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Misinformation deterring young people from switching to vaping
Many young adults ‘inaccurately believe that vaping is as bad for you or worse than smoking’ according to a study led by Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Young people were more likely to give up smoking and switch to vaping instead if they properly understood the reduced harm of vaping, says the report, which […]
Four in ten smokers believe vaping is as harmful
Just under 40 per cent of smokers in the UK think that vaping is ‘as or more risky’ compared to smoking, according to a YouGov survey of almost 12,300 adults commissioned by ASH. ASH has published a ‘myth buster’ to challenge ‘common misrepresentations of the evidence’ on vaping. Last year, just 27 per cent […]
An open goal
[…] compiling smoking statistics 50 years ago, more than half of men smoked, along with 41 per cent of women. The document highlights that the large-scale shift to vaping, while clearly consumer-driven, has also been helped by successive UK governments making ‘pragmatic policy decisions based on the evidence’, publishing the science on the safety of […]
Government consults on wide-ranging vape restrictions
The government has launched a public consultation on youth vaping in what it calls its ‘next steps to create a smokefree generation’. The move follows the recent announcement of its intention to raise the legal smoking age by a year each year, until it applies to the entire population. ‘Vapes are too often targeted […]
Government to ban disposable vapes
[…] children’s health’, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced. Disposable vapes are a ‘key driver’ in the rise in the number of young people vaping, DHSC states, with the proportion of under-17s using vapes increasing almost ninefold over the last two years. There will also be new restrictions on flavours specifically […]
Nearly 3m people used vapes to quit smoking in last five years
[…] the 5.6m vapers, 39 per cent are still smoking and 8 per cent have never smoked. The survey also found that half of adults mistakenly believe that vaping is just as – or more – harmful than smoking, representing ‘high levels of public misperception’. For smokers who had never vaped, 60 per cent believed […]
Vaping set to overtake smoking for the first time in the UK as research...
[…] latest Briefing Paper from the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (GSTHR), a project from public health agency Knowledge·Action·Change (K·A·C), focuses on the remarkable shift from smoking to vaping that has taken place in the United Kingdom in recent years. A smokefree UK? How research, policy and vapes have cut smoking rates explores some of […]
Youth vaping research project to track 100,000 young people
A research project to study the long-term health effects of vaping on children will track 100,000 young people aged eight to 18 over the course of a decade, the government has announced. The research will give the most comprehensive picture yet on youth vaping. Data will be collected on behaviour and health records to […]
DDN_November_2023
[…] led by smokers seeking, and finding, something safer, the UKâs shift from cigarettes to safer nicotine products, mainly vapes, accelerated further following government and NHS endorsement of vaping for smoking cessation. Youth uptake is a concern â however, the potential to help millions of adults quit is vast, and smoking rates have fallen to […]
Government to close youth vaping ‘loophole’
[…] banning the sale of ‘nicotine-free’ vapes to people under 18. The government intends make it easier for trading standards officers to issue on-the-spot fines to retailers selling vaping products to children illegally. Selling vapes to under-18s is already illegal. However, the government also intends make it easier for trading standards officers to issue on-the-spot […]
Tobacco and vapes bill introduced to Parliament
[…] and nightclub smoking spaces in the legislation, following concerns about the potential impact on the hospitality industry. The government is also considering ‘tougher action’ to address youth vaping, it says, with the latest ONS figures showing that a quarter of 11-15-year-olds had tried a vape, with 9 per cent vaping regularly. The number of […]
Igniting the debate
[…] we heard about narratives changing – or positions becoming more entrenched. In some countries there were very active communities of users, linked by social media; in others, vaping was still new to politicians accompanied by ‘a lag in public health awareness and understanding’. Snus – a smokeless tobacco pouch, placed under the top lip […]
Government to introduce vaping tax
Jeremy Hunt announced the tax in his spring budget A new excise duty on vaping products will be introduced from 2026, chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced in his spring budget. The move is to discourage non-smokers from taking up vaping, he said, with a 12-week consultation on the duty’s design launched today. The rates […]
MPs to vote on tobacco and vapes bill today
[…] election. The bill includes proposals to phase out the legal sale of tobacco to anyone currently 15 or younger, along with ‘ambitious plans to protect children from vaping’, including restrictions on flavours, packaging and retail displays, as well as a ban on advertising and the sale of vapes in vending machines. The bill will […]
Government plans ‘smoke-free generation’
[…] away from sweets and other products that appeal to them, as well as restricting the sale of disposable vapes which are ‘clearly linked to the rise in vaping in children’. ‘Vaping is rightly used by adults as a tool to quit smoking, but the health advice is clear – if you don’t smoke, don’t […]
One in six vapes confiscated in schools contained spice
One in six vapes confiscated in schools in England contained the synthetic cannabinoid spice, according to research by the University of Bath. Almost 600 vapes confiscated in 38 schools across the country were tested in partnership with the police and school authorities, with just under 17 per cent found to contain spice. One per cent […]
MPs pass tobacco and vapes bill
[…] this country’s history’ – ASH chief executive Hazel Cheeseman She also welcomed the confirmation that funding would continue for the ‘swap to stop’ scheme, which provides free vaping products for people trying to quit smoking. ‘The measures to tackle the irresponsible promotion of vapes in the bill are needed and welcome – however, it is […]
How is Turning Point supporting people to Swap to Stop?
[…] of smoking of 5% or lower. On 11 April 2023, the government announced a range of actions to speed up progress towards smokefree 2023, including offering free vaping starter packs to one million smokers by March 2025. Offering the dependent starting pack is dependent on the person wanting support with smoking agreeing to access […]
Number of young smokers at lowest recorded level
[…] or always’, with 18 per cent saying they felt they ‘often had no one to talk to’. ‘It’s very worrying to see a quarter of pupils tried vaping last year’ ‘It’s very worrying to see a quarter of pupils tried vaping last year,’ said public health minister Andrew Gwynne. ‘The health advice is clear […]
Disruptive force
[…] breakthrough in tobacco harm reduction was consumer driven and not the result of public health policy dealt from on high. Individual innovators began experimenting for a safer vaping product, motivated by their desire to quit smoking. An American man came close, but China gave their candidate the backing and a new industry was born. […]
MPs vote in favour of smoking ban
[…] generations from the harms of smoking, saving thousands of lives and billions for the NHS.’ The bill would also introduce restrictions on the packaging and flavouring of vaping products to make them less attractive to children. ‘While vaping can play a useful role in helping adult smokers to quit, non-smokers and children should never […]
Proportion of current smokers falls to lowest ever level
[…] creating a smokefree generation, the government must maintain the commitment of the last government to invest in support to help the 6m people currently smoking to quit.’ Vaping will overtake smoking for the first time Meanwhile, a new briefing paper from the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (GSTHR) focuses on the UK’s ‘remarkable […]
Soapbox
[…] UK there is essentially no national governance. Proposals for EU-wide regulation is a faraway promise whereby if any prohibition does emerge it will be after the ‘ vaping’ market has been saturated and fully established and all the structures, if required to run an illicit market, have bedded in. E-cigarette prototypes were created by […]
Loop to resume drug testing for festival season
[…] support services can take swift action to contain the problem should any be identified.’ More licences are expected to be issued in the coming weeks, it added. Vaping in young people has tripled since disposable e-cigs entered the market Meanwhile, new research from UCL shows that the proportion of 18- to 24-year-olds who vape […]
Use taxes to encourage switch to safer nicotine products, governments urged
[…] also consider subsiding safer nicotine products, it adds. This would mirror the subsidisation of nicotine replacement therapies (NRT), which has ‘proven cost-effective,’ it states. ‘Given evidence that vaping products are even more effective than NRT in helping people to quit smoking, subsidising safer nicotine products could yield substantial public health and economic benefits, making […]
The easiest win
[…] the Society for the Study of Addiction, Leaving no smoker behind, found that at least two thirds of rough sleepers who smoked would be willing to try vaping devices if they were free, and would access smoking cessation support if their homelessness services provided it. But it was COVID-19 that proved overwhelmingly that the […]
Campaigners welcome increase in alcohol duty rates
[…] per 10ml bottle of vape liquid, to be introduced in two years’ time along with a one-off increase in tobacco tax to retain the price differential with vaping and incentivise people to switch. ‘Continued tobacco tax rises are necessary to encourage smokers to quit and reduce the burden of smoking on public finances and […]
Reintroduce tobacco and vapes bill, government urged
An open letter calling on the Labour government to reintroduce the tobacco and vapes bill in the next parliamentary session has been published by the BMJ. Plans for a smoke-free UK should be ‘front and centre’ of the new government’s domestic policy agenda, says the document, which has been signed by more than 1,200 doctors, […]
Government bans 14 nitazenes
[…] crisis in the UK (Partner Updates, September 2023): Release, alongside EuroNPUD and other drug treatment service colleagues in the UK, have produced harm reduction advice on nitazenes. Search the DDN archive for more on vaping, nitazenes, fentanyl and synthetic opioids. The government has also introduced its tobacco and vapes bill crime and policing minister Chris Philp
Majority of public behind ‘smokefree generation’ plans, says government
[…] that’s why we need to push ahead at pace with our plans to protect today’s children, and create the first smokefree generation while cracking down on youth vaping,’ said public health minister Andrea Leadsom. ‘We are taking the long-term health decisions needed to safeguard the next generation from the harms of smoking and risk […]
Slow on the draw
[…] devices were a poor substitute for smoking. Some of the smokers said that they did not like the hard plastic feel of e-cigarettes or the feeling that vaping was ‘cold’ in a way in which smoking was ‘warm’. Some of the smokers were clearly confused by the vast array of e-cigarette technology and put […]
Tobacco and vapes bill included in King’s Speech
The reintroduction of the tobacco and vapes bill has been announced in the King’s Speech. The bill – which aims to progressively increase the age at which people can legally buy tobacco products and impose limits on the sale and marketing of vapes – will now be a priority for the forthcoming session of parliament. The bill […]
Via and Brio Leisure launch new Swap to Stop scheme in Cheshire West and...
[…] to tackle smoking among those in drug and alcohol treatment across the county, by empowering people to quit smoking and lead healthier lives through the national government vaping scheme, Swap to Stop. In 2022, there were approximately 25,700 people in Cheshire West and Chester who were smokers, around 9% of the local population. When […]
Recommend vaping to help people quit smoking, says NICE
[…] on Nicotine in Warsaw to hear about the challenges of mainstreaming tobacco harm reduction. (News, August 2023): 40 per cent of smokers in the UK think that vaping is ‘as or more risky’ compared to smoking up from 27% last year. (Features, February 2023): The genie’s out of the bottle – embracing tobacco harm reduction could […]
Sell e-cigarettes in hospitals, says PHE report
Vaping poses ‘only a small fraction’ of the risks of smoking, and NHS trusts should ensure that e-cigarettes and nicotine replacement therapies are available for sale in hospital shops, says a new PHE report. Switching completely from cigarettes to e-cigarettes conveys ‘substantial health benefits’, states the agency’s updated evidence review, with the devices […]
First… do no harm
[…] smoking, with almost 3m people saying they’d used them to successfully quit during the five years to March 2024 (DDN, September 2024, page 4). But myths around vaping persist, not helped by media scare stories and the ongoing opposition of some public health bodies, and the number of people who mistakenly believe that vaping […]
Prevention-based alcohol strategy urgently needed, say health professionals
There is an urgent need for a new national alcohol strategy with a ‘strong focus on treatment and prevention’, says a new report from the Medical Council on Alcohol (MCA). The need for a health system response to alcohol-related harms also calls for better access to community-based alcohol services, which ‘reach fewer than one in […]
Smoking-related hospital admissions up 5 per cent in a year
[…] largely opposed to products like e-cigarettes (https://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/igniting-the-debate/). According to a recent survey of almost 12,300 adults commissioned by ASH, nearly 40 per cent of UK smokers think vaping is ‘as or more risky’ compared to smoking, an increase from just 27 per cent a year ago (https://www.drinkanddrugsnews.com/four-in-ten-smokers-believe-vaping-is-as-harmful/). woman smoking to illustrate an article on […]
E-cigarettes: a double-edged sword in the battle to stop smoking
[…] aid smokers in quitting. In the year 2020-2021, e-cigarette use was associated with the highest success rates (64.9%) in smoking cessation services, compared to attempts made without vaping devices (58.6%). A noteworthy clinical trial led by Peter Hajek from Queen Mary University of London found that e-cigarettes doubled the success rate of quitting compared […]
Proportion of smokers falls to lowest ever level
[…] range at 15.8 per cent, and the lowest the over-65s at 8 per cent. The decrease in smoking rates may be partly explained by an increase in vaping and e-cigarette use, says ONS, with the highest vaping rates among 16 to 24-year-olds. While 6.4 per cent of over-16s reported vaping in 2020, by last […]
More young people vaping while fewer taking drugs
[…] according to the latest figures from NHS Digital. However, while the number of young people smoking has fallen to 3 per cent, 9 per cent now report vaping, compared to 6 per cent in 2018. The rate of e-cigarette use among 15-year-old girls had more than doubled since 2018 The Smoking, drinking and drug […]
Hand with vape device for smoking
Hand with vape device for smoking isolated on white background
Hand with vape device for smoking
Hand with vape device for smoking isolated on white background
Young smoker is vaping e-cigarette or vaporizer.
Young smoker is vaping e-cigarette or vaporizer.
Danger zone
JANUARY The latest OHID figures show a 10 per cent increase in the number of young people in contact with drug and alcohol services. At just under 12,500, however, the figure is still lower than the pre-COVID total of 14,291. Meanwhile, Britain’s first regular drug-checking service opens its doors in Bristol – licensed by the […]
England has highest global rate of child alcohol consumption
[…] studied data from almost 280,000 children and young people across 44 countries to find trends in adolescent substance use. Alcohol was the most commonly used substance, but vaping was now more common than smoking among young people, the document states. More than half of 15-year-olds in Europe had drunk alcohol, while one in five […]
Semi-synthetic cannabinoids on the rise, says EMCDDA
Three ‘semi-synthetic’ cannabinoids (SSCs) have been identified on the European drug market over the last year, says EMCDDA, which may ‘signal the first major new change in the market for “legal” replacements to cannabis since Spice-type products (containing synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists) emerged in Europe just over 15 years ago’. The agency has issued a […]