People who have quit smoking by switching to safer nicotine products, scientists and public health experts are calling on the EU Commission to take a risk-proportionate approach to tobacco and nicotine taxes in support of public health.
https://t.co/gcMyC1F0mK
Everyone needs to respond to this public consultation as it's intention is to end access to safer nicotine products for everyone. Please fill it out and let them know how you feel.
https://t.co/Ps8z66XuEt
Belgium introduces a vape excise tax (15 eurocents/mL on e-liquids and flavorings). What could be the possible consequences? Let's look at some relevant studies. And then draw your own conclusions.
https://t.co/9bmCqbO8au
Why do we not have Stop Vaping Services?
Stop Smoking Services are based on strong evidence of harm from tobacco use, and an extensive evidence base on what is effective and cost-effective to support smokers to quit. Neither of these apply to vaping.
https://t.co/B74xAr7rdB
Prof. Pisinger tries to deny the Cochrane findings on the effectiveness of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, but is promptly rejected by @DrNLindson at @CochraneTAG.
Article Google translated to English here:
https://t.co/eKMzA0fxbL
"Professor Emeritus Erik Nord has complained about snus research to a committee composed of a number of research institutions in Norway, which is tasked with uncovering fraudulent research."
https://t.co/Pu0Q6ISyCj
Copwatch published not one but THREE articles last week!
In case you missed them:
1) 💰FCTC budget: nice work if you can get it
https://t.co/bhiSDk3bCg
2) A vaper’s call to the delegations to #COP10
https://t.co/q4BqqQQq9l
3) Human rights alert at #COP10
https://t.co/bDS62n0HXz
This consultation needs to have contributions from people who have personal experience of smoking and vaping. Please take the time to respond.
Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping: your views - Department of Health and Social Care https://t.co/46XsNCPO24
Every step toward further equalizing vaping and smoking (display bans, excise taxes, expanding vapor bans in public places, banning sales of disposable vapes), is one step further away from a smoke-free generation by 2040. Bonne chance.
New on COPWATCH, a vaper’s message to the delegations to #COP10
"What is drowned in all this noise are the voices of the people who will be most impacted, smokers and vapers."
https://t.co/hAmmLTDWT1
"We followed 375 continuous #ecig users over 8 years. Their level of dependence on ecigs decreased over time." Shows that lower mean dependence scores in ecig users versus cigarette smokers is unlikely due to shorter duration of use. https://t.co/hA3MjdhNzv
"In advance of #COP10 , the #FCTC Secretariat has published fanciful and ridiculous reports on nicotine pouches and disposables.
COPWATCH wonders who wrote them..."
Having carefully assessed the lethal consequences of the unjustifiable snus ban and the failure to reverse it in the face of overwhelming evidence, the European Union is now considering whether to repeat the error by banning nicotine pouches. @EU_Health has lost the plot.