Electronic Cigarettes News

Tobacco control threatens to implode over new initiative on Mon, 09/25/2017 - 21:44 admin he tobacco control industry spectacularly turned on itself this week, with the launch of a new foundation dedicated to end tobacco smoking. Far from being welcomed across the industry, the move has led to open hostility between harm reduction advocates and prohibitionists. The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, an independent non-profit organisation, is headed by former World Health Organisation tobacco control chief Derek Yach and supported by Read More	Reynolds pursues another restart with revamped heat-not-burn cigarette Eclipse on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 21:48 admin R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is attempting another go with Eclipse. The heat-not-burn traditional cigarette technology was considered ahead of its time when developed in the 1990s, but has struggled to gain traction with smokers. Read More
Scientists describe problems in Philip Morris e-cigarette experiments on Thu, 12/21/2017 - 03:16 admin Reuters By Tom Lasseter, Paritosh Bansal, Thomas Wilson, Ami Miyazaki Duff Wilson and Aditya Kalra Read More	National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Report Recognizes that Vapor Products Are Significantly Less Harmful than Traditional Combustible Cigarettes on Wed, 02/14/2018 - 02:39 admin *Committee on the Review of the Health Effects of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Releases Report Documenting Massive Review of Existing Scientific Literature* On January 23, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (hereinafter referred to as the “National Academies”) Committee on the Review of the Health Effects of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) (hereinafter referred to as the “Committee”) released a report entitled, “Public Health Consequences Read More
R.J. Reynolds Recalls 2.6 Million E-Cig Power Units on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 22:13 admin WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A big cigarette name is recalling the power units used for about 2.6 million electronic cigarettes. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. has issued a nationwide safety recall of all Vuse Vibe power units after consumer reports that batteries malfunctioned and caused the units to overheat and create a fire risk. No injuries have been reported. Read More	FDA Tobacco Compliance Webinar on Tue, 07/10/2018 - 03:34 admin
ACS’s Smokeout not working too well. Let’s try something different: Vape-Out! on Wed, 11/19/2014 - 10:30 admin 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? Read More	AVA: FDA overreach on E-vapor products spurs House leadership to act on Thu, 12/04/2014 - 10:16 admin 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” .... Read More
Answering questions about reports that children are increasingly coming into contact with e-cigarettes on Thu, 12/11/2014 - 21:02 admin 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) Read More	Teen E-Cigarette Use Steams Past Smoking, Survey Finds on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 03:01 admin 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. Read More
Duitsland wil belasting op e-sigaretten on Tue, 02/10/2015 - 20:22 admin 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. ..... Read More	FDA rejects Bill Godshall’s request to present scientific and empirical evidence on vaping (at FDA’s public workshop on June 1st & 2nd) on Tue, 05/05/2015 - 22:17 admin 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: Read More
GSK announces relaunch of Nicorette lozenges after recalling products more than a year ago on Tue, 05/05/2015 - 22:50 admin 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.	E-Cigs at Critical Juncture on Thu, 11/24/2016 - 00:02 admin 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. Read More
How the FDA Helped Philip Morris Crush the E-Cig Competition on Wed, 12/14/2016 - 02:35 admin 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 Read More	The health hazards of vaping are overblown on Wed, 01/25/2017 - 22:51 admin 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. Read More
E-Tobacco: What’s Next? on Fri, 02/17/2017 - 00:26 admin 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. Read More	Surgeon General Continues to Lie about Tobacco in E-Cigarettes on Tue, 03/14/2017 - 20:52 admin 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." The Rest of the Story Read More
From Bad To Worse: Big Tobacco is On Its Way to Cornering the E-Cigarette Industry on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 07:40 admin 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. Read More	Lawmakers push to roll back Obama-era e-cigarette regulations on Fri, 04/28/2017 - 20:39 admin 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. Read More
The war on e-cigs is now national on Wed, 06/07/2017 - 20:30 admin 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. Read More	Big Tobacco has been waging a secret campaign to undermine a global anti-smoking pact on Mon, 07/17/2017 - 20:12 admin 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. Read More
Vaping low nicotine e-liquids may increase carbonyl exposure on Wed, 08/09/2017 - 21:35 admin The study titled Compensatory Puffing With Lower Nicotine Concentration E-liquids Increases Carbonyl Exposure in E-cigarette Aerosols, published on Nicotine and Tobacco Research, Oxford Academic, looked into whether this more intensive puffing leads to inhaling higher levels of carbonyl compounds, Read More	Stoptober: UK stop-smoking campaign says yes to vaping on Tue, 09/26/2017 - 21:42 admin 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 Read More
New study comes the closest yet to proving that e-cigarettes aren’t as dangerous as smoking on Thu, 11/02/2017 - 21:50 admin 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. Read More	Thai government stands by hardline policies, as New Zealand progress comes under threat on Tue, 12/26/2017 - 23:13 admin 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. Read More
Positive results from an e-cigarette trial at the Isle of Man prison on Thu, 02/15/2018 - 23:44 admin 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. Read More	Electronic Cigarettes and Future Marijuana Use: A Longitudinal Study on Mon, 04/23/2018 - 22:44 Anonymous (not verified) 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. Read More
E-Cigarettes Are Toxic Chemical Free Says US Government on Sun, 10/07/2018 - 23:38 admin 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. Read More	10 Facts That Everyone Gets Wrong About Vaping on Wed, 11/19/2014 - 10:30 admin 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. Read More
Mike Siegel: US House members urge FDA to change grandfather date in proposed deeming regulation on Thu, 12/04/2014 - 10:19 admin 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 .... Read More	First Child's Death From Liquid Nicotine Reported as 'Vaping' Gains Popularity on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 10:30 admin 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. Read More
Utah officials slash fines for e-cigarette marketers on Wed, 12/17/2014 - 03:01 admin 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." Read More	California Joins Baseless Bashing of E-Cigarettes on Thu, 02/12/2015 - 21:37 admin 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. Read More
Sally Satel: Why the CDC has it wrong about the rise in teen vaping on Tue, 05/05/2015 - 22:19 admin 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. Read More	Study finds sales of e-cigs at US convenience stores up 7% in March on Tue, 05/05/2015 - 22:51 admin 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. Read More
E-Cigarette Explodes In Man’s Pants Pocket At Grand Central Terminal on Tue, 11/29/2016 - 00:03 admin 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. Read More	Stock of The Day: Is British American Tobacco plc a Buy? The Stock Reaches 52-Week High Today on Wed, 12/14/2016 - 02:38 admin 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.
Tobacco Product Use by Adults and Youth in the United States in 2013 and 14 (PATH Study) on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 21:57 admin 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 Read More	BAT looks to double its vaping markets on Thu, 02/23/2017 - 21:02 admin 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. Read More
Can British American Tobacco Beat Philip Morris in E-Cigs? on Tue, 03/14/2017 - 20:54 admin 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). Read More	Global E-Cigarette Market Size, Share, Development, Growth and Demand Forecast to 2022 on Thu, 03/30/2017 - 07:41 admin 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. Read More
Imperial turns to caffeine as cigarette laws tighten and smokers quit the habit on Sat, 05/06/2017 - 00:08 admin 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. Read More	Is vaping sticky enough? And how can we tell? on Fri, 06/09/2017 - 00:11 admin An essay by Oliver Kershaw & Amelia Howard 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. Read More
VAPE AWAY Major smoking crackdown launched as Government urges millions to switch to e-cigarettes on Wed, 07/19/2017 - 21:34 admin MINISTERS want to slash smoking rates by a quarter by 2022 by urging millions to switch to e-cigs. They aim to reduce cigarette use to just one in eight adults within five years. Under ambitious new plans, health bosses also intend to halve smoking in pregnancy from the current 10.7 per cent. Around 80,000 Brits a year – more than 200 a day – die as a result of tobacco. As part of the new Tobacco Control Plan, health bosses will promote e-cigarettes as a safer alternative to traditional fags. Read More	When Government Deems Who Can Sell What on Tue, 08/15/2017 - 20:15 admin 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. Read More
This product can help millions quit smoking ...if we’re allowed to talk about it on Wed, 09/27/2017 - 23:42 admin André Calantzopoulos: Bill S-5 lumps all tobacco products into the same category as cigarettes, no matter how much evidence supports a distinction Canada ranks among the healthiest countries in the world. Yet there are more than four million men and women in Canada who smoke cigarettes — Read More	Marrijuanna could be great for you, sats government: Just don't smoke it. on Fri, 11/03/2017 - 00:04 admin The warning letters were issued about a month after Gottlieb warned that he would be looking into marijuana-based products that claim to treat cancer.
Can Smokeless Unit Help Altria (MO) Make a Comeback in 2018? on Thu, 12/28/2017 - 00:19 admin 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. Read More	E-cigs for quitting smoking? A cautious thumbs-up from American Cancer Society on Wed, 02/21/2018 - 00:13 admin 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. Read More
Durbin Wants To Snuff Out E-Cigarette Marketing At Kids on Tue, 05/15/2018 - 01:48 admin 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. Read More	FDA chief threatens to take e-cigarettes off the market on Sun, 01/20/2019 - 03:13 admin 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. Read More

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Committee on the Review of the Health Effects of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Releases Report Documenting Massive Review of Existing Scientific Literature

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