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** 15 June 2021
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** UK
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** 21 unusual ways to quit smoking, from changing your teeth to taking more showers (#1)
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** International
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** US: Juul - less than half of e-cigarette trial outcomes were properly reported or declared, study finds (#2)
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** Germany: Bill raising vape and tobacco taxes is approved (#3)
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** Canada: Smoke, not nicotine, causes tobacco-related deaths, Canadian health expert says (#4)
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** Parliamentary Activity
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** Parliamentary Bill - Cigarette Stick Health Warnings Bill (#5)
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** UK
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** Guardian readers have shared some of the unusual methods that have helped them quit smoking and might help current smokers to stop smoking.
Many readers report finding ingenious ways to replace the sensation of smoking whenever they craved cigarettes. One reader shares replacing smoking a cigarette with getting a glass of water every time the craving hit. Another reader reports doing activities like having a shower to help ride cravings out. Another reveals that holding a wooden peg whenever the craving hit worked, and another reports brushing their teeth.
Other readers took a more militant approach, with some soaking their cigarettes in water and soap to make them impossible to smoke and another taping up their cigarette pack or tobacco tin. Others inhaled cigarette smoke from a jar whenever they craved cigarettes to remind them of how awful they are or chain-smoked 40 king-size cigarettes until they became averse to the taste and their effects.
Other readers, however, took a ‘carrot’ rather than ‘stick’ approach. One reader’s husband promised to buy her a bottle of world-famous burgundy if she quit and another set aside their cigarette money each week and used it to treat themselves to a nice meal or a day trip. Another reader journaled their quitting journey and celebrated specific milestones.
Source: The Guardian, 14 June 2021
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** International
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Researchers have called for clearer reporting requirements and better enforcement of reporting laws after a review of clinical trials sponsored by US electronic cigarette company Juul found that results were not being published correctly. Researchers compared the reporting of clinical trials against the accepted standards and found that just 28 of 61 (46%) prespecified outcomes across 5 trials were reported or properly declared.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that sponsors of certain trials report their results directly to the website ClinicalTrials.gov within 1 year of completion, but of the five registered trials sponsored by Juul none had results available on this website and only 1 has any results published in academic literature as of August 2020. Study author Nicholas DeVito said that one major problem is that it is often unclear when trials are covered by the FDA regulations and therefore required to report. Updating the regulations could be a beneficial option, DeVito said.
Source: BMJ, 14 June 2021
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A proposed new tax on tobacco and alternative nicotine products due to go into effect on July 1st 2022 has this week been approved by the German Finance Ministry. The tax, which was introduced by the German Government last April, is significant as it places higher taxes on alternatives to cigarettes that still contain nicotine. Nicotine-containing products will be taxed at 0.02 euros per milligram of nicotine alkaloids which will be raised to 0.04 euros per milligram in 2024 and 0.15 in 2025 and 2026.
Source: Vaping Post, 14 June 2021
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A Canadian health expert has reiterated the fact that it is the inhalation of smoke rather than the consumption of nicotine which causes smoking-related deaths and diseases. Professor David T. Sweanor, chair of the advisory board of the Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics at the University of Ottawa, affirmed the importance of distinguishing alternative nicotine products like e-cigarettes from traditional cigarette products in which tobacco is combusted to make smoke. Sweanor said that it is the tar from combustion, and not nicotine, that contains the harmful carcinogens and toxicants. In this way Sweanor reiterated that products like e-cigarettes are a crucial tool for quitting smoking.
Source: Yahoo! News, 14 June 2021
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** Parliamentary Activity
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** A On Monday 14th June 2021 the Cigarette Stick Health Warnings Bill, tabled as a Private Members' Bill by Lord Young of Cookham, was given its First Reading in the House of Lords. The Bill, which requires tobacco manufacturers to print health warnings on individual cigarette sticks and cigarette rolling papers, will now progress to its Second Reading.
Source: Hansard, 15 June 2021
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