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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

How to stop vaping. New guidelines available ~ BBC highlights snus’s potential to help cut UK smoking rates ~ South Africa: Concern Over New Vaping Rules ~ Thailand will not lift ban on vaping, citing health threat ~ Harry’s blog 113: The Human(ity) Factor ~ Ethan Nadelmann at the Webinar: Are you feeling burnout? ~ Trade Body TRPR Reaction ~ We Vape Call For Engagement ~ NNA Offers Comments ~ FDA approves marketplace use of Japan Tobacco’s e-cigarette products ~ Vaping Encourages Smoking Cessation — So Let’s Kill The Vaping Industry? ~ Another Vaping Teenager Faces Violent Police Enforcement ~ The FDA’s flawed PMTA process on vaping products does not help consumers ~ Our scatter-gun approach to be smoke-free by 2030 is failing ~ Opinion: Flavored tobacco ban bill bad for Maine’s public health

Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Risk-Proportionate Tobacco Harm Reduction Legislation ~ INNCO Weekly Issue ~ Study reveals consumer interest in ‘nicotine pouches’ ~ Flavours Matter: 150,000 Swedish lives at stake if vaping flavours banned ~ Concern over new e-cigarette and vaping rules planned for South Africa ~ When the good news about smoking is bad news for anti-smoking groups ~ Cigarettes sales rise in US states that banned vaping – US study ~ Expert reaction to research letter about US adolescents attempting to quit smoking or vaping ~ Disappointing Malay Delay ~ Lift off for VApril 2022 ~ FDA’s Dysfunctional Regulation of E-cigs Created the Synthetic Nicotine Problem ~ Malaysia’s vaping approval derailed by “MPs busy campaigning”? ~ Anti-Vaping Study With Bloomberg’s Name on It ~ Tobacco companies’ exploitation of loopholes in the EU ban on menthol cigarettes: a case study from Denmark

Friday’s News at a glance:

Can vapers trust Big Tobacco? – Blackpool MPs new call to tackle smoking – China Set to Prohibit Sales – Smokers Rush to Stock Flavored E-cigs – Ideological Aversion to Harm Reduction – Despite Bloomberg’s Billions Fooling You – NHS Still Failing on VBA Training – 82 Million Vapers – Oz Must Embrace Vaping – Findings From Scottish Prisons – Don’t Ban Synthetic Nicotine – FDA Has 120 Days to Regulate Synthetic Nicotine – Who Will Be the First Person To Go to Prison? – US Smoking Hits Record Lows – Protected by the SRNT Bubble – Vape Keeps Beating the Odds – Let’s be scientific, not ideological – Vaping flavour bans – South Africa flirts with e-cig tax – Tobacco harm reduction critical – Four Basic Consumer Rights Not Respected – COP9: Philanthropic Funding or Manipulation? – Vaping Advocates Launch Series – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

Friday’s News at a glance:

The gateway effect myth that will never die – 82 million vapers worldwide in 2021 – No Smoking Day – Time to try something more innovative – Government urged to cut VAT to 5% – ‘Ban smoking for good’ campaign – The NNA’s Top 20 – IBVTA Issues Warning – Confidence Up In USA – Strip Search District Superintendent Charged – UKVIA Calls For Scottish Rethink – Parliament – 2021 CDC Survey – Why Can’t the CDC Tell the Truth – Massachusetts Public Health Boasts – Industry bodies respond to Scottish plans – French Experts Call for Tobacco Policy Rethink – New Federal Spending Plan – Harm Reduction Approach Needed – Kenyans Yeaning For Safer Alternative – National Consumer Protection Week – Provinces Could Have Final Say – Canada’s Vape Gag Law Must Go! – Congress wants to sneak in an effective ban – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

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Monday’s News at a glance:

Respond to the Scottish government’s public consultation on treating vaping the same as smoking – Vital Strategies, another Bloomberg puppet – Watch: Adults Love Flavors – Second-Best Dentist Slates Vaping – Is vaping safer than smoking? – Sweden’s Heavy-Handed Mistake – Signing of vape bill to leave an enduring legacy – Tobacco‘s Surprising Partners – Teen smoking rates fall to all time low – A case for Tobacco Harm Reduction strategy – How to take harm reduction measures without misguided bans? – Canadian Vape Industry Facing New Excise Tax – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest

Monday’s News at a glance:

News From Parliament – Students Strip Searched for Vaping Devices – Man’s death from heavy smoking, not EVALI – The Health Crisis Michael Bloomberg is Making Worse; No, Not That One – Vaping has helped many to quit smoking – The Advocates Voice 2022 – ‘Quit or die’ approach for cigarettes doesn’t work – Smoking bounces back in the US – Living with Children: Don’t worry about teen’s vaping – Advocacy Burnout Webinar