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...
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th November 2014 || News analysis |
When policy-makers, scientists and health professionals gather in the august halls of London’s Royal Society for the E-Cigarette Summit this Thursday, it will be just the start of a busy conference season in...
Written by Barnaby Page || 7th November 2014 || News analysis |
The British Standards Institution (BSI) has released a draft of its specification for the manufacture, testing and labelling of e-cigarettes, one of the first proposed comprehensive standards for vapour products in the...
The multi-layered regulatory framework • Tobacco regulation – the multi-layered model in action • No federal regulation of e-cigarettes • The role of Health Canada • Provincial regulation • Municipal regulation • Trade associations and industry standards •...
Written by Barnaby Page || 30th October 2014 || News analysis |
Marlboro maker Altria has pushed out its MarkTen e-cig to nearly 80,000 U.S. stores, with more due to start stocking the product soon, and is working with retailers to get maximum exposure on their...
Current regulatory framework • French courts and their precedents • Recent French regulatory initiatives • Implementation of TPD article 20 • Trade and consumer associations, case law and...
Written by Barnaby Page || 27th October 2014 || News analysis |
The U.S. e-cigarette market is worth more than previously estimated, thanks in part to increased growth in sales of refillable tank systems, according to new research from...
Written by Barnaby Page || 24th October 2014 || News analysis |
Reynolds American and Lorillard, the two U.S. tobacco giants expected to merge next year, both expressed great expectations for e-cigs in announcing their latest quarterly...
Regulatory control of advertising in the UK • Existing UK advertising restrictions • The New UK Rules • Non-statutory regulation of e-cigarette advertising in France • The two regimes: few...
Written by Barnaby Page || 19th October 2014 || News analysis |
The final recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) on e-cigarettes allow for a wide range of regulatory regimes but single out advertising as a prime candidate for controls, as expected, as well as hinting at the need...
Heavy-handed regulations for e-cigarettes • The DSHEA: a much lighter touch • Industry-friendly provisions for dietary supplements • Resisting tighter regulation for dietary...
Written by Barnaby Page || 14th October 2014 || News analysis |
As the world’s nations sit down at the Moscow World Trade Centre this afternoon to debate e-cigarette regulation, relations between the public health community and vaping activists appear likely to grow even...
Written by Barnaby Page || 13th October 2014 || News analysis |
A row between public health academics and one of America’s biggest vaper organisations has highlighted divisions of opinion on how e-cigarette use should be...
Written by Barnaby Page || 10th October 2014 || News analysis |
An international group of NGOs has tried to identify middle ground between the die-hard opponents and supporters of e-cigarettes in the run-up to next week’s World Health Organization (WHO) meeting on regulating...
Written by Barnaby Page || 9th October 2014 || News analysis |
Britain’s advertising standards-setters today published their new guidelines for e-cigarette ads, welcomed by the industry, imposing no unexpected restrictions, and allowing e-cigs to be shown in TV commercials for the first...