Tomorrow, Nov. 20th, is the 39th annual Great American Smokeout, sponsored by The American Cancer Society. Let’s have a look at how well that’s been working, in the most relevant terms: how many adults still smoke, and how many have successfully “smoked-out”, that is, quit?
Today, the American Vaping Association, a leading advocate for the benefits of vapor products such as electronic cigarettes, reacted to the release of a letter sent last week by members of leadership in the House of Representatives to HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell. In the letter, Rep. John Boehner (House Speaker), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (House Majority Leader), and Rep. Fred Upton (Chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee) urge Secretary Burwell and the Food & Drug Administration to revise their proposed regulations on “e-vapor products” ....
Answers from State Secretary Van Rijn (VWS) on questions of the Rebel Mp (Labour Party) about reports that children are increasingly coming into contact with e-cigarettes. (Dutch)
Electronic cigarettes, touted as potentially game-changing harm-reduction devices by longtime nicotine addicts and some health experts, are surprisingly popular among American teenagers, according to new survey results.
In fact, more students reported using an e-cigarette in the past month than admitted to past-month use of traditional cigarettes in the 2014 Monitoring the Future survey, which gathers information on eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students.
Elektronische sigaretten met nicotinevloeistoffen moeten net zoveel worden belast als gewone sigaretten. Dat heeft drugscommissaris Marlene Mortler van de Duitse regering gezegd in een interview met de krant Stuttgarter Nachrichten. Er is in Duitsland nog geen accijns voor de zogeheten e-sigaretten. .....
FDA rejects Bill Godshall’s request to present scientific and empirical evidence on vaping (at FDA’s so-called public workshop on June 1 & 2) on the following topics:
GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSKCH) today announced 2 mg and 4 mg Nicorette® mini Lozenge is now available at most retail shelves in the US following a supply shortage.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s deeming regulations on vapor products could shift the $3 billion that e-cigarettes/vape are estimated to generate this year in brick-and-mortar stores to online vendors and black market players.
Stakeholders have made the case that it’s important for the FDA to set a new predicate date in the final rule, and that Congress should update the predicate date for newly-deemed products. New FDA deeming regulations authorized earlier this year ban e-cigarette sales to Americans under age 18, among other stipulations.
Philip Morris International's (NYSE:PM) smoke-free future is coming to America. The global cigarette giant plans on marketing its next-generation electronic cigarette in the U.S. next year once it gains FDA approval, but its applications indicate just how much the regulatory agency is helping to protect the interests of the big tobacco companies by crushing the competition.
The future of smoking
It’s time to stop vilifying vaping. The scientific evidence is mounting that:
E-cigarettes are not a gateway drug that entice young people to take up smoking;
Vapour devices are at least as effective as other nicotine replacements products such as patches and gum in helping smokers quit;
Vapour from e-cigarettes contains significantly fewer toxins than smoke from tobacco cigarettes;
Second-hand exposure to vapour is far less harmful than exposure to second-hand smoke.
C-stores remain cautious with regards to what direction the e-cigarette and vaping industry is headed this year.
By Anne Baye Ericksen
Between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deeming regulations finally released last year and a bevy of new state taxes and regulations restricting who can sell or purchase tobacco and other-tobacco products, 2016 was a tumultuous year for e-cigarettes.
In an article published earlier this month in JAMA Pediatrics, the Surgeon General claimed that electronic cigarettes: "are now the most commonly used form of tobacco among youth in the United States, surpassing cigarettes, chewing tobacco, cigars, and hookah." The article repeatedly refers to e-cigarettes as a form of tobacco. In fact, the article contains four statements indicating that e-cigarettes are a "form of tobacco" or that vaping is a "form of tobacco use."
One would think that Big Tobacco had learned its lesson after having its head handed to it almost twenty years ago. The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) ultimately cost the “Big Four” at least $206 billion – and that price tag could go higher.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, a long-time vaping proponent, introduced a bill Thursday aimed at loosening regulations for e-cigarette products that were tightened under the Obama administration.
The bill would reverse an Obama-era rule that categorized e-cigarettes as a tobacco product under the purview of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Hunter’s bill would exempt vaping devices from many of the rules placed on traditional tobacco products, including a two-year review process requiring FDA sign-off before new products hit the shelves.
Hypocrisy has reached new heights, even by Washington’s standards. The same left-wing senators who support needle-exchange and methadone programs to reduce harm to drug addicts and demand condoms for high-schoolers are waging war against the most effective harm reducer of all — e-cigarettes.
NEW DELHI/LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - Philip
Morris International Inc is waging a secret campaign to subvert
the World Health Organization's anti-smoking treaty, which was
designed to save lives by curbing tobacco use, a Reuters
investigation published today reveals.
In one of the largest-ever tobacco industry leaks, internal
Philip Morris International documents seen by Reuters, combined
with reporting in 14 countries, expose a clandestine lobbying
operation that stretches from the Americas to Africa to Asia.
For the first time, the annual quit-smoking campaign Stoptober is suggesting that smokers use e-cigarettes. Public Health England (PHE) launched Stoptober in 2012.
Stoptober begins Oct. 1 and runs for 28 days. According to PHE,
“Stoptober has driven over 1 million quit attempts to date and is the
It’s just over a decade since e-cigarettes first hit the shelves. And
since then there’s been an explosion in their popularity, with almost 3 million adults using them in Great Britain today.
But this rapid popularity, and the potential these devices hold to
help people stop smoking, has left some challenges. The biggest being
that research looking at their safety has struggled to keep up.
Seemingly unfazed by last week’s protests over the brutal arrest of a
vaper, Thailand’s government recently doubled down on its harsh
opposition to safer nicotine products. In an astonishing announcement on
Wednesday a senior health official repeated an array of
long-discredited claims about the alleged “risks” of vaping, and
rejected accusations that his ministry has deliberately inflated
concerns.
In March last year, a six month pilot involving the use of e-cigarettes as alternatives
to regular cigarettes, at the Isle of Man jail was announced. The aim
of this trial was to reduce the dangers caused by inmates lighting up
and smoking “illicit materials” such as tea bags and banana skins, to
substitute cigarettes following the implementation of a smoking ban in
2008.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Cigarettes have been strongly associated with subsequent marijuana use
among adolescents, but electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are now
rapidly replacing traditional cigarettes among youth. This study
examines associations between youth e-cigarette use and subsequent
marijuana use in a national sample.
A STUDY by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has finally debunked claims vape contains toxic formaldehyde.
False headlines and rumours have been circulating since 2015 when a
paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) concluded
vaping emitted the dangerous chemical.
The nation’s health protection agency has now concluded that
e-cigarette vapour contains no more formaldehyde than the normal,
everyday air found in the average American home.
About a year ago, a couple of good friends invited me to help them run a vape shop and eventual e-juice manufacturer in my hometown (Louisville, Colorado). We in this industry believe vaping to be potentially enormously beneficial to public health, and we've been dismayed to see it take a pretty stern beating in the public arena. This, along with the FDA's recent ruling in favor of strict regulation and all of the various local ordinances popping up, have prompted me to action.
Speaker of the House John Boehner, along with the House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee Fred Upton, have sent a letter to the FDA and Center for Tobacco Products urging that the proposed deeming regulations be changed. Specifically, they have requested ....
A toddler from upstate New York could be the first child to die from liquid nicotine, the substance used in e-cigarettes, poisoning in the U.S., concerning health officials as e-cigarettes continue to rise in popularity.
Police reported that the 1-year-old child died after ingesting liquid nicotine at a home in Fort Plain, New York, on Tuesday. The child was found unresponsive and rushed to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
SALT LAKE CITY
Utah officials have slashed fines for three online electronic cigarette marketers from $1.1 million to $31,150.
They declined comment on why the Utah Division of Consumer Protection quietly settled civil cases with companies that had been cited for more than 440 violations after allegedly deceiving and ripping off customers.
Department of Commerce spokeswoman Jennifer Bolton told The Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/1zSe94o ) the agency will "let the full terms of the settlement agreements speak for themselves."
SUPERSTITIONS ARE ALIVE and well. Not the kind athletes and other performers are known to indulge in, but big ones, like the belief in witches centuries ago, that affect all of us. One example: the weird war that health officials continue to wage against electronic cigarettes. E-cigs have been a godsend to people who wish to give up smoking or avoid taking up the habit in the first place. These devices involve no smoke, only a vapor, but give one the pleasure of nicotine without wrecking the lungs.
The CDC has cited studies recently pointing out the rise in use of the e-cigarette and vapor products my teenagers in America and condemning it as "a very bad thing" while use of conventional cigarettes by teens have spiked downward at accelerating rates.
A new study out this week shows that sales products related to e-cigarettes were up last month in the convenience channel. The latest Balvor Retailer Composite (BRC) shows that dollar sales of Electronic Nicotine Devices (END) were up 7.1% last month in the c-store channel, while retail units sold grew by more than a quarter (26.4%).
“It’s critical to have a deeper knowledge of the business as there are many factors causing fluctuations in the category’s performance,” according to Balvor Managing Partner David Bishop.
Terrifying video Wednesday showed an e-cigarette exploding in a man’s pocket at Grand Central Terminal.
As CBS2’s Christine Sloan reported, the man was working inside a store at Grand Central when his pants suddenly caught fire Wednesday morning. By the late afternoon, the man was hospitalized for burns.
The stock of British American Tobacco plc (LON:BATS) hit a new 52-week high and has $4731.06 target or 7.00% above today’s $4421.55 share price. The 6 months bullish chart indicates low risk for the $82.43B company. The 1-year high was reported on Dec, 13 by Barchart.com. If the $4731.06 price target is reached, the company will be worth $5.77 billion more.
On January 26, The New England Journal of Medicine published the paper, “Tobacco Product Use by Adults and Youth in the United States in 2013 and 14.” Information and access to the abstract are below.
PATH: More Than a Quarter of US Adults, Roughly 9 Percent US Youth Use Tobacco
Feb 23 (Reuters) - British American Tobacco wants to double the number of countries where it sells vaping products this year and again in 2018, it said on Thursday, as it chases rivals Philip Morris International to grab a share of a growing market.
BAT and Philip Morris were the first of the big tobacco firms to invest in cigarette alternatives a few year back, as growing health consciousness reduces traditional smoking.
It's not enough that British American Tobacco (NYSEMKT:BTI) is set on becoming the biggest tobacco company with its $50 billion acquisition of Reynolds American (NYSE:RAI), it also wants to steal away the leading global position in cigarette alternatives from rival Philip Morris (NYSE:PM).
The global E-cigarette market has gained significant attraction among tobacco smokers in recent years, owing to lesser health concerns related to it. E-cigarettes, also known as electronic cigarettes or vaporizers, are either electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) or electronic non-nicotine delivery systems (ENNDS). The battery-operated device emits doses of vaporized nicotine when inhaled by the user. E-cigarettes create an aerosol, which is commonly termed as vapor that generally contains e-liquid.
As governments increasingly clamp down on cigarettes, one of the world’s biggest tobacco firms is banking on another potentially addictive product - caffeine.
Imperial Brands, which makes Gauloises and Winston cigarettes and was known as Imperial Tobacco until a year ago, is faced with a raft of new rules aimed at reducing people’s smoking habit.
There is a disconnect between the tobacco research community and the vaping user-community. Both groups have almost totally divergent knowledge-base of the technology; the former based on its existing tobacco research agenda, the latter based on practical experience with the technology and through peer-learning and marketing.
In this final part of the series on vaping, we look at the regulations which are poised to basically destroy this industry as it currently stands and potentially hand it to the oligopoly of Big Tobacco and potentially create a black market of vaping products.
Altria Group Inc.MO
, which has a solid base in the tobacco industry, has been bearing the
brunt of receding consumer enthusiasm toward tobacco products as well
as stern regulations by government bodies.
The American Cancer Society is
recommending — with caution — to health care clinicians that they add
electronic cigarettes and vaporizers as a smoking-cessation option.
The nonprofit group stressed Tuesday its policy statement
is directed strictly at adults, including strongly recommending against
its use by the young. It said it will closely monitor e-cigs
innovations and research.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin called Tuesday for tougher regulations on
e-cigarettes, especially the “insidious” marketing of flavored products
to children.
Durbin was flanked by doctors and public health
officials as he spoke to reporters at Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in
Normal. The senior Democratic senator from Illinois said he wants to
ban flavored e-cigarette products and to standardize regulations on how
e-cigs are sold—including where and the minimum age of customers.
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb
made his most direct threat yet against e-cigarette companies Friday,
saying they face an “existential threat” if they don’t stop marketing to
youth.
Gottlieb said he was horrified at the recent
rapid rise in teen vaping. He called out the most popular product —
Juul— by name and said his efforts to get companies to voluntarily dial
back on candy-flavored products and heavy-handed marketing techniques
were not having much effort.
Over the past several years, institutional investors had largely shied away from China's e-cigarette makers, an industry that was teeming with shoddy workshops and lacked regulatory oversight. But investors' attitude is changing as China sets in motion its strictest-ever regulation on electronic cigarettes.
Electronic cigarettes offer smokers a realistic way to kick their tobacco smoking addiction. In a new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, scientists at KU Leuven report that e-cigarettes successfully reduced cravings for tobacco cigarettes, with only minimal side effects.
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) were developed as a less harmful alternative to tobacco cigarettes. They contain 100 to 1,000 times less toxic substances and emulate the experience of smoking a tobacco cigarette.
It could be a scene from Mad Men, only the execs are in M&S and the office is in Borehamwood. A marketing man named Roger sits at his desk, exhaling luxurious billows of smoke that twist and dance and vanish as they drift towards the ceiling tiles. “Is that a cigar he’s smoking?” I ask my tour guide, Michael Clapper of e-cigarette company Vapestick. “That’s a Vigar!” he announces with undisguised triumphalism. “Look at him! He looks like the boss.” In fact, Michael is the boss. He’s showing me around the headquarters of what has rapidly become a multimillion-pound business.
The electronic cigarette industry is a booming business for individuals who are trying to give up smoking or simply want to get away from the smell that is associated with traditional cigarettes. Recently, Speaker of the House John Boehner, a user of e-cigarettes himself, is opposing measures that would strictly regulate the devices, citing concerns that it will hurt the industry.
Feb 4 (Reuters) - Imperial Tobacco Group Plc is launching a new e-cigarette in France next week,
giving the big tobacco firm a lifestyle brand in addition to its existing brand Puritane,
marketed more as a healthcare product......
2014 NYTS finding that 9.5% of high school students smoked a cigarette in “past 30 days” shatters DHHS’s Healthy People 2020 target of 16%, which is the only Healthy People goal ever achieved for tobacco use.
On Jan. 11, 1964, Dr. Luther Terry released the first report of the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health. The report concluded that there was not merely an association between smoking and cancer, but a causal relationship.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday suggested the Trump administration will step up enforcement of federal laws against recreational marijuana.
"I do believe that you'll see greater enforcement," Spicer said, while adding the exact policy is "a question for the Department of Justice."
It's the latest sign President Trump is poised to take a tougher approach than the Obama Justice Department did in states that have legalized the use of recreational marijuana.
Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM) is seeking to revolutionize the tobacco industry with its iQOS alternative to conventional cigarettes, and so far, performance in test markets has been extremely strong. Philip Morris has high hopes for iQOS, expecting it eventually to contribute to a portfolio of reduced-risk products that could entirely replace traditional cigarettes. Yet in order to do so, Philip Morris will have to be sensitive to the needs of each market it serves while meeting anticipated strong demand.