Research Articles

NNA Asks UK Vapers to Help Stop FCTC Attacks (September 26, 2021)
As the member countries of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) prepare to gather virtually in November for the treaty organization's biennial meeting, vaping advocates are fearful the group could recommend restrictive vaping regulations. Click for detail

According to Data from the CDC, Youth Vaping Has Not Led to Smoking (September 24, 2021)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have updated their Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), their annual survey to gauge health and behaviors of American adults. The CDC has been collecting this data since 1995 and numerous public health groups including Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) rely on the annual survey to determine the number of smokers in a given state. Click for detail

Commission Report: Reignite the Fight Against Smoking (September 24, 2021)
It is simply unacceptable that global consumption of cigarettes is the same today as it was 30 years ago. The International Commission to Reignite the Fight Against Smoking was established with the belief that efforts to prevent premature deaths from tobacco use require much greater imagination and ambition. Click for detail

Vaping: necessary clinic and functional indicators to assess tobacco harm reduction and related benefits (September 23, 2021)
Tobacco harm reduction theories and their fundamental principles are questioned worldwide. New indicators specifically designed to establish the harm reduction potential of low risk tobacco products are examined by CoEHAR, with promising results Click for detail

Release: Health System Chaos Looms As Greg Hunt's Vaping Prescription Plan Bombs With GPs (September 23, 2021)
Only 71 doctors across Australia have signed up to be authourised prescribers of vaping products ahead of the Federal Government's October 1 deadline, setting up a chaotic scenario in GP surgeries around the country in the coming months as more than half a million vapers try to get access to a product that is a normal part of life in countries like the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Click for detail

Bangladesh Government Says It Will Prohibit Vape Sales (September 23, 2021)
Bangladesh is set to join more than a dozen Asian countries that have banned the sale (and in some cases possession and use) of vaping products. Like most other Asian countries with vaping bans, Bangladesh has made the decision in "partnership" with a Bloomberg Philanthropies-funded tobacco control advisor-in this case the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Click for detail

The US Obsession With Youth Vaping Looks Odd From Across the Atlantic (September 23, 2021)
Two countries divided by a common language" is a common saying misattributed to George Bernard Shaw. US and UK vocabulary differences are of perennial amusement: elevator, lift; sidewalk, pavement; gas, petrol; soccer, football. Brits say "pants" to mean underwear; Americans say it to mean what we call "trousers." Click for detail

Bureaucrats and politicians seem determined to cripple a lifesaving alternative to smoking (September 23, 2021)
E-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine without tobacco or combustion, are the most important harm-reducing alternative to smoking ever developed, one that could prevent millions of premature deaths in the United States alone. Click for detail

ARI Newsletter September 2021 (September 22, 2021)
Few countries have embraced vaping with as much enthusiasm as the United Kingdom. It currently has three million regular vapers (six per cent of the adult population) and Public Health England's evidence reviews on e-cigarettes are cited around the world. In contrast to much of Europe and North America, public health professionals in Britain broadly regard the emergence of e-cigarettes as a welcome development that has signicantly reduced the smoking rate since they became popular a decade ago. Click for detail

The real threat from the WHO and what UK consumers can and should do about it (September 22, 2021)
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is a threat to vapers, not just in other parts of the world, but in the UK too. Consumers have a role to play in protecting reduced risk products that have benefitted us so much and could do for many more smokers in the future Click for detail

Senators Propose $100 Million in Vape Industry User Fees...Again (September 22, 2021)
New legislation introduced by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators would increase the FDA Center for Tobacco Products' budget, and pay for it by assessing $100 million a year in user fees to U.S. vaping manufacturers. Click for detail

Antivaping Campaign Highlights Mental Health by Pitching 'Depression Sticks' (September 22, 2021)
Antitobacco organization Truth Initiative recently hawked a new vaping product to stores and ad agencies, but it wasn't actually looking to make any sales. Click for detail

New study reveals common misunderstandings among tobacco and e-cigarette users related to the risk of harm from nicotine (September 19, 2021)
Those with serious mental health conditions were more likely to overemphasise the risk of harm from nicotine, potentially discouraging the switch from tobacco cigarettes to nicotine-containing products. Click for detail