News-n-Views 21st/27th June

We gather weekly the most important Vaping news.

INTERNATIONAL REGULATION

FLORIDA PROTECTED PUBLIC HEALTH BY REJECTING VAPING BAN

The DeSantis administration refused to be taken in by moral panic and public health and the state’s small businesses are both better off for it.

OCTOBER’s VAPING BAN SEES AUSTRALIA LAG EVEN FURTHER BEHIND

Asia Pacific’s leading Tobacco Harm Reduction consumer advocacy group has lashed out at the Australian Federal Government for making it increasingly harder for Australia’s 2.3 million daily smokers to quit cigarettes.

OPINIONS

CHISTOPHER SNOWDOWN:THE WHO’s WAR ON E-CIGARETTES PROVES IT HAS NO INTEREST IN AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH TO TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION

The World Health Organisation’s decision last month to give a special award to India for banning the sale of e-cigarettes was proof of it.

AFRICA: CAN TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION MAKE ITS WAY OUT OF CONTROVERSY?

Tobacco harm reduction is viewed by those who advocate for it, as a pragmatic approach to reducing the harm of smoking related disease and thus, saving millions of lives.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

PASSIVE SMOKING AND AIR POLLUTION ASSOCIATED WITH ARTHRITIS RISK, POOR RESPONSE TO RA TREATMENT

Research aimed to investigate the relationship between passive smoking and the risk of developing RA in a large prospective cohort of healthy French women.

STUDY SHOWS CIGARETTE TAX HIKES CAN HELP BOOST BIGGER BRANDS, HURT CONSUMERS

The researchers also found that tax hikes can disproportionately favour bigger brands, while tightened restrictions can hurt them.

STORY OF THE WEEK

WRONG INFORMATION DETERS SMOKERS FROM SWITCHING TO BETTER ALTERNATIVES

Advocates of tobacco harm reduction (THR) urged adult smokers to discern the science behind non-combustible alternatives as misleading and false information may push them away from switching to better nicotine alternatives like vapes and heated tobacco products (HTPs).