Robert Sidebottom

Husband, father, brother, youngest son, veteran and happy person.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'Would you prefer that friends of yours were vaping or smoking?'

'They are very addictive though!'

Conservative MP, Adam Afriyie, provides his views on the fears surrounding vaping.

[UKVIA @Vaping_Industry]

UKVIA Spokesperson, Robert Sidebottom, appeared on GB News this morning to discuss a new Cancer Research UK study which found similar genetic changes in the cheek cells of smokers and vapers.

Robert began by highlighting that this report does not show vapes cause cancer, a fact which has been made clear by the study author Dr Chiara Herzog and in an article published on the Cancer Research UK site: Can vaping cause changes in our cells? https://t.co/o11BSI2RPH

He went on to say that ‘we have never said vaping is harm free, but it’s important to remember that it’s 95% less harmful than smoking’ - a figure first established by Public Health England and maintained by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.

The Arcus Compliance MD added that cigarettes contain thousands of chemicals and that 70 chemicals in tobacco smoke are known to cause cancer. Smoking leads to some 250 deaths every day in the UK alone.

Robert said ‘we accept that further research needs to be done and welcome further studies into the health impacts of vaping’ as we want to give every former adult smoker the ‘full confidence’ that vaping is considerably less harmful than smoking. He also made clear that vaping products should not be used by under 18s.

Watch this space for the UKVIA’s full statement on this new research.

[James Van Aalst @VapourVanAalst]

Please share and only get in touch if you are willing to interview, I’m not after someone’s nans second hand stories, if YOU have been negatively impacted by #vaping???

[ECIGattorney @ecigattorney]

Indeed, an amazing decision by the 5th Circuit and complete rebuke of FDA's handling of PMTAs:

[UKVIA @Vaping_Industry]

📣 The UKVIA has today announced that the membership of British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco International and Philip Morris International has come to an end.

Following a member-wide consultation, it will no longer accept new membership applications from vaping businesses wholly/part-owned or acquired by tobacco companies.

The UKVIA was founded seven years ago to represent the entire UK vaping industry, including the e-cigarette operations owned by tobacco brands.

However, it has become increasingly clear that the interests of the industry would be best served by the association being independent of any involvement or funding from tobacco-owned vaping brands.

Read the full story here 👇
https://t.co/y7INNpeVnE

[ECIGattorney @ecigattorney]

A new study published this month in The Lancet’s eClinical Medicine – the largest electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) clinical trial in the U.S. to date – confirms the role of e-cigarettes in smoking cessation.
https://t.co/N3EUKheq2m

[Robert Sidebottom @sidbob1504]

@Jdunne9407uk Possibly in Ireland 🇮🇪 as well?

[Robert Sidebottom @sidbob1504]

@LBW85 @_DonL @Kevin_Maguire https://t.co/4GUDUEWdRo.

[Robert Sidebottom @sidbob1504]

Nice to feel l am improving : https://t.co/vkZTwHbC12

[Michael Landl @LandlMichael]

NHS would save more than £500m a year if half of England's adult smokers vaped instead https://t.co/mhR3onNeAP

[Michael Landl @LandlMichael]

.@WHO's recent report is riddled with biased anti-vaping scaremongering and unfounded claims. This negative obsession with #vaping will hurt public health.

Here I laid out 5 reasons why!
https://t.co/wwJCO2xXGu
#COP10

[UKVIA @Vaping_Industry]

True or False? 🧐 Disposable (single-use) devices are the most commonly used vaping device in Great Britain.

❌ The correct answer was false.

According to new data from @AshOrgUK, the most used type of e-cigarette device remains a refillable tank system, with 50% of current vapers reporting this type as their main device.

However, disposable vapes have become more popular in 2023 (31%), compared with 2022 (15%) and 2021 (2.3%).

https://t.co/a2rwraKSy5

[Callum Sommerton @callumsomm]

Certain groups want to create a #moralpanic about #vaping. They'll tell you there's a youth vaping epidemic - but they won't tell you the UK Govt's own figures show most young people who have never smoked are also not currently vaping (98.3%).

https://t.co/7Bh4rbNZ2Q

[UKVIA @Vaping_Industry]

The new takeback scheme will allow consumers to discard of #vapes and single use e-cigarettes in bins at various locations around the UK including retail destinations, airports, NHS sites,universities, railway stations, distribution offices and offices. https://t.co/AvegW8BPeQ

[Robert Sidebottom @sidbob1504]

@lib_thinks

I am not sure if you have sat by the bed of a person dieing of smoking related cancer watching them fade away as a consequence of cigarettes, I have and vape saves lives. Take some time to speak to thousand of smokers who have benifited.
https://t.co/VOgdrkvpYU

[Robert Sidebottom @sidbob1504]

@LGANews @DailyMailUK And who on earth with police a ban? Enforcement bodies cannot currently cope with the millions of black market illegal vape products that have nothing to with the regulated vape industry. A ban will only create a larger black market and increase comsumer risk and youth access.

[Robert Sidebottom @sidbob1504]

@RachaelMaskell Untrue. The regulated vape industry is very clear that their products are age gated and that the illegal black market is is no small part responsible for youth access. To compare vaping and smoking (which kills 200 people per day in the UK alone) is disingenuous at best.

[Robert Sidebottom @sidbob1504]

The @Vaping_Industry response for call on ban of disposable vapes by LGA https://t.co/c22kCJL5aJ

[Hazel Cheeseman @HazelCheeseman]

ASH’s thoughts on this: “ASH is sympathetic to calls by local councils and children’s doctors to ban single-use disposable e-cigarettes, but the risk of unintended consequences is too great for us to support a ban. Children already find it easy to get… https://t.co/LKrptPGWVM

[Robert Sidebottom @sidbob1504]

“The greatest deterrent for doing something wrong is a high probability of getting caught…”

Look out for the report commissioned by Arcus Compliance Ltd coming very soon.

#vape https://t.co/XJ5YN0DSp6