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If you build loyalty, vapers will come, says ad industry

Written by Freddie Dawson | 3rd October 2014

          Engagement and loyalty-building with individual consumers will grow increasingly important for e-cigarette brands in Europe, according to industry experts. But will forthcoming regulation allow it to happen in the easiest...

Chinese manufacturer files to list on NASDAQ

Written by Freddie Dawson | 2nd October 2014

          Kimree, a Chinese e-cigarette manufacturer, has filed to list on the US NASDAQ stock exchange under the acronym KREE. It plans to raise around $125m in its initial public offering...

E-cigarette experts at expos unclear but upbeat

Written by Freddie Dawson | 2nd October 2014

        Paris and Las Vegas: ECigIntelligence director, Tim Phillips recently chaired the E-cig Vegas: Industry Conference discussion panels where experts debated the current business climate in the sector, the upcoming Food and...

Creating a smoking alternative: the inside story of Ploom

Written by ECigIntelligence | 30th September 2014

          E-cigarettes and modified-risk tobacco products may change the face of smoking as we know it today. In this article, republished from Tobacco Journal International exclusively for ECigIntelligence readers, Ploom co-founder...

Media release misrepresented researchers’ cancer findings

Written by Marc Beishon | 29th September 2014

          A science publisher’s own publicity for a research article on e-cigarettes and cancer has been criticised for suggesting conclusions unjustified by the data. For a recent paper in the John...

France plans public vaping ban, but goes harder on tobacco

Written by Barnaby Page | 26th September 2014

France’s health minister yesterday presented her long-awaited proposals on smoking and vaping to the cabinet, going easier on e-cigs than on tobacco but still introducing a public place ban and advertising...

UK pharma regulator approves cigarette-like vapour device

Written by Barnaby Page | 12th September 2014

Britain’s medicines regulator has issued a product licence for the nicotine inhaler Voke, which will be sold by British American Tobacco’s subsidiary Nicoventures and looks likely to be the closest pharmaceutically-approved competitor to the...

Much vaping, little smoking: Utah’s surprising numbers

Written by Barnaby Page | 10th September 2014

Vaping is far more common in the state of Utah than in the U.S. as a whole and has been growing fast, new figures suggest, despite the country’s lowest tobacco smoking rate and strong legislation...

As WHO tobacco meeting nears, e-cigs’ supporters strike back

Written by Barnaby Page | 6th September 2014

Leading European public health figures have this week spoken out against reports to the World Health Organization (WHO) which seem likely to push the international body toward recommending strict regulation of...

Mixing nicotine and cocaine: what the Kandels really said

Written by Barnaby Page | 4th September 2014

Two eminent American scientists have drawn the ire of e-cigarette advocates for suggesting that the products could be a gateway to illicit drugs, with the nicotine in e-liquid enhancing the effect of...

Ban indoor vaping, restrict ads, says World Health Organization

Written by Barnaby Page | 26th August 2014

The World Health Organization (WHO) looks increasingly likely to recommend stringent restrictions on e-cigarettes, following an internal report which suggests measures including a blanket ban on indoor use and tight controls on...

Drop in smokers seeking help: does it mean more use of e-cigs?

Written by Barnaby Page | 21st August 2014

Anti-smoking campaigners in the UK believe the use of e-cigarettes as unofficial cessation aids has contributed to a sharp drop in the number of people joining quit-smoking programmes, although nearly all successful participants in those...

Blu e-cig could be confused with Zippo lighter, says court

Written by Freddie Dawson | 21st August 2014

Zippo Manufacturing, maker of the famous cigarette lighter, has won a round in its worldwide legal dispute over the use of the brand name Blu – also employed by Lorillard for its market-leading...

British firm readies to dispute basis of Europe’s e-cig rules

Written by Barnaby Page | 20th August 2014

A British e-cigarette supplier is the sector’s first independent to launch a legal challenge against the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), the EU rules published this year that will regulate the e-cig market in European member...

North Carolina allows prison inmates to buy e-cigarettes

Written by Barnaby Page | 13th August 2014

Prison inmates in North Carolina are to be allowed e-cigarettes, following an unusual law-making decision which implicitly gives official recognition to the products as substitutes for tobacco...

FDA told it should abandon deeming regs, turn to Congress

Written by Barnaby Page | 10th August 2014

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is likely to have received a deluge of comments in the run-up to the closing of the public consultation period on its e-cigarette regulations last Friday – among...

Senators and state AGs urge FDA action as deadline nears

Written by Barnaby Page | 8th August 2014

The public comments period on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed e-cigarette regulations now has only hours left to run, with the agency likely to have received well over 70,000 responses by the time...

More study needed on complex nicotine-cancer relationship

Written by Marc Beishon | 7th August 2014

Laypeople reading a new opinion paper in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer may be alarmed, but it is important to note that although nicotine can contribute to cancer, on its own the current evidence does...

No basis for tobacco-style rules, says review of e-cig science

Written by Barnaby Page | 3rd August 2014

A new review of medical and public health research on e-cigarettes concludes that tobacco-style regulation is unjustifiably strict, but also suggests that further research is needed on health effects and the relationship of e-cigs to...

Suicide attempt may heighten debate on e-liquid safety

Written by Barnaby Page | 2nd August 2014

A German man’s attempt to kill himself by ingesting e-liquid could add to the clamour for regulating the availability, concentration, and packaging of nicotine-containing fluid on safety...

Blu still on top, but faltering; Lorillard remains optimistic

Written by Barnaby Page | 31st July 2014

Lorillard’s brand Blu retains around a 40% share of the U.S. mainstream retail market for e-cigarettes, an enviable position in many categories. But there are signs in the firm’s latest financial results and in measurement...

E-liquids: are they as dangerous as European regulators think?

Written by Freddie Dawson | 29th July 2014

Could handling e-liquid really be as safe as doing the dishes? European regulations on classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) have been wrongly categorising nicotine as extremely toxic when it should be considered the equivalent of washing-up...

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