{"id":20803,"date":"2020-03-03T13:11:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T18:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=20803"},"modified":"2020-03-03T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T18:11:46","slug":"vaping-news-eu-rational-harm-reduction-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/20803","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: EU [Rational Harm Reduction Policies]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"sk8h-0-0\">&#8220;Experts have written to the European Respiratory Journal (ERS), challenging the ERS policy on vaping and tobacco harm reduction and calling for it to adopt a rational approach. The ERS has recently declared that tobacco harm reduction is a failing strategy and \u201clacks evidence to justify the approach\u201d. The letter was submitted to the ERS by Nicholas Hopkinson (Imperial College) and is co-signed by John Britton (UK Centre for Tobacco &amp; Alcohol Studies), Jacob George (University of Edinburgh), Linda Bauld (University of Stirling), Sanjay Agrawal (University of Leicester), John Moxham (King\u2019s College), Deborah Arnott (ASH), and Ann McNeill (King\u2019s College). The experts note: \u201cThe stated policy of the European Respiratory Society is to strive \u2018constantly to promote strong and evidence-based policies to reduce the burden of tobacco related diseases\u2019.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-offset-key=\"sk8h-0-0\">They say: \u201cIn our view, the recent ERS Tobacco Control Committee statement on tobacco harm reduction [linked to at the bottom of the article], though well-intentioned, appears to be based on a number of false premises and draws its conclusions from a partial account of available data. It also presents a false dichotomy between the provision of \u2018conventional\u2019 tobacco control and harm reduction approaches. We therefore respond, in turn, to the seven arguments presented against the adoption of harm reduction in the Committee\u2019s statement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetofthevapes.co.uk\/news\/vaping-news\/2020-03-03_call-for-a-rational-approach.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Call For A Rational Approach<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20EU%20%5BRational%20Harm%20Reduction%20Policies%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Experts have written to the European Respiratory Journal (ERS), challenging the ERS policy on vaping and tobacco harm reduction and calling for it to adopt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20805,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803\/revisions\/20805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}