Celebrating Success:
WORLD VAPE
DAY 2020
May saw two back-to-back days of interest to the vape
community – World Vape Day on May 30 and World
Tobacco Free Day immediately after.
The first World Vape Day took place in 2012 to raise awareness
of e-cigarettes as potential harm-reducing tools for smokers.
The organisers, a collection of grassroots organisations, also
used it to highlight flavour bans and called for the removal
of regulations in countries that impose total bans, such as
Thailand. The World Vape Day (WVD) website is keen to
differentiate itself from the more general No Tobacco Day
which, it says, has moved away from highlighting the harms
caused by smoking.
Vapers across the world used World Vape
Day to highlight the unfairness of bans and
to expose misinformation.
Words: Caroline Barry
It says: “World No Tobacco Day has increasingly focused
not on smoking – the most dangerous form of nicotine
consumption – but, rather, on demonising low-risk alternatives
to smoking. Thus, World Vape Day is not only an opportunity
for us to celebrate our choice to make the switch to a healthier,
smoke-free lifestyle, it is also an opportunity for us to share
with the world our success stories.”
Nancy Loucas, Executive Director of the Coalition of Asia-
Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA), is
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