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The HK government will ban all e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn products but tobacco products can still be freely purchased?? The draft law is both absurd & beyond logic.
"Nav Lalji has a difficult job. He is chairman of the Asian Vape Association, a group formed in 2015 to unite vapers in the region. However, it has since become a defensive body, as Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan have all outlawed e-cigarettes.
"A former smoker who quit cigarettes for vaping, Lalji says he is "devasted" by the Hong Kong government's decision -- especially when other tobacco products, which kill more than 7 million people a year globally, will be left on shelves.
Lalji believes the ban in Hong Kong is simply going to turn smokers of e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn products into criminals.
"The thing is we're located in Hong Kong which right next to Shenzhen, the hub and heartland of manufacturing e-cigarettes," says Lalji, adding that the Chinese mega-city makes 95% of the world's e-cigarette supply. " #ecigarettes #vaping
Hong Kong intends to jail vaping offenders
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The Hong Kong government wants a blanket ban on e-cigarettes to protect young people, but will it harm the health of smokers hoping to quit?The bottom line is that despite the widespread claims that vaping is a gateway to smoking initiation among youth, the most definitive study to date of this issue fails to provide any evidence to support that contention. If anything, it provides evidence suggesting that vaping acts as a kind of diversion that can keep some youth away from cigarette smoking. #vaping #ecigarettes #thr
Landmark Study Fails to Find Any Evidence that Vaping is a Gateway to Smoking among Youth
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A landmark study , published on January 25 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , found no evidence that vaping is a gateway to s...E-cigarettes and other vaping devices do not contain tobacco. Period. They are not tobacco products, even though the government apparently considers them to be tobacco products.
What these products do contain is nicotine. Nicotine can either be extracted from tobacco or made synthetically in the laboratory. But regardless of the process, the only thing that matters is the end product. In this case, the end product is a solution of nicotine, not tobacco. It is disingenuous to pretend otherwise. #ecigarettes #tobaccoharmreduction
CDC Misleads by Calling E-Cigarettes a 'Tobacco Product'
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The CDC says that "tobacco use by youth is rising." If that's true, that's horrible. But it's not true. Cigarette use is down. The only reason the CDC can make this claim is because they consider e-cigarettes and vaping devices, which only contain nicotine, to be "tobacco products." This is misleadi...This analysis from the Competitive Enterprise Institute is informative, thought-provoking and disturbing. But really, should we be suprised? Read on ....
"Concerns about a sudden, large increase in adolescent use of nicotinecontaining products are understandable, particularly if e-cigarette use in adolescence were to lead to smoking in adulthood. However, there is no evidence, apart fromanecdotes, that a significant number of adolescents
are habitually vaping and zero evidence that experimental or even habitual vaping leads to use of combustible tobacco products among those who otherwise would never have used such products. If anything, the evidence shows that teen use of e-cigarettes remains a passing experimentation phase for most. The number of adolescents habitually using e-cigarettes is low. Moreover, vaping likely leads to decreased use of combustible tobacco, which is lower among teens than it has ever been, according to the latest data. That the headlines divert so jarringly fromthe reality of the situation and appear almost coordinated in timing, tone, and language, raises the question: Is something driving this misleading coverage?
"This paper makes the case that the answer to that question is: Yes. The misleading media response is the result of an orchestrated effort meant to create confusion and public panic over electronic cigarettes—part of a strategy to pressure governments to restrict or eliminate these alternatives to traditional cigarettes.As this paper will explore, the individuals and groups behind this fear campaign are those most likely to profit from it: anti-smoking and health advocacy groups."
#ecigarettes #tobaccoharmreduction
Collusion | Dirty Details of the Coordinated effort to Kill Vaping | RegWatch
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Vapers are more prone to suspicion than the average member of the public. As former smokers, they were the victims of subterfuge and duplicity at the hands of big tobacco. But could wild-eyed theories of government collusion with academia, public health interest groups and the media in an effort to....This fluff piece from Fox 10 should start at the end .... "Cigarette smoking is still declining in some states. And another large survey found that smoking has continued to drop among 12th graders, though not in younger school kids."
And the headline reads what? C'mon! #ecigarettes #vaping #vapers
Youth smoking decline stalls, and vaping may be to blame
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Cigarette smoking rates have stopped falling among U.S. kids, and health officials believe youth vaping is responsible.