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Two pages fi lled with short vape-related
stories and research making news from
around the world.
CANADA: “REGULATE E-CIGS LIKE
TOBACCO”
Health bodies are calling on the Canadian government
to regulate vape products in the same way as tobacco to
prevent “a torrent of addiction amongst young people.”
The call comes as it emerged that there have been four
cases of people being treated in hospital for respiratory
conditions with “probable or possible” links to vaping.
Several provinces have made lung illnesses notifiable
conditions that require hospitals to report cases to
provincial or national health authorities.
Dr. Andrew Pipe, a smoking cessation physician in Ottawa,
said: “We’ve just unleashed a torrent of addiction amongst
young people in Canada through our thoughtless disregard
of the need for effective regulation of these products.”
He supports calls for vaping products to be given the same
advertising and flavour restrictions as tobacco.
CLAMPDOWN ON VAPING: TURKEY
AND NZ
Turkey wants to ban sales of e-cigarettes and prevent them
from entering the country, Health Minister Faruk Koca has
announced.
Turkish news site Diken reported that the Minister is
currently working on the legal framework for the ban which
would soon be brought before parliament.
The country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has
previously branded e-cigarettes as “bizarre and addictive.”
Meanwhile New Zealand is considering banning all
flavoured e-liquids, allowing only the sale of tobacco,
menthol and mint varieties.
Associate Health Minister Jenny Salesa said the ban is part
of new vaping legislation to be introduced to Parliament soon.
New advertising restrictions, both online and offline, are
also being proposed to prevent vape stores from offering
discounts or promotions.
ARMY VAPE BAN
BAT TO FOCUS ON VAPING
British American Tobacco (BAT) will cut 2,300 jobs by
2020 as it moves its focus to non-tobacco products.
Chief Executive, Jack Bowles said he wanted to make BAT
“a stronger, simpler and faster organisation” that was ready
for a future where people moved away from cigarettes.
He added: “My goal is to oversee a step change in New Cat-
egory growth and significantly simplify our current ways
of working and business processes.” The company’s New
Category arm includes vaping, heated tobacco and oral to-
bacco products.
BAT said it planned to cut 2,300 jobs globally in a move
which would see 20 percent of the senior roles within the
organisation affected.
10 VM25
Teenage recruits will be banned from smoking or vaping
during their basic training at the Army Foundation College
in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
The smoking ban was imposed last month and it will be
extended to include vaping next year in a bid to “develop
recruits’ health and fi tness.”
Commanding offi cer Lt Col Richard Hall said it was
unacceptable that “most recruits don’t smoke on arrival,
yet most do by graduation.”
He said: “I hope that this will discourage smoking
amongst new recruits and reverse the recent trend we’ve
seen in recruits taking up the habit.”
The college trains recruits aged between 16 and 17
with several hundred junior soldiers being trained at the
facility each year.