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Cochrane Review again finds vaping is more effective than NRT. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids wants states to show them the money. New York Health Dept. has unrealistic goals. Altoona prevention specialist believes 50-year-old who smokes wouldn’t want flavors. Heat-not-burn destroying cigarette sales in Japan. Calls to Action and more!
Scroll to the bottom of this post for a link to the audio/video versions of this post!
STOP A FEDERAL TAX!
Comparing “oranges to oranges” (in this case milligrams of nicotine in vapes vs cigarettes,) if HR 5715 is enacted, vapes would be taxed at a rate approximately 5X higher than cigarettes! Vaping consumers will be paying up to 6¢/mg of nicotine compared to 1.1¢/mg in cigarettes.
The tax hike is just as bad, if not worse, for nicotine pouches, snus, and moist snuff — all reduced risk products compared to cigarettes!
TAKE ACTION: Fight a National Vapor Tax!
MICHIGAN
STOP an onslaught of anti-vaping bills!
Lawmakers in Michigan are once again throwing everything and the kitchen sink into a raft of anti-vaping bills aiming to reduce everyone’s access to these life-saving products! These bills include everything from a flavor ban and tax hikes to repealing state preemption of local tobacco retailer laws.
TAKE ACTION: Michigan: Stop a Slew of Anti-Vaping Laws
FLORIDA
These so-called “PMTA Registry Bills” are currently making their way around the U.S. They make it far more difficult for companies awaiting PMTA to sell life-saving products and ban thousands of products popular with adults.
TAKE ACTION: https://casaa.org/call-to-action/florida-stop-a-big-tobacco-protection-act/
OHIO
Over the past 18 months, at least 26 municipalities in Ohio have enacted or started considering ordinances that would prohibit safer nicotine products in non-tobacco flavors. See our Call to Action to see what Ohioan advocates can do!👇
TAKE ACTION: https://casaa.org/call-to-action/ohio-stop-a-flavor-ban/
RESEARCH
Nicotine e-cigarettes are more effective in helping people quit smoking than conventional nicotine-replacement therapy
Once again, nicotine vaping products have been found to be more effective in helping people quit smoking than conventional nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT), according to the latest Cochrane review, and this time it was co-led by University of Massachusetts Amherst public health and health policy researcher, Jaime Hartmann-Boyce.
Can #ecigs /#vapes help you to #quitsmoking? Are they safe for quitting? See our plain language briefing w/ Dec 2023 search update & findings from Nov 2022 Cochrane review@CochraneTAG & @Oxford_TAG
Living review updating mthly thanks to@CRUK_Policyhttps://t.co/W8pctYxztO— CochraneTAG (@CochraneTAG) December 22, 2023
Nicotine Study Shows Mind’s Power When It Comes to Drugs
How “addictive” is nicotine? This study says it may depend a lot on what you BELIEVE.
This makes us wonder how many people gave up on trying to quit smoking because they’ve been lied to for decades that nicotine is “as addictive as cocaine or heroin, maybe more.”
READ MORE: Nicotine Study Shows Mind’s Power When It Comes to Drugs
Real-world Flavor Ban Survey Disproves Positive Results Predicted by Hypothetical Flavor Bans
Flavor bans are often based on “hypothetical ban” surveys showing positive results (ie. people SAY they’d to quit if there was a ban,) but this survey comparing hypothetical bans to real bans shows those aren’t translating into real world results. Exclusive vapers were over 2x more likely to switch to smoking than quit everything – the exact opposite of the intended effect of banning flavors!
14. ‘Under both real-world and hypothetical e-cigarette flavor bans, most who use flavored e-cigarettes continue vaping. Under a real-world ban, the second most common response among those who exclusively vape is to switch to smoking…’https://t.co/3VYJUyK9am
— Phil (@phil_w888) January 9, 2024
TOBACCO CONTROL
Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust seeks to lift veil on vaping dangers
A new anti-vaping campaign reportedly will tell youth that vaping “can mutate DNA and cause cancer,” even though there is no scientific evidence that vaping actually causes cancer.
The unspoken yet deadly message here?
“You may as well keep smoking.”
These are school kids. Where they are trusting adults to give them the Best education possible. When these kids are a few years older and realize what they were told by adults was not truth, they didn’t have to be puffing on cig for years now, think of mental Harm being caused!
— Southernvaper (@Southernvaper1) January 9, 2024
READ MORE: Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust seeks to lift veil on vaping dangers
Does vaping cause lung cancer? (They say they “don’t know” yet.)
This article by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center starts out relatively balanced as far as most “But We Don’t Know” vaping articles go, then quickly deteriorates into dangerous misinformation about EVALI, popcorn lung and “gateway to smoking.” Incredibly deceiving was the implication that combustible cigarettes are somehow better “regulated” by FDA when most brands were grandfathered out of the PMTA requirements.
This is supported by science. One study concluded that #vaping reduces the excess lifetime risk of lung cancer by 57,000 x compared to smoking. Why is @CancerCouncilOz not buying shares in vaping products?https://t.co/vQ8bpW9kxR
— Dr Colin Mendelsohn (@ColinMendelsohn) June 5, 2019
READ MORE: Does vaping cause lung cancer?
Underage Sales Do Not Accurately Reflect Underage USE
Wisconsin vapers should pay attention to “health officials raising concern” (ie. whipping up hysteria) about #vaping by misrepresenting facts.
Youth smoking in Wisconsin is at “all-time low,” vaping is down nearly 50% since 2018 and “overall tobacco use is down,” so clearly these underage sales stats do not reflect youth use.
READ MORE: Underage tobacco use up in Wisconsin
Is Vaping Worse Than Smoking? Only If You Ignore Science
Without citing any evidence, Dr. Thau of Hartford HealthCare in Connecticut ridiculously claims “vaping is similar to inhaling an acetylene welding torch,” then he misleads readers by conflating lung injuries from vitamin E acetate in illicit THC vapes with nicotine vapes.
According to RCPUK and Cochrane, vaping is at least 95% safer than smoking. Tobacco smoke kills about 8 million people each year. #tobaccoharmreduction https://t.co/CurQZCcozZ
— FCFAdvancement (@Fcfadvancement) January 11, 2024
READ MORE: Is Vaping Worse Than Smoking?
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Just Want More Money
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids acts surprised that the lawsuits they supported to “punish” Juul and use for prevention/cessation were really just a $1.1+ billion cash grab for government special interests and budgets. Why the surprise? It’s no different than the MSA payments!
READ MORE: Broken Promises to Our Children
New York State Department of Health Launches Effort to Reduce Vaping Among Youth
The New York Health Dept says it “remains dedicated to ending the use of e-cigarettes among all young people,” which they know is unrealistic. The Healthy People 2030 smoking goal was 5% and that has been exceeded for New York youth at just 2.1%. Their own chart shows that youth vaping and smoking combined is already lower than smoking was in 2000 and use of all other tobacco products is also at a record low!
READ MORE: New York State Department of Health Launches Effort to Reduce Vaping Among Youth
Smoking Facts and Vaping Lies from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
“We had all of the science brought together to document the ill health that is caused from tobacco smoke, from tobacco products, and specifically from smoking….
It [vaping] is incredibly damaging to brain development. So kids should not be vaping. The science is very clear on that, and there’s no ambiguity about that whatsoever.”
~ Yolonda Richardson, President and CEO of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
No one wants kids vaping (or smoking,) but kids love to rebel. However, as you said, it’s smoking that causes the “ills” and vaping is not smoking, Ms. Richardson! Also, a few rat studies without any follow-up of real-world evidence in humans is not “clear science!”
Yolonda Richardson of CTFK celebrates the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health by lying like a cheap rug about the most popular & effective way to quit smoking.@FOX17 https://t.co/SWr6HOj1d7
— Phil (@phil_w888) January 11, 2024
READ MORE: https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/60th-anniversary-of-surgeon-generals-report-on-tobacco
Clueless in Altoona
“I don’t personally believe that (a) 50-year-old who smokes Marlboro Reds is looking for a device that’s mango-flavored to help them quit smoking.” ~ Michaela Benson, Prevention Specialist
Except CASAA has thousands of testimonials from older adults who quit smoking that prove her belief wrong.
I smoked marlboro reds. I loved them. I thought I would also love tobacco flavored vapes… 🤢 WRONG!!! I can’t stand them. I quit smoking with a strawberry flavored vape. If tobacco and mint were the only flavors available, I probably never would have quit smoking.
— Michael Redfearn (@RedfearnMike) January 12, 2024
READ MORE: https://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2024/01/aasd-holds-town-hall-on-dangers-of-vaping/
Twisting The Truth
When an official says “A greater percentage of youth vape than adults,” they’re misleading the public to perpetuate fear of a non-existent “vaping epidemic” and devalue adult needs.
Adult vaping: 4.5% = 11.1 million
Youth vaping: 7.7% = 2.1 million
Adult combustible use: 11.5% = 35.6 million
Youth combustible use: 3.4% = 920k
JUDICIAL
Supreme Court Declines to Hear California Flavor Ban Appeal
The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case challenging California’s voter-approved tobacco/vape flavor ban. After losing in the district court and an appeal rejected by the Ninth Circuit, this inaction ends Reynolds’ hopes of reversing those decisions.
CASAA director Jim McDonald reporting for Vaping360.
“The ban is also unlikely to dramatically reduce use of combustible cigarettes among adults, as statewide flavor bans have not led to reductions in cigarette use. Massachusetts first banned menthol cigarette sales in June 2020, while California’s ban went into effect in January…
— Allison (@alli_vapes) November 14, 2023
READ MORE: Supreme Court Declines to Hear California Flavor Ban Appeal
HARM REDUCTION
It’s Not a Cigarette. It’s Not a Vape. And It’s Big in Japan.
Japan’s decline in cigarette sales accelerated massively with the introduction of heated tobacco products — a huge success largely ignored by the world.
“Harm reduction is a difficult case to make in a field as ideologically driven as tobacco control.”
Here’s what happened when Heated Tobacco Products went on sale in Japan in 2016. black cigarette sales actual & projected; red cig sales actual post HTPs; blue total HTPs. Summary: cig sales ⬇️ by >50% in 7 years. Unprecedented. https://t.co/sutBsmhAOJ pic.twitter.com/P9SiEO4XV7
— Alex Wodak AM (@AlexWodak) January 9, 2024
READ MORE: It’s Not a Cigarette. It’s Not a Vape. And It’s Big in Japan.
CASAA IN ACTION // CASAA Live
Lindsey Stroud, author, Director of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance Consumer Center and Visiting Fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, joins CASAA CEO Alex Clark and CASAA Member Coordinator Kristin Noll-Marsh for Part 2 of a two-part series breaking down vaping by the numbers! In this episode, she counters claims that more youth vape than adults, that vaping doesn’t help adults quit smoking and that flavor bans are good for public health.
Catch the next show LIVE Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 4:30PM ET/3:30PM CT!
TAKE ACTION // CASAA State Facebook Groups
Have you joined your CASAA State Facebook group yet? Check it out now! Click the link below, click on your state on the map, then click the “Join Now” button to go to your state’s group page. It’s as easy as that to stay updated on local happenings, meet local advocates and never miss a Call to Action in your state!
Don’t forget to also follow our official Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CASAAmedia
FIND YOUR GROUP: CASAA State Locator
CASAA STORE // Apparel and More
Show your support by shopping our store! Our president (and brilliant website/swag designer) Danielle has added some awesome new designs to CASAA’s apparel shop!
VISIT: CASAA Apparel and Swag Store
CASAA MEDIA // Spotify
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CASAA IN ACTION // Twitter Spaces
The week we recap the Reagan-Udall sessions with Amanda Wheeler, Tim Andrews and CASAA CEO Alex Clark, who all presented to the panel about FDA’s issues regulating reduced-harm products. What grade would you give FDA? Also available on CASAA’s Spotify channel (above.)
— CASAA (@CASAAmedia) October 26, 2022
CASAA MEDIA // Podcast
Catch up on past tobacco harm reduction news with Alex and Logan on the CASAA podcasts on SoundCloud every Monday and now live on YouTube and Facebook every Saturday at 3:30 PM.
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