Forbidden Fruit | Anti-Vaping Ads Create Youth ‘Epidemic’ | RegWatch (Live)

In a bombshell new report by Michelle Minton, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute titled “Perverse Psychology: How Anti-Vaping Campaigners Created the Youth Vaping Epidemic,” Minton argues it was not the vaping industry that “reignited youth interest in vaping—it was anti-vaping advocacy.”

2020-02-21
regulatorwatch.com

Attempt to Create a New Tobacco Agency Will Not Work

The administration has requested a budget authorization to strip down the Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products. President Donald Trump, apparently, has the vision to create a new tobacco agency that isn’t an administrative monstrosity like the FDA. There’s no chance that the administration will get their request from Congress. No lawmaker in their right mind would consider breaking down the FDA. Between hiring alarmist health officials and treating vaping as a crime in some instances, Trump has no better strategy but to upend the entire public health administrative state with an off-handed idea.

2020-02-21
theamericanconsumer.org

Most Brits Are Put Off Vaping by Negative Media Coverage, Poll Reveals

Vaping has exploded in popularity in the United Kingdom in recent years, as more vape shops open and growing numbers of people use e-cigarettes instead of smoking, but many questions remain about the activity, the results of a survey show. The survey, which was carried out by Google Surveys for British vaping retailer Electric Tobacconist, sought the UK public's views on using e-cigarettes as a smoking-cessation tool, and if they believe the devices have a public-health benefit. It comes at a time of intense focus on e-cigarettes in the United States, with ongoing negative news about vaping in the American media and, [...]

2020-02-21
finance.yahoo.com

I'm into health food and hot yoga. I'm also addicted to vaping

I like to think of myself as a healthy, calm lady-boss who aims to inspire others. [...] And so it may surprise my clients, family, and friends that I am one of the 50 million people around the globe addicted to e-cigarette juice. If you’ve ever heard the phrase “Juuling”, you probably picture a teenager who rips a Juul that’s hidden in the sleeve of their hoodie, holding in the hit so as not to get caught vaping in math class, not a middle-class woman in her early 30s who gets HydraFacials and sips turmeric tea. [...]

2020-02-21
theguardian.com

Trump’s Good Idea: Get Drug Regulators Out Of Vaping

Yet last week, the White House fiscal 2021 budget plan proposed an interesting move: taking the Center for Tobacco Products, CTP, out of the FDA to create a new agency within HHS to focus on tobacco regulation. [...] Even this modest transfer probably doesn’t stand a chance in Congress. No lawmaker will want to be seen as soft on vaping. Indeed, despite being far safer than cigarettes and intended for smokers only, e-cigarettes have a serious image problem.

2020-02-21
forbes.com

COMMENTARY: Provinces should push for timetable for rapid phase-out of cigarettes

Over the past two decades, each of Canada’s provincial governments has filed a lawsuit against tobacco companies to recover the costs of treating diseases caused by the companies’ wrongful behaviour. Health organizations have long supported these efforts, recognizing that they can help achieve justice against corporate wrongdoing, can compensate taxpayers for health-care costs, and can expose the truth about unscrupulous industry behaviour. Most importantly, these lawsuits are seen as a way to protect future generations from the ravages of smoking by accelerating an end to this harmful trade.

2020-02-21
thechronicleherald.ca