News-n-Views 15th/20th June

We gather weekly the most important Vaping news.

INTERNATIONAL REGULATION

PLAN FOR ‘SMOKING KILLS’ WARNINGS ON INDIVIDUAL CIGARETTES TO BE UNVEILED TOMORROW

UK manufacturers who don’t follow the rules could face huge fines or even jail under the plan.

HARLEM’s LEVINE AND OTHERS NEW HEALTH DEPARTMENT CAMPAIGNS WARNS YOUTH OF DANGERS OF E-CIGARETTE USE

Health Department launched a new media campaign to educate teens about the dangers of e-cigarettes: “Vaping has reached epidemic levels among young people in New York City,” said City Council Health Committee

OPINIONS

NZ SHOULD MOVE TO LOW NICOTINE CIGARETTES, BIOTECHNZ SAYS

Genetic engineering and genetic technologies for low nicotine cigarettes could play a major part in ensuring the success a leading biotech expert says.

POLITICIANS CITE COVID-19 SCIENCE;WHAT ABOUT THE SMOKING PANDEMIC?

There’s nothing quite like a pandemic to highlight that politics and science—and politicians and scientists—don’t always see eye to eye.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE USE IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH COVID-19 DIAGNOSIS

This analysis tested the hypothesis that current e-cigarette use was associated with an increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients seeking medical care.

‘SOCIAL SMOKERS’ FACE DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGH RISK OF DEATH FROM LUNG DISEASE AND LUNG CANCER

‘Social smokers’ are more than twice as likely to die of lung disease and more than eight times as likely to die of lung cancer than non-smokers, according to research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

STORY OF THE WEEK

CANADA’s PROPOSED VAPING RULES COULD TURN YOUNG PEOPLE INTO SMOKERS, USERS SAY

Canada’s plan to significantly decrease the amount of nicotine allowed in vapes and potentially restrict flavours to curb teen vaping has sparked anger among vapers and ex-smokers who say the new rules may turn them back to smokers.