Tobacco harm reduction news for April 1, 2019. Anti tobacco harm reduction laws in California, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Colorado, New York and Hawaii. Harm Reduction is no April Fool’s, children pay the price for adult panic.
THE MORE YOU KNOW: Almost 50% cancer patients can’t or won’t quit #smoking with NRT, while most who do quit end up relapsing. If #vaping & #smokefree reduced harm products are regulated/taxed out of existence, the only other option to quitting is dying.
Even cancer can’t get some to quit smoking
NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE: 45 million Americans still smoke. Millions are quitting with e-cigarettes. So the government wants higher taxes and more restrictions on…e-cigarettes?
SAN ANSELMO, CALIFORNIA: (UPDATE) City bans flavored #vaping and #smokefree products because of fake “youth epidemic,” thereby making products far less appealing to higher risk adult smokers and vapers in the process.
San Anselmo approves ban on flavored tobacco – Marin Independent Journal
THE MORE YOU KNOW: Examples of harm reduction that don’t make things 100% safe incl. seat belts, bike helmets, clean needle exchanges, condoms, vaccines, chemotherapy, pasteurization, speed limits, parachutes, child-resistant caps…but safer “tobacco” products must be 100% safe?
MICHIGAN: (HEADS UP!) Lawmakers want to increase cost of #vaping products by 81%. This would make a $25 item $45.25, removing the cost-savings incentive for high risk ADULT #smokers to make the switch & many will choose to keep smoking cheaper cigarettes!
Lawmakers consider tax increase on cigarettes, vaping products | 2019-03-29 | Grand Rapids Business Journal
IOWA: (HEADS UP!) Iowa lawmaker wants to deny early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer #vaping, #smokefree products & will likely use that to “justify” more onerous laws later.
Read CASAA’s position on Tobacco 21, here: CASAA Tobacco 21 policy statement: “Including low-risk alternatives in T21 laws is unwise, misleading” – CASAA
Should Iowa raise legal age to buy tobacco, vaping products?
IN THE NEWS: (AUSTRALIA) More evidence of the effectiveness of NRT. /sarcasm Smoking ban worked so well they have to ban the smoking treatment. Anti-tobacco zealots need to face the truth that bans don’t work. Where there’s a will, they’ll find a way.
Nicotine lozenges are to be banned in jail as prisoners were crushing them using pages of the BIBLE | Daily Mail Online
UPPER ARLINGTON, OHIO: (HEADS UP!) City discussing banning #vaping and products OUTDOORS in parks tonight at 7:30 PM. Expected to vote as soon as April 8.
Upper Arlington City Council to consider nicotine ban in city parks
IN THE NEWS: Schools giving long suspensions, “blacklisting” young students from enrollment based on #vaping product possession. Yet another tragic consequence of exaggerating the risks and punishing minors with the expectation they reason like adults.
Student banned from school for vaping. Then he was blacklisted by other Arizona schools
DENVER, COLORADO: (UPDATE) Meeting WEDNESDAY to discuss denying early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer products & will likely use that to “justify” more onerous laws later.
Read CASAA’s position on Tobacco 21, here: CASAA Tobacco 21 policy statement: “Including low-risk alternatives in T21 laws is unwise, misleading” – CASAA
Denver City Council considers raising age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21
NEW YORK: (UPDATE) Gov. expected to sign ineffective law denying early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer products (also likely be used to “justify” more onerous laws later.)
Read CASAA’s position on Tobacco 21, here: CASAA Tobacco 21 policy statement: “Including low-risk alternatives in T21 laws is unwise, misleading” – CASAA
Legislature moves to raise age to 21 for tobacco purchases
HAWAII: (HEADS UP!) With “sure thing” Tobacco 21 law FAILING to make any significant impact, lawmakers move to “sure thing” ban of flavored #vaping, #smokefree products, despite the fact that research shows they’re important for ADULT ex-smoking #vapers.
Hawaii considers first statewide ban on e-cigarette flavors
This article was originally published at CASAA
Author: KNoll-Marsh