{"id":22807,"date":"2020-10-06T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=22807"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T17:10:48","slug":"vaping-news-south-africa-vape-regs-need-to-be-based-on-real-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/22807","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: SOUTH AFRICA [VAPE REGS NEED TO BE BASED ON REAL SCIENCE]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"7vmnf-0-0\">&#8220;Governments should regulate vaping based on a scientific approach that would allow users to be informed of the facts, say industry players. This startling admission followed a \u201cvaping conversations\u201d webinar conducted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/vpasa.org.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Vapour Products Association of SA<\/strong><\/a> (VPASA), during which the panellists agreed that science-based regulation was vital to educate consumers and end the ongoing controversies around vaping safety. \u201cContrary to popular belief, the industry wants to be regulated,\u201d said VPASA CEO Asanda Gcoyi. She stressed, however, that any laws \u2014 which would protect both users and the industry \u2014 should be guided by science. \u201cUnfortunately, the influence of the World Health Organisation (WHO), fake news around electronic vapour products-associated lung injury (EVALI), the moral panic around certain brands and the idea of the \u2018gateway theory\u2019, which has been disproved, have all influenced negative perceptions of EVP and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS),\u201d she said.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/lifestyle\/health-and-sex\/2020-10-06-vaping-industry-would-welcome-regulation-but-please-be-scientific\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vaping industry would welcome regulation, &#8216;but please be scientific&#8217;<\/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%20SOUTH%20AFRICA%20%5BVAPE%20REGS%20NEED%20TO%20BE%20BASED%20ON%20REAL%20SCIENCE%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;Governments should regulate vaping based on a scientific approach that would allow users to be informed of the facts, say industry players. This startling admission&#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-22807","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\/22807","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=22807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22809,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22807\/revisions\/22809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}