How will Australia’s new sales regime work?
11th August 2021 | Blog , Business briefing |
Australian consumers will soon be able to obtain medically licensed nicotine-containing e-cigarettes from community and online pharmacies, but questions remain
WHO puts its case against e-cigarettes: time to round up the usual suspects
5th August 2021 | Blog |
In the heavyweight battle over e-cigarettes between the World Health Organization and the world’s vaping advocates, does anyone really have incontrovertible evidence on their side?
Smoking, vaping and driving – a question of risk perception vs relative true risk
29th July 2021 | Blog |
When a driver dropped a lit cigarette into his lap it could have caused a tragic traffic accident: are such perils the real reason to quit smoking? And are facial injuries a key argument against e-cigs?
To vape or not to vape – that’s not the only question for the globally-focused WHO
4th June 2021 | Blog |
Advocates for e-cigarettes are often infuriated with the position taken by the World Health Organization towards vaping – but might there be some fair reason behind the WHO’s less-than-enthusiastic stance?
Vaping cannabis ‘more dangerous than smoking cigarettes’! Or is it?
12th March 2021 | Blog |
This week’s most prominent vaping story has come with headlines like “Teens vaping pot face more health risk than cigarette smokers”. Which turns out on examination to be somewhat less than the truth
So what’s so wrong with vaping flavours? Chocolate or banana, anyone?
19th December 2020 | Blog |
The real danger in e-liquid flavours may not be a question of who they appeal to, but of what they do to the user’s lungs
E-cigarettes and the young – does anyone have a sure way to keep them apart?
29th November 2020 | Blog |
It’s the question that goes right to heart of e-cigarette regulation – and anxiety about it – all across the world: How can e-cigarettes be kept out of the hands of young people?
Are China’s privately owned e-cigarette businesses living on borrowed time?
16th November 2020 | Blog |
While small private enterprises may be allowed – even encouraged – to thrive, there is always the chance that too rapid growth may provoke the state corporation to move in
If there’s a scientific consensus on e-cigs, it may not be quite what you think
16th October 2020 | Blog |
Is there a scientific consensus on the harmfulness of e-cigarettes? The latest review of the best science on the subject suggests that certain widely-held views don’t have the evidence behind them
Fantasy figures that cloud the real issues in the teen vaping debate
25th July 2020 | Blog |
If 65% of Australia’s teenagers are vaping, where are they all? And, you might ask, where are they getting their vapes, since nicotine vapour products are effectively banned in Australia
How has the ban on vaping imports gone down Down Under?
26th June 2020 | Blog |
Health minister Greg Hunt this week announced a ban on all e-cigarette imports except under medical prescription – effectively a total vaping ban in a country where imports were previously the only legal way to get e-cigs
Could the land that makes e-cigarettes for the world ban them at home?
22nd June 2020 | Blog |
Could China, where most of the world’s e-cigarettes are made, actually be considering banning them? It could have major global repercussions for the whole vaping industry – and so, potentially, for levels of smoking – if it did. A gradual move towards a total e-cig ban was among the proposals put forward at the so-called […]
Are people vaping more or less during the COVID-19 emergency?
12th June 2020 | Blog |
Q: Are people vaping more or less during the COVID-19 emergency? A: It’s complex
Eight months in, what lessons might be learned from India’s e-cig ban?
5th June 2020 | Blog |
India’s blanket ban on e-cigarettes, summarily imposed by the federal government last September, is proving somewhat ineffective
What have LGBTQ youngsters in particular got against vaping?
17th January 2020 | Blog |
How harmful is vaping to the user’s health? While the global scientific jury is still very much out on that one – and, face it, e-cigarettes haven’t been around long enough for anyone to know for certain what their long-term affects may be – your own view on the matter is likely to be shaped […]