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from Vaper Paper powered by Vapouround Issue 2

by vapouround-magazine

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This issue we spoke to Youtuber, Twitch streamer and overall vaping inﬂuencer GrimmGreen about the importance of wellresearched voices advocating for variety within the community.

Words: Emily Malia ocial media star and famous face of the vaping industry, Nicholas ‘Grimm’ Green, has been ﬁghting for the right to vape since he made the switch back in 2009.

Having been in the industry for 14 years, he has seen ﬁrsthand the power that vaping can have on people’s lives who were otherwise destined to suffer from smoking related issues.

With a Youtube Channel surpassing 403,000 subscribers, it’s evident that the creator and advocate is passionate about the harm reduction mission and keen to help others quit through vaping.

He said: “My role for advocacy is very much ‘rallying the troops’.

“I take what I see across the internet, social media, twitter and do my best to relay these things to the general vape audience.”

With this comes a lot of responsibility and GrimmGreen often ﬁnds himself frustrated with the online backlash and ignorance that surrounds the community.

He spends vast amounts of his free time actively reading and interpreting science journals and articles to keep fellow vapers aware of what’s going on in the current climate.

GrimmGreen said: “To watch vaping and harm reduction create the lowest levels of smoking the USA has ever seen.

“Then to watch organisations like the American Lung and American Heart Association’s stand against this new technology is what makes me passionate.

“Everyone who smokes should get the chance to quit the way I did.”

With this theory in mind, it was important for the online creator to get his younger brother to embark on his own quitting journey after smoking together ‘like crazy people’ for years on end.

The advocate said: “He kept smoking, I kept vaping…and every week I would try to get him to switch with a new product or new liquid.

“Eventually, he found a kit he liked and ‘dual used’.

It took him over a year to ﬁnally quit but he did and has been smoke free for over a decade now.

“This technology can work for almost everyone ‘if’ they are given a variety in the marketplace and are allowed to switch at their own pace.”

There are countless people’s stories GrimmGreen could share and it’s the privilege of hearing them that pushes him to ﬁght for the right to variety…after all, it’s the spice of life!

He said: “Everyone has a different journey and a different goal and it’s critical in my opinion to meet people where they are at.”

His own quitting story however, he admits is ‘fairly boring’, with no initial intention of quitting for good, but he always wondered, maybe there is a product like a fake cigarette?

You could argue he quite literally manifested e-cigarettes into his life when he decided to Google ‘fake cigarettes’ on a whim.

Low and behold, he found a Youtuber talking about vapes.

Green said: “Leaford showed me the way and helped me pick my ﬁrst vape out. It was a crazy expensive stick battery cartomizer kit, but it was enough.

“I had no idea what I needed in terms of liquid and chargers, and this information was nowhere to be found online at the time.”

This of course only gave him more ammunition to now provide users with vital information surrounding different devices.

But this was back in 2009 and just a year later, the state of California – where he lived – almost completely banned all vaping products.

He said: “It got vetoed by our then Governor, but that one moment radicalised me. I knew I was going to have to defend these products and their use for possibly the rest of my life.”

And here we are, 14 years on and with a couple hundred thousand followers, Nicholas ‘Grimm’ Green continues to fight the good fight for the benefit of the entire vaping community. Twitter feuds with the FDA about vaping, on Twitter.

The Middle East has much more to do in the ﬁght for a smoke free future with its smoking rates through the roof.

Words: Emily Malia

With laws and their enforcement lagging behind the best practice, the most recent edition of the Tobacco Atlas revealed some eye-opening stats.

In some parts of the Middle East smoking numbers are shockingly high, Libya being one to set a bad example, where the equivalent of 1,764 cigarettes are smoked per person each year.

However, it appears Kuwait – despite being one of the richest countries in the world with an impressive economy – have smoking rates even higher at an average of 1,849 cigarettes.

Coming out top, with the worst tobacco habits in the Middle East was Lebanon, topping the charts at a shocking 1,955 cigarettes, per person every single year.

Prof Kamran Siddiqi, professor in public health at the University of York, who researches non-communicable diseases in low and middle-income countries spoke on the issue.

He said: “The regulations need to become more comprehensive in line with international recommendations.

At the same time there should be a strong focus on implementing these regulations.”

“It’s essential to be making comprehensive smokefree laws, increasing tobacco taxes, offering smoking cessation, making sure the packaging of cigarettes is standardised…banning all forms of tobacco advertising, sponsorship and marketing.”

It seems the region faces so many challenges because alongside cigarettes, consuming tobacco through shisha pipes is another popular form of smoking across the Middle East, creating additional issues.

Although it’s not all doom and gloom, the Tobacco Atlas revealed some promising numbers for one particular place in the Middle East… the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

According to the report, the equivalent of 438 cigarettes are smoked in the UAE per individual, each year, coming second to Yemen with the lowest in the region.

Several practical measures have been introduced in recent years to the UAE in order to cut down on smoking which have presumably affected their results.

These include the introduction in October 2017 of a 100 per cent tax on tobacco products which means that tax accounts for half of the total retail price — less than the

World Health Organization’s recommended ﬁgure of 75 per cent.

According to the ﬁndings ‘nicotine vaping use is relatively widespread, but still less common than traditional smoking’ but we cannot ignore the part that vaping had to play in tobacco’s decline.

Professor Siddiqui said: “If it’s properly regulated, it can help smokers to quit combustible cigarettes. On the other hand, it needs to be regulated so that it does not attract young people.

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