We gather weekly the most important Vaping news.
INTERNATIONAL REGULATION
EUROPEAN COMMISSION WEIGHS UP THE BENEFITS AND RISKS OF E-CIGARETTES
E-cigarettes are promoted in many countries as a safer alternative to tobacco. However, in the EU, there has been a long-running debate about the health effects of these products.
WILL CHINA BRING VAPES UNDER THE COUNTRY’s TOBACCO MONOPOLY?
That means nicotine vapes would fall under the control of the country’s tobacco monopoly—a development with huge implications in China and potentially the rest of the world.
CANADIAN E-CIGARETTE USERS UNITE FOR WORLD E-CIGARETTE DAY
Under siege by the federal and provincial governments, but continue to fight for choice
OPINIONS
MAKE MAY 31 WORLD NO SMOKING DAY, NOT NO NICOTINE DAY
The problem with World No Tobacco Day is right there in the title: It assumes tobacco is the problem. It is not. The problem, as the video acknowledges, is smoking. It is long-term smoking that causes heart disease,
THE GREAT VAPE DEBATE
The tobacco control movement is “neck-deep in intractable, internecine warfare” over vaping
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
COULD COVIDE BE TREATED WITH NICOTINE?FRENCH RESEARCHERS ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT
Researchers at the Pitié Salpêtrière hospital in Paris are using nicotine patches as part of a study to see if nicotine can help prevent or slow down Covid.
BAN ON FLAVORED VAPING MAY HAVE LED TEENS TO CIGARETTES, STUDY SUGGESTS
Analyses found that, after the ban’s implementation, high school students’ odds of smoking conventional cigarettes doubled in San Francisco’s school district
STORY OF THE WEEK
LETTER:WHO MUST URGENTLY REASSESS ITS TOBACCO & NICOTINE POLICY AND STOP CAUSING HARM
WHO’s outright opposition to products that are, beyond any reasonable doubt, much lower risk than cigarettes (vaping, heated tobacco products, snus, oral nicotine etc) makes no sense in terms of science, public health or ethics.
