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*Citation: Ann Am Thorac Soc Vol 17, No 5, pp 573–581, May 2020, Copyright © 2020 by the American Thoracic Society, DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201906-472OC | *Citation: Ann Am Thorac Soc Vol 17, No 5, pp 573–581, May 2020, Copyright © 2020 by the American Thoracic Society, DOI: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201906-472OC | ||
*Acknowledgement: Supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Center for Tobacco Products of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (P50-DA-036107) for the Penn State Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science. | *Acknowledgement: Supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Center for Tobacco Products of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (P50-DA-036107) for the Penn State Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science. | ||
===2019: Article: [https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2019/09/16/opinion-vape-flavor-ban-doesnt-help-kids-hurts-adults/2291817001/ Vape flavor ban doesn't help kids, hurts adults]=== | |||
*Tobacco users who switch from combustible cigarettes to e-cigarettes experience various improvements in health. | |||
*Using e-cigarettes also helps people quit smoking altogether, with twice the success rate of other quit methods. | |||
*Researchers have yet to demonstrate that an e-cigarette flavor ban will prevent minors from obtaining and experimenting with tobacco products. | |||
*The ban creates a greater opportunity for people — including adolescents — to interact with law enforcement, putting them at increased risk of becoming involved with the criminal justice system. | |||
*Citation: Jesse Kelly & Carrie Wade, September 15, 2019, The Detroit News | |||
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*“If this bill passes and we bring in prohibition, we’re going to bring crime into the city,” Marianos, who is now an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, said. “We’re going to replace store owners and manufacturers with people selling out of backpacks, people selling out of cars, and worst of all, people selling directly to the children we’re trying to protect.” | *“If this bill passes and we bring in prohibition, we’re going to bring crime into the city,” Marianos, who is now an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University, said. “We’re going to replace store owners and manufacturers with people selling out of backpacks, people selling out of cars, and worst of all, people selling directly to the children we’re trying to protect.” | ||
*Citation: Colin Young, November 04, 2019, 22 News WWLP | *Citation: Colin Young, November 04, 2019, 22 News WWLP | ||
===2019: Article: [https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/fl-op-com-minton-e-cigarette-ban-ineffective-dangerous-20190923-svobcmjbdjeptduwlqdx6blcii-story.html E-cigarette flavor ban — ineffective and dangerous]=== | |||
*Bans don’t work. Bans never work. All bans do is push consumers to make different, usually more risky, choices. In this case, the likely outcome of banning e-liquid flavors people want is that they will seek to obtain them through the black market or simply return to smoking cigarettes. As a result, many more will die of smoking-related diseases or tainted products. | |||
*The wide array of flavors, produced by thousands of vapor companies around the country — most of them small — appear to be critical in persuading smokers to try vaping and preventing e-cigarette users from returning to their deadly combustible cigarette habit. | |||
*As a society, we have found satisfactory ways to address youth access to many adult products, like alcohol and marijuana. Given that e-cigarettes have the potential to save lives, regulators have a responsibility to find a similarly sophisticated solution to the youth vaping problem. Or, they can follow Michigan’s lead and learn the same lesson repeated throughout history: prohibition always causes more problems than it solves. | |||
*Citation: Michelle Minton, September 23, 2019, South Florida Sun Sentinel | |||
===2019: Article: [https://www.kqed.org/science/1950849/vapers-turn-to-home-brew-as-flavored-nicotine-bans-mount Vapers Turn to Home Brew as Flavored Nicotine Bans Mount]=== | |||
*“Even though I haven’t touched a cigarette in five years, the pull is always there. It’s so easy to go and buy a pack. And I don’t want to do that,” Danielle Jones said. “The only route I can see going forward if there is a ban is to try to create the product myself at home.” | |||
*As more states, cities and even the federal government consider banning flavored nicotine, thousands of do-it-yourself vapers like Jones are flocking to social media groups and websites to learn how to make e-liquids at home. | |||
*“To have people mixing their own e-cigarette liquid is crazy.” said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine and the director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California-San Francisco. | |||
*Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor of community health sciences at Boston University, worries about the risk of contaminated products as some people use the bans as an opportunity to make their own concoctions cheaply and sell them on the black market. “Who knows what they’re going to put in there?” Siegel said. “This is just what happens when you use prohibition as a regulatory approach. | |||
*Alex Clark, CEO of the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association (CASAA), said he plans to warn the nonprofit’s more than 200,000 members about the dangers of making e-liquid at home. Clark notes that people should not use flavors found in the baking aisle of a grocery store. | |||
*Citation: Jenny Gold, November 12, 2019, Kaiser Health News KQED | |||
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*Citation: Gentry, S.V., Ward, E., Dawkins, L. et al. Reported patterns of vaping to support long-term abstinence from smoking: a cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of vapers. Harm Reduct J 17, 70 (2020). doi:10.1186/s12954-020-00418-8 | *Citation: Gentry, S.V., Ward, E., Dawkins, L. et al. Reported patterns of vaping to support long-term abstinence from smoking: a cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of vapers. Harm Reduct J 17, 70 (2020). doi:10.1186/s12954-020-00418-8 | ||
*Acknowledgement: This research was funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Grant Number C54889/A22732. | *Acknowledgement: This research was funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK), Grant Number C54889/A22732. | ||
===2019: Article: [https://www.insidesources.com/e-cigarette-flavor-bans-will-drive-more-people-back-to-smoking/ E-Cigarette Flavor Bans Will Drive More People Back to Smoking]=== | |||
*These laws will result in thousands of ex-smokers returning to cigarette smoking because the e-cigarettes they rely upon are taken off the shelves, while tobacco cigarettes remain. The absurdity of these proposals is that they restrict the sale of e-cigarettes more severely than the sale of actual cigarettes, the ones that are killing more than 400,000 Americans each year. Why would regulators want to give a competitive advantage to cigarettes over the much safer alternative? | |||
*By creating barriers to a much healthier product, these laws will simply force former smokers to return to cigarette smoking. Lawmakers are doing a huge favor not for the public’s health, but for Marlboro, which is going to see a windfall in the ex-smoker market as all of its competition from vaping products is eliminated. | |||
*Citation: Michael Siegel, February 19, 2019, Inside Sources | |||
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*Minnesota Smoke-Free Alliance | *Minnesota Smoke-Free Alliance | ||
*Do flavors help adults quit smoking? Is there "right" flavored products and "wrong" flavored products? Do we have the right to tell people they have to quit smoking using a method we approve of? (English) | *Do flavors help adults quit smoking? Is there "right" flavored products and "wrong" flavored products? Do we have the right to tell people they have to quit smoking using a method we approve of? (English) | ||
===2019: Article: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/18yNyRhNe0liQ_uP3tSEcaLV9JB-gLyMEnCuE8aLBtPc/edit?usp=sharing Flavors make vaping more palatable, help cigarette smokers kick the habit]=== | |||
*Flavored e-cigarettes were not invented by “Big Tobacco,” nor are they an unscrupulous marketing plot from the thousands of small, independently owned vape companies in the United States to addict kids. Non-tobacco vape flavors are a user innovation. | |||
*Fruit, candy, bakery, mint, and beverage flavors were introduced to vaping in 2008 by pioneering users of the technology who were desperate to use e-cigarettes to replace smoking. | |||
*Flavors like cotton candy, bubble gum, and the many other examples opponents claim are obviously targeted to youth are in fact flavors someone trying to quit smoking wanted to vape and mixed themselves. These innovations in home-mixing resulted in the commercial market about to be banned today. | |||
*The preponderance of evidence indicates that non-tobacco flavors, including fruit, dessert, and candy, are essential to vaping as an effective way to quit smoking and avoid relapse. | |||
*Citation: Amelia Howard, September 21, 2019, Pro/Con: As vaping-related illnesses rise, should flavored e-cigarettes be banned?, The Philadelphia Enquirer | |||
===2019: Article: [https://www.chieftain.com/opinion/20191128/banning-flavored-e-cigarettes-has-consequences Banning flavored e-cigarettes has consequences]=== | |||
*Instead of clamping down on teen vaping or socking it to Juul, a total vape flavor ban would shut down more than 14,000 small businesses and put at least 166,000 people out of work, while denying millions of Americans access to the tools they used to quit smoking. | |||
*E-cigarettes are known to be at least 95 percent safer than combustible cigarettes. If every smoker in America switched to vaping, as many as 6.6 million lives could be saved over the next decade. | |||
*Additionally, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found e-cigarettes to be almost twice as effective as traditional nicotine replacement therapies at helping smokers quit. | |||
*The consequences of banning flavors are as obvious as they are tragic. Analyzing the potential effects of different tobacco flavor bans, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health concluded that banning e-cigarette flavors would result in more smoking. | |||
*Citation: Guy Bentley, November 28, 2019, The Pueblo Chieftain | |||
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===Observation on the variety of flavored products used=== | ===Observation on the variety of flavored products used=== | ||
[[File:Flavors_for_smoking_cessation.jpg|NRT vs. ENDS: Does it matter?]] | [[File:Flavors_for_smoking_cessation.jpg|NRT vs. ENDS: Does it matter?]] | ||
===FDA approved manufacturers of Nicotine Replacement Therapy understand the importance of flavors=== | |||
[[File:Nicorette_flavors.jpg|FDA approved NRT comes in flavors]] | |||
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