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CASAA BLOG

vaping propaganda has predictable findings. LA bans flavors. Mexico bans vape sales. CASAA president Danielle Jones in article. Clive Bates commentary and more!

Surprise Vaping Propaganda Study and More! THR News

 

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FDA preparing to move forward on imposing nicotine limits on cigarettes.

"Why bother with [banning] menthol at all if they intend to remove nicotine from all cigarettes?"
Good question.

CASAA's Jim McDonald reporting for Vaping360.

FDA's New Plan to Eliminate Most Nicotine in Cigarettes

 

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Despite overwhelming evidence that the horribly misnamed "EVALI" outbreak was caused by illicit cannabis vapes tainted with vitamin E acetate, reporters and researchers continue to endanger the public by saying it was caused by "vaping."

Long-term respiratory, cognitive and mental health issues tied to vaping, study says

 

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Funded by the NIH and FDA, researchers are looking at the "impacts of flavors" in vapor products. There seems to be a presumption of harm here, but most revealing will be how FDA decides to treat those flavors NOT found to have any adverse effects.

UofL to use $3.6 million federal grant to study the effects of flavorings in e-cigarettes

 

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️Did you know CASAA also has its podcast on SoundCloud?? Check out full episodes or--if you're short on time--you can just listen to the Legislative Rundown to find out what's happening around the country. Give us a follow today!

CASAA Media

 

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New research launched at this year's Global Forum on Nicotine found that switching to smoke-free tobacco harm reduction products---in this case Swedish snus-- is a more effective strategy to reduce harm than WHO's prohibitionist tobacco control measures.

Article: Research launched at Global Forum on Nicotine shows WHO's tobacco control measures are failing - and that harm reduction works

Video: New research | Global Forum on Nicotine 2022 - 16-18 June

 

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Consumers are embracing alternative sources of safer nicotine, but city/state lawmakers have started rolling the products into flavor bans and higher taxes, too--despite the fact that underage use of tobacco "is at historic lows and continues to decline."

Smokeless Tobacco Faces Local Regulatory Pressure

 

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CASAA LIVE SHOW
Today we discuss the FDA proposal to mandate VLN (Very Low Nicotine) cigarettes. Will it really happen? Is it backed by science? Would it be "harm reduction?" The CASAA Live team will try to find out the answers, so be sure to tune in!

Please join us TODAY at 4:30 PM ET/1:30 PM PT (8:30 PM GMT)!

 

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Even with rising vaping rates, Dutch smoking has declined from 26.10% in 2012 to 20.2% in 2020. But using outdated data and claiming (without evidence) vaping leads to smoking, flavors other than "tobacco" were banned--for people who have finally QUIT tobacco.

Ban on e-cigarette flavors postponed, pulmonologists are concerned

 

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FDA has already authorized another pod-style device, Is this the agency prioritizing politics over science?

"The agency has been under intense pressure from Democrats in Congress to reject Juul Labs’ applications and remove the products from the market."

FDA Will Reject JUUL PMTA, Insiders Say

 

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Getting it right:

“We want a harm reduction perspective embedded in our national tobacco policy. Limiting flavors in an alternative product, which can reduce the proportion of smokers, is not in line with this.”
~ Swedish parliament committee member

Swedish Parliament Rejects Prohibition on Vape Flavors

 

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Heads up, New York. As if the state's harmful anti-harm reduction laws (and record-low youth smoking rates) weren't enough, Assemblyman Keith Brown thinks your state now needs an 1984-esque "Tobacco, Nicotine and Vaping Authority."

Republican Proposes Tighter Regulation Of Tobacco, Vaping

 

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Debunking 3 more lies from the AHA:

- Youth vaping is DECLINING, not rising.
- Nicotine effects on the cardiovascular system are known to be TEMPORARY, as with caffeine.
- Most vapers are ADULTS who cannot or will not quit nicotine, not never-smokers.

Action needed to reduce e-cigarette use among adolescents to lower lifetime CVD risk

 

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A new study claims to have proven smoking "causes" depression and schizophrenia, but per usual, many limitations and weasel words (ie. "could," "may," "suggest") indicate the actual findings are far less concrete than the headlines make them out to be.

New report finds smoking is a cause of depression and schizophrenia

 

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If you missed the excellent CASAA Twitter Space today, catch the replay now! The panel speaks with @amandawheeler32 from AVM about their latest efforts to keep safer nicotine products available and the news leak about the FDA actions against JUUL.

LINK: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1MYGNnVQovOGw?s=20

 

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CALL TO ACTION!
1) Comment on the petition asking FDA to use its enforcement discretion to allow continued marketing of products using synthetic nicotine for which PMTA has been submitted and until FDA completes its review:

Keep Synthetic Nicotine Legal!

2) Listen to this CASAA Twitter Spaces for more info about this citizens petition from AVMs president, Amanda Wheeler, and to learn more about the recent FDA Marketing Denial Order (MDO) issued to #juul.

For more info:
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1MYGNnVQovOGw?s=20