liquid Tax Suspension – Venezuela Takes The Lead On Vaping – E-Cigarette Summit USA Plans Revealed – UKVIA Calls On Government To Act – Higher-Nicotine Vapes Seem Better – Biden Must “Listen to the Science” – Smoke-free or nicotine-free? – International governments intensify support – Philippines FDA urged to cut ties with anti-vaping foundations – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest
Monday’s News at a glance:
E-cigarettes: what we know and what we don’t – Tobacco & Vaping 101: 50 State Analysis – Defund the World Health Organisation! – Durbin Introduces Bill to Tax Vapes Like Cigarettes – Reduced Nicotine Cigarettes For NZ – Why Should Smokers Switch To Vaping? – Future for Nicotine | GFN21, Global Forum on Nicotine – A world free of addictions is utopia – The knowledge gap of a smoker – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Achieving a Smoke-Free 2030 ~ European policymakers are starting to see the light ~ Federal Bill Aims to Tax Vapes as Much as Cigarettes ~ PMTA Confusion: Vape Companies Misled by FDA ~ Tripling The E-liquid Tax ~ High Nic E-liquids Help ~ UKVIA Vaping Industry Logistics Survey ~ Positioning Smokeless Tobacco ~ A practical solution to the Asian smoking scourge ~ UK’s early investment in alternative nicotine technologies is earning country £800m windfall every year, new report shows ~ Rhode Island Should Focus on Tobacco Harm Reduction, Not E-Cigarette Flavor Bans
Friday's News at a glance:
Free e-cigarettes in A&E trial - USPS Postpones Ban On Vape Mail - Guess WHO? - EU scientific committee ignores the science - A backwards step for public health - Nicotine illiteracy - Research Retraction Provokes Angry Response - Vaping Missing From Smoke-free Plan - Vaping and the Scottish Parliament Election - Chapman and Daube Slammed By Politeness - Montana Legislature Approves Bill - Small Businesses Scrambling - FDA Will Ban Menthol Cigs: - Biden’s Menthol Cigarette Ban - COVID-19 And Teen Vaping - N.W.T. divided on regulating vape flavours - Legislators lambaste NGOs - Ill-advised Gamble for Public Health - Can THR Work for India’s Poor? - Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
A “fairer and healthier world” needs a better public health agency than the WHO ~ Vaping Group Supports Call to Defund WHO ~ By Ignoring WHO, UK Could Emerge as World Leader in Tobacco Harm Reduction ~ SCHEER report: the good, the bad & the ugly ~ ANAFE / CoEHAR / LIAF: SCHEER report is inadequate ~ Nicotine misconceptions: Sudhanshu Patwardhan on causes, consequences, and potential cures ~ April 2021 Cochrane living review of electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation update and questions ~ $1.6m On Vape To QuitStrong Proves Govt Knows What Works ~ Snusrevolution ~ The Extraordinary Success of Vaping ~ GFN Fives Calls For Submissions ~ World Leading NHS Ecig Trial ~ Could Brexit End Up Boosting UK Tobacco Harm Reduction? ~ UK Gov will miss Brexit chance to make 2030 smoke free ~ Between 2 Vapes Episode 1 Dr. John Oyston ~ Toronto vapers are up in arms over the CN Tower’s latest campaign ~ Case for safer options to tobacco smoking in Africa~ Tobacco Harm Reduction in Asia blocked by health agencies and anti-tobacco lobby groups ~ Fear and Loathing: Nicotine, Tobacco, and Obesity ~ Tobacco Harm Reduction in Asia blocked by health agencies and anti-tobacco lobby groups ~ Fear and Loathing: Nicotine, Tobacco, and Obesity
Friday’s News at a glance:
EU SCHEER report misses the mark on vaping – Another Challenge to FDA Could Be Heard by the Supreme Court – COVID Relief Bill Cuts E-Cigarette Access – New Evidence Links “EVALI” Vaping Misinformation With Increased Cigarette Smoking – JUUL Busy Producing Research – Vaping is a friend and not a foe – WVA Show Of Fitness – Dangerous SCHEER Drop – Will nicotine be the next menthol? – Effect of Massachusetts House Bill No. 4196 – A smoker’s right to choose better health – Consumers express alarm – Between 2 Vapes Episode 2 Professor David Sweanor – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest
Wednesday’s News at a glance:
Swedish MEP calls out Commission ‘dishonesty’ on snus and cancer ~ The WHO and tobacco policy: a seven-point reform agenda ~Worlds apart – while others ban e-cigs, UK hospitals hand them out for free ~ Helping smokers quit ~ “END ENDS” Bill Would Cap Nicotine Levels in Vapes, Encourage Smoking ~ Want Fewer Teen Smokers? Stop Banning Vapes. ~ Study: Youth Vaping Down Dramatically During Pandemic ~ Rep. Krishnamoorthi’s E-Cigarette Nicotine Cap Proposal ~ The Advocates Voice – Episode 5 ~ New Adam Smith Report on Ecigs ~ New Organisation For Latin America ~ 95% Safer Figure Still Holds ~ NTR Clarifies Tobacco Industry Policy ~ Death & Taxes | U.S. Approach to Vaping
