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40 International and Australian Experts Say Nicotine for Vaping Should be Legalised in Australia.

September 09, 2016

Nicotine for use in electronic cigarettes should be legalised in Australia to reduce smoking related disease, say 40 international and Australian experts in a document supporting an application to amend the Poisons Standard in relation to low concentrations of nicotine for use in vaping.

Smoking kills and Australia has 2.8 million smokers of which two out of three will die prematurely from smoking related diseases. According to Tobacco Treatment Specialist, UNSW Associate Professor Colin Mendelsohn smokers efforts in quitting are often met with repeated failure. ‘Using an e-cigarette can effectively satisfy the smoker’s need for nicotine as well as providing ‘a smoking experience’ which many smokers miss after quitting and which often leads to relapse’, says Mendelsohn.

The New Nicotine Alliance submitted an application to the Australian Therapeutics Goods Administration, a not for profit consumer advocacy group supporting public health, has to exempt low concentrations of nicotine for use in electronic cigarettes as a safer alternative to smoking. Read more...

E-cigarettes Will Save Lives and Should not be Illegal in Australia

September 04, 2016

Dr Colin Mendelsohn a medical practitioner and Tobacco Treatment Specialist at The Sydney Clinic in Bronte and Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales writes persuasively in The Sydney Morning Herald (May 12, 2016) why e-cigarettes should not be illegal in Australia.

ASH (Action on Smoking) Fact Sheet on Use of E-cigarettes in Great Britain

September 04, 2016

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), established in 1971 by the Royal College of Physicians, campaigns on eliminating the harm caused by tobacco.

Their latest survey on the use of electronic cigarettes in the UK (May 2016), has some very interesting stats on the state of play of vaping in the UK.

There are 2.8 million adults in the UK currently vaping, up from only 700,000 in 2012, the year that ASH began collecting data.
Users are fairly evenly divided between smokers and ex-smokers.
The main reason for vaping given by ex-smokers is to help them stop smoking, and current smokers say that they are vaping to help them cut down the amount they smoke.
The other major consideration was cost, with 47% of respondents saying that vaping was saving them money.

E-cigarettes 95% Less Harmful Than Smoking Says UK Royal College of Physicians

September 04, 2016

The most recent report, April 2016 from the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has come out strongly in favour of the use of e-cigarettes as a substitute for tobacco smoking. The RCP’s special advisor on tobacco and Chair of the TAG, Professor John Britton, said that:

‘With sensible regulation, electronic cigarettes have the potential to make a major contribution towards preventing the premature death, disease and social inequalities in health that smoking currently causes in the UK.’

Concerning the widespread controversy surrounding e-cigarettes, the report clearly establishes that while there are risks associated with vaping, the benefits clearly outweigh the risks, finding that the health risks from inhaling vapour from an e-cigarette is ‘unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco.’

A Call for Australian Governments to Implement an e-Cigarette Policy

July 21, 2016

Published in today’s The Australian paper is an article which calls out to Australian governments to come together and address the controversial issue of e-cigarettes in the areas of public health and addictions policy.

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