Written by Barnaby Page || 25th March 2015 || News analysis |
After putting into force temporary rules on e-cigarettes last month, the Netherlands has now moved closer to implementing the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) with a proposal for fuller...
Written by Barnaby Page || 16th March 2015 || News analysis |
Canada is taking the first steps toward much-desired federal regulation of e-cigarettes with the release of a parliamentary committee report making detailed recommendations on the shape of national...
New proposals by the Danish government to transpose the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) into Denmark’s domestic law are the first comprehensive attempt to do so by any European...
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th March 2015 || News analysis |
Consumers’ attitudes to e-cigarettes and tobacco appear to be influenced by factors as diverse as warning labels, TV ads, individual smoking habits and even levels of numeracy, according to recent...
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th March 2015 || News analysis |
Pax Labs, the U.S. heat-not-burn manufacturer previously known as Ploom, today launches a new generation of its namesake device which it is positioning as “the most intelligent, premium and highest performing vaporizer in the...
Written by Barnaby Page || 5th March 2015 || News analysis |
Canada’s third-largest province is poised to introduce e-cigarette rules including a public vaping ban, as provincial governments across the country move to cut across the regulatory confusion created by an uncertain federal...
Written by Barnaby Page || 5th March 2015 || News analysis |
About two thirds of large countries have some form of e-cigarette regulation, and they tend to control the products using existing laws relating to tobacco or nicotine, according to new...
Written by Barnaby Page || 3rd March 2015 || News analysis |
The Danish government has drafted a bill which will allow e-cigarettes to be sold as consumer products – but which also introduces heavy restrictions on their design, marketing and...
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd February 2015 || News analysis |
One of the main architects of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has expressed his strong support for e-cigarettes, starkly separating himself from the position adopted by the FCTC at its Moscow summit...
Written by Barnaby Page || 17th February 2015 || News analysis |
The Californian nonprofit threatening to sue e-cigarette companies over their product labelling says it hopes to pressure the entire industry into marketing e-cigs that are safer and carry mandatory...
Written by Barnaby Page || 11th February 2015 || News analysis |
As U.S. tobacco firm Lorillard enters what seem likely to be its last months of independence, executives may be feeling a little relief that the Blu e-cigarette brand will soon be off their...
Written by Barnaby Page || 11th February 2015 || News analysis |
American cigarette smokers and dual users disagree on key issues in e-cig regulation such as advertising, flavours, and public vaping – and their views seem to be influenced by whether the individuals are e-cigarette users...
Written by Barnaby Page || 8th February 2015 || News analysis |
Switching to e-cigarettes may not ease the symptoms of smokers who are suffering from shortness of breath and coughing. Despite mass-media coverage implying that e-cigs might directly harm the lungs, this was the principal finding of recent research...
Written by Barnaby Page || 6th February 2015 || News analysis |
Big Tobacco continues to push ahead with e-cigarettes and other mass-market reduced-risk products around the world: just in recent days, Philip Morris International (PMI), Imperial Tobacco and Japan Tobacco have all outlined plans to develop their product...
Written by Barnaby Page || 3rd February 2015 || News analysis |
Marlboro maker Altria, biggest of the U.S. Big Tobacco firms, plans further development of its e-cig products this year – and its CEO believes consumers have not yet settled on their favourite...
Written by Barnaby Page || 29th January 2015 || News analysis |
The top public health official in the state of California has all but declared war on e-cigarettes, in a pair of reports that focus closely on the products’ purported health risks while repudiating their claimed...
Written by Barnaby Page || 27th January 2015 || News analysis |
Californian legislators will soon consider another proposal to bring e-cigarettes into the ambit of tobacco legislation, with effects including a widespread ban on vaping in public...
Written by Barnaby Page || 23rd January 2015 || News analysis |
While Washington remains deafeningly quiet on its plans to regulate e-cigarettes, individual U.S. states and lower levels of government are busy filling the legal...
Written by Barnaby Page || 16th January 2015 || News analysis |
Pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline considered bringing its own e-cigarettes to market but decided the category is “just too controversial”, its CEO has...
The e-cig industry is driven by rapidly growing consumer demand, splintered by diverse technologies, threatened by regulation, and niggled at by medical doubts. So the team at ECigIntelligence has drafted a SWOT analysis for the industry as a...
Written by Barnaby Page || 24th December 2014 || News analysis |
Trying nicotine through experimentation with e-cigarettes does not seem likely to lead to a tobacco smoking habit, according to new research from Oklahoma which casts tentative doubt on the “gateway hypothesis” of e-cigs as a pathway to conventional...
Written by Barnaby Page || 11th December 2014 || News analysis |
E-cig brands and manufacturers should pay more attention to product design, all the way from components to packaging, an industry conference was told this...
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th December 2014 || News analysis |
E-cig retailers in Ireland would require licensing under proposed legislation which the government characterises as a first step toward meeting the requirements of the European Tobacco Products Directive...
Written by Barnaby Page || 8th December 2014 || News analysis |
E-liquid has no short-term deleterious effect on human lung cells, according to a German e-cig manufacturer which commissioned research comparing the vapour of nicotine-containing liquid with tobacco...
Written by Barnaby Page || 28th November 2014 || News analysis |
The two largest countries in the world are preparing to launch strict anti-tobacco regulation which could open up huge markets for e-cigarettes or squash them at a hardly-developed stage....
Written by Barnaby Page || 26th November 2014 || News analysis |
Smokers seeking alternatives to the combustible cigarette face problems that neither e-cigs nor nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) can fully solve, according to the CEO of a Swedish firm which is taking a completely different technology...
Written by Barnaby Page || 25th November 2014 || News analysis |
Legislators in Canada’s most populous province are considering a comprehensive e-cig bill which would prohibit vaping in public enclosed spaces, limit in-store marketing, forbid sale to minors, and make flavour bans...
Written by Barnaby Page || 21st November 2014 || News analysis |
E-cigarettes may be more effective than previously thought in reducing craving for tobacco cigarettes and helping people quit smoking, according to a group of Belgian scientists who partially attribute their results to the use of second-generation...