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Campaigners have accused two New York state senators of failing to see the wood for the trees after they introduced a bill that could prevent businesses from selling, offering to sell or giving away e-liquids.
Philip Morris International (PMI) will no longer be conspicuous in the tobacco alternatives market by its absence.
Comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its proposed e-cigarette regulations should focus on public health and skip business issues, an industry organisation has advised.
Edits made to e-cigarette proposal documents could significantly weaken the Food and Drug Administration’s final regulations.
PMI becomes the latest tobacco company to enter the UK e-cigarette market with the purchase of the makets of Nicolites.
The proposed e-cigarette regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could face legal challenges on at least five separate grounds if they are enacted without change, a new analysis from ECigIntelligence reveals.
Can nicotine cause cancer? It’s a question that has been posed for some time, and answered in the negative, although some studies have found potentially carcinogenic associations. And now new research raises the issue again.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the period for industry and public comments on its proposed e-cigarette regulations by 30 days, to 8th August.
Two e-cigarette executives drew unusually heated criticism Wednesday from U.S. Senate Democrats during a hearing on what law-makers view as the industry’s aggressive marketing tactics targeting kids.
Ten U.S. public health organisations have today asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to move quickly on child-proofing of e-liquid containers, and extend its proposed e-cigarette regulations to cover flavourings and advertising.
U.S. tobacco colossus R.J. Reynolds is going national with its Vuse e-cigarette next week, after it became the best-selling product in both states where it was trialled.
E-cigarettes enjoy a high level of awareness in the U.S., with media and particularly TV accounting for much of it, according to a new study.
The most successful e-cigarette advertising emphasises the category’s differences from tobacco, rather than similarities, a new U.S. study has found.
The sensitivity of U.S. vapers to e-cigarette pricing is much higher than smokers’ sensitivity to the costs of tobacco cigarettes, according to new research – and sales of refillable units are particularly likely to be affected by price increases.
Vapers are switching away from using e-cigarettes as simulators of tobacco smoking and embracing them as a product category in their own right, according to a new market study.
Does a special supplement on e-cigarettes from one of the world’s best-known medical journals contribute any new knowledge, or is it more about the “known unknowns”?
The American Medical Association (AMA) is urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restrict e-cigarette flavours and set standards for the child-proofing of products.
The U.S. state of New Jersey could become the first to raise the age for purchase of smoking products, including e-cigarettes, to 21.
Research into the prevalence of e-cigarette use needs to distinguish more precisely between regular users and experimenters, according to a new paper.
U.S. e-cig supplier Victory Electronic Cigarettes is claiming leadership of the British and wider European markets following its fourth takeover of the year.
A new study reporting that American youth are being exposed to a growing amount of e-cigarette advertising on TV has led to further calls for marketing of the category to be regulated.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has been urged to adopt a gentle touch on regulation of e-cigarettes in a letter this week signed by more than 50 nicotine science and public health specialists, apparently hoping to head off the prospect of tobacco-style rules.
Law-makers in North Carolina are set to approve legislation imposing a tax on e-cigarettes far lower than that levied on conventional cigarettes.
Big Tobacco’s battle for the U.S. e-cigarette consumer is hotting up, as Reynolds American readies further manufacturing space in anticipation of a national rollout for its Vuse brand.
E-cigarette vapour could increase the virulence of MRSA, the potentially deadly infection that most often takes hold in healthcare settings, according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society’s international conference.
A Texas vape store has won a rare victory in persuading its city council to reverse a ban on using e-cigarettes in the retail outlets that sell them.
E-cigarette patents held by Imperial Tobacco could give the company an advantage in the U.S. market, if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) goes ahead with plans to make obtaining regulatory approval easier for pre-2007 products.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing requests to extend the public comment period on its proposal to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products, a senior FDA official told a a key U.S. Senate committee on Thursday, drawing a decidedly mixed response from the panel’s top Democrat and Republican alike.
The U.S. state of Illinois is considering making child locks for bottles of e-liquid mandatory, a move which would give the state stricter rules than those planned by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
There is little chance of nicotine use becoming grounds for dismissal from jobs across much of the U.S., according to legal experts.
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