Electronic cigarette

• Today, the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, announced Vaping Products Reporting Regulations.
• These regulations require manufacturers to disclose information about their sales and the ingredients used in their vaping products to Health Canada.
• The Vaping Products Reporting Regulations are similar to the Tobacco Reporting Regulations , in that they continue to provide Health Canada with information to help make policy decisions and develop effective tobacco control strategies.
• The information collected through the Vaping Products Reporting Regulations will help inform policy work in support of the overall objectives of the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act, including to prevent vaping product use from leading to the use of tobacco products by young persons and people who do not smoke.

• Read more: Vaping is glamourised on social media, putting youth in harm's way
  Positive videos result in more vaping
  E-cigarette use by young people, including in Australia, is rapidly growing.
• Positive social media messages around vaping may particularly impact young people, who are the most frequent users of social media.
• TikTok emphasises tricks and downplays harms
  In our recently published study, we looked at the ways e-cigarettes are being advertised and promoted on TikTok.
• This may act to shape norms around e-cigarette use and increase the perception that vaping is socially accepted.

• Its two primary objectives are to make it harder for children and non-smokers to access vapes and to allow people trying to quit smoking to access nicotine vapes with a prescription.
• Vapes are unquestionably popular, with many who vape saying they are trying to quit or to cut down on cigarettes.

Myth of the ‘hardened smokers’

• First, let’s bust a widely believed myth.
• With smoking at an all time low, some experts argue today’s smokers are the die-hard addicts: frequently relapsing smokers who just can’t quit.
• Whenever this hypothesis has been tested it has been found wanting.

Vapes don’t help smokers cut back

• Studies of the number of cigarettes foregone by vapers who still smoke have shown that, compared with smokers who never vape, the average daily cigarette consumption is very similar.
• The authors concluded:
  No statistically significant associations were found between changes in use of e-cigarettes […] while smoking and daily cigarette consumption.
• No statistically significant associations were found between changes in use of e-cigarettes […] while smoking and daily cigarette consumption.

How effective are vapes in quitting?

• The most recent Cochrane review of randomised controlled trials compared vaping with nicotine replacement therapy (such as drugs, gums and patches).
• It found about 82% of people who vape are still smoking when followed up six or more months later.
• Neither nicotine replacement therapy or vapes are hugely disruptive of smoking.

What does the real-world evidence show?

• The best evidence we have about how vapes perform comes from studies where large numbers of vapers are followed for several years.
• I’ve summarised 16 other reviews and expert group conclusions of the evidence published since 2017.

The upshot?

• The prescription vapes access scheme’s most important population effect is likely to be that it will massively reduce access to vapes by children.
• State governments will start hitting retailers illegally selling with massive fines and Border Security will do the same with importing suppliers.
• Taiwan fines sellers a maximum of US$1.65 million, with a minimum of US$330,000.

• The new products include Diamond-Infused Pre-Rolls and a Live Resin All-in-One Vape.
• "We are thrilled to announce the launch of two exciting new VenomX branded products into the Arizona market," said Jacob Cohen, YourWay's President of Arizona Operations.
• "With the launch of our Diamond-Infused Pre-Roll, we are broadening the reach of the VenomX brand and our 1.0g Live Resin All-in-One Vape expands our current portfolio to meet the demands of consumers in these key categories."
• In addition, the Live Resin All-in-One Vape offers an all-cannabis-derived 1.0g all-in-one device that heats the live resin high terpene extract and distilled cannabis oil to the optimal temperature for enjoying the unique terpene profiles.