Our 10th annual vape predictions post brings together expert views from across the world to help us get a glimpse into what 2022 holds for us.
We aim for a global perspective, and this year you’ll find predictions for many parts of the world, from Africa to South America and from the UK to the US.
This is always a long.....
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Dr Marewa Glover, Director of Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking, shares her predictions for vaping in 2022. Also see our full 2022 vape predictions round up.
Vaping displaces cigarette smoking. That’s not a prediction, it’s a fact. New Zealand’s 2020/21 government health survey provides more weight to the evidence that vaping can increase quit rates, reduce smoking.....
Professor Gerry Stimson of Knowledge-Action-Change shares his thoughts for the future of vaping. Also see our full 2022 Vape Predictions Roundup.
The end of combustion is in sight for tobacco, just as it is for fossil fuels. Many groups are trying to stop tobacco harm reduction (THR), but THR will be driven forward by the dynamic of new nicotine technologies,.....
Jim McDonald from Vaping 360 shares his thoughts on what’s going to happen to vaping in 2022 in the USA. For our full expert round-up, see Vaping Predictions 2022.
It’s nearly impossible to overstate the magnitude of the current threats to vaping in the United States. It’s almost as though all the strategies and goals of the tobacco control opposition.....
For the past 9 years we have run a predictions post, with experts from different fields and different regions sharing their perspective on the future of vaping. This year's, which will be published next week, is better than ever, with some truly superb write-ups and analysis from our predictors.
It’s a big article, though, and not everyone will have time.....
In this post you'll find quick summaries of the E-Cig Summit, day 2. Also see E-Cig Summit Part 1.
Contents
THR and Public Health PolicyNicotine policy in England: Recent developments and future plans to make smoking obsoleteMedicinal licensing for e-cigs: Why England is the frontrunner not an outlierThe 2021 review of NICE’s tobacco guidelinesCombustible tobacco age of sales: An opportunity? The.....
The world of vaping exists in a cloud of confusion and misinformation. Arguably there’s never been a greater need for clear, authoritative guidance for smokers who are considering switching to vaping.
A new book, Stop Smoking Start Vaping, by Dr Colin Mendelsohn, aims to do just that.
Colin is well qualified to write this book. Specialising in helping people to quit.....
Vaping received a huge boost of confidence after the UK Medicine and Healthcare Regulatory Authority (MHRA) approved e-cigarettes for sale via prescription.
In the UK, one of the most pro-vaping countries in the world, smoking rates have plummeted since the introduction of e-cigarettes. Youth smoking is at a record low, and there is clear evidence that almost all vapers are.....
A new study has found that switching from smoking to vaping can restore the lungs' primary defence against harmful substances.
This decreases the risk of infection and lung diseases such as COPD and can help to improve symptoms of pre-existing lung diseases.
The study, conducted by a team led by Professor Polosa of the University of Catania, looked at the impact.....
In the USA, states have enjoyed decades of revenue from the sale of tobacco cigarettes.
The money was supposed to repair some of the damage smoking has done. In reality, it has been largely frittered away.
The source of the revenue is the Tobacco Master Settlement. While aimed at punishing tobacco companies, the settlement actually ended up helping them.
But with cigarette.....
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has released a major report calling for the UK government to promote electronic cigarettes via a mass media campaign.
This would form part of a campaign that returned funding for anti-smoking campaigns to at least 2008 levels.
The suggestion is just one of a number of recommendations the RCP has made to encourage the use.....
Opposition to vaping is driven by a complex web of factors. These include money, anti-nicotine morality and a justified distrust of anything related to tobacco companies.
To get further into the web, it’s important to understand the precautionary principle.
What is the precautionary principle?
The precautionary principle applies across different fields of science.
It informs policy when:
a decision must be madeharm could be.....
When Vanity Fair journalist Marie Brenner met Jeffrey Wigand in 1996, Jeffrey was accompanied by a bodyguard.
His reputation was under attack. Lawyers were trying to destroy him. He and his children had received death threats, one accompanied by a bullet.
One of the death threats read:
“We want you to know that we have not forgotten you or your little brats......
Coils have come a long way in the past ten years.
But they still burn out, particularly when used at high wattages.
It’s unpleasant when it happens, and it makes vaping more expensive - especially for Direct-Lung and restricted Direct-Lung vapers.
What’s more, I suspect it has an impact on the relative safety of vaping to cigarettes. While Public Health England estimates.....
Once again, vaping in the EU is facing multiple threats, both at an EU level and at a state level.
The latest EU wide threat comes from the EU Beating Cancer Plan.
I got together with Damian from the European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates group to find out what the plan means for vapers, what the implications are and how to.....