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[kristin]

Anti-harm reduction organization Truth Initiative discusses a recent study of vapers on Reddit--where 93% of users are 18-49 years old--that found vapers are desperate for access to the flavors that have helped millions of adults keep from smoking.

Their response? Close all "loopholes" to make sure they can't get them.

Truth justifies this cruelty by bringing up the unrelated EVALI outbreak, continuing with the outdated "epidemic" rhetoric and the disproven claim that teens vape because of the flavors.

E-cigarette users look to social media to circumvent flavored e-cigarette restrictions

 

[kristin]

"...illegally trafficking unregulated marijuana, tobacco, and flavored vaping products..."
Complete insanity that the very low risk vapes helping millions of adults quit smoking are only on that "illegal" list because of FLAVORS.

BansDon'tWork

Four Defendants Charged in Connection With Major Black-Market Marijuana and Tobacco Trafficking Operation

 

[kristin]

Findings from a new study conducted by an international group of researchers at 6 independent laboratories "are a strong rebuke to repeated claims by medical societies that using e-cigarettes or heated tobacco products are just as dangerous as smoking."

Replication Study Confirms Vapes Reduce Heart Risks Compared to Cigarettes

 

[kristin]

With this study article being shared by anti-harm reduction groups, it's important to highlight what the study also says: overall association at the population level is likely QUITE SMALL. Also, smoking has long been known as a precursor to cannabis use, so it may be good news that low risk vaping may just be replacing high risk smoking in this case.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/08/08/vaping-marijuana-link/

 

[kristin]

The cognitive dissonance is strong in anti-harm reduction "save the children" alarmists, considering they've long told adults who smoke that candy-flavored nicotine gum & lozenges are SAFE. They're clearly expanding their irrational war on safer nicotine.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-...ing-nicotine-addicted-teens-choose-candy-gums

 

[kristin]

Bangor, Maine has again banned flavored vapor and tobacco products. Adults who smoke (or quit with low risk alternatives) will now have to travel to other towns for the low risk alternatives to cigarettes--which can still be easily purchased in Bangor.

Bangor once again bans the sale of flavored tobacco

 

[kristin]

Gallup poll finds Americans are successfully brainwashed by anti-harm reduction propaganda–finding people want stricter vape regulations–but gives no details on WHAT the regulations are that people want. On the plus side, 8% of adults vape, but only 2% report dual use--contradicting the claim that "most" adult vapers still smoke.

Americans Want Stricter Vaping Regulations, Mixed on Tobacco

 

[kristin]

If you missed our Twitter Space episode with Dr. Marewa Glover, you missed the mind-blowing revelations about youth smoking/vaping, shady tobacco control policies and the REAL reasons people have been quitting smoking. Catch the replay on our YouTube channel NOW!

 

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New study finds that “initiating e-cigarette use to reduce cigarette consumption resulted in reduced cigarette dependence and low e-cigarette dependence,” suggesting that lawmakers’ and anti-harm reduction groups' demands for flavor and synthetic nicotine bans to "prevent a new generation of nicotine addicts" are not only premature, but definitely not science-based.

E-cigarette use to reduce cigarette smoking may not increase nicotine dependence - Penn State Health News

 

[kristin]

Anecdote # 13,479:

Natalie's story is not only another example of "accidental quitting," but also shows how vaping can help adults break smoking habits without increasing nicotine dependency!

What's YOUR real story? Submit your testimonial today!

Go to: Vape Stories - Real Consumer Testimonials - CASAA

 

[kristin]

New research confirms FDA’s focus on banning "flavored vaping products by well-known mass-market brands like Juul and Vuse—and open-system products sold in vape shops and online—has simply created a parallel gray market of little-known disposable brands."

Disposables: The $2 Billion U.S. Vape Market Ignored by FDA - Vaping360

 

[kristin]

HEADS UP MULTNOMAH COUNTY! Health officials are apparently eager to repeat Nixon's failed War on Drugs and--like Nixon--are using false pretenses to do it. Flavor bans won't protect ANY children. They'll just keep people of all ages SMOKING!

Multnomah County Renews Effort to Ban Flavored Nicotine Products

 

[kristin]

Grassroots power is in the membership numbers. If you don't have money, you need the numbers.

Vapers, vape shops and vape companies, please spread the word. Get your friends, family and customers to join CASAA and give consumers the power to be heard!

Become a Member of CASAA

 

[kristin]

Vaping researcher and expert Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos tweeted on August 18th that this is yet another study that “clearly shows the potential cardiovascular benefits of quitting smoking with e-cigarettes. Significant improvement in arterial function, a major prognostic indicator for future cardiovascular disease, was observed.”

Medium- and longer-term cardiovascular effects of e-cigarettes in adults making a stop-smoking attempt: a randomized controlled trial | BMC Medicine | Full Text

 

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When a lucrative illicit market quickly appears after you've created a law, you have to ask yourself if that law was such a good idea in the first place. Especially when the products you've banned actually could be saving lives...

https://www.conveniencestore.co.uk/...ducts-seized-in-west-yorkshire/670559.article

 

[kristin]

Despite declining youth vaping, "experts" in Utah continue to misinform the public. In this case, an educator claiming that vaping "is the same as smoking" and a pulmonary specialist surprised vaping is down because "she keeps seeing patients with EVALI."

New data shows fewer Utah teens are vaping

 

[kristin]

The ALREADY DISCONTINUED gummies contained far less nicotine than FDA-approved gum/lozenges, but Comm'r Califf still called the product a "public health crisis waiting to happen" in a self-congratulatory tweet about the warning FDA sent to the company.

FDA Deals Death Blow to the Nicotine Gummy Market - Vaping360