Research Articles

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

David Sweanor: Swedish Match deserves as much credit as Volvo for saving lives (September 19, 2021)
Swedish Match has never gotten the credit it deserves for offering products that help save lives, says tobacco control pioneer David Sweanor. And he's not sure the company's complete exit from combustible tobacco will help. Click for detail

WVA Members Address The WHO (September 19, 2021)
Members of the World Vapers' Alliance (WVA) have written a joint letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) calling on it to "face reality", pointing out that tobacco harm reduction products save lives. The 31 consumer organisations which represent millions of vapers worldwide are joining forces to demand that the WHO ends its war on vaping and other alternatives to smoking. Click for detail

Quitting Success (September 19, 2021)
The NHS has released its quarterly report presenting results from the monitoring of the NHS Stop Smoking Services (SSS) in England during the period April 2020 to March 2021. It reveals that the number of self-reported quitters (105,403) was significantly higher than in recent years. The news has been welcomed by trade body the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA). Click for detail

Vaping Works International Best Practices: United Kingdom, New Zealand, France and Canada (September 10, 2021)
The Property Rights Alliance congratulates Christopher Snowdon (Institute of Economic Affairs, the UK), Louis Houlbrooke (New Zealand Taxpayers' Union, New Zealand), Patrick Coquart (IREF, France), and Prof. Ian Irvine (Concordia University, Canada) on the contributed case studies on vaping from their respective countries to the white paper, "Vaping Works. International Best Practices: United Kingdom, New Zealand, France and Canada." These case studies analyze the policies implemented by governments on electronic cigarettes and combustible tobacco products for smoking cessation efforts in the UK, New Zealand, France and Canada. Click for detail

POINT: e-Cigarette Use for Harm Reduction in Tobacco Use Disorder? Yes (September 10, 2021)
The case for e-cigarettes for harm reduction is straightforward. Almost all the harm caused by tobacco use arises from inhaling the products of combustion (smoke) of dried cured tobacco leaf. e-Cigarettes use electricity to heat a liquid to form an inhalable nicotine-bearing aerosol. There is no combustion involved; therefore, there are no products of combustion to inhale. This means the main harmful agents in tobacco smoke are either not present at detectable levels or are present at much lower concentrations than in cigarette smoke. A smoker who switches completely to e-cigarette use ("vaping") is therefore exposed to much lower levels of the toxicants that are the main causes of smoking-related disease. Click for detail

Clinical Pharmacology of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS): Implications for Benefits and Risks in the Promotion of the Combusted Tobacco Endgame. (August 31, 2021)
Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) such as e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products are novel battery-operated devices that deliver nicotine without combustion of tobacco. Because cigarette smoking is sustained by nicotine addiction and the toxic combustion products are mainly responsible for the harmful effects of smoking, ENDS could be used to promote smoking cessation while exposing users to lower levels of toxicants compared with conventional cigarettes. Click for detail

Newsletter August 2021 (August 12, 2021)
Despite 8 million annual smoking-related deaths, the World Health Organizations (WHO) seems to have decided that it doesn't have to deal with safer nicotine alternatives until 2023. Click for detail

President Derek Yach's Statement on the WHO's Global Tobacco Epidemic Report (July 30, 2021)
"The WHO's tobacco control approach is fundamentally flawed. In 20 years, they have simply failed to make any meaningful progress to reduce tobacco consumption, with over 1bn tobacco users today and 8m people dying annually from tobacco-related illnesses." Click for detail