Charlotte has been chosen as the test market for the latest marketing initiative for the blu eCigs brand sold by an Imperial Brands Plc subsidiary.
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A recent proposal to legalise the use of medical marijuana and hemp has led to calls for more open discussions on the issue. A doctor has pointed out that there is still a lot to learn about the impact of allowing marijuana use, while a youth group pointed out that such a decision should only be made through a better understanding of its benefits and drawbacks. Youths.my, a youth-led social activist group, said an open and transparent discussion on the pros and cons of allowing the use of marijuana and hemp would be a step forward.
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Costa Rican lawmakers this week approved in a second debate a bill that will the use of ban vaping devices and electronic cigarettes in public spaces. The Health Ministry has endorsed this project, which was first introduced prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think this project is extremely important for the country. It has the full support of the Ministry of Health,” Salas said. “It is completely in line with the health alert we already issued regarding the use of vaping devices, where we have even been very clear that there is no study that can show e-cigarettes are a smoking cessation therapy.
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LEADING public health experts have rejected warnings that a new ban on importing nicotine vaping products without an Australian doctor’s prescription could drive vapers back to smoking, as evidence for the potential harms of vaping grows. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said the changes strike a balance between “the need to prevent adolescents and young adults from taking up nicotine vaping products while allowing current smokers to access these products for smoking cessation with appropriate medical advice”.
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Joining us today to talk about public health’s incomprehensible reaction to the continued decline in youth vaping rates across North American is Dr. Chris Lalonde, Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria, and harm reduction advocate.
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Health Minister for Northern Ireland Robin Swann has laid out plans to ban smoking in cars when children are present.
Those in breach of the proposed legislation would be liable for fines of £50 (€58.80).
The sale of so-called e-cigarettes to those aged under 18 would also be banned under the proposals.
Mr Swann said: “The use of tobacco continues to be a primary cause of preventable ill health and premature death in Northern Ireland.
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Business groups pushing for vaping and e-cigarette pilot programs in Tasmania can tell their story walking as far as Health Minister Jeremy Rockliff is concerned.
Mr Rockliff on Thursday slapped down the call for vaping and e-cigarette pilot programs in several areas with high smoking rates. [...] "Smokers who switch to vaping reduce their health risk by more than 95 per cent and vaping is now the world's most popular and most effective aid to quit smoking," drug law reform advocate and emeritus consultant at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Alex Wodak said in a statement.
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A group tied to major cigarette manufacturers is warning Congress that if lawmakers tax tobacco to help pay for President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, suppliers will market smokes to children.
That was the not-so-subtle message made last month by a coalition of trade associations, including the National Association of Convenience Stores, as Congress began hammering out the specifics of the president’s Build Back Better bill.
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On October 4, Governor Gavin Newsom approved a 12.5 percent excise tax on vaping products in California.
The bill, authored by Democratic State Senator Anna Caballero, intends to tax vaping products at a rate closer to cigarettes and, runs the theory, consequently discourage youth vaping. According to The Los Angeles Times, it’s projected that the tax will yield $38.4 million in revenue by 2023, “with money to be split among several programs, including early childhood education, public health education and grants to students from disadvantaged communities pursuing an education in the health field.”
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Open Access Government speak with medical doctor, clinical cardiologist, and expert on tobacco dependence treatment Dr Eduardo Bianco, who has been working on tobacco control policies and tobacco treatment for over 25 years now. His last ten years have been focussed on working with the World Heart Federation on tobacco control policy. [...] The tobacco industry continues to aggressively promote the use of tobacco products and conceal the dangers of tobacco use. Is it difficult to fight back against this to help prevent the ongoing devastation? Absolutely, yes. The tobacco industry, despite publicly proclaiming that it will stop selling cigarettes, [...]
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“This is the most significant independent survey we’ve seen coming out of India since its 2019 vaping ban. It shows an overwhelming call for the Government to lift the ban and regulate access to safer nicotine products,” says Nancy Loucas, [...] “India’s government must urgently reconsider its vaping ban which is clearly not working. Indians continue to seek alternatives to smoking, but they’re forced back to smoking or into the black market with unregulated vaping products. It’s a terrible public health predicament for the people of the populous sub-continent,” says Ms Loucas.
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Electronic-cigarette use is at epidemic proportions. Most concerning is the exponential increase among youth. Although there has been some recent decline in e-cigarette use among high school students, use increased 135% from 2017 to 2019. Currently, nearly 20% of high school students partake in “vaping” with these electronic nicotine-delivery devices. Youth e-cigarette use is actually now higher than tobacco use.
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A LAUNCESTON business owner has raised concerns that recent changes to vaping laws could result in former smokers taking the habit back up.
Under federal government changes that came into effect on October 1, it is now illegal to obtain nicotine-containing vaping products without a doctor's prescription.
Ryan Hussey owns and operates Launceston's 888 Vapes, which produces nicotine-free e-cigarette liquids.
He is the only manufacturer of vape juices in Tasmania and deals largely with online orders and mainland and Tasmanian stockists.
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The FDA announced [...] it has issued warning letters to 20 companies the agency says have continued to sell products that should have been removed from the market. The products were submitted to the agency for premarket review and rejected with Marketing Denial Orders (MDOs).
The FDA has so far issued MDOs to 323 vaping manufacturers, mostly for products in flavors other than tobacco and menthol. The FDA announced on Aug. 26 that flavored vaping products would not be considered for authorization unless manufacturers could show “sufficient product-specific scientific evidence to demonstrate enough of a benefit to adult smokers that would overcome the risk posed to youth.”
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Speaking at this year's Global Tobacco & Nicotine Forum ( GTNF) in London, BAT Group Chief of Marketing, Kingsley Wheaton, said having a total ban on alternative products poses a greater risk in the efforts being made towards tobacco harm reduction "If the WHO recommends a ban on e-cigarettes at COP9 in November, that could seriously undermine the progress being made in making reduced risk tobacco and nicotine products widely available to smokers," he said.
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Sadly, following the FDA’s September 9 deadline to decide which vaping products are fit to be kept on the market, and which ones must go, it is becoming clear that the agency is biased against the products.
Despite shifting the PMTA deadline back and forth numerous times, leaving the smaller vape companies unprepared, over 500 businesses (most of which are small) managed to meet the deadline. In total, over 6.5 million Premarket Tobacco Applications were submitted, one for each product from every brand and any slight variation of it.
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Vaping aerosols contain thousands of unknown chemicals and substances not disclosed by manufacturers, including industrial chemicals and caffeine, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
The study is the first to apply to vaping liquids and aerosols an advanced fingerprinting technique used to identify chemicals in food and wastewater. The results, just published in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology, suggest people who vape are using a product whose risks have yet to be fully determined and could be exposing themselves to chemicals with adverse health effects.
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More than two thirds of vapers believe New Zealand’s approach to vaping as a tobacco harm reduction tool is world-leading and should be promoted overseas to save millions of lives, according to a new survey conducted by research house IRI.
The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has released this research an anticipation of the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference (COP9) this November.
The IRI survey, conducted in September, asked more than 500 Kiwi vapers what they thought of New Zealand’s use of vaping as a tool to help smokers quit. Over 80 per cent said vaping had helped them to reduce or quit smoking. [...]
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The promotional campaign is titled “Get Unlit.”
The company said the enhanced blu product packaging has been introduced in more than 220 retail outlets in the Charlotte area.
Imperial said the test market does not extend into the Triad.
A full in-store and digital consumer engagement program will be rolled out by ITG Brands LLC later this month.
Study identifies factors that make transgender, gender expansive adults more or less likely to smoke
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While rates of cigarette smoking among adults in the United States have declined significantly over the past several decades, tobacco use disparities remain among some population groups and disproportionately affect members of vulnerable communities.
One such group is transgender and gender expansive (TGE) adults, who are twice as likely to smoke cigarettes than cisgender individuals. While research suggests that, given appropriate resources and opportunities, TGE smokers are just as likely to want to quit as cisgender smokers, effective cessation interventions targeted to TGE adults have remained underdeveloped.
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This narrative review examines the impact of cigarette smoking and the use of other tobacco and nicotine products on cardiovascular disease. Smoking increases the incidence of both acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases, and the harmful effects are substantially and relatively quickly reversible after quitting. Recommended cessation treatment includes offering pharmacotherapy, counseling which should emphasize the rapid risk reduction that occurs after quitting, and adequate follow-up contacts. [...]