Anti-smoking experts highlight e-cigarette opportunities

Global anti-smoking experts highlight e-cigarette opportunities A new report from global anti-smoking experts is warning that the advantages of e-cigarettes should not be dismissed. The authors are cautioning the Government to not be heavy-handed with regulation of the products. Whilst the report highlights the importance of protecting youth, the authors recommend that this can be achieved whilst assisting smokers to quit smoking and transition to the much less harmful e-cigarette option. They underline that a range of flavours are important to the smokefree proposition of e-cigarettes.

2019-10-07
scoop.co.nz

Vaping a pathway to get people on track to reach Smokefree 2025 goals, professor says

David Sweanor talked to TVNZ1’s Breakfast as experts claim the country is not on track to reach its goal.

2019-10-07
tvnz.co.nz

Majority of New Yorkers Support Ban on Sale of E-Cigarettes

New Yorkers think the use of e-cigarettes is a serious public health problem and support a ban on flavored e-cigarette products, according to a poll released Monday. The Siena College Research Institute found that 78% of the 589 New Yorkers surveyed in late September believe that vaping is a somewhat serious or very serious public health problem. Sixty-one percent of those polled supported a temporary ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarette and vaping products, while 52% said they supported banning the sale of all e-cigarettes [...]

2019-10-07
wsj.com

Black market THC (cannabis) cartridges are cause of vaping-related lung injury

The outbreak of serious vaping-related lung injuries in the US and Canada is almost certainly due to black-market THC (cannabis) oils sold by street dealers, NOT nicotine e-liquid. The epidemic has caused great alarm amongst vapers, and Australian vendors have reported huge declines in sales eg here and here. The concerns have been fuelled by misleading information from Australian government officials and misleading media reports which have incorrectly suggested that vaping nicotine is the cause of this outbreak.

2019-10-07
athra.org.au

Lung specialists step up calls for ban on ‘harmful’ e-cigarettes

Dutch lung specialists have called for a total ban on e-cigarettes on the grounds that they cause lung disease and do nothing to prevent smoking. ‘We want a complete ban on e-cigarettes in the Netherlands, Leon van Toorn, of lung specialists’ association NVALT told AD. The association, which last month conducted a survey among its member to gauge the extent of the problem in the Netherlands, said the number of Dutch people reporting lung problems after vaping has risen from three to eight.

2019-10-07
dutchnews.nl

Don’t ban vape, allow nicotine sales, say traders

THE Malaysian Vape Chamber of Commerce (MVCC) pleaded against the outlawing of vape — once a lucrative industry — as the domestic e-cigarette demand is still in tandem with the global market. MVCC president Syed Azaudin Syed Ahmad said the government should instead consider allowing the sales of regulated liquid with nicotine [...] in the upcoming law-making process. [...] “The industry supports regulations for vape to be introduced as soon as possible and to take into consideration the direction and development of this industry, especially in the use of vape liquid with nicotine.

2019-10-07
themalaysianreserve.com