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by | Mar ,Sat, 2021 | education, evali, shareables

Expert warnings from the UK

Since the 2016 publication of ‘Nicotine Without Smoke‘, UK health authorities have been promoting vaping as a smoking cessation aid for their citizens.

 

The UK health community understood that the cause of the 2019 vaping-related lung injuries (EVALI) was not from vaping nicotine. Yet, North American experts were saying it was. Scientists, health authorities and doctors in the UK issued statements and reports to help people learn the truth.

“Complete madness”

Dr. Britton calls out the deception

When asked about the USA authority’s reaction to EVALI (which was to blame vaping nicotine), Dr. Britton said that their reaction was “complete madness.”

Smoking experts in the UK spoke out against the misinformation spread about EVALI and continue to encourage smokers to choose harm reduction.

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Quotes from experts

Prof. Newton reassures smokers

We can argue that authorities in Canada and the USA have grossly mismanaged the response to EVALI. They continue to discourage smokers from harm reduction and therefore encouraging continued smoking, smoking-related diseases, disability, and premature death.

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Dr. Leonard observes misinformation

Smoking kills over 40,000 Canadians and over 480,000 Americans every single year! How many North Americans have been diagnosed with a chronic smoking-related disease because they didn’t know they had an effective and safe harm reduction option?

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Dr. Shahab addresses false belief

Smoking is the primary cause of preventable disease & death in North America. Yet, health authorities and nonprofits in Canada and the USA, wrongly blame vaping nicotine as the cause of the lung injuries and as a result demand stricter restrictions on tobacco harm reduction.

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Dr. Aberegg sums it up

It’s important to note that dispite being surrounded by deceptive health authorities, Utah health authorities and community remained objective with the evidence. Dr. Aberegg identifies the obvious reason why EVALI patients would omit illegal drug use when self-reporting: people are simply afraid to say they used illegal drugs.

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Repeated fear provoking narrative

The pervasive message in North America is that we have to ban vaping because their is a ‘youth vaping epidemic’.

In Great Britain, vaping is recognized as a significant harm reduction strategy and is promoted by their public health. Yet, less than 2% of 11-18 year olds vape more than once a week.

WHERE is the youth vaping epidemic in Great Britain?

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Teens mess with stuff they shouldn’t

Youth experiment with adult activities, this is why 52% vaped “to give it a try”. Cigarette smoke is far more addictive than nicotine vapour and far more harmful. Since smoking tastes gross, perhaps the flavours in eliquid are preventing youth from becoming smokers.

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CALL TO ACTION

Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs wrote a referenced paper about EVALI. It is the perfect document to enlighten health professionals about how they have been deceived about EVALI and vaping.

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Canada gov’t THC cartridges

by | Mar ,Sat, 2021 | education, evali, shareables

Canadian government & THC cartridges

The Canadian federal government controls the sale of cannabis products and makes revenue through a cannabis federal excise duty.

 

On October 19, 2019, during the EVALI outbreak, THC cartridges were approved for sale in Canada. Remember, the lung injuries were caused from illegal THC cartridges. 

Health Canada acknowledges the cause

In December 2019, Health Canada was questioned by CBC News about the cause of EVALI because the Canadian government approved the sale of THC cartridges during the EVALI outbreak. Health Canada clearly communicates that they understood EVALI was being caused by illegal THC cartridges and not from vaping nicotine.

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Myths or facts

In late February 2020, the CDC closes the case on EVALI because they had identified the source, took action and the injuries stopped occuring.

However, over a year later the Health Canada, Vaping-Associated Lung Illness, page states: “The cause or causes of cases in Canada is still under investigation.”

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Protecting THC cartridges revenue

March 2021 Health Canada website: “In Canada, most cases of vaping associated lung illness do not appear to have been associated with the use of THC-containing products.”

When reading this statement, consider that Health Canada relied on patient self-reporting during a time when THC carts were all black-market. They did not conduct biopsies, product analysis nor toxicology screening.

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Hiding the truth

As of March 2021, the Government of Canada’s webpage on EVALI mentions nicotine 5 times but only mentions vitamin E acetate just once.

This is the source of information that all provincial health authorities and all Canadian health professionals would consider to be the most current, unbiased and accurate.

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Increased cannabis sales

Due to the deception that vaping nicotine was the cause of EVALI, sales of the new cannabis products were not interrupted but how many vapers switched back to the most lethal form of nicotine: tobacco cigarettes?

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What went wrong in Canada

by | Mar ,Fri, 2021 | education, evali, shareables

What went wrong in Canada

Governments, health authorities, medical professionals, anti-smoking groups and health-related nonprofits utilized mainstream media to repeatedly warn the public that vaping was injuring people without specifying that the injuries were caused from illegal THC cartridges.

Over and over again, they included vaping nicotine in their conversations, statements and announcements. A false narrative that blamed vaping nicotine for the lung injuries spread throughout the public and the health community. 

First case of EVALI in Canada

Dr. Chris Mackie, the medical officer for the Middlesex-London Health Unit in Ontario, declared the first of the 19 EVALI cases in Canada. His diagnosis was lipoid pneumonia caused by vaping nicotine. Countless headlines, articles, TV news programs and experts created fear about vaping nicotine.

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Enduring false causation

For weeks, Dr. Mackie continued to blame vaping nicotine for the lung injury during interviews with media. As a result of this deception, anti-smoking agencies, health authorities and health-related nonprofits across Canada demanded banning flavours in eliquid and make nicotine vaping less attractive to smokers.

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The science is clear

Several years earlier, a 2016 study “Respiratory infections and pneumonia: potential benefits of switching from smoking to vaping” concluded vaping nicotine cannot cause lipoid pneumonia. Water-based vapor cannot cause an oil-based lung injury.

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First case of EVALI in Canada

Dr. Chris Mackie, the medical officer for the Middlesex-London Health Unit in Ontario declared the first of 19 cases in Canada. His diagnosis was lipoid pneumonia. Countless headlines, articles, TV news programs and experts created fear about vaping nicotine.

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The science is clear

Several years earlier, a 2016 study “Respiratory infections and pneumonia: potential benefits of switching from smoking to vaping” concluded vaping nicotine cannot cause lipoid pneumonia. Water-based vapor cannot cause an oil-based lung injury.

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Enduring false causation

For weeks, Dr. Mackie continued to blame vaping nicotine for the lung injury during interviews with media. As a result of this deception, anti-smoking agencies, health authorities and health-related nonprofits across Canada demanded banning flavours in eliquid and make nicotine vaping less attractive to smokers.

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Anti-harm reduction advocates

Daily, health experts were featured on mainstream media spreading fear about vaping nicotine. Experts repeatedly referred to vaping as causing the injuries without specifying that it was illegal THC cartridges that was hurting people. They repeatedly include vaping nicotine in their discussions!

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Recommends inhaling nicotine

Dr. Tereza Martinu, respirologist, was a guest on media. She admitted that vitamin E acetate was found in all the American EVALI lung biopsies & is used in THC concentrates. However, she suggests that inhaling nicotine through vaping as the cause of the lung injuries. Then she encourages smokers to use nicotine inhalers.

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Trying hard to blame harm reduction

Question: since vaping has been around for 10 years, why the sudden outbreak of EVALI? Dr. Martinu’s answer was there was such an increase in vaping that there are now enough cases to see it. She failed to give the percent of increase or the time frame because there wasn’t a significant increase in vaping to warrant the outbreak.

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Deceptive authority

With endless resources and funding, the government is fully capable of reviewing the evidence on vaping. Yet, they are still deceiving the public by blaming vaping nicotine specifically for EVALI. Why are Canadian health authorities so misinformed about vaping? They must be aware of the billions of dollars it costs to treat smoking-related diseases.

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Fake news

The United Kingdom (UK) promotes vaping for smokers. They are different than most of the world because they independently reviewed the science on vaping before the global narrative that Canada has adopted was dictated. The deceptions about EVALI were so pervasive that even their citizens became misinformed!

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The lies are working

The misinformation campaign through authority and media has convinced the public that vaping nicotine is the source of EVALI. Within 15 months, an increase of 13% of the people wrongly believe that vaping is MORE harmful than smoking, The public now demands eliquid flavour bans and other restrictions on tobacco harm reduction (vaping).

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