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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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday’s News at a glance:

Expert statements on WHO and tobacco harm reduction – One hundred specialists call for WHO to change its hostile stance – Removing Barriers from Vaping: Tips for People with Disabilities – At Least 28 Vape Companies Have Challenged MDOs in Court – The FDA’s Confusing Rulings – Mackem Manager’s THR Madness – This Newsletter Is Not “FDA Approved” – A global look at vaping regulations – US sketches out tough regime for e-cigarettes – FDA’s Negligence Led to Youth E-Cigarette Use – Survey finds students are using vaping as quit smoking aid – Kenya must step up bid to help smokers – Scientists push for THR policies – Illegal Vape Products Seized in New Waterford – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest