Market & regulatory data for the vapour sector in Pennsylvania

E-cigs less addictive than cigarettes, says expert at E-cigarette Summit 2023

Written by ECigIntelligence | 26th May 2023

Vaping and smoking addiction should be considered separate from each other, and addiction can manifest regardless of the nicotine consumption method, says public health expert ...

Pennsylvania medical cannabis vape recall linked to added flavours?

Written by ECigIntelligence | 13th May 2022

A widespread recall of medical cannabis vaping products in the US state of Pennsylvania has given rise to questions about the role flavour additives play in product safety and has left patients with more questions...

Study reveals the research flaws that make science on e-cigs hard to trust

Written by Barnaby Page | 10th June 2021

Scientific research into vaping is frequently beset by fundamental flaws that make it difficult to trust, according to a new study of prominent articles in medical journals ...

Philadelphia appeals against court ruling striking down city’s ban on flavours

Written by ECigIntelligence | 10th May 2021

The US city of Philadelphia has appealed for the second time a court ruling halting a 2019 municipal ordinance that restricted the sale of flavoured vaping products to adult-only establishments ...

World No Tobacco Day 2020: the debate about harm reduction

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 31st May 2020

World No Tobacco Day provides an opportunity to consider the approach that public health authorities, policymakers, and advocates around the world have towards the role of tobacco-alternatives products ...

US lung disease outbreak: how far, if at all, is vaping really to blame?

Written by Barnaby Page | 22nd August 2019

News that an unexplained lung condition affecting more than 100 Americans is being linked to vaping could hardly have come at a worse time for the beleaguered e-cig sector ...

Wisconsin budget proposes to apply 71% tobacco tax to e-cig products

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp | 12th April 2019

The $83.4bn, two-year Wisconsin state budget proposal for 2020-2021 proposes a tax of 71% on e-cigs products, by placing them under the existing state tobacco tax ...

FDA files memo in opposition to public health coalition lawsuit

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp | 10th August 2018

This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) filed a memo in opposition to a motion for a summary judgment in US District Court in Maryland for a lawsuit against the tobacco deeming extensions....

FDA’s Gottlieb and Zeller seek to reduce red tape as part of future strategy

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp | 7th August 2018

Commissioner Gottlieb seemingly wants to streamline the premarket approval...

Totally Wicked opts to stay in US after FDA postponement

Written by Daniel Mollenkamp | 4th December 2017

Totally Wicked has decided to not close its business in the US, following the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision to postpone important compliance...

Rebels in two U.S. states refuse to give up the fight against e-cig taxes

Written by Freddie Dawson | 2nd February 2017

Efforts by angry vaping associations to overturn controversial e-cig taxes in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania and Kansas continue, despite...

Even “never-smoking” U.S. vapers mostly used nicotine products

Written by David Palacios Rubio | 15th November 2016

Even the tiny proportion of e-cig users who have never been smokers have mostly used other nicotine products, according to a study of U.S. vapers....

Californians to vote on e-cigarette tax next month (among other things)

Written by Barnaby Page | 17th October 2016

Citizens of California will on 8th November decide the fate of Proposition 56, which introduces a specific tax on nicotine-containing vape products as part of a broader increase in tobacco...

Pennsylvania takes step back from potentially devastating 40% tax

Written by Freddie Dawson | 6th October 2016

A new bill repealing Pennsylvania's 40% retroactively applied e-cigarette tax has passed its first hurdle....

Pennsylvania, West Virginia introduce e-cigarette taxes

Written by Barnaby Page | 21st July 2016

Pennsylvania has become the latest and largest American state to tax e-cigarettes, unusually also deciding to impose its levy on retailers’ existing...

“Retweeting may be hazardous to public health” – study

Written by Freddie Dawson | 14th February 2016

Public-health authorities should monitor e-cigarette firms on social media more closely to prevent non-vapers being tempted into trying nicotine products, new research...

New York fines e-cig suppliers over child-proofing failures

Written by Freddie Dawson | 30th June 2015

New York state’s attorney general has cracked down on e-cigarette firms that violate state laws against selling e-liquids without child-proof...

E-cigarette ads could increase smokers’ desire for tobacco

Written by Freddie Dawson | 26th March 2015

Vaping in TV commercials may increase smokers’ urge to reach for a cigarette and decrease optimism among those that quit tobacco, a new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication...

World’s law-makers favour basing e-cig rules on tobacco

Written by Barnaby Page | 5th March 2015

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...

Vapers “significantly less dependent” than smokers

Written by Marc Beishon | 17th December 2014

Relatively little scientific work has been done on comparing dependence on nicotine via tobacco with dependence on the substance via other delivery vehicles. But new U.S. research attempts to answer this question using a new...

And now Philadelphia too: another city bans public vaping

Written by Barnaby Page | 10th April 2014

Philadelphia yesterday became the latest in the cavalcade of major U.S. cities moving to ban e-cigarette use in public...

Attorneys general implore top U.S. retailers to drop tobacco, but not e-cigs

Written by Barnaby Page | 14th March 2014

The attorneys general of 28 U.S. states and territories have asked the country’s biggest pharmacy chains to stop selling tobacco products – but did not mention e-cigarettes in their...

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