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WHO told to go easy on e-cigs, consider health benefits

29th May 2014 | News analysis |

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.

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FDA lambasted over comments process, inaction on flavours

18th May 2014 | News analysis |

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.

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U.S. senators bid to ban vaping in the corridors of D.C. power

8th May 2014 | News analysis |

The world’s most powerful deliberative body has been asked to decide a question that sounds both simple and modern: to vape or not to vape. But leading Democrats – whose party currently holds power in the U.S. Senate – are once again discovering just how deliberative that august body can be.

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FDA’s product approval process is biggest worry for e-cig sector

25th April 2014 | News analysis |

The deeming regulations on e-cigarettes issued yesterday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were largely expected by the industry and greeted without panic, although concerns were raised over the product approval process and the underlying philosophy of regulating all nicotine-containing products in a similar way.