Vapingeyes, Vernon, CA (2025)

09/06/2022

Commentary: Reduce harm on ni****ne products rather than banning them
In April, the Food and Drug Administration announced its plan to ban menthol-flavored ci******es. Although many may celebrate this decision as a groundbreaking victory for public health, it does not take a scholar to recognize that prohibitions tend to fail. Instead of focusing on uplifting our communities and helping smokers move to less-harmful options, a menthol ban will punish those who struggle to quit, while devastating local businesses in its wake.

As a multi-unit convenience store owner and v**e wholesaler, I have spent my entire career in retail. Over the years, I have watched countless officials wrongly support similar policies, seemingly refusing to learn from the mistakes of their colleagues and predecessors. The same story continues to unfold — forced prohibitions take away regulated products from small businesses, fueling unchecked illicit trade in its place.

A recent study by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy stated that nearly 20 percent of all ci******es consumed in Michigan were smuggled in as a function of tax evasion or avoidance, ranking our state 15th nationally. Simply, excessive taxes or a prohibition of certain ci******es or other flavored ni****ne products will increase smuggling and embolden further criminal activity.

Moreover, convenience stores in Michigan typically count on to***co products for nearly 35 percent of their in-store purchases. This number doesn't account for the additional purchases these customers make while visiting our stores. Put simply, these businesses are not prepared to handle the substantial losses expected from a ban on all menthol to***co products.

While the Biden administration has spent much of its time providing extraordinary relief to local businesses across all industries, bans or prohibitions place an unfair burden on convenience stores hit hard by the global pandemic. This is particularly true for stores in traditionally minority neighborhoods, which generally prefer menthol-flavored to***co products.

There is a solution to help consumers quit smoking, and it's known as To***co Harm Reduction. THR is a growing, scientifically substantiated movement to share the potential public health and community benefits of providing to***co smokers access and education to potentially less harmful ni****ne products.

For example, a recent study found that the presence of v***r products not only had little impact on encouraging smoking among young people, but it did encourage more adults who use ci******es to quit. Study after study shows that ni****ne alternatives, including va**ng products, are significantly safer than ci******es, because tar in traditional ci******es causes health problems, not ni****ne.

I know firsthand the benefits of switching because I've applied the THR strategy and transitioned from traditional ci******es to va**ng. Honestly, it's one of the best decisions I've ever made and why I can no longer remain silent over the FDA's attempted shakedown.

Unlike more progressive public health programs in places such as Europe, the FDA does not have a realistic strategy or plan. They may continue to stand behind their decision to enforce prohibitions, but that doesn't change the reality that such a policy will only lead to harmful outcomes. Rather than abandon smokers, we need this administration to support policies that provide opportunities for those that wish to quit.

Prohibition is a failed policy; until the FDA reverses course, history will continue to repeat itself.

Source:crainsdetroit

09/06/2022

New Study: Va**ng May Help Smokers Quit Even if They Do Not Intend to
A new study finds that despite not intending to do so, some smokers end up quitting ci******es after taking up va**ng.

Titled, “Association of e-Cigarette Use With Discontinuation of Cigarette Smoking Among Adult Smokers Who Were Initially Never Planning to Quit,” the study was published on Jama Network Open. In order to analyze whether va**ng was associated with smoking cessation among smokers who had no intention of quitting, the research team extracted data from the longitudinal Population Assessment of To***co and Health (PATH) Study where participants were evaluated in 3 pairs of interviews between 2014 and 2019.

The team collected a total of 2489 observations from 1600 smokers who had no plans to ever quit smoking. They compared quit rates between those who took up va**ng and those who did not, and found that about 6% of the participants quit during the study, while another 4.5% reduced their smoking to less than one cigarette a day.

The study highlighted that those smokers who used v**es regularly were 8-fold more likely to quit ci******es altogether, and almost 10-fold more likely to stop smoking every day. On the other hand, no relationship was observed between smoking cessation and va**ng sporadically. To this effect, the researchers concluded that va**ng products only encourage smoking cessation if used regularly.

Meanwhile, a recent systematic review and meta-analysis published on Health Technology Assessment claimed that that the most effective smoking cessation approaches are ones that include varenicline consumption.

Quit smoking drugs
The study, “Smoking cessation medicines and e-ci******es: a systematic review, network meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis,” was conducted by researchers from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. They searched publication databases through March 2017 and updated February 2019 for randomized clinical trials of smoking cessation lasting ≥6 months.

The research team finally included a total of 363 trials with 201,045 participants, and for the safety review, an additional 53 observational studies comprising 8,783,5403 participants were included.

After analysing the findings, the research team concluded that the most effective treatments were varenicline plus standard ni****ne replacement therapies (odds ratio [OR], 3.22; 95% credible interval [CrI], 2.27-14.88), varenicline low plus ni****ne replacement (OR, 5.70; 95% CrI, 1.57-21.12), and e-cigarette low (OR, 3.22; 95% CrI, 0.97-12.55).

09/06/2022

Brazil Cracks Down on E-cigarette Sales
Brazil’s Ministry of Justice instructed 33 businesses to stop selling e-ci******es or risk a penalty of BRL5,000 ($966.65) per day, according to the The Brazilian Report.

E-ci******es have been banned in Brazil since 2009, but they remain readily available online, at to***conists and in supermarkets.

One of the companies targeted by the ministry is France-based Carrefour, one of the world’s largest retailers, which owns more than 1,000 stores in Brazil and accounts for 25 percent of the domestic retail market.

In July this year, Brazil’s national health surveillance agency, Anvisa, voted to uphold the ban on e-ci******es, citing studies showing that the use of electronic smoking devices increases the risk of smoking in young people, the potential for dependence and the likelihood of lung, cardiovascular and neurological health problems.

Around 20 percent of Brazilians aged 18-24 v**e, while smokers make up approximately 12 percent of the population, according to April 2022 polling data.

09/06/2022

Activists: Differentiate Smoking and Va**ng

Malaysian lawmakers must distinguish between smoking and va**ng it they want to tackle Malaysia’s smoking epidemic, according to to***co harm reduction advocates.

Legislators are currently scrutinizing a bill that would ban smoking and va**ng for those born after 2007 in Malaysia. The bill is modelled on legislation in New Zealand, which in December 2021 revealed a plan to phase out smoking by gradually raising the smoking age until it covers the entire population.

Unlike Malaysia’s proposal, however, New Zealand’s generational ban would prohibit only the sale of to***co products to anyone born during or after 2009, with va**ng products remaining available to those 18 years and older to purchase in retail outlets as was regulated in 2020.

Samsul Ariffin
“You can’t ban ci******es for future Malaysian adults without providing a safer, viable alternative,” said Samsul Ariffin, president of the Malaysian Organization of V**e Entities. “It’s like banning sugary drinks and sugar-free drinks all at once and hoping it will get people off sugar. If our political leaders are serious about eradicating deadly smoking, Malaysia’s generational endgame bill must only ban the purchase of combustible to***co, not safer ni****ne products.”

According to the Coalition of Asia Pacific To***co Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA), New Zealand’s encouragement of smoking cessation through va**ng has contributed to a rapid decline in the country’s smoking rate. New Zealand’s current adult daily smoking rate stands at 9.4 percent, down from 18 percent in 2006-2007.

“New Zealand’s smoking has halved in recent years not because they banned va**ng but because they embraced it,” said Nancy Loucas, executive coordinator of CAPHRA.

09/06/2022

Koch Subsidiary Supplier of JUUL Va**ng Products Announces Layoffs

Phillips-Medisize, a subsidiary of the Koch Industries company Molex, has laid off 99 workers at its Hudson, Wisconsin factory, which produces plastic cartridges for JUUL e-ci******es. The layoffs were triggered by a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) order denying JUUL the right to continue selling its device and four of its pod products in the U.S.

Koch Industries supports several advocacy groups that carry water for Big To***co, but its direct financial interest in the va**ng business is not widely known.

The Phillips-Medisize factory announced the layoff of approximately 25% of its employees in a July 1 letter to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, as it is required to do under federal law. In the letter, the company added that if “a complete cessation of production is necessary…we anticipate a permanent layoff of approximately 225 additional employees, which would likely take place in phases [through] October 12, 2022.”

The Hudson location is one of 26 Phillips-Medisize facilities around the world, including three others in Wisconsin that have not downsized. After Koch Industries bought Molex in 2013, Molex bought Phillips-Medisize in 2017.

JUUL, long the most popular e-cigarette brand in the U.S., is partially owned by the to***co giant Altria, which—like Koch Industries itself— is a longstanding board member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a secretive pay-to-play corporate bill mill and lobbying group.

In reviewing the Koch, Molex, and Phillips-Medisize websites, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) did not find any mention of the JUUL device or cartridges as products of the Koch conglomerate.

“Well-known parts of Koch Industries include his cash machine of a Canadian crude processing plant in Minnesota and the paper mills of Georgia Pacific,” notes Lisa Graves, a nationally recognized Koch expert and critic. “Then there are the less well known [parts], like his methane-producing fertilizer plants or the asphalt he sells for roads.”

Graves, president of the CMD Board and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice during the Clinton Administration, added, “But even I didn’t know that his business involved filters for va**ng with Altria’s JUUL. I suppose [it’s] unsurprising that Koch has financial ties to Big To***co since his political operations like Citizens for a Sound Economy/Americans for Prosperity (AFP) have long relied on funding from the carcinogenic industry profiting from to***co.”

ALEC and AFP have served as front groups for the to***co industry in a number of state policy battles over the past two decades, including opposing increases to cigarette taxes and smoke-free workplace and plain packaging requirements, promoting smokeless to***co, and pushing preemption laws that prevent local governments from more strongly regulating to***co products.

After the FDA announced its ban of JUUL products on June 23, a federal appeals court stayed the ban a few weeks later, and on July 5 the FDA said that it had put its ban on hold pending an additional review of the company’s application. Unless the ban is ultimately rescinded, JUUL will require fewer plastic cartridges from Phillips-Medisize.

Va**ng companies are required to seek FDA authorization in order to sell their products in the U.S. Although the federal agency has approved a handful of va**ng devices this year, it has “denied more than a million applications,” according to the New York Times.

The ALEC tie between Altria and Koch Industries isn’t the only political connection between Koch and the e-cigarette industry. The Koch-connected Consumer Choice Center (CCC) has worked closely with the industry-backed World V**ers’ Alliance on a series of ads pushing for weaker regulations of va**ng products in Europe, according to investigations by the Daily Beast and the French newspaper Le Monde.

First surfacing in 2017, the CCC is a spin-off of Students for Liberty (SFL), which was founded by a Koch Summer Fellow at the Reason Foundation in the summer of 2007. Between 2009 and 2020 (the most recent filing date available), it received $776,898 from the Charles G. Koch Foundation and another $215,413 (2015–20) from the Charles Koch Institute (CKI), now known as Stand Together Fellowships. CKI/Stand Together recruits students at SFL events. But in speaking to Le Monde, a CCC spokesperson denied any direct association with Koch while remaining silent on its connection to SFL.

09/06/2022

Geek Bar Launches Pod System for UK
V**e manufacturer Geek Bar has launched its J1 Pod range in the United Kingdom, featuring an innovative disposable pod refill system along with a rechargeable battery. The J1 Pod has been developed with the UK market in mind, allowing consumers to switch flavours at lower cost.

Available through specialist v**e retailers and convenience stores, Geek Bar has a recommended retail price of £8 for the J1 pod system while a twin-pack of 2ml pod refills will cost £5. The 500mHA battery can be recharged via a USB device.

Featuring the latest KA mesh coil technology, the J1 Pod is claimed to provide more vapour and a more consistent, mellower flavour.

Geek Bar says the “silky smooth experience” is very different from the rough sensation associated with to***co products, “and this may encourage more smokers to kick the habit and switch to v**es”.

The company says its J1 Pod offers an alternative va**ng experience for people looking to give up smoking to***co products, especially at a time when incomes are being squeezed and a typical pack of 20 ci******es can cost £10 or more.

The product comes in the company’s newly designed packaging, which features a more visible age restriction warning against sale to minors.

To combat counterfeiting, the redesign also carries a prominent security code which retailers and consumers can use to check the authenticity of the product and ensure they are not buying a fake product.

The J1 is one of a number of upgraded v**e devices now available from Geek Bar following approval from the Medicines Healthcare regulatory Agency (MHRA).

“They are lightweight and compact, suitable for on-the-go va**ng and prefilled with 20mg of ni****ne as well as up to 2ml of e-liquid. Offering 600 puffs per device, they are designed for mouth-to-lung v**ers in particular, who want to replicate the experience of smoking through a consistent throat hit,” Geek Bar adds.

The J1 Pod will offer 11 different flavours: ginger soda, tropical skittles blast, orange vanilla, tropical fruit, lime cherry, mango smoothie, watermelon ice, pink lemonade, kiwi passion fruit guava, cheesy blueberry jelly, lime cactus.

“Having different flavours for different moods and situations offers more choices for consumers,” concludes the v**e company.

09/06/2022

New Study: A Ban on To***co Products Would Lead to a 4% Decline in Gross Sales

New research in the INFORMS journal Marketing Science reported that banning to***co products would mean retailers would experience as much as a 4% decline in gross sales.

Titled “What Happens When a Retailer Drops a Product Category? Investigating the Consequences of Ending To***co Sales,” the study demonstrated the role of to***co as a traffic driver to brick-and-mortar stores, and negative microeconomic consequence a ban would have, whether voluntary or not.

“On one hand, the decision by, for example, Dick’s to drop assault weapons from its assortment may affect own- and rival-store patronage and spill over to the sales of other categories. On the other hand, a store’s voluntary decision to end, say, to***co sales may draw nonsmokers more to its stores and compensate for losses from discontinuing the category,” continues Chintagunta, the Joseph T. and Bernice S. Lewis Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing at the University of Chicago.

“However, in the case of to***co, our results show the short-term gains for retailers from dropping to***co do not seem to outweigh the financial losses associated with these actions.” This study only considered the financial aspects of such bans.

A key role of v**e shops
An older study focused solely on v**e shops, had indicated that these play a key role in supporting smokers who switch to safer alternatives. The study titled, “‘I Felt Welcomed in Like They’re a Little Family in There, I Felt Like I Was Joining a Team or Something’: V**e Shop Customers’ Experiences of E-Cigarette Use, V**e Shops and the Va**ng Community,” aimed to understand customers’ experiences of va**ng and v**e shops, and the extent to which smoking cessation advice is and should be provided in these shops.

The researchers conducted telephone interviews with 22 customers recruited in v**e shops in the East Midlands region of England, exploring the participants’ smoking histories, reasons for using e-ci******es, the role of v**e shops in their e-cigarette use, and whether smoking cessation was discussed in v**e shops.

The compiled responses indicated that respondents regarded e-ci******es as a quitting tool and reported very positive experiences of va**ng. The participants found v**e shops critical to their positive experiences, in that they provided access to a wide variety of high-quality products and reliable product information and advice.

“The shop staff engendered a sense of loyalty in customers which, together with the community of other v**ers, created a network that helped to support e-cigarette use. V**e shops were not regarded as a setting in which cessation advice was generally provided but were acknowledged as potentially appropriate places to provide quitting support,” read the study abstract.

This study concluded that v**e shops play an important role in to***co harm reduction, and their potential could be increased “if their service model were to extend to help smokers to quit.”

09/06/2022

SRNT Journal Plans To***co Transformation Issue

The Society for Research on Ni****ne & To***co (SRNT) is calling for papers to publish in a special issue of its official journal, Nicontine & To***co Research, about the to***co industry transformation.

This themed issue will inform whether and how the to***co control community should respond to and engage with the to***co industry transformation narrative and with to***co companies that claim to be transforming by moving away from producing and selling hazardous to***co products.

“Critically assessing the validity of the industry’s transformation narrative will be important as sections of the industry are likely to increasingly use this framing in order to position themselves as legitimate stakeholders in debates about how to end the smoking epidemic and the nature and direction of to***co control policies,” the SRNT writes on its website.

Ni****ne & To***co Research says it will not consider for publication papers submitted by to***co industry employees or affiliated organisations.

The organization anticipates that the themed issue will publish in mid/late 2023.

09/06/2022

New Report Details V***r Recycling Programs

Research and Markets has published a global overview of recycling programs for e-ci******es, heated to***co products and v***rizers.

Every year, manufacturers and consumers generate 44.7 million tons of e-waste containing up to $65 billion worth of raw materials like gold, silver and platinum. The amount of global e-waste is expected to increase by almost 17 percent to 52.2 million tons in 2021, or around 8 percent every year.

V**e products are e-waste because they contain lithium-ion batteries, a heating element and a circuit board, which can contain plastics and heavy metals.

While the world’s leading jurisdictions have legislation governing the management of e-waste in general, they generally have no rules designed specifically for e-ci******es, heated to***co products or v***rizers.

To fill the void, manufacturers of electronic ni****ne delivery devices have developed their own initiatives to tackle e-waste. The Research and Markets report list the following examples:
Philip Morris International has established hubs in Europe and Asia that inspect, process and separate materials from electronic devices for recycling.
BAT has replaced plastic elements of v***r products with pulp-based alternatives.
JTI launched a return scheme of used devices through the recycling boxes at shops.
Imperial Brands has launched take-back recycling schemes for used va**ng devices and pods.
Other v**e companies, such as DotMod, Shanlaan and Dovpo, have launched their own recycling programs by return schemes. Innokin is working on battery utilization programs. Recycling companies, such as Gaiaca and TerraCycle cooperate with v**e manufacturers to provide services for collecting and recycling e-waste.
The Bowman company offers pod refill stations to reduce plastic usage for v***r bottles production in future.

09/06/2022

BAT Manages to Reverse Kenya’s Ban on Ni****ne Pouches
After lobbying the local government to put ni****ne pouches back on the market, big to***co company British American To***co (BAT), managed to bring about a reversal on the ban.

The ban was putting a stumbling block in the smoking cessation journey of thousands.In 2020, BAT announced it was launching a new plant at an estimated cost of Sh2.5 billion, to start the production of ni****ne pouches in Kenya. The plan was to trade under the Lyft brand and target the African market.

However, the country’s Ministry of Health, with the support of a number of civil society lobby groups such as International Institute for Legislative Affairs, had resisted the sales of the products, and announced a ban in October 2020.

Less than two years later, following incessant lobbying by BAT and a number of to***co harm reduction experts, ni****ne pouches are back on the Kenyan market. Moreover, the to***co company is still striving to launch its ni****ne manufacturing plant in Nairobi.

An article on Africa Report has highlighted that BAT Kenya Plc has already imported ten tonnes of its ni****ne pouches from South Africa in July 2022. Moreover, the to***co company has already ordered additional supplies, which are expected to be in Kenya by the end of August.

Africa has over 77 million cigarette smokers, with over 250,000 dying each year from smoking-related conditions. In Kenya alone, it is estimated that about 30,000 people die yearly because of smoking. To this effect, to***co harm reduction experts will certainly be in favour of this ban reversal.

A step towards reducing to***co harm
Last year, the Africa To***co Harm Reduction Forum hosted by the Campaign for Safer Alternatives (CASA) addressed the ban saying that it was putting a stumbling block in the smoking cessation journey of thousands.

“By lagging behind the rest of the world in its stance on to***co harm reduction (THR), the Kenyan government is blocking the escape from to***co-related disease and death for 30,000 smokers a year, with no chance of reprieve,” said CASA Chairman Joseph Magero during the webinar.

“Kenya’s ongoing ‘quit or die’ to***co control policy ignores the reality that too many smokers find it impossible to quit, even when they want to. Reduced harm products such as e-ci******es and oral ni****ne pouches give them a much safer alternative, a route away from ci******es and a better chance of a smoke-free future.”

source:Velo

08/02/2022

Sources: Juul Labs Quarterly Revenues Drop 23%

Juul Labs Inc. had its first quarter revenues plummet 23% from the prior year, according to people with knowledge of the matter, according to Bloomberg.

The company received $259 million of revenue for the quarter ended March 31, said the sources, who say they saw the company’s results as it seeks financing alternatives.

“As we continue to operate in the market and go through the FDA’s review process, we are in the early stages of exploring a variety of options including various potential financing alternatives to protect our business and to address the impact of the FDA’s now stayed order so we can continue offering our products to adult consumers who have or are looking to transition away from traditional ci******es,” a spokesperson for Juul said in a statement when asked for comment by Bloomberg.

Juul Labs had a loss of $28 million in the period, compared with earnings of $29 million for the same period a year earlier, based on unadjusted results before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

In June, the FDA banned Juul products on US shelves, citing a lack of evidence demonstrating the overall safety of the company’s products, and noting Juul’s “disproportionate role in the rise in youth va**ng.” Then the company won an emergency court order temporarily blocking the decision, and the agency separately stayed its order, allowing the company to keep selling products.

As of the first quarter, Juul had $323 million of cash on hand, down from $428 million at the same point last year, according to people who asked not to be identified because results are confidential for closely held Juul, according to Bloomberg.

Its debt totaled approximately $2.15 billion, including a $394 million term loan due in August 2023 and around $1.7 billion of 7 percent notes due 2025 that “payment-in-kind securities,” allowing the company to delay interest payments.

08/02/2022

Study Finds Traces of Caffeine in Juul Pods

While Juul pods are now considered more boring following the flavour ban set in place by the Trump Administration, a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Chemistry, found that interestingly some Juul pods contain trace amounts of caffeine.

Dr. Neal Benowitz, a researcher and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, said that the caffeine present is in levels too low to have an effect.In January 2020, the FDA released the much anticipated guidance pertaining to flavoured va**ng products. “Companies that do not cease manufacture, distribution and sale of unauthorized flavored cartridge-based e-ci******es (other than to***co or menthol) within 30 days risk FDA enforcement actions,” said the guidance, which went into effect the following February. However, anticipating this move, Juul had already stopped selling its flavoured products in the US as of late 2019.

And while Juul users were forced to resort to more boring flavours or seek their preferred products on the blackmarket, a recent study claimed that they may have been getting their kick from the products regardless, via caffeine. Titled, “A Retrospective Analysis of Chemical Constituents in Regulated and Unregulated E-Cigarette Liquids,” the study analyzed the contents of 241 ni****ne and cannabis v***rizer products, including Juul pods, found on the market over the past few years.

A research team from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Forensic Science found ten chemicals in Juul pods, including caffeine, which appeared in concentrations averaging 23.5 micrograms per milliliter in Classic To***co pods, and averaging 9.3 μg/ml in Menthol-flavored pod. The addictive substance is not listed as part of the contents which according to the Juul’s website, consist only of ni****ne, and the additives propylene glycol, glycerine, and benzoic acid.

The presence of caffeine in the products oculd make them more addictive
Discussing the findings, the researchers said that the presence of caffeine in the products would make them more addictive. “The addition of caffeine to e-cig liquids could act as an initiation primer, leading to increased caffeine seeking and consumption and chances of caffeine addiction,” they wrote, noting that “caffeine consumption has been reported to increase the odds of smoking [and] the urge to smoke.”

The question is whether Juul added the caffeine purposely. Dr. Neal Benowitz, a researcher and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, said that this is unlikely as the caffeine present is in levels too low to have an effect. “For comparison, a cup of coffee contains about 100 milligrams” of caffeine,” Benowitz said. At 25 micrograms per milliliter, “a bout of JUULing would deliver about 1/1000 of the caffeine in a cup of coffee,” he said. “Unlikely to have any significant effects.”

As for how it got there? Probably an accident, according to Benowitz. “I can see no reason why they would add minute amounts of caffeine,” he added. “Most likely a contaminant in some flavor chemicals they purchased and did not know about.” Nevertheless the findings could prove tricky for Juul who is still waiting for its Pre-Market To***co Authorization (PMTA).

08/02/2022

Study: Va**ng Increases Odds of Quitting Heavy Smoking

A long-term study carried out by researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, has found that adult heavy smokers with no plans to quit are more likely to do so when they switch to va**ng regularly.

Only about 6% of all smokers included in the trial quit smoking completely, but the rates were significantly higher among those who v**ed daily, at 28%. Published recently in JAMA Network Open, the study titled, “Association of e-Cigarette Use With Discontinuation of Cigarette Smoking Among Adult Smokers Who Were Initially Never Planning to Quit,” used data from 2014 to 2019 as part of the Population Assessment of To***co and Health (PATH) Study, a long-term study looking into to***co use behavior and related health patterns in the US.

Findings from Wave 1 of the study released in 2016, had already put to rest certain misconceptions about va**ng such as the infamous Gateway Theory. When the researchers focused their analysis on a select group of 1,600 smokers who had no plans to quit smoking and were not using e-ci******es when the study began, they found that those who went on to v**e daily were the ones who managed to quit.

“These findings are paradigm-shifting, because the data suggest that va**ng may actually help people who are not actively trying to quit smoking. Most other studies focus exclusively on people who are actively trying to quit smoking, but this study suggests that we may be missing effects of e-ci******es by not considering this group of smokers with limited intention to stop smoking -; a group that is often at the highest risk for poor health outcomes from cigarette smoking,” said Andrew Hyland, Ph.D., Chair of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

The study reported that only about 6% of all smokers included in the trial quit smoking completely, but the rates were significantly higher among those who v**ed daily, at 28%. “While clinical trials show strong evidence that va**ng can help people quit smoking, findings from real-world population studies have been mixed,” said lead study author Karin Kasza, Ph.D., a research scientist in the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park. “Our study identified a positive association between daily va**ng and cigarette quitting specifically among the segment of smokers who were not planning to quit, consistent with data from clinical trials.”

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