Regulatory and market intelligence for the e-cigarette sector
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The British Standards Institution (BSI) has released a draft of its specification for the manufacture, testing and labelling of e-cigarettes, one of the first proposed comprehensive standards for vapour products in the world.
This article, republished from Tobacco Journal International exclusively for ECigIntelligence readers, takes a look at changes in smoking prevalence and smoking populations around the world – and explains some surprising apparent contradictions.
British plans for comprehensive legislation on e-cigarettes could be published as early as January 2015, according to a new report from ECigIntelligence.
E-cigarette use has tripled amongst Polish teenagers, according to a new study from the Department of Health Behavior at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) in the United States and Poland’s Medical University of Silesia.
More than half of Britons would like to see a ban on e-cigarette use indoors, according to new research conducted by YouGov for the Sunday Times newspaper.
This week’s World Health Organization (WHO) conference on tobacco control looks likely to recommend that nations ban e-cigarette advertising.
An international group of NGOs has tried to identify middle ground between the die-hard opponents and supporters of e-cigarettes in the run-up to next week’s World Health Organization (WHO) meeting on regulating e-cigs.
Britain’s advertising standards-setters today published their new guidelines for e-cigarette ads, welcomed by the industry, imposing no unexpected restrictions, and allowing e-cigs to be shown in TV commercials for the first time.
Britain’s advertising watchdog has censured e-cigarette maker Ten Motives for a direct mail item which showed an e-cig stuck into an ice cream, saying it was “likely to be appealing to children”.
A British e-cigarette maker has won the right to challenge the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) at the EU’s main court.
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 Wiley & Sons journal Cancer, entitled “Electronic cigarette use among patients with cancer”, researchers investigated people enrolled in a tobacco […]
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 restrictions.
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 research.
A British government health adviser has been forced to resign after a Twitter tirade at his opponents in an argument about e-cigarettes.
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 e-cigarette.
The top health position in the European Commission has gone to a politician who strongly advocated that e-cigarettes be treated as medicines.
Four leading health organisations in Denmark have warned consumers to be wary of e-cigarettes.
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 advertising.
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 schemes are still relying on pharmacotherapies.
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 states.
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 e-liquids.
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 smoking.
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 grounds.
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 liquid, a new report claims.
A Swedish court has upheld attempts by the country’s medical products regulator to treat nicotine-containing e-cigarettes as pharmaceuticals, meaning that they must go through a licensing process and cannot be sold in outlets such as groceries and convenience stores.
Divisions among British pharmacists over whether to sell e-cigarettes, and who to, have been further highlighted this week by a survey showing that a substantial minority would support making the products available to under-18s.
Recent research on the possible cardiovascular health effects of nicotine and smokeless tobacco have generated fierce rejoinders from advocates of e-cigarettes.
The e-cigarette industry has much to learn from the experiences of the online gambling business, including the precedence of politics over science, according to a new analysis by ECigIntelligence.
Almost three out of four independent UK pharmacies failed to stop under-age consumers attempting to purchase an e-cigarette, according to a new investigation from two UK governmental bodies, Public Health England and the Trading Standards Institute (TSI).
The major gaps in scientific knowledge of nicotine are related to delivery methods rather than the substance itself, according to one of the most prominent researchers in the e-cigarette field.
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