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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...

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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...

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Workplace tobacco bans should apply to e-cigs too, CDC told

Written by Barnaby Page | 22nd September 2014

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been asked to recommend e-cigarette bans in American...

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Four in five British youngsters say they wouldn’t try vaping

Written by Barnaby Page | 18th September 2014

About one in 50 British teens uses e-cigarettes regularly, but there seems little interest in the products among non-smoking minors, according to new...

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Public health leader resigns after Twitter outburst at vapers

Written by Freddie Dawson | 15th September 2014

A British government health adviser has been forced to resign after a Twitter tirade at his opponents in an argument about...

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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...

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Foe of light-touch regulation takes Europe’s top health role

Written by Barnaby Page | 10th September 2014

The top health position in the European Commission has gone to a politician who strongly advocated that e-cigarettes be treated as...

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Study hints at low wages, high appetite for fun among vapers

Written by Barnaby Page | 28th August 2014

Is the typical American vaper a young, divorced father with a bar-hopping habit, prog-rock tastes and not much of a...

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CDC: more non-smoking teens are vaping; many plan to smoke

Written by Barnaby Page | 26th August 2014

New data on vaping habits and smoking intentions among U.S. youth will provide further ammunition for those sceptical on e-cigarettes’ public health...

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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...

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E-cigarettes are not ruled out for quitting, says heart group

Written by Barnaby Page | 26th August 2014

Medical professionals should support but not promote the use of e-cigarettes in smoking cessation attempts, says the American Heart Association (AHA) in a new policy statement on the...

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In Poland, many fickle vapers seek their bargains at auction

Written by Barnaby Page | 19th August 2014

Low brand loyalty, low tobacco prices and the popularity of online auctions are among the factors keeping down the value of the Polish e-cigarette sector, but it remains one of Europe’s larger...

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Regulation “could make stores more important than online”

Written by Freddie Dawson | 16th August 2014

Does the future of the e-cigarette industry lies in bricks-and-mortar retail sales rather than...

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Oxford researchers investigate just what vaping means to us

Written by Barnaby Page | 14th August 2014

The term “vape” has just been added to Oxford Dictionaries’ huge list of English words, joining “e-cigarette”, which has been there since...

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Many U.S. doctors believe e-cigs have a role in smoking cessation

Written by Barnaby Page | 11th August 2014

Two thirds of American doctors in a small survey believe e-cigarettes can help patients give up smoking and a third recommend them for that purpose, according to a new...

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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...

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Italian industry fears new tax will add 600% to e-liquid price

Written by Barnaby Page | 7th August 2014

Italy’s Council of Ministers has approved a controversially high new tax on e-cigarettes, which would add an estimated 600% to the price of...

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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...

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Survey suggests many UK doctors oppose e-cigarettes

Written by Freddie Dawson | 30th July 2014

A new survey suggests that two-thirds of UK doctors would like to see greater restrictions on the accessibility of...

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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...