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Friday’s News at a glance:

Up In Smoke: How Vape Bans Increase Tobacco Use – USPS Vape Mail Ban Is Now in Effect – Backlash Against the FDA Grows – Experts Demand EVALI Rename – BAT Delivers “Critical Year” Keynote – ATS Beats A Broken Drum – Thai Vape Support Goes Global – Parliamentary Activity – Vaping: one policy the Kiwis have got right – Altria Will End U.S. IQOS Sales November 29th – Hong Kong Prohibits Sales of Vaping Products – New Study Muddies the Vaping Debate – The WHO fails again – on smoking – Tobacco Control Policies Are Misguided – New Alarm Over Youth Vaping in Canada – National and international health nannies – Evidence on effectiveness of e-cigs is incontrovertible – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Monday’s News at a glance:

COPWATCH: a Consumer Guide to FCTC COP – Electronic cigarettes are the single most effective quitting aid – During the EVALI lung crisis, my state banned all vapes – FDA Puts A Second Vape Company Back Under Review – 100 Expert Voices – Expert Response to the 100’s Letter – World Health Organization Shamed Further by 100 Experts – Britain should not listen to the WHO on vaping – Global pressure mounts ahead of COP9 – Is The WHO Wrong – Some breathing space for the vaping industry – On e-cigarettes, follow the science – FDA: E-cigarettes proven harm reduced product – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Pragmatic paradigm needed in tackling tobacco harm ~ Is the vision of a non-combustible tobacco industry within reach? ~ ‘Tall tales and toxic tweets about e-cigarettes are stopping smokers quitting’ ~ Disingenuous Youth Survey ~ WVA Advisory Board Grows ~ Europeans COP Another Letter~ Whose WHO? ~ Judges Reject FDA’s “Surprise Switcheroo,” Issue Stay to Triton ~ Texas company can keep selling flavored e-cigs, 5th Circuit rules ~ Southmead Hospital could get vaping zones to make it ‘truly smoke-free’ ~ FTC Report Finds Annual Cigarette Sales Increased for the First Time in 20 Years

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Friday’s News at a glance:

E-cigarettes could be available on NHS to tackle smoking rates – 100 experts speak up in favour of harm reduction – UK National Health Service Will Pay for Prescription Vapes – Tobacco Industry, my Love – GSTHR ‘Fighting the Last War’ – Excoriation of the WHO and Tobacco Control – If Less Vaping Means More Smoking – Global Pressure Mounts on WHO – NNA Welcomes Specialist Intervention – Geekbar Announces Factory Closures – Relapse Study Criticised – E-Cigarette Opponents Torture PATH – Why Did Cigarette Sales Rise in 2020 – First Vape Company Full Stay Is Issued – The Youth Vaping “Epidemic” Has Ended – Anti-Vaping Scare Tactics and Cigarette Sales – Fifth Circuit Rebukes FDA for Regulatory “Switcheroo” – Harm Reduction and bias – Government To Tax Vape Liquids – Is plain packaging of snus working in Norway? – Harm reduction gains traction – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Monday’s News at a glance:

ETHRA October news roundup – Contemptible misinformation about vaping in the Daily Mail – Our health – Consumers the often forgotten majority – ‘There is something for everybody’ – VBI Demands Evidence-Based Debate – Javid Announces Medical Vape Plan – Malaysia Will Legalize and Tax Nicotine Vaping – Fighting for Smokers’ Access to Safer Alternatives – Good COP Distracts From Bad COP – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

What does the announcement that vaping may be prescribed by doctors mean to UK consumers ~ Systematic Review Confirms Harmful Health Outcomes from Ecigarettes are Minimal to Zero ~ Smoking Cessation: Prescription of E-cigarettes ~ ‘Anti-smoking McCarthyism’ behind Sweden’s lack of tobacco harm reduction leadership ~ Time for United States to Embrace All Forms of Harm Reduction ~ The FDA’s Overdue Approval of E-Cigarettes ~ The FDA’s Vape Fiasco Will Perpetuate Smoking Deaths ~ Medicalised Vapes Provoke Response ~ Industry Response To Medicalisation Prospect ~ Geneva Protest ~ The other COP ~ Can Big Tobacco really ditch the cigarettes? ~ FPMPAM: Vape Tax Must Be Backed By Strict Regulations

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Friday’s News at a glance:

Sinn Féin call for flavor ban – What do we know about COP9? – Urgent! Tell Congress to Kill the Outrageous Nicotine Tax – “Build Back Better” Nicotine Tax – Democrats Hike Taxes on Vaping – Vaping Can Help America Quit Smoking – Negative Capewell – Capewell Debunked – An Expert‘s Perspective – WHO Told To Support Harm Reduction – COEHAR Completes Evidence Review – 5 things we’d like to see happen at WHO COP9 – FCTC COP9: Liberate the vape! – More Calls for Harm Reduction Ahead of COP9 – Is WHO slamming the door on tobacco harm reduction? – Smokers Can’t Afford WHO To Be Wrong Again! – My Dear: A short epistolary novel – FDA Memos Reveal Its “Fatal Flaw” – Oireachtas committee warns against banning e-cigarettes – A Never-Ending War? – Taipei set to ban sale of vaping products – Global tobacco control ‘hugely outdated’ – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Monday’s News at a glance:

Prohibitionists at work: how the WHO damages public health through hostility to THR – The secret tobacco conference starts today – Fighting the Last War – Secretive WHO is ignoring the science on vaping – Open letter by NGO engaged students – COP9: the Secret Tobacco Control Meeting You Can’t Attend – Paediatricians Attack Ecigs – News From Parliament – It’s time to end smoking for good in the UK – House Democrats Tuck Vape Tax – Melbourne-based individual fined $7,992 – The battle over the government’s tough new vaping ban – WHO’s Global Tobacco Meet Needs A Reset – WHO undermines democracy – Group rallies support for smoking alternatives – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Wednesday's News at a glance:

Bloomberg, World Health Organisation and the Vaping Misinfodemic ~ New INNCO Dossier Raises Major Questions On Anti-vaping Stance ~ Bloomberg, the World Health Organisation & the Vaping Misinfodemic ~ 5 things we’d like to see happen at WHO COP9 – but probably won’t ~ COPWATCH: a Consumer Guide to FCTC COP ~ The Bloomberg Health Organisation ~ Britain sparks a new row with the World Health Organisation over VAPING ~ Episode 4: Michelle Minton & Helen Redmond ~ UK Will Send a Powerful Message by Allowing NHS to Prescribe Vapes ~ Boris Called To Stand Up For Vaping At COP 9 ~ News From Parliament ~ IEVA Addresses COP9 ~ COPWATCH ~ Champix COP Out ~ PH commits to science in solving smoking problem ~ Congressman Sets His Sights on Unregulated Synthetic Nicotine ~ Krishnamoorthi Investigates Synthetic Nicotine ~ Careless Laws and Rules Push Vaping Toward a Black Market Future ~ Africa: Is the World Health Organization Slowing Down the Efforts to Reduce Tobacco Harm? ~ Philip Morris International meets with FDA to make its case for Iqos in patent dispute

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Friday’s News at a glance:

#COP9 LIVE 12 November 2021 – BECA draft report: second consideration of amendments – Confusing Communications, Shifting Guidance and Decision Paralysis – FDA: Stop Foot-Dragging – Nicotine Tax Update – Biden’s Vaping Tax Sparks Concerns – WHO Set To Fail Again – Antz Attempt To Influence COP9 – CAPHRA Writes To Delegates – COP Concerns – Polosa leads the ranking in his field of research – Vapers Call On Javid to Attend COP9 – The New Nicotine Patch – Women’s Voices Among Those Absent at COP – Biden Nomination of Califf as FDA Commissioner – The obscure UN conflab – Thai Government urged by pro e-cig group – Lobby group criticises KRA for increasing tax – Tobacco harm reduction policy in spotlight – PH agrees to follow science – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Here are the Vapers Digest updates for today and Monday 15th - apologies for not posting Monday's sooner



Wednesday’s News at a glance:

WHO reports tobacco use falling – but the numbers show tobacco control failing, say experts ~ The WHO Gambled Behind Closed Doors With 200 Million Lives ~ Critics: WHO Tobacco Trends Report ‘Celebrating Failure’ ~ The Folly of the ‘Build Back Better’ Plan’s Nicotine Tax ~ The preservation of flavours is essential – ETHRA letter to BECA ~ Up in Smoke: New Study Highlights Perils of Banning Flavored E-Cigarettes ~ sCOPe Livestream Review – AP/EU ~ URGENT // Plan cancer (BECA) : interdiction des arômes dans le vapotage ? ~ Geneva Hears Vapers’ Voices ~ Philippines Swims Alone At COP9 ~ For Smokers, A New Tax On Nicotine is Raising The Price On Quitting ~ Israel Proposes World’s Highest Vape Tax ~ Divided Sixth Circuit Refuses to Stay FDA’s Denial of Vaping Product Application ~ ‘That is not acceptable’: Montreal Mom furious son told to drop his pants at school during search for vaping products


Monday’s News at a glance:

Vaping and Stroke Risk: New Study Hypes the Wrong Conclusion – Vaping an effective way to quit smoking – A Federal Vaping Tax Is Bad Policy and Bad Politics – Strategies and Challenges for Tobacco and Nicotine Products – Dossier Raises Major Concerns – COP 9 Comes To An End – Court Denies Breeze Smoke’s Motion – Study challenges concern of e-cigarette use in high school students – FDA‘s Courageous Decision Moves US Tobacco Policy In Right Direction – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Friday’s News at a glance:

Tobacco control and the wrath of God – Vapers Sent Back to Smoking By Employers – Flavoured vapes less harmful to young people than smoking – ‘Impossible to ignore snus’ in EU’s beating cancer plan – Covid credited as stop smoking service reports rise in referrals – Harm reduction holds the key – Learn About the Vaping Policy Making in the UK – ETHRA Pushes Flavour Case – 85% Quit Using Ecigs – Tobacco Control Is Failing – Dr M’s Book Of Truth – Vapers praise Filipino Secretary for COP9 bravery – Dr Marquizo Closing Address at COP9 – COP9 President’s Closing Speech – RJ Reynolds Settles Lawsuit – Quebec Students Strip-Searched for Vapes – Are e-cigs beneficial to public health? – FDA Turned the Industry into a Regulatory Mess – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Monday’s News at a glance:

Nicotine Tax Passes House, Must Be Stopped in Senate – Tax will make people smoke more – “Build Back Better” Bill Is Likely to Increase Smoking Rates – REVISED Truth Initiative InfoGraphic – Parliament – ‘Good COP, Bad COP’ Awards Announced – Vapor Rebounds From Post-EVALI Declines – Reward smokers who want to quit – Finance Minister Liberman signs order – Banning is not always the answer – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Wednesday's News at a glance:

Israel set a new tax on ecigs / Polosa: ”it means ignoring years of international scientific studies” ~ Canadian vapers call on federal government to ditch flavor ban ~ Bans on flavored e-cigarettes could see some vapers return to smoking cigarettes ~ Flavored vapes are less harmful than cigarettes for young people, controversial study claims ~ Does Vaping Cause Bone Damage? Yes And No, A Confusing Study Claims ~ Vaping Is Risky. Why Is the FDA Authorizing E-Cigarettes? ~ Netherlands Bans Nicotine Pouches ~ Advocates Announce 'Good COP, Bad COP' Awards ~ The challenges of tobacco regulation in India ~ In France, being accompanied by a vape shop increases the chances of quitting smoking (In France, being accompanied by a vape shop increases the chances of quitting smoking) ~ Build Back Better robs the poor to feed the rich ~ Elizabeth Warren, CBS,

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Friday’s News at a glance:

Snus brings Sweden even closer to ‘tobacco endgame’ goal – Willingness to accept misinformation is based on perception – How vaping helped one ‘hideously addicted’ doctor – Smokers are switching from tobacco to vaping – Nicotine Tax Will Hurt Democrats – Pesko’s Tax Proposals – Flavours Do Not Encourage Teens To Vape – PMI Response to Prescribed Vapes – Stroke Risk Research Criticised And Pulled – INNCO Round Table – The WHO‘s tobacco policy echo chamber – Stop the war on nicotine: Six Reasons – THR Has The Potential To Reduce Smoking – What caused a scrap in the Philippines government – Why a black market looms as NZ stubs out smoking – Let’s reduce the deaths – Congress pushes for tobacco death and taxes – Building Back Cancer Rates – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest