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Some true colours being shown in battle against vaping .... Read on.
"One of the many reasons as to why tobacco remains the untouchable powerhouse it has been, is the fact that it’s a recession-proof product, as evidenced in our recent blog post. This is of course coupled with the aforementioned MSA (Master’s Settlement Agreement), an arrangement that was agreed upon back in 1998, stating that over a 25 year period the 4 big US tobacco companies (Philip Morris Inc.; R. J. Reynolds; Brown & Williamson; and Lorillard) would pay the US government a fee each year, based on the volume of their tobacco sales. These payments (which was set as a minimum of $206bn over a 25 year period) gives the tobacco companies immunity against any lawsuits or tobacco-related healthcare costs. MSA payments are based on cigarette consumption and not the profits of tobacco companies.
"Since 2006, cigarette consumption has decreased by an average of 4.5% each year, with 2019 being a record year for decline in tobacco sales. This is obviously beneficial for public health but it translates to increased uncertainty of full annual repayment of the MSA, meaning the government places a further tax on tobacco products to compensate for the loss. This of course paid for by the smoking public."
Who Is Really Behind The Attack On Vaping? - Vaping Blog
Vaping has been on the receiving end of a brutal bashing recently, with news reports stating that there are now at least 18 deaths attributed to ‘inhaling e-cigarettes’. Consequently, as things stand, Trump is trying to push through a nationwide flavour ban, Massachettus has temporarily issued a...Every day, 1,300 Americans lose their lives to smoking-related illness and most of them are older adults. Each of these lives has a story—a story cut short because we have yet to use our scientific and regulatory resources to make harm reduction products and information fully available to the smokers who have not been able to successfully quit.
#tobaccoharmreduction #vapingsaveslives #thevapers_org
Older Smokers Are the Forgotten Victims of Our Vaping Wars
You might have seen the recent article about an 18-year-old who vaped for two years and was told by a ...Although experts canvassed by VICE acknowledged the U.K. is in no way immune to nicotine-related health problems, the American vaping crisis that has produced at least 1,000 cases of illness and roughly two-dozen deaths is pretty much nonexistent over there. There also appears to be far less official concern that vaping is a gateway drug sucking otherwise uninterested teens into a lifetime of nicotine use. Without lobbyists killing oversight and 1990s-style drug war hysteria hamstringing policy, U.K. officials have produced a piecemeal regulatory system that carefully monitors nicotine levels in vape products.
The stark contrast has American harm-reduction advocates and their counterparts across the pond touting the U.K.'s measured approach to #vaping as more logical than the full-throttle panic in Washington and state capitals across the country. The only problem is American institutions seem ill-equipped to emulate it.
#vape #ecigs #tobaccoharmreduction #THC
Why People Are Dying from Vaping in the U.S. and Not the U.K.
There's a reason—actually, a few—and none of them are very flattering to American politicians."But this moral panic over vaping, which has spawned the recent push to ban or restrict e-cigarettes, could end up doing more harm than good. The University of Ottawa’s David Sweanor, who has over three decades of experience in the field of tobacco control, told Postmedia last week that if we’re not careful, we could end up driving more people to smoke. He notes that as e-cigarette sales increased in Canada, cigarette sales have decreased. Why would we want to reverse that trend?"
#ecigarettes #vapers #vaping #tobaccoharmreduction
Breakenridge: Moral panic over vaping could do more harm than good
Even if Alberta’s Tobacco and Smoking Reduction Act wasn’t up for a scheduled review, one couldn’t fault the government for looking into whether any gaps exist or whether the law …Malaysian #vapers show that with the responsible use of vape liquid the dangers currently being found with US vapers can be mitigated if not removed completely.
"Maisie Teo, who is a marketing staff, said she would continue to vape unless there was conclusive scientific evidence to prove that vaping was harmful to one's health.
"I'm pretty particular about the ingredients in the vape liquid I purchase, " said the 26-year-old, adding that she started vaping about four months ago as a way to quit smoking.
"Jake See is another who turned to vaping as a way to stave off cigarettes.
"Like Teo, See practises caution when buying his vape liquid.
"I try to buy from 'trusted' brands rather than newer or cheaper brands, " said the musician.#ecigarettes #vaping #tobaccoharmreduction
Smoking more harmful, say vapers in Malaysia
PETALING JAYA - Journalist Mokhtar (not his real name) intends to continue vaping despite reports on the recent deaths in the United States that have been linked to e-cigarettes and vape use. The 27-year-old, who has been vaping for about three years, said the benefit of vaping to him outweighed any...