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Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Chicago Vaping Tax is About Cigarette Tax Dollars, Not Health
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Monday, November 9, 2015
Vaping regulation aims to stop the sale of vape products to minors

You see it around campus — someone inhales from what looks to be a walkie talkie and then billows out a citrus scented nimbus cloud.
It is called “vaping,” and the Ingham County Health Department is currently working on a piece of legislation that will regulate its sale similar to products with tobacco in order to prevent its sale to minors.
According to Ingham County, the goal of the Electronic Smoking Device Licensing Regulation is “reducing youth access” to electronic smoking products as well as “maintaining compliance and licensing records of businesses that sell electronic smoking devices.”
Linda Vail, a health officer for Ingham County said the end goal of the regulation is the same as before, only now vape products will be regulated similarly to tobacco.
“Virtually anyone can buy and sell e-cigarettes in Ingham County right now, even children,” she said in a press release. The law itself states, “electronic smoking devices contain components and chemicals that are dangerous to young children.”
Data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products, and cited by Ingham County, stated that electronic cigarette use among minors has tripled in recent years.
The county held an open forum where those who had grievances with the proposed legislation could express their concern.
Matthew Kirkpatrick is an advocate for Smoke Free Michigan and, during the meeting, stated he “couldn’t agree more” with the notion of keeping these products out of the hands of minors.
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The Sun newspaper reports that a man "burned a hole" in his lung by vaping
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CLAIM: A British man burned a hole in his lung by vaping (i.e., using e-cigarettes).
ORIGINS: On 20 October 2015, the British tabloid The Sun published an article headlined "Vaping Burned a Hole in My Lungs" which focused on the potential dangers of e-cigarettes and vaping, reporting that a man named Richard Courtney had "burned a hole" in his lung by using one of the devices. Photographs of the devices in question (a Kangertech brand Subtank and eLeaf iStick 30W) were included with the story:
Richard was walking home from a mate’s house when he tasted fluid and started coughing.He said: “Then it felt like I’d got a trapped nerve in my shoulder. In the morning I had a really tight chest and couldn’t breathe properly.“I went to hospital. One of the nurses there put my vape on an oxygen tube and showed that it was spitting liquid out.”Richard, from Horley, Surrey, was told his right lung was working at just 25 per cent capacity.
Missing from the newspaper's reporting were details such as the date of Courtney's first hospital admission, the specific condition for which he was purportedly hospitalized, and any information about how such an injury was diagnosed (other than that the nurse placed his vape device in an "oxygen tube" and determined it was "spitting out liquid"). Also absent from the report was any clarification from parties other than Courtney regarding the nature of the purported injury. For instance, no doctors chimed in to explain whether it was possible to burn a hole in one's lung (and if so, whether it was possible for that injury to occur from using an e-cigarette).
It appeared readers were meant to infer that very hot e-liquid shot out of the vaporizer's tank into the injured man's mouth (without causing damage), then traveled down his throat (similarly not leaving any burns) before landing inside his lung and "burning a hole" in it. We were unable to find any reports of lung injuries that even remotely matched the Sun's claim, but presumably such an adverse reaction would have previously befallen marijuana smokers, regular smokers, chefs, firemen, and others regularly exposed to inhalation of fumes or steam at a high temperature. Moreover, Courtney's device (while very common) was on the low end of wattage among vaping "mods," a number of which are capable of wattages nearly ten times the amount reported.
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Friday, November 6, 2015
Nationwide 'vaping' raids take place in Malaysia
PETALING JAYA - Raids have been carried out on so-called "vape" stores nationwide in Malaysia in an effort to crack down on nicotine-based vapes.
Part of the reason is to monitor the nicotine content in vaping fluids, said a Health Ministry official on Thursday, according to a report in the Star.
"The other reason, is that these stores do not possess a valid licence from the Ministry," the official is reported to have said.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Keep Vaping China, Don't Listen To The World Health Organization On E-Cigarettes
BEIJING, CHINA – JUNE 01: Researchers estimate that smoking will cause about 20% of all adult male deaths in China during the 2010s. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
When it comes to smoking and vaping, the world of public health seems more like Oceania, 1984, every day. In that Orwellian realm, Big Brother issued nonsense statements such as “war is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength.”
In the U.S., the CDC and the California Department of Health have assumed the role of Big Brother, effectively telling smokers they might as well keep puffing because e-cigarettes are hardly any safer. Talk about an Orwellian inversion statement!
In truth, vaping is far less risky than smoking. E-cigarettes and other devices heat a nicotine solution to produce an inhalable vapor. They release none of the carcinogenic tar of cigarette smoke, making them the ideal nicotine-delivery system for smokers seeking to reduce or halt their intake of combusted tobacco products.
On a global scale, the World Health Organization is Big Brother. Dr.Margaret Chan, the WHO’s director-general, is a confirmed skeptic. As she told China Daily last week– “I recommend that national governments ban, or at least regulate, them,” she said. (Elsewhere, Dr. Chan has opined that e-cigarettes should be regulated the same way cigarettes are regulated– even though they are not remotely equivalent in terms of harm.)
Dr. Chan’s comments were contained in a news story on Beijing’s crackdown on indoor smoking which began on June 1st. The ban has reportedly boosted the public profile of e-cigarettes. As a result, the article said, vaping is becoming increasingly popular, particularly with young urbanites, according to Gan Quan, China director of the InternationalUnion against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
New CDC Data Blows Away Popular E-Cigarette Criticism
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has blown a major hole in the case against e-cigarettes.
Many of the most vehement critics of e-cigarettes fear the devices could prove to be a gateway drug and will raise the risk of non-smoking vapers being lured into trying the real thing.
Critics also fear that we haven’t seen the long-term health effects of vaping and that regulators and lawmakers should take a stricter stance on taxing e-cigarettes and raising the age at which they can be bought.
But according to a CDC report released on Monday, public health activists have little reason to fear a rising tide of new smokers in wake of the vaping revolution. The report is the first of its kind with the first estimates of e-cigarette use among U.S. adults from a nationally representative household survey.
The CDC study shows that just 0.4 percent of people who had never smoked tobacco were current vapers, using the device either every day or some days. Among the adults who had never smoked cigarettes a meagre 3.4 percent had ever tried and e-cigarette. In total, 12.6 percent of Americans have tried an e-cigarette.
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Monday, November 2, 2015
Vaping gathers steam among Singaporeans across the Causeway
Vape smoking seems to be gathering steam among Singaporeans who are getting their fix in Malaysia to get around the import ban on such products.
Singapore bans the import of imitation tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes such as vape. In Malaysia, the government is considering whether to ban vape smoking.
Demand for the tobacco-less products in Malaysia has surged in recent years, with the industry now worth an estimated half-a-billion ringgit ($100 million).
Vape is a kind of electronic cigarette that typically comes in a box-like battery powered device, with a tube of liquid attached to it. This liquid, commonly referred to as juice, usually contains a combination of a nicotine solution and a flavouring solution. A typical flavouring solution is made of propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin - the former gives a sweeter taste with fewer vapors, while the latter gives a less sweet taste with more vapor.
In Johor Bahru alone, there are more than 20 vape stores. Many customers flock to vape stores located at a night market called “Pasar Karat” at Jalan Segget, which is a 10-minute drive from the Johor Causeway.
Yahoo Singapore recently spoke to some of the owners and staff from several vape stores in JB to find out about their Singaporean customers. Singaporeans spend about RM200 (SGD65) each per visit, they said.
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