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Miscommunication about the causes of the US outbreak of lung diseases in vapers by public health authorities and the media
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Jan. 2020, Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs releases:
“Miscommunication about the causes of the US outbreak of lung diseases in vapers by public health authorities and the media”.
EVERY health professional who reads this will have full comprehension on the truth about what is causing vaping related lung injuries, how the CDC has deceived the public about it and that they have been getting a false narrative.
This credible paper is a short read consisting of only 2 pages yet cites 32 references.
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These are the facts on vaping
This 30 second video explains the epidemic that is related to vaping.
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Smoking
Smoking is the most preventable cause of disease and death in North America. Once hooked, smokers have a very small success rate at quitting.
Smokers have 2 options
Harm reduction is a public health approach to reducing the consequences of risky behaviours like drug use. Nicotine does not cause disease, it’s the other 7000+ chemicals made when chemically leaden cigarettes are burned. Vaping reduces the harm by 95%.
Smoking kills 2 out of 3 users
100% of smoking-related diseases are preventable! “The harm from tobacco is overwhelmingly due to its combustion … E-cigarette vapour, in contrast, does not include any combustible by-products,” – Action on Smoking and Health
Clearly there’s an epidemic
Epidemic: A widespread disease that affects many people. Smoking kills 17,000 people EVERY DAY! These deaths are 100% preventable. A safer source of nicotine means millions of lives saved, not to mention the quality of life for these people improves.
One American dies every minute from smoking
It takes years of smoking before the diseases take a hold of the smoker. These adults often have families & can no longer provide for them as their health deteriorates. Smoking-related diseases effect the whole family as it destroys the smoker’s health.
Smoking kills a Canadian every 12 minutes
Over one million Canadians suffer with smoking-related diseases. Cigarette smoke contains 1500 known disease causing toxins & 69 carcinogens. If smokers switch to tobacco harm reduction, they reduce the toxins & their risk for smoking-related diseases.
Social cost of smoking in Canada
The last report on the smoking costs to Canadian taxpayers was conducted in 2012. ? Total cost: $16.4 billion, including: ? Long-term disability costs: $6.8 billion ? Healthcare costs: $6.5 billion ? Fires: $74 million
Tobacco harm reduction
Everyday we practice harm reduction such as using a seat belt to prevent injury. We still take a risk by getting into a vehicle but we lower the chances of negative outcomes.
government oversight
“If you are a smoker, vaping is a less harmful option than smoking.” Health Canada. Normal vaping (nicotine) is 5% the risk of smoking and the government limits what can be put into the eliquids to keep it that way.
Ingredients in eliquid & vapour
Over 7000 harmful chemicals are produced when the chemically laden cigarette is burned including: carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, hydrocarbons, nitrous oxide, free radicals, radioactive compounds, arsenic, phenols & 69 carcinogens These aren’t found in vapour.
harm reduction reduces risk
Most of us are familiar with and support harm reduction such as seat belts or bike helmets. Smoking is the most preventable cause of disease and death in North America! It’s hard to quit smoking, so maybe harm reduction is the answer. ?
Relative risk of nicotine sources
The standard scientific tool for measuring the harm from drug use is the MCDA (multi-criteria decision analysis). Experts compared 12 different sources of nicotine using the MCDA. The most harmful source were cigarettes so they were given the value of 100%. The other 11 sources show the relative risk of harm compared to smoking.
Vaping is a fraction the risk
Citizens have a right to life which means they have a right to all the information to make informed decisions about preserving health. They also should have access to and be able to effectively utilize harm reduction to protect health such as condoms.
Heavy metals found
Unlike decades ago when smoking was recommended by physicians, we have advanced technology & are able to analyze gases, liquids and solids. Vapour was found to have minute amounts of heavy metals just like the nicotine inhalers recommended by physicians.
Science indicates vaping is 5% the risk
Scientific evidence is universal, so why does Britain promote vaping and Canada and the USA have a war on harm reduction? The British health agencies got to the science before the narrative got to them. They even have vape shops in their hospitals!
Daily intake of diacetyl
Workers in a ?popcorn butter flavouring factory, (diacetyl was a main ingredient) had higher cases of “popcorn lung”. A study found diacetyl in some eliquids, The amount was 750x less than found cigarettes. Headlines read: “Vaping Causes Popcorn Lung!”
No popcorn lung
Remember all of the headlines saying that vaping causes popcorn lung? ? It was a lie. Do you feel deceived? Makes you wonder what they are lying about now…
Indoor vapor has been tested & tested
Top health agencies in the US tested for hazardous chemicals in the air in a vape shop with active vaping. The vast majority of chemicals were not even detected! Friends of vapers can feel comfortable around vaping and support smokers making the switch.
Smoking cessation
If smokers quit, they stop inhaling all of the chemicals that will give them diseases. Cigarettes are the most harmful source of nicotine.
2014 vaping triples quit rate of patch
Controlled clinical trials are the gold standard of science. A group of smokers who didn’t want to quit were given simple vapes. The one’s today are even more effective. 21% of the smokers quit smoking; compare that to 6% success with patches.
Satisfies the ritualistic behaviour
The ritual: bringing the smoke to the mouth; tasting the drag; sensations in the throat & lungs on a big inhale; a visible exhale & a nicotine hit to the brain. A pack-a-day smoker does this 87,600 times a year. Vaping uniquely satisfies that ritual.
Vaping is NRT only better
Nicotine replacement therapy is safe, because nicotine is has very few side effects. Smokers are experts at self dosing nicotine through inhalation. Eliquid is nicotine in a rather benign base & allows the smoker to continue the same routine to switch.
Smokers failed 9 times to quit
Vaping satisfies the nicotine addiction & smoking behaviour PLUS vaping offers thousands of flavours to help the smoker replace the taste of smoke with something better. That is why it is more effective than sticking a patch to your arm or chewing gum.
4 stages of quitting with a vape
It’s possible for smokers to quit nicotine altogether with vaping! After dual use for a while most vapers toss the smokes. Unlike cigarettes, those that switch to vaping completely naturally lower their nicotine strengths, some all the way down to zero.
Dual users have a 60-80% decrease
The anti-harm reduction advocates say that vaping is ineffective for quitting smoking because many dual use for a while. Dual users significantly reduce the toxins they inhale because of the 60-80% drop in how many cigarettes they smoke. Harm REDUCTION!
Main reason for vaping
Youth have always messed with adult taboos like drinking, sex, smoking and now vaping. The narrative is that they try vaping because of flavours. The reason is normal human development, not flavours! But flavours DO help smokers switch!
Types of people that vape
1% of people that never smoked vape. 15% of smokers and 13% of ex-smokers vape. The data illustrates that SMOKERS are vaping to either quit smoking or stay quit. ? The focus ? needs to switch to harm reduction and away from the 1%.
Vaping increases success by 300%
Quitting smoking means detoxing off 1000’s of chemicals, some are addictive. A variety of eliquid flavours helps them find a new pleasure for the nicotine. 42% of smokers who vaped for 2 years quit smoking, vs only 15% of those who didn’t use a vape.
Nicotine
Nicotine is so safe that anyone, including a minor, can purchase nicotine products at the drug store.
Nicotine treats neurological disorders
Nicotine is a mild stimulant and addictive, much like caffeine. It’s only when nicotine is abused such as teens seeking a ‘heady’ that it becomes a problem. Nicotine in eliquid helps smokers transition to a source of nicotine that doesn’t kill them.
Nicotine is in your body
It’s the smoke that kills people, not the nicotine. Vaping has no smoke. Dr. John Britton of the U.K. Center for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies explains that nicotine addiction isn’t a big deal because “…nicotine itself isn’t particularly hazardous.”
Nicotine is less addictive than smoke
Over decades, scientists were paid millions of dollars ? to add different chemicals to tobacco & make them more addictive. Many of the chemicals in cigarettes enhance the effects and delivery of nicotine. Some chemicals are addictive in themselves.
Fraction of the harm
Science doesn’t change because of political borders! The effects of cigarette smoke are the same for humans everywhere in the world! It makes them sick then die slow painful deaths. Nicotine eliquid is a harm reduction for smokers anywhere in the world.
The Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians reviewed the science on vaping. ?? In April 2016, they released the report, Nicotine without Smoke: “…the likely harm to health and society of e-cigarettes at about 5% of the burden caused by tobacco smoking.”
Not the nicotine which causes harm
Inhaling smoke from anything has toxins. With cigarettes, up to 600 chemicals are added to the tobacco which makes the smoke even more toxic. Vapour is not smoke, nothing is burned. The ingredients are PG, VG, flavours and maybe nicotine.
Outcomes
There is plenty of data on what happens to a smoker when they switch to vaping.
Immediate improved health
We don’t know the long-term effects of vaping but we do know the long-term effects of smoking. Vaping has been mainstream for about 5-10 years without serious adverse effects. Millions of smokers have switched to vaping and reported improved health.
Vaping is a small fraction of the risk
Smoking has over 7000 chemicals; 1500 of them we know cause diseases and 69 cause cancer. Vapour has very few constituents and all of the disease/cancer causing chemicals are virtually eliminated. This is why vaping is a fraction the risk of smoking.
Health improvements
Smoking causes adverse health consequences. The good news is that when you stop smoking, the toxic chemicals are no longer entering the body. This means health will improve with quitting smoking. Vaping significantly lowers these toxins.
Vaping improves chronic disease
Smoking is a risk factor for many chronic diseases because of the harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke. Switching to vaping virtually eliminates these harmful chemicals & chronic diseases improve for many. Which means they needed less pharmaceuticals.
Harm reversal
When asthmatic smokers switched to vaping: Spirometry data, airway hype-responsiveness, exacerbations and subjective signs & symptoms ALL showed improvements. Of the 8 that were still smoking, their dual mean went from of 22 cigarettes a day to 2.
Reduced toxicity
Anyone who suggests that vaping is not safer than smoking does NOT know what they are talking about! Whoever it is, your physician, a nurse or a representative from a health-related nonprofit, question EVERYTHING they say after that… And send them to VAEPworld.com
Informed decisions
The risk of vaping versus smoking is 5% but how many people actually know that? ? Looking at this graph, it suggests that those that are better informed about vaping are choosing harm reduction. 34% of smokers & 62% of vapers are correct! ✔️
54% of smokers used a vape to quit
Why do vapers care about having a variety of flavors to choose from? Because it is the FLAVORS that helped them quit smoking! Adults like flavours; there are 1000’s of flavors in alcohol. Banning flavors only hurts those that are trying to stay quit!
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EVALI
Vaping and lung injuries (EVALI)
In 2019, a sudden outbreak of severe lung injuries, some causing death, occurred in North America, mainly the USA. The lung injury was named EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury) by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Vitamin E acetate was identified as the additive in illegal THC cartridges that caused the injuries. Health-related authority and nonprofits as well as mainstream media conflated two distinctively different activities: THC cartridge vaping and nicotine eliquid vaping. The result was a misinformed public and health community.
Two travesties occurred. First, failing to adequately warn cannabis users caused unnecessary injury. Second, implying that eliquid was causing lung injuries drove thousands of vapers back to the most lethal form of nicotine: tobacco cigarettes.
Section 1
What happened
Explore the events of the outbreak: the investigation, identifying the cause and how it was resolved.
Section 2
What went wrong
Health-related nonprofits and authority utilized media to spread fear about vaping. Their narrative omitted that EVALI was not caused from nicotine eliquid.
Section 3
Government & THC cartridges revenue
Health Canada approved the sale of THC cartridges during the outbreak. Their position on the lung injuries contradicts the science and data from the USA.
Section 4
Ethical experts tried to warn you
The UK reviewed the science on vaping around 2014: before the false narratives got to them. They stand alone in being fully informed on and benefiting their citizens with tobacco harm reduction.
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Anti-harm reduction advocates
There are many health professionals, health-related nonprofits, politicians and health authorities that are repeating the false narratives. Their recommendations clearly indicate a demand to make tobacco harm reduction unattractive to smokers by banning flavours, taxing vaping, banning nicotine levels that help heavy smokers, and other strategies.
Organizations that want Canadians to keep smoking
These agencies want to stop promotions for tobacco harm reduction. 5.7 million Canadians smoke and over a million suffer with smoking-related diseases. Smoking makes people sick & sick people are profitable for the companies that fund these agencies.
CBC got it wrong
CBC claims that 42% of vapers are “converts”; that they “SWITCHED from smoking”. The original document reads 42% were “SWITCHING” meaning they were dual users. The 58% CBC named “new users’, implying new nicotine users, like youth; actually they are ex-smokers.
Cooking coils for CO
This study in the headlines claimed that vaping produces carbon monoxide (CO). No CO was produced at manufacture specified levels (55-70 W). They tested 2 eliquids & only tested the 2nd eliquid above specified levels. They measured CO from the wreckage.
The lies are working
The pervasive misinformation has successfully convinced the public that eliquid is a source of EVALI. In 4 months, the lies convinced 13% of people that vaping is MORE harmful than smoking, The public now demand tobacco harm reduction bans.
AMA profits off of smokers
Over 14 million Americans suffer with smoking-related diseases. Treating these diseases are very profitable for doctors, pharma, medical supply companies, etc. The AMA agrees with the FDA Pre-Market Tobacco Application (which applies to harm reduction
FDA ends harm reduction
The FDA has a long track record of anti-harm reduction. As of May 12, 2020, the vast majority of flavours in eliquid will disappear from the American market. Those who want to stay off of cigarettes will have to go to the black market for harm reduction.
Nothing’s changed
England started warning the public about the health risks of smoking in 1957; the USA waited until 1964. How many US citizens continued to smoke and got sick because they were not informed? It’s happening again!
Bloomberg invests in smokers
Big name, big money, big business. Did you know that half of the stocks, bonds and mutual funds are owned by the 1%? Than means they own the tobacco companies AND the companies that profit from smoking-related diseases.
Terry Dean fear mongering
Since teens have been experimenting with vaping, youth smoking rate has plummeted! This being ignored by government, health authorities and “health-related” nonprofits like the Canadian Cancer Society! Why are they lying about the ‘gateway’ effect? ?
Terry Dean’s work hsitory
Did you know that people that run ‘health-related’ nonprofits have histories of working for big corporations that profit off of sick people? These same people cycle into gov’t agencies, academic institutions & back to high paying corporate positions. ?
BC gov’t taxes harm reduction
Our society takes care of the sick, provides disability to those that are disabled & supplies fire departments; our taxes cover the costs. Smoking creates more sickness, disability and fires. Vaping reduces the harm and therefore these tax expenditures.
Mr. Stone smoking advocate
In BC smoking kills 5,295 people per year. That’s 66,923 years of life lost…fathers, grandmothers… The BC taxpayer pays $1 BILLION/yr for smoking. Todd Stone wants to make harm reduction unattractive to smokers. Reduce the harm, reduce the cost! Is he aware of what smoking costs the BC taxpayer every year?
Cancer from smoking is profitable
The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) has an annual revenue of about $187,000,000. Cancer from smoking kills 21,366 Canadians annually and many more suffer with the disease. CCS having a problem with vaping is like an AIDS clinic having a problem with condoms.
CCS quotes Hammond study
The Canadian Cancer Society requested the gov’t make vaping less enjoyable for smokers by banning flavours. ? They cite a 45% increase in youth smoking from the Hammond study as their rational.? Statistics Canada reported a DECREASE in youth smoking.?
CMAJ lies
We believe that health authorities, such as the Canadian Medical Assoc. Journal, tell the truth. We trust them, accept what they say & let it influence our opinions. What happens when we learn they are lying? We wonder what else they are lying about.
CMAJ promotes harm
For 3 months, health authorities such as the Canadian Medical Assoc. Journal unjustly included eliquid as a contributor to EVALI. The deception is followed with a demand to create new harm by making flavours in eliquid illegal & drive it underground.
Jack Boomer quote
To make vaping attractive to current smokers, eliquid comes in many flavour because adults like flavours.? That’s why there are 1000’s of flavours of alcohol. Teens are being used to ban eliquid flavours & make harm reduction unattractive to smokers.
San Fran Ban
Harm reduction started in the 80’s AIDS crisis. The gay population started using condoms to lower their risk. It’s ironic that a city with a high gay population bans harm reduction for the most preventable cause of disease & death of its constituents! ?
Sarah Rivin decieves the public
It’s frustrating to read incorrect information about harm reduction from representatives from “health”-related nonprofits. Where are they getting their information from? The public trusts them and their misinformation scares smokers from harm reduction.
AHA discourages harm reduction
Everyday we read health-related nonprofits lack of support for tobacco harm reduction. Why is this? Well, if you consider they exist because people have illnesses like heart disease then wouldn’t the reduction in risk from vaping threaten their revenue?
American Lung Association
The thing about a trusted source of information is that once that source is found to be deceiving about something, they lose credibility. The American Lung Assoc. was founded in 1904 & their mission has changed as it now includes anti-harm reduction.
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