THE CONVERSATION) The new commissioner of the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) recently made a surprising and bold announcement
that could potentially save more lives than if we ended the opioid
epidemic today. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, a physician and cancer
survivor, said that federal regulators will start a conversation about
dramatically reducing the amount of nicotine in cigarettes, low enough
to make them nonaddictive, while taking a go-slow approach to adopting
new regulations on electronic cigarettes and other devices that are
Latest government figures show smokers above the age of 15 using
e-cigarettes and heat-not-burn tobacco products rose almost six-fold in
two years
Even as the population of regular smokers in Hong Kong has declined over
the years to about 10 per cent, the use of electronic smoking devices
among them is on an alarming upwards trend, according to latest
government figures.
Those above the age of 15 using e-cigarettes and
heat-not-burn tobacco products rose almost sixfold in two years, from
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per different phases. Whereas, on the basis of sales, data related to
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The CDC’s latest survey of tobacco use among young people in America was released yesterday. For those of us interested in the betterment of our nation’s public health, the strikingly good news was evident. Given that cigarette smoking is our nation’s #1 public health emergency (not Ebola) and that 90 percent of smokers begin as teens, the news may be the best possible trend imaginable: teen smoking rates continued their dramatic declines of the past three years! The recent youth smoking rates are these:
2000: ~25 percent
2011: 18.1 percent
2012: 14 percent
2013: 12.7 percent
High levels of cancer-causing toxins have been found in some brands of E-cigarettes.
Health experts in Japan discovered high levels of chemicals including formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in the vapour produced by several types of e-cigarette liquid.
The latest findings will come as a blow to those in favour of the electronic devices, heralded as safer than regular cigarettes.
Despite a wealth of available information, the Times unfortunately failed to nail the answers, even after acknowledging that “Many studies have been done on the question (sic),..." but fretting that "...but as in many fields that involve complex questions and human subjects, the research is imperfect.”
A one-year-old baby has died in New York state after drinking from what is thought to have been an e-cigarette refill bottle, prompting calls to change how the liquid nicotine products are presented.
The death was described by local police as a “tragic accident”, and is thought to be the first to involve a child and e-cigarettes.
An ambulance was called to a home in Fort Plain, New York, to reports of an “unresponsive” child last Tuesday, ABC News reported. He was rushed to hospital, but pronounced dead a short while later.
A new research letter in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals how shoddy this once-respected medical journal has let its peer-review standards become. The authors, from Portland State University in Oregon, titled their work “Hidden formaldehyde in e-cigarette aerosols” in an apparent (and successful) attempt to get more media and advocacy attention than their inaccurate study would have normally garnered.
Junior health minister Martin van Rijn is slapping a minimum age of 18 on electronic cigarettes in an effort to stop youngsters smoking, he told parliament on Monday. The new rules will apply to e-cigarettes with and without nicotine and will bring the smoking aid age limit in line with tobacco and alcohol.
31 former public health groups funded by Big Pharma and/or DHHS urge Obama to “quickly” approve FDA’s proposed cigarette industry protecting e-cig sales ban, falsely claim “Further delay will only serve the interests of the tobacco companies,” falsely accuse tobacco companies of marketing to youth (in violation of the 1998 MSA), deceitfully conflate negligible e-cig risks with addictive and lethal cigarettes, falsely claim “There are no restrictions in place to protect public health against the risks these products pose, particularly to the health of our children,” fail to express ANY conce
JTI has expanded its range of electronic cigarettes with the introduction of Logic LQD – a new open tank device and range of e-liquids.
The company said the new device includes an “advanced refilling system that guarantees easy and precise e-liquid delivery”, alongside dual coil and variable voltage control offering “an enhanced and customisable vaping experience for users”.
North American marijuana sales grew by an unprecedented 30% in 2016 to $6.7 billion as the legal market expands in the U.S. and Canada, according to a new report by Arcview Market Research.
North American sales are projected to top $20.2 billion by 2021 assuming a compound annual growth rate of 25%. The report includes Canada for the first time as it moves towards implementing legal adult use marijuana.
A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found high levels of toxic metals in the liquid that creates the aerosol that e-cigarette users inhale when they vape.
PETALING JAYA: A 10-year-old in uniform takes a drag on his cigarette and the nicotine hits. For every five boys, there is one just like him, reveals the country’s first-of-its-kind study by the Health Ministry.
The habit is easy to feed, especially when cigarettes are blatantly being sold to students with little or no enforcement against the irresponsible sellers.
More than half of the students who participated in the recent survey got their smokes easily from supermarkets, grocery stores and roadside stalls.
Every year cigarette smoking contributes to about 1 in 5 deaths in the United States. A group of prominent health leaders called for the immediate implementation of national action to reduce the number of smokers in the country by 15 million in a report published last week.
MANY smokers are ditching traditional cigarettes in favour of trendy e-cigarettes.
The vaping devices are designed to help smokers quit their habit, and are marketed as a healthier alternative.
But, e-cigarettes are still very much in their infancy, and much more research is needed to explore the true effect they have on a vaper’s health.
While some studies have shown they are – in many ways – better for smokers than cigarettes, other studies have raised concerns they are encouraging a new generation of smokers.
A new study has shown that E-cigarettes are up to 97% safer than conventional smoking.
In a study funded by Cancer Research UK and performed by the department of epidemiology and public health at UCL, it was found that long term vapers have significantly lower toxic and carcinogenic substances in their body when compared to smokers.
A total of 181 participants were monitored over time, testing urine and saliva for harmful chemicals.
Remarks by Scott Gottlieb, M.D. Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration July 28, 2017 White Oak, MD
(Remarks as prepared for delivery)
Tobacco
use remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the
United States. But much has changed in the landscape of tobacco product
regulation and FDA’s ability to address this public health crisis.
Is it true that a 12-year-old girl could help end pot prohibition?
According to the latest reports, the answer is yes. The girl in question
is Alexis Bortell, and up until recently, she had been suffering daily
seizures. But now, because of her life-saving medication, she finds
herself trapped in Colorado.
Health professionals are advising people in Australia to give up tobacco cigarettes and switch to e-cigarettes instead. They say it would potentially save more lives in the country.
Health Experts' Advice
Health experts have gathered in Melbourne, Australia to discuss how e-cigarettes can help tobacco smokers give up their habits.
The European Commission has
decided not to tax electronic cigarettes or novel tobacco products such
as “heat not burn” products. In a report to the European Union’s
Council of Finance Ministers (ECOFIN) dated 12 January
2018 the Commission concluded that due to a lack of sufficient data on
the market for these products it would not propose a harmonized approach
to taxation at the present time.
Studying the safety of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) on teenagers is extremely important. Rubinstein et al1
describes the presence of certain metabolites in the urine of
adolescents who smoke e-cigarettes. They also tell us many of them are
carcinogenic. They conclude by advising the public to warn teenagers
about “the potential risk from toxic exposure to carcinogenic
compounds.” However, they fail to …
Big tobacco companies are usually not fans of heath warnings on cigarette packs. We have written earlier on how Philip Morris is dragging the Uruguayan Government to court after they passed legislation mandating the display of large warnings on cigarette packs. (See Philip Morris’ Uruguayan Lawsuit) It turns out that in the U.S., tobacco companies that have diversified into e-cigarettes are voluntarily putting up large warnings on e-cig packs.
Fabrikanten die reclame maken voor e-sigaretten, mogen vanaf februari niet meer beweren dat het product helpt met stoppen met roken. Ze moeten ook duidelijk waarschuwen voor de verslavende werking van nicotine.
Staatssecretaris Martin van Rijn (Volksgezondheid) heeft de regels vrijdag aangescherpt. Aanleiding is onderzoek van de Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit (NVWA) en het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) waaruit bleek dat er extra maatregelen nodig waren.
A family's Christmas presents have been destroyed and their house devastated after an e-cigarette which was plugged into the wrong charger exploded and set fire to their home.
Terry Skinner, 25, placed his device on to charge in an upstairs bedroom in his home in Sheerness, Kent, before heading downstairs to join fiancee Tara Austin, 22, in the living room.
Barely ten minutes later the internal battery had exploded and a fire began to tear through the room at their home - just yards away from where his children were sleeping.
WASHINGTON (AP) — More teens are trying out e-cigarettes than the real thing, according to the government's annual drug use survey.
Researchers were surprised at how many 8th, 10th and 12th graders reported using electronic cigarettes this year, even as regular smoking by teens dropped to new lows.
Nearly 9 percent of 8th graders said they had used an e-cigarette in the previous month, while just 4 percent reported smoking a traditional cigarette, said the report being released Tuesday by the National Institutes of Health.
Vandaag publiceerde de Telegraaf, Metronieuws en de Belgische site De Standaard online hetzelfde negatieve persbericht omtrent de elektronische sigaret:
http://www.metronieuws.nl/binnenland/2015/01/e-sigaret-15-keer-kankerverwekkender-dan-sigaret
Inmiddels is dit bericht door De Standaard al gerectificeerd:
http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20150122_01487638
En door Acvoda op gereageerd:
http://www.acvoda.nl/2015/01/22/goed-nieuws-geen-formaldehyde-in-e-sigaret/
Health experts at an Abu Dhabi anti-tobacco conference defended e-cigarettes, in spite of the increasing concerns that the devices are not safe and could lure adolescents into nicotine addiction. However, while experts have come to the defense of e-cigarettes, they agreed that the use of the devices still need more research and should be regulated much like tobacco.
Teens no longer smoke just cigarettes. They have branched out to using alternative tobacco products such as electronic cigarettes, hookahs and little cigars. In fact, e-cigarette use is rising rapidly among both cigarette smokers and nonsmokers, according to a study to be presented Sunday, April 26 at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in San Diego.
Leo DiCaprio may have won a SAG award, but he's lost respect from the American Lung Association for his e-cigarette display at the ceremony.
The actor was sitting at a table Saturday during the awards presentation, smoking a vape pen.
It's illegal to smoke vape pens in the city of L.A. in restaurants, bars and other public places, but interesting, the prohibition does not apply to "theatrical production sites." Presumably, the Shrine Auditorium, where the SAG awards were held, qualifies as a theatrical production site.
Last month, Republican U.S. House leaders sent a pointed letter to federal agency heads warning them against finalizing “midnight regulations” — last-minute rules approved during a lame-duck session, without full oversight and hearings. Hastily approved regulations, they wrote, could have “unintended consequences” that “will harm consumers and businesses.”
Electronic cigarettes are not hooking a new generation of American youth on tobacco and data suggests the devices are helping current youth smokers quit the habit.
A new study from the Virginia Commonwealth University claims that using e-cigarettes at a younger age people three times more likely to become a smoker. The researchers gloss over evidence from their own study, however, to make the claim, which they use as justification for more government restrictions on the practice.
SAN DIEGO -- One in four teens who vape say they've used e-cigarettes for an alternative technique known as "dripping," new research finds.
Dripping produces thicker clouds of vapor, gives a stronger sensation in the throat and makes flavors taste better, according to a study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
"This study is the first systematic evaluation of the use of dripping among teens," said Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, lead author and a professor in the department of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine.
FRP Advisory has been appointed as administrator to Must Have Limited, which trades as VIP and has 165 retail stores across the UK.
VIP, which is based in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, will continue trading and all 265 staff will be retained while FRP seeks a buyer for the business.
Its US owner, Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIG), said Must Have Limited was placed in administration after it was left unable to pay taxes of around three million US dollars (£2.5 million) to HM Revenue and Customs.
Some interesting news recently landed in Jeff Stier’s inbox.
“Today’s a good day to quit smoking!” proclaimed an email from NYC Quits, part of a statewide tobacco control program that gives away free nicotine patches and gum every year.
Stier, a risk analyst with the National Center for Public Policy Analysis, signed up for the program, not because he’s a smoker (other than the occasional cigar) but for research.
The California Department of Public Health has been carrying out air sampling in vape shops throughout the state, as part of its initiative to determine the health effects of second-hand vapor exposure.
When Maya Terrell saw the anti-smoking television commercial, she knew she would never try a cigarette.
It featured an ex-smoker with a hole in her throat where her larynx used to be.
“I was like, ‘Never!’” recalled Terrell, 18. “I was scared.”
Besides, she said, smoking is just plain gross.
“My friends don’t smoke cigarettes,” said Terrell, of Sacramento, Calif. “It’s nasty.”
Terrell is emblematic of a generation of teenagers who appear more knowledgeable about the risks of tobacco — and are smoking fewer cigarettes than ever before.
A Food and Drug Administration announcement Friday that included a
proposal to lower nicotine levels in cigarettes to non-addictive levels
sent cigarette maker shares plunging.
The
King County Health Department, which serves mostly the city of Seattle
and its suburbs, has recently earned a reputation for being driven by
politics rather than by evidence-based medicine or common sense.
Researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center, are expressing their concern, as their
latest study indicated that the number of online e-cig vendor has
increased by over a threefold between 2013 and 2014.
WASHINGTON - Imagine if cigarettes were no longer addictive and
smoking itself became almost obsolete; only a tiny segment of Americans
still lit up. That's the goal of an unprecedented anti-smoking plan
being carefully fashioned by U.S. health officials.
Couples desperate for a baby are being denied NHS-funded IVF treatment because they use e-cigarettes or nicotine patches, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.