Bill Godshall Update 2014-04-17

Update 2014-04-17

Bill Godshall Update 2014-04-17

Tobacco Harm Reduction Update - April 17th, 2014

Contents:
Business, Science and Health, FDA, More Junk Science, Taxation, E-Cig Sales Bans, E-cig Sales Bans to Minors, Minimum Age, Tobacco Use Ban, Vaping Bans, Taxpayer Funded Propaganda, International, UK, Australia.

Business

Are e-cigarettes losing ground in the vapor market?
(includes Bonnie Herzog's most recent estimates of US e-cig market segments)
http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2014/04/14/are-e-cigarettes-losing-ground-in-the-vapor-market/

Tobacco set to suffer as e-cigarette revolution takes hold
http://www.cityam.com/blog/1397053879/tobacco-set-suffer-e-cigarette-revolution-takes-hold

Is this tiny gadget the future of smoking? (Ploom)
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/04/14/is-this-tiny-gadget-the-future-of-smoking/

Darth Vapor: e-cigarettes gaining speed
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/video/video-darth-vapor-e-cigarettes-gain-speed-04-09-14-745-am/article17892910/

Susan Cameron elected President and CEO of Reynolds American
http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/RAI/3098123430x0x744562/c327c14f-4c48-4255-afd0-24766fed0085/2014-06_Susan_Cameron.pdf

White Cloud Electronic Cigarettes voted best small business in Tampa Bay Times survey
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/tampa-bays-no-1-small-top-workplace-white-cloud-electronic-cigarettes/2174649

E-cigarette store Vape Daddy's opens in Newton (MA)
http://spinfuel.com/vaping-news/e-cigarette-store-vape-daddys-opens-newton/

Science and Health

Brad Rodu: UCSF redefines youth smoking; journal's peer review fails
http://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2014/04/ucsf-redefines-youth-smoking-journals.html

Gerry Stimson: Public health leadership and electronic cigarette users
http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/04/11/eurpub.cku049.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=WwzSqMwg8VvIF22

Study finds nicotine safe, helps in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
http://www.tampabay.com/news/health/study-finds-nicotine-safe-helps-in-alzheimers-parkinsons/2175396

NIC FIT: Puffing through the great 'vape' debate over electronic cigarettes
http://citypaper.com/news/nic-fit-1.1664767

FDA

More Junk Science

Scientific American article on e-cigs misrepresents scientific evidence to confuse and scare
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/smokescreen-are-e-cigarettes-safe/

Psychiatric News article touts false claims by UCSF junk scientist and UM psychiatrist that e-cigs are addicting children and are gateways to cigarettes
http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleid=1862282

NY Times publishes another article misrepresenting scientific evidence on e-cigs to scare readers and lobby for FDA reg/ban
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/business/e-cigarette-study-data-may-raise-concerns.html?_r=0

Taxation

Should e-cigarettes be taxed?
http://www.aei.org/article/economics/fiscal-policy/taxes/should-e-cigarettes-be-taxed/
http://www.aei.org/files/2014/04/14/-should-ecigarettes-be-taxed_085703182672.pdf

Gil Ross: NJ tax on e-cigs will keep smokers smoking
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/nj_tax_on_e-cigarettes_will_keep_smokers_smoking_letter.html

NJ Health Commissioner Mary O'Dowd falsely claims e-cigs are addicting nonsmoking youth, and that imposing a huge tax on e-cigs will reduce cigarette smoking www.njspotlight.com/stories/14/04/14/legislators-question-benefits-of-raising-e-cigarette-tax/

NJ Breathes says it opposes Gov. Christie's e-cig tax proposal unless OTP tax is also sharply increased, and revenue is spent on more anti-tobacco/nicotine/e-cig propaganda.
http://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/04/nj_should_tax_e-cigarettes_to_fund_stop-smoking_programs_letter.html

CASAA Call to Action opposing NJ Gov. Christie's proposal to tax far less hazardous e-cigs same rate as lethal cigarettes
http://blog.casaa.org/2014/03/call-to-action-new-jerseys-governor.html

CASAA Call to Action opposing Vermont bill (HB 884) to impose 92% e-cig tax http://blog.casaa.org/2014/03/call-to-action-vermont-bill-would.html

CASAA Call to Action opposing Ohio Gov. Kasich's proposal to tax e-cigs
http://blog.casaa.org/2014/03/call-to-action-ohios-governor-kasich-is.html

CASAA Call to Action opposing NY bills (A 8598 and S 6610) to tax e-cigs
http://blog.casaa.org/2014/04/call-to-action-new-york-state-bills.html

Brad Rodu: Swedish Tax Proposal Threatens Successful Tobacco Harm Reduction
(proposal would make can of snus more expensive than pack of lethal cigarettes)
http://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2014/04/swedish-tax-proposal-threatens.html
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18654709.ab

E-cig Sales Bans

Illinois lawmakers seek to ban sale of most e-cig products to adults at brick and mortar stores by mandating packaging requirements to purportedly 'protect the children' by grossly exaggerating extremely low safety risks to confuse and scare.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-ecigarette-packaging-met-20140414,0,5357936.story

CASAA Call to Action opposing Illinois bill (HB 5689) to ban sales of e-liquid that don't comply with 'special packaging' standards to be drafted by Health Department http://blog.casaa.org/2014/04/call-to-action-illinois-bill-would-ban.html

Mike Siegel: New York State Senator wants to ban most electronic cigarettes, while keeping the toxic real ones
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/04/new-york-state-senator-wants-to-ban.html

E-cig Sales Bans to Minors

Kentucky Governor Beshear signs bill (SB 109) banning sales of 'vapor products' and 'alternative nicotine products' to minors
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/14RS/SB109.htm

Colorado Governor Hickenlooper signs bill (SB 18) to also ban 'nicotine product' sales to minors (as CO already banned e-cig sales to minors)
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/CLICS2014A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/4EE051D148A9A22387257C300006AE57?Open&file=018_ren.pdf

Oklahoma House amends/approves, than Senate approves bill (SB 1602) to ban sale of 'vapor products' to minors
http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB1602
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2013-14%20AMENDMENTS/Amendment%20&%20Engr/SB1602%20HASB%20&%20ENGR.PDF
http://newsok.com/bill-banning-e-cigarette-sales-to-minors-clears-oklahoma-house/article/3953998
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/oklahoma-house-approves-bill-banning-e-cigarette-sales-to-minors/article_16354aa8-8f18-561b-ad6c-fcefbb7202b0.html

Missouri House approves bill (HB 1690) to ban the sale of 'vapor products' and 'alternative nicotine products' to minors
http://www.house.mo.gov/billsummary.aspx?bill=HB1690&year=2014&code=R
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills141/biltxt/commit/HB1690C.htm

Missouri Senate substitutes and approves bill (SB 841) to ban the sale of 'vapor products' and 'alternative nicotine products' to minors
http://www.senate.mo.gov/14info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=29624824
http://www.senate.mo.gov/14info/pdf-bill/comm/SB841.pdf

Louisiana House Judiciary Cmte amends/approves bill (HB 208) to ban the sale of 'vapor products' and 'alternative nicotine products' to minors
http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=14RS&b=HB208&sbi=y
http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=892758
http://theadvocate.com/home/8874913-125/e-cigarette-restriction-clears-house

Louisiana bill (HB 1264) to ban the sale of 'vapor products' and 'alternative nicotine products' to minors introduced as substitute for HB 208
http://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=14RS&b=HB1264&sbi=y

Delaware House approves bill (HB 241) to ban the sale of 'tobacco substitutes' to minors
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2014/04/10/house-approves-e-cigarette-regulations/7571639/
http://www.legis.delaware.gov/LIS/LIS147.NSF/vwLegislation/HB+241?Opendocument
http://www.legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis147.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+241/$file/legis.html?open

E-cig/OTP prohibitionists oppose Florida bill (HB 169) to ban e-cig sales to minors because it preempts local governments from banning e-cig and tobacco sales to adults
http://flcourier.com/2014/04/10/health-groups-trying-to-stamp-out-e-cigarette-bill/
http://news.wfsu.org/post/health-advocates-steamed-about-bill-preempting-local-e-cig-rules
http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/opinionzone/2014/04/13/who-should-regulate-e-cigarette-tobacco-sales-state-or-local-government-officials/

States don't wait for feds on e-cigarette restrictions (but article fails to mention that ALL 6 state e-cig laws enacted in 2014 (OH, SD, VA, WV, NE, KY) banned sales to minors).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/10/states-dont-wait-for-feds-on-e-cigarette-restrictions/

Minimum Age

Suffolk County (NY) increases minimum legal age for tobacco (and e-cig) sales to 21
http://online.wsj.com/article/APcffe9f3656114c6faf5a321a00e36a0e.html

Tobacco Use Ban

SMMC says tobacco ban shameful idea
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20140413/NEWS/304130020/SMMC-says-tobacco-ban-shameful-idea-

Vaping Bans

Smokers rights group challenges NYC e-cigarette ban
http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/smokers-rights-group-challenges-nyc-e-cigarette-ban/

Hawaii Senate refuses to concur on House approved bill (SB 2495) to ban vaping in workplaces, Senate conference committee reps appointed
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2495&year=2014
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2014/bills/SB2495_HD1_.htm

Alaska Senate Health and Finance Cmtes recommend bill (SB 209) to ban vaping and smoking in all workplaces
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_bill.asp?session=28&bill=SB209

CASAA Call to Action opposing Alaska bills (HB 360 and SB 209) to ban vaping
http://blog.casaa.org/2014/03/call-to-action-alaska-hb-360-would.html

CASAA Call to Action opposing NY bills (A 8178 and S 6562) to ban vaping in workplaces
http://blog.casaa.org/2014/04/call-to-action-new-york-state-bill_6.html

Two Minnesota legislators repeat false and misleading fear mongering claims about e-cigs to scare public and to lobby for their proposed vaping ban, which would protect cigarette markets and threaten the lives of vapers, smokers and secondhand smokers
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/254821801.html?

E-cigs the battle happening on tobacco's next front
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/politics/e-cigs-the-battle-happening-on-tobaccos-next-front/2014/04/10/73ca35d6-be7b-11e3-9ee7-02c1e10a03f0_video.html

At NATO show, large tobacco and e-cig company reps tell retailers to defend e-cigs from local bans (while doing little or nothing themselves), endorse federal e-cig regs (even though FDA deeming reg would ban all e-cigs), in hopes of obtaining FDA approval to market their e-cig brand and banning sales of competitive products/brands.
http://www.cspnet.com/category-management-news-data/tobacco-news-data/articles/dont-get-smoked-out-e-cig-regulations

Mike Siegel: ANR apparently decides to keep defamatory statements on its web site
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/04/anr-apparently-decides-to-keep.html

The New Yorker Video: Thank you for vaping (watch Freiden, Farley & Feinberg protect cigarettes and threaten lives of smokers and vapers by making false fear-mongering claims about e-cigs)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/04/video-thank-you-for-vaping.html

Hancock County (IN) Board of Health refuses to correct its deceitful ruling that using a smokefree e-cig violates ordinance that bans smoking, board members acknowledge their ignorance of e-cigs, combustion and the definition of smoking.
http://www.pharostribune.com/breaking-news/x1445037801/Health-panel-holds-firm-on-electronic-cigarettes

Scotts Valley (CA) City Council considers vaping ban based on fear mongering lies by prohibitionists
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/news/ci_25540527/scotts-valley-takes-up-e-cigarette-ordinance

Bedford (TX) wisely bans e-cig sales to minors, but absurdly bans vaping due to lies
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/04/10/bedford-bans-e-cigarettes-in-non-smoking-areas/

DeSoto County (MS) administrator wants e-cig use banned in all county buildings until FDA rules 'that e-cigarettes are safe', which is a scientific impossibility and would conflict with the FSPTCA.
http://www.wmctv.com/story/25218430/desoto-county-considers-e-cigarette-ban

Kansas City (MO) Health Depts' Rex Archer falsely claims e-cigs are 'lethal', repeats false claims by CDC Director Tom Frieden about e-cig safety to lobby for banning e-cig use on buses.
http://kcur.org/post/kansas-city-council-committee-urges-e-cigarette-ban-buses

Prohibitionist DJ Wilson repeats false claims about e-cigs to BU News Service to confuse, scare and lobby for local vaping bans in MA, which protect cigarettes
http://bunewsservice.com/e-cigarette-use-on-the-rise/

Philly Mayor Nutter and Health Commissioner Schwarz lobby for FDA e-cig reg/ban at signing of city's counterproductive vaping ban
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/04/10/mayor-nutter-signs-two-e-cigarette-regulation-bills-into-law/

Orland (CA) City Council considers banning vaping in workplaces and many outdoor locations based on junk science and lies, Councilman Dennis Hoffman indicated its not about public health by saying "It's similarly disgusting" as cigarette smoking.
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/glenn_county_transcript/electronic-cigarette-ban-proposed/article_0c70c290-bf9a-11e3-a3c3-001a4bcf6878.html

Reno County (KS) bans e-cig use in county buildings claiming they could be used for illegal drugs, but vast majority of e-cig products cannot be used for illegal drugs.
http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/6163b3486c874e8da14de4fc96a90df3/KS--E-Cigarette-Ban/#.U0g3iVVdXSl

Berkeley County (WV) Board of Health proposes banning vaping and smoking by falsely redefining smoking to include use of smokefree e-cigs, comments considered till April 19
http://www.your4state.com/story/d/story/community-voiced-opinions-about-proposed-smoking-b/82261/7WYt9iXt0kCpLCoLzpQsUw
http://www.bchealthdept.org/
http://www.bchealthdept.org/documents/CleanAirPolicyproposalCAFE2014.pdf
"'Smoking' also includes the use of a hookah or an E-cigarette device which creates a vapor, in any manner or in any form, or the use of any other oral smoking device for the purpose of circumventing the prohibition of smoking in this regulation.'

Desoto County (MS) Supervisors don't know difference between smoking and vaping, ask State AG to clarify.
http://www.sunherald.com/2014/04/13/5493200/e-cigarette-ban-spark-action-by.html

Bill Godshall Update 2014-04-17

Business

Science and Health

FDA

More Junk Science

Taxation

E-cig Sales Bans

E-cig Sales Bans to Minors

Minimum Age

Tobacco Use Ban

Vaping Bans

Taxpayer funded propaganda

International

UK

Australia

Updates 2014

E-Cigarette Laws

Articles

Nicotine

Health Policy

Health

Resources