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[kristin]

NORTH DAKOTA: (CALL TO ACTION) Hearing for SB 2189, a 28% vape TAX that DISCOURAGES adults from quitting smoking, is scheduled TOMORROW @ 9:30 AM! CASAA even provides talking points, so TAKE ACTION NOW and submit your written testimony BEFORE 8:30 AM!
Stop a Vapor Tax - North Dakota

 

[kristin]

COMMENTARY: (Citizens Against Government Waste)

"The best way to stop youth from utilizing cigarettes or any tobacco product is parental oversight and continued education on the harm they can cause. Banning flavors and taxing tobacco harm reduction products just shift sales to the black market and hurts people who want to use less harmful tobacco products to stop smoking. States should not follow Massachusetts’ unsuccessful ban on flavored tobacco products."

Massachusetts Tobacco Flavor Ban Simply Shifted Markets

 

[kristin]

VAPE RESEARCH: Studying the physical impact of vaping is important, but it's also important to weigh those risks against the impact of continuing to SMOKE and also consider the psychological BENEFITS of nicotine vs other common forms of "self-medication." In the absence of safer nicotine, will those consumers switch to more harmful drugs, alcohol or pharmaceutical treatments that carry their own physical risks?

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/business/health-care/article248544690.html

 

[kristin]

PUBLIC HEALTH BIAS: Outrage over "smokers" getting COVID vaccine completely ignores the fact that smoking/vaping is most prevalent in lower income workers - the HERO essential workers making, delivering & selling the food, supplies & fuel EVERYONE needs.

N.J. governor calls criticism that smokers are being vaccinated over others a "false narrative"

 

[kristin]

SOUTH FULTON, GEORGIA: (UPDATE) City has passed the ban on smoking/vaping in public, including in private businesses that currently welcome low risk vaping, because of the alleged risks of second-hand smoke. Except vapor is NOT smoke! #VapingSavesLives

City of South Fulton bans smoking, vaping in public places

 

[kristin]

TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION: It's not the nicotine, it's not even the tobacco--it's the SMOKE. Eliminate the smoke, eliminate 99% of the health risks. There are dozens of safer tobacco and non-tobacco alternatives to consider if you cannot or will not vape.

With its non-tobacco Zyn product, Swedish Match is a leader in a growing category of alternative nicotine products

 

[kristin]

HEADS UP-NEWS-UPDATES: Calls to Action for Maryland, Kansas and North Dakota. Vaping research should weigh different risks. Heads up Arizona and Mississippi. Outrage over COVID vaccine priority. Commentaries on vape bans from Inside Sources and Citizens Against Government Waste. Considering vaping alternatives.

Call to Action, Vaping Research, Commentaries and More!

 

[kristin]

PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY: Analysis of 2019-2020 NYTS finds "tobacco use" declined nearly 1/3. But anti-vaping propaganda and hysteria only succeeded in causing youth to move away from low risk vaping, while "no change in current cigarette smoking occurred."

Tobacco Product Use Among Middle and High School...

 

[kristin]

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: UK resident Dave Sykes, 32, creates "Big Mac" flavored e-liquid.

Would you try it??

(ANTZ should take note that he created the iconic and nostalgic flavor for HIMSELF, a fully grown adult, NOT "to hook youth.")

McDonald's fan creates Big Mac flavoured vape to satisfy craving during lockdown

 

[kristin]

NORTH DAKOTA: (URGENT CALL TO ACTION!) Hearing TOMORROW MORNING 9:30 AM, leave comments by 7:30. Bill would add snus—a product 30+ years of research shows and even FDA acknowledges is HARM REDUCTION—to mailing ban. Anti-science laws like this threaten the future of ALL harm reduction products!

North Dakota - Keep Remote Sales Legal!

 

[kristin]

BAD PUBLIC HEALTH: In India, 34.6% of adults consume tobacco with 14% smoking.
"My all-too-brief ability to choose how to consume nicotine was incredibly empowering...."
But "because of the government’s decision, I’m back to smoking every single day."
I Switched From Vaping Back to Smoking, Thanks to India’s Government

 

[kristin]

RESEARCH: We're often lectured that we will be happier if only we were no longer "addicted" to nicotine. For those who suffer anxiety, is the alternative antidepressants, or "self-medicating" with something else, like alcohol, illicit drugs or overeating?
Anxiety is linked with smoking – but how is still hazy

 

[kristin]

EXPOSING RESEARCH BIAS: ANTZ celebrate that teen vaping was down in 2020, but worry it "remains highly prevalent." However, no mention that past 30 day cigarette & alcohol use for 12th grade INCREASED from 5.7% to 7.5%, & 29.3% to 33.6%, respectively.
2017 to 2019 Rapid Increase in Nicotine Vaping Among American Teens Slows in 2020 - Psychiatry Advisor

 

[kristin]

NORTH DAKOTA: (CALL TO ACTION UPDATE!) SB 2190, a bill that would have banned remote sales (online or mail-order) of tobacco and vaping products FAILED to pass! This is great news, but don't forget there is still a Call to Action for SB 2189! Click here: Stop a Vapor Tax - North Dakota

 

[Rossum]

We're often lectured that we will be happier if only we were no longer "addicted" to nicotine.

I've never understood why anyone would be presumptuous enough to believe they know what would make other people happy, particularly other people they've never met. What makes me happy is thumbing my nose at such people.

Please accept my apologies for this digression in your thread.

 

[kristin]

EXPOSING VAPE JUNK SCIENCE: Study suggests vaping may increase COPD risk but, curiously, for all EXCEPT those who currently both vape AND smoke? Long list of significant "limitations" (like not knowing how long subjects vaped) makes findings essentially worthless.

E-Cigarette Use May Be Associated With Increased COPD Risk - Pulmonology Advisor

 

[kristin]

CALIFORNIA: (UPDATE) Statewide tobacco and vapor flavor ban (SB 793) will NOT be enforced until voters decide whether to affirm or repeal the ban next year. More than 1 million signatures had been submitted by the California Coalition for Fairness.
California's ban on flavored tobacco sales blocked as referendum qualifies for ballot

 

[kristin]

HEADS UP-NEWS-UPDATES: Teen vaping down, but smoking on the rise. More vape junk science. Good news updates in North Dakota and California. Anti-vaping policies have unfortunate consequences. Proof adults like nostalgic, non-tobacco vape flavors.

Teen Vaping Declines, Vape Junk Science and More!

 

[kristin]

KANSAS: (CALL TO ACTION UPDATE) How To Testify - Public Hearing Feb. 2, 9:00 AM (Tues) - See rules for submitting testimony, written and/or spoken.

Kansas - Stop a Flavor Ban (HB 2061)

 

[kristin]

INDIANA: (CALL TO ACTION) Fight vape taxes! HB 1434 imposes an 8c/mL e-liquid tax ($8 for 100 mL!!) This bill is scheduled for a public hearing on Monday, Feb. 1 at 8:30 AM, House Committee on Health. THR products should NOT be made more expensive!
INDIANA - Stop a Vapor Tax