The Asia Pacific Advocates for Tobacco Harm Reduction Alliance (CAPHRA) has launched a new series of e-cigarettes that expose the anti-vaping campaign in Australia. According to Nancy Loucas, CAPHRA Executive Coordinator, "fortunately, the unpleasant truth about e-cigarettes is now available on laptops of Australians, debunking all the scaremongering propaganda being sold by health agencies and officials against vaping.
Prior to Ms. Loucas' commentary, Dr. Colin Mendelsohn, an Australian tobacco harm reduction expert, released a series of eight evidence-based, short videos about e-cigarettes to debunk misinformation provided by Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki to the Queensland Health Department.
Queensland, New South Wales, and Western Australia are investing a significant amount of public funds into an inaccurate anti-vaping campaign. As a result, adult smokers in Australia are being actively discouraged from switching to less harmful nicotine alternatives. Dr. Col's "Vape Truths" thoroughly exposes Australia's unfounded anti-vaping stance and is well worth a read, according to her.
Dr. Mendelsohn's eight-part video series reveals that the toxicity of vapor is significantly lower than that of cigarette smoke. Compared to smoking, e-cigarettes significantly reduce the risk of cancer and have never been linked to deaths caused by nicotine ingestion. When smokers switch to e-cigarettes, their breathing greatly improves. The doses of most chemicals in vapor are very low, and many are harmless or carry minimal risks.
The overall smoking rate in Australia has remained almost unchanged in recent years, while in New Zealand it has decreased by half over the past decade. New Zealand is promoting e-cigarettes as an effective smoking cessation tool, while Australia's "quit or die" tobacco control approach has failed its 2.3 million smokers severely, according to Ms. Loucas.
The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) has stated that Australia is falling behind the Asia Pacific region when it comes to regulating electronic cigarettes. They mentioned that the Philippines is the latest country to regulate the import, manufacture, sale, packaging, distribution, and use of e-cigarettes.
The "Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act" became a law on July 25 in the Philippines, and local health experts believe it will help reduce the incidence of serious illnesses and deaths caused by smoking.
CAPHRA has stated that Australia is the only Western democratic country where a nicotine prescription is required to consume electronic cigarettes, which is absurd.
Approximately 70 countries worldwide regulate safer nicotine products, but health leaders in Australia continue to prohibit adult retail. Medicalization makes it more difficult for smokers to switch to e-cigarettes and makes Australia's goal of reducing smoking rates by 10% nearly impossible. In contrast, New Zealand aims for smoke-free with only 5% or fewer New Zealanders smoking,” she said.
CAPHRA believes that Dr. Mendelsohn's latest counterattack movement confirms that the ongoing panic and hysteria surrounding e-cigarettes in Australia is completely unfounded.
These inconvenient facts also expose the World Health Organization's (WHO) continued refusal to acknowledge that an increasing amount of international scientific evidence confirms that the harm from e-cigarettes is far less than from smoking," she said.
Approximately 20,000 Australian smokers die prematurely each year due to smoking-related illnesses. CAPHRA believes that if Australia is serious about reducing this alarming annual death toll, politicians and health officials should rely less on the World Health Organization and instead listen more to Dr. Mendelsohn, the scientific community, and the international society.
The inevitable failure of the e-cigarette ban has been seen as the Philippines recently lifted its ban, with Malaysia and Thailand set to follow suit. Dr. Col's Vape Truths video series has timely exposed Australia's increasingly isolated and untenable position on e-cigarettes. "This is a must-watch for any skeptics," says Nancy Loucas.
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