In the past year or so, scientists have conducted several systematic reviews that aim to analyse research evidence in order to find whether e-cigs help people quit smoking. The issue addressed by studies like these...
While most of the European e-cigarette industry’s attention is focused on the imminent regulatory upheaval brought about by the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), another set of compliance requirements are also growing in number –...
With only weeks to go before the measures of the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) start to come into legal effect, ECigIntelligence’s European regulatory analysts have identified the major tasks facing e-cigarette...
E-cigarette regulation is expected in the near future in both Malaysia and Hong Kong, while other southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Vietnam face continuing battles with illegal...
A partial ban on the public use of e-cigarettes in Wales has fallen through. But this was not due to a vaper grassroots movement. Instead, it was down to bitterness over a petty insult by...
Never say that medics don’t have a sense of humour, albeit often a black one. A case report by clinicians in Denmark is titled “A cancer that went up in smoke: pulmonary reaction to e-cigarettes...
Australia’s already stringent rules against e-cigarettes look set to get even tighter in some parts of the country, although there are tentative signs that the national regulatory framework could come under...
An e-liquid manufacturer has ended a distribution agreement with a tobacco firm after pressure from customers. But the tobacco firm still maintains a 50% equity stake in the company....
E-cigarettes will likely soon become legally equal to combustible products in California, following the state legislature’s approval of a raft of tobacco measures which also raise the smoking – and vaping – age to...
Bristol City Council is openly advocating for the use of e-cigarettes as part of nicotine replacement therapy proceedings, marking a change from normal local government views on e-cigs....
A new study commissioned by Hong Kong’s Council on Smoking and Health (COSH) purports to show significant problems with carcinogens in vapour from electronic cigarettes, leading the organisation to reiterate its calls for a complete...
There is still significant confusion over the implementation of the EU's Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). Despite the heavy impact it will have on the e-cigarette sector, a number of countries have still made little to...
A team of U.S. researchers are in the process of creating a system for collecting e-cigarette data from Twitter. The group has set up a series of algorithms that enable a computer program to automatically...
The European Union (EU) is still some way from introducing a pan-European tax regime for e-cigarettes, despite recent media reports suggesting it is imminent. The contemplation of e-cigarette tax rules at an EU level arises...
U.S. transportation secretary Anthony Foxx announced a final rule Wednesday to ban the use of e-cigarettes on all commercial flights in the U.S., aiming to avoid confusion over the legal position. “This final rule is...
A new study estimates that somewhere between 16,000 and 22,000 more people have been able to successfully quit conventional cigarettes for at least a year thanks to electronic cigarettes....
Executive summary The growth of e-cigarette popularity has been accompanied by a growing number of patent applications and disputes. The World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) registered more than 1000 patents with the...
An operation by Trading Standards officers in the UK town of Plymouth found that 9 out of 15 retailers still sold e-cigarette products to customers under the age of 18....
Robert Califf has been confirmed as the next head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency which will spearhead federal regulation of e-cigarettes when it releases its long-awaited deeming...
A group of British vapers is convinced that voting to leave the European Union will save the industry and consumers from the looming Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and its restrictions on...
Robert Califf has been confirmed as the next head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency which will spearhead federal regulation of e-cigarettes when it releases its long-awaited deeming...
A new survey showing higher-than-average e-cigarette usage among high-school-age students in Indiana could influence legislative measures for the sector there....
A new survey from the UK's Office of National Statistics has found that general awareness of e-cigs is high among the British population, but there is a significant number of smokers who refuse to consider...
The European Union’s looming Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) includes an obligation for companies to notify authorities with detailed information on e-cig products – for example emissions, toxicology, and product components. ECigIntelligence outlined some of this...
A new study has shown that e-cig advertising, particularly on TV, has created an impression on smokers but has had little actual impact on e-cigarette uptake....
In an unusual show-and-tell episode, a California Republican member of the U.S. Congress vaped during his debate against an amendment to ban the use of e-cigarettes on...
A medically licensed e-cigarette could make it impossible to enact voluntary or regulatory bans in the UK. But first BAT's Nicoventures needs to produce one....
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...
A London-based e-cigarette startup has received £235,000 ($340,000, €300,000) from angel investors which will help it expand from online to offline sales while maintaining its current subscription...
The stalled nomination of Robert Califf to become the next commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received another major boost last week when a motion was filed to limit debate on Califf’s...
A new proposal from public vaping in Wales would only set prohibitions in place for certain specific areas - instead of the blanket tobacco-equivalent ban originally proposed....
Fontem Ventures has signed a patent licensing agreement with Spark Industries, bringing to an end another of Fontem’s disputes over intellectual property in the e-cigarette...
E-liquid with nicotine is illegal in Germany, the supreme court has ruled, because it also contains other substances that the law does not allow to be mixed with tobacco...
The latest in a series of regular reports from ECigIntelligence on the progress of vapour-related regulation in the U.S, focusing on the current sessions of state...
The British e-cigarette sector should seek an early review of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) rather than continue a doomed fight against this year’s introduction of the new EU rules, a politician has...
TV ads seen by young people may lead them to start vaping later, researchers claim in a report which is likely to add further fuel to the debate over e-cigarette marketing – a debate where...