HEADS UP - NEWS - UPDATES! (When we know, you'll know!)

[kristin]

BAD ANTZ POLICIES: Survey shows anti-tobacco policies haven't necessarily reduced smoking initiation. Instead, it looks like they just shifted it to an older age group. ANTZ still claim "success" and will use these results not to evaluate their war on tobacco and nicotine, but instead shift their focus to greater restrictions for ADULTS. #QuitLying

Smoking Initiation Shifting From Teens To Young Adults

 

[kristin]

ANTZ JUNK SCIENCE: Researchers claim link between teen vaping and future smoking, because some teens "claimed" no interest in smoking, yet started anyhow. Teens suddenly became reliably decisive? Except record-low teen smoking rates disprove such claims!

E-cigarettes can be 'gateway' to cigarettes for teens with no prior intention to smoke

 

[kristin]

ANTZ JUNK SCIENCE: Study finds vapers who still smoke report side effects like coughing; authors try to blame vaping. Makes conclusions based on naive self-reporting of symptoms easily confused with smoking (or from quitting) "thought" to be from vaping.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-lung-symptoms-common-users-e-cigarettes.html

 

[MLEJ]

BAD ANTZ POLICIES: Survey shows anti-tobacco policies haven't necessarily reduced smoking initiation. Instead, it looks like they just shifted it to an older age group. ANTZ still claim "success" and will use these results not to evaluate their war on tobacco and nicotine, but instead shift their focus to greater restrictions for ADULTS. #QuitLying

Smoking Initiation Shifting From Teens To Young Adults

An early salvo ... Expect minimum age to purchase (tobacco & vape) laws to go from 21 to 24+ soon.

 

[kristin]

LOVELAND, COLORADO: (URGENT CALL TO ACTION!) TOMORROW, November 17th, city council will consider BANNING flavored tobacco and vapor products, with some falsely claiming flavors are "driving" the thoroughly debunked "teen vaping epidemic." TAKE ACTION NOW!
Loveland, Colorado – Stop a Flavor Ban (11.17.20) - CASAA

 

[kristin]

MISSOULA, MONTANA: (CALL TO ACTION!) On Nov. 18th, based on FALSE premise that "flavors hook teens," the council will discuss BANNING the flavored vapor products (but not flavored tobacco) shown 2X as effective as NRT in helping adults quit smoking!

Missoula, MT – Stop a Flavor Ban! - CASAA

 

[kristin]

ANTZ JUNK SCIENCE: Although most vapers report LESS FREQUENT colds/flu after switching & abstract doesn't reveal if researchers took into account smoking history of vapers, lead researcher on study audaciously claims vaping is "not safer than cigarettes."
Are E-cigarette Users at Greater Risk of Poor Immune Response to Flu, COVID? | Newsroom

 

[kristin]

COMMENTARY: (Steven Greenhut) City council "ought to think of more creative ways of protecting the city’s youth — ones that don’t undermine adult Missoulians ability to choose safer alternatives to their deadly cigarette habit."
Likely lawsuit isn’t main flaw with Missoula’s vaping ban

 

[kristin]

ANTZ PUBLIC HEALTH FAIL: Lies about nicotine vaping & reduced access to vape shops due to flavor bans, higher taxes & "non-essential" lockdowns due to COVID-19 has resulted in less low-risk vaping and more cigarette smoking. #QuitLying #VapingSavesLives

Coronavirus saw people swapping e-cigarettes for tobacco, helping boost sales

 

[kristin]

FOR YOUR HEALTH: 5 yrs after quitting, risk of lung cancer drops by 39% vs still smoking. Yet even decades later, the risk remains over 3X higher compared to people who had never smoked. Learn more about FREE screenings! #LungCancerAwarenessMonth

Free Lung-Cancer Screenings Go Unused

 

[kristin]

VAPE RESEARCH: NIH-funded CLINICAL TRIAL (with HUMAN subjects) finds that nicotine #vaping products are "considerably safer than combustible cigarettes." Senior author says "nicotine e-cigarettes and other harm-reduction products will be game-changers."
Pod e-cigarettes less harmful than regular cigarettes, new study finds

 

[DavidOck]

Other than the continuing canard about nic being addictive (Is Nicotine Addictive ?) it's about time the USofA started catching up with British Health... but probably too late to do any good.

 

[kristin]

SMOKING HARM REDUCTION: Today is the #GreatAmericanSmokeout and CASAA wants to remind folks that smoke, not nicotine, is what causes smoking-related disease. Millions have happily switched to low risk, smoke-free alternatives like vapor or snus products!

 

[MLEJ]

Thank you. Re-posting everywhere i can.

 

[kristin]

MISSOULA, MONTANA: (UPDATE) City narrowly passes irrational and unscientific ban on the sale of low risk, smoke-free flavored #vaping products (while leaving all deadly combustible products for sale on practically every corner.) The ordinance goes into effect on 1/25/2021.

City council passes ban on flavored tobacco in Missoula

 

[kristin]

IN THE NEWS: 4.5% of US adults now vape and 23.6% of them say they've never smoked. ANTZ will paint that as bad news, but it's GOOD news they NEVER SMOKED. If vaping hadn't been available as an alternative, they may have started smoking! #VapingSavesLives

50.6 million US adults report currently using tobacco products

 

[kristin]

HEADS UP-NEWS-UPDATES

Researchers find teen vaping is not leading to increased teen smoking. Heads Up for vape taxes in Anchorage, Alaska and residential use bans in San Francisco, California! Dr. Michael Siegel, Boston University, comments on the San Francisco vaping ban. Helen Redmond reviews Burning Issues: The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2020 in Filter Mag.

New Teen Vaping Research, Plus More - Tobacco Harm Reduction News

 

[kristin]

IN THE NEWS: Joe Biden nominated Dr. Vivek Murthy to return as U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Murthy caused a baseless panic over nicotine vaping in 2016, calling it a "major public health concern," completely ignoring the huge benefits for adults who smoke.

Vivek Murthy: Biden nominates Dr. Vivek Murthy to reprise role as US surgeon general - CNNPolitics

 

[kristin]

IN THE NEW #2: Mr. Biden also nominated Xavier Becerra as US Secretary of Health and Human Services. As California AG, Mr. Becarra falsely accused the vapor industry of "deceptive practices" to "lure kids into their vaping web" and of fueling a "public health crisis."
Xavier Becerra nominated by Biden to lead Department of Health and Human Services

 

[kristin]

2020 VAPE CONSUMER SURVEY: The annual eCigIntelligence survey, done in conjunction with CASAA, gathers and shares factual information to ensure U.S. stakeholders and policymakers better understand the TRUTH about how and why adults vape (like flavors)!
USA - Vape Consumer Survey 2020