Latest letter to Coalition

Title : University College London find vapers have DNA changes like tobacco smokers. NZ govrrnment breaches UN charter

Dear All

Are you happy with this cellular DNA change developing in NZers, including the risk of this in each child in the epidemic of children who vape?

Each party of the Coalition promised they would address vaping. It featured large in the pre-election topics. You are currently breaching the UN charter as this latest update explains: https://www.change.org/p/ban-vape-shops-use-plain-packaging-with-health-warnings-and-pharmacy-outlet-only/u/32462081

The vape aerosol is a heated amalgam of chemicals with insidious impact, marketed to children, and from which the government profits.
You can stop this. You can ensure vaping risks are known, assistance with quitting vaping and nicotine is your priority, and vapes are available as a medication.
Assistance with going cold turkey, the most effective way to stop tobacco and vape use, and NRT if necessary, but not the snuff-like Snus Mr Peters suggested. Using alcohol outlets as Mr Seymour suggested still puts them in the category of OK for adults with known risks as our society generally treats alcohol, wisely or not.

They are a dangerous way to get nicotine into the blood, promoted by big tobacco the main suppliers, the sellers, and, government.

The following, containing the link to the UCL findings, was sent to the Chief Medical Officer in NZ who within minutes replied stating he supported my advocating for tighter regulation.

What does it take for you to tightly regulate or ban vapes? See note previously mentioned that technically it is illegal for them to be available other than by prescription given they are ostensibly a Ministry of Health approved item which was only licenced as a means to get off tobacco but were never Medsafe approved.

Regards
Mary MacGibbon (PhD)

Dear Dr Bourne .. letter as in previous update. The link again: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/mar/similar-dna-changes-found-cells-both-smokers-and-e-cigarette-users

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