Please forward to interested parties and vape shops in your area.
One day event! Meet and greet and get word out about vaping!
GREAT CHICAGO VAPE-IN
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19TH AT - 12 NOON TO 4PM, RICHARD J. DALEY CENTER.
Address: 50 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
MAP: https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+W+Washington+St,+Chicago,+IL+60602/@41.8840611,-87.6324315,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x880e2cbae4fc8bcd:0xdc6e6b3ef8896f67
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If you want to print 10 pages to hand out, this is what we suggest:
WHY IS VAPING BEING TARGETED BY POLITICIANS?
Advantages of governments encouraging vaping
#1) Promotes quitting smoking, reduces burden of cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory disease [McNeill] – with consequent impact on health care system costs [e-cigarettes poised to save Medicaid millions]
#2) “The precise extent of harm from long-term use is not known but from the toxicological evidence to date it would be expected to be 95% less than that of smoking tobacco cigarettes” [UK experts]. We do however know from Scandinavia that decades of nicotine use via low risk smokeless tobacco (snus) reveal only trivial health risks and huge population-level health benefits.
#3) Reduction in health inequalities driven by switching by poor smokers
#4) Improvements in well-being among smokers who switch
#5) Cost savings from vaping can have wider benefits on poor household budgets
#6) Important strategy for people with particular needs – e.g. those with mental health conditions such as schizophrenia [Louise Ross, Public Health England]
#7) No cost to public sector or burden on health care workers [Gerry Stimson: Consumer led public health revolution at no cost to taxpayer]
#8) No evidence for renormalization of smoking – normalization of vaping as an alternative to smoking is pro-health [Robert West] [Carl Phillips: “How could ostentatiously not smoking — sending the signal “I used to smoke but I now think it is a bad idea so I vape instead” — possibly encourage smoking?“]
#9) No evidence of gateway effects – other than exits as young people stop smoking or never start [Alarmist survey on teenage vaping misses the point – reaction]
#10) Use by teenagers is very low, largely confined to smokers – and even where used by non-smokers they may have smoked had e-cigarettes not been available [ASH data, Linda Bauld]
Likely unintended consequences of a vaping ban
#1) It removes one advantage of vaping relative to smoking and so may discourage switching and encourage relapse
#2) It may drive vapers out with smokers and encourage them to start smoking
#3) It may degrade the potential to normalize vaping as an alternative to smoking
#4) Banning legal alternative increases passive tobacco smoke exposure
#5) Ban provides official implicit endorsement of disproportionate risk perceptions about electronic cigarettes – makes them look as bad as cigarettes
#6) Legislation and policy-making without evidence or principle engenders distrust in tobacco policies, public health policies and government generally
#7) It stigmatizes and punishes vapers for choosing the ‘wrong way’ to quit – implicitly classes vaping as a deviant behavior rather than a public health success
#8) It might encourage vapers to smoke on their ‘nicotine’ break – smoking provides a faster nicotine hit
One day event! Meet and greet and get word out about vaping!
GREAT CHICAGO VAPE-IN
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19TH AT - 12 NOON TO 4PM, RICHARD J. DALEY CENTER.
Address: 50 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
MAP: https://www.google.com/maps/place/50+W+Washington+St,+Chicago,+IL+60602/@41.8840611,-87.6324315,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x880e2cbae4fc8bcd:0xdc6e6b3ef8896f67
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If you want to print 10 pages to hand out, this is what we suggest:
WHY IS VAPING BEING TARGETED BY POLITICIANS?
Advantages of governments encouraging vaping
#1) Promotes quitting smoking, reduces burden of cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory disease [McNeill] – with consequent impact on health care system costs [e-cigarettes poised to save Medicaid millions]
#2) “The precise extent of harm from long-term use is not known but from the toxicological evidence to date it would be expected to be 95% less than that of smoking tobacco cigarettes” [UK experts]. We do however know from Scandinavia that decades of nicotine use via low risk smokeless tobacco (snus) reveal only trivial health risks and huge population-level health benefits.
#3) Reduction in health inequalities driven by switching by poor smokers
#4) Improvements in well-being among smokers who switch
#5) Cost savings from vaping can have wider benefits on poor household budgets
#6) Important strategy for people with particular needs – e.g. those with mental health conditions such as schizophrenia [Louise Ross, Public Health England]
#7) No cost to public sector or burden on health care workers [Gerry Stimson: Consumer led public health revolution at no cost to taxpayer]
#8) No evidence for renormalization of smoking – normalization of vaping as an alternative to smoking is pro-health [Robert West] [Carl Phillips: “How could ostentatiously not smoking — sending the signal “I used to smoke but I now think it is a bad idea so I vape instead” — possibly encourage smoking?“]
#9) No evidence of gateway effects – other than exits as young people stop smoking or never start [Alarmist survey on teenage vaping misses the point – reaction]
#10) Use by teenagers is very low, largely confined to smokers – and even where used by non-smokers they may have smoked had e-cigarettes not been available [ASH data, Linda Bauld]
Likely unintended consequences of a vaping ban
#1) It removes one advantage of vaping relative to smoking and so may discourage switching and encourage relapse
#2) It may drive vapers out with smokers and encourage them to start smoking
#3) It may degrade the potential to normalize vaping as an alternative to smoking
#4) Banning legal alternative increases passive tobacco smoke exposure
#5) Ban provides official implicit endorsement of disproportionate risk perceptions about electronic cigarettes – makes them look as bad as cigarettes
#6) Legislation and policy-making without evidence or principle engenders distrust in tobacco policies, public health policies and government generally
#7) It stigmatizes and punishes vapers for choosing the ‘wrong way’ to quit – implicitly classes vaping as a deviant behavior rather than a public health success
#8) It might encourage vapers to smoke on their ‘nicotine’ break – smoking provides a faster nicotine hit
