News-n-Views 13th/19th April

We gather weekly the most important Vaping news.

INTERNATIONAL REGULATION

UK: ASH CALLS FOR SMOKING CESSATION TRAINING FOR MENTAL HEALTH STAFF

Serious concerns about mental health personnel not receiving adequate training to help patients quit smoking are raised.

UK SHOULD LEGALISE SNUS NOW: MP

Citing the impact of snus on helping reduce smoking levels in Sweden, Conservative Party MP David Jones has called for the UK to “legalise it now” as part of an expected overhaul of UK tobacco legislation.

OPINIONS

BEATING CANCER: CLIVE BATES ON WHAT THE EU GOT WRONG ABOUT TOBACCO

The EU Beating Cancer plan is plagued by a “fundamental error” when it comes to tobacco and nicotine, warns tobacco harm reduction advocate Clive Bates.

AFRICA MUST DITCH THE DOGMA TO REDUCE TOBACCO’s TOLL

FAR TOO many Africans die as a result of smoking. Yet far too few Africans who try to stop smoking actually succeed in doing so.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

VAPING VS SMOKING: IMPACT ON CELLS COMPARED

Scientists have utilised Toxys’ ToxTracker suite of stem-cell based in-vitro assays, which provide mechanistic insight into the potential DNA damaging properties of chemicals

E-CIGARETTES WITH CIGARETTE-LIKE NICOTINE DELIVERY REDUCE EXPOSURE TO CARCINOGEN

Researchers from Penn State College of Medicine and Virginia Commonwealth University studied whether e-cigarettes with cigarette-like nicotine delivery could reduce exposure to a major cancer-causing chemical.

STORY OF THE WEEK

LOW NICOTINE CIGGIES WILL DRIVE UP POVERTY

According to ACT Social Development and Children spokesperson Karen Chhour: “New Zealand smokers will who can least afford it will spend more on their habit”