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The World Health Organization (WHO) showed no signs of softening in its attitude toward reduced-risk products as its biannual tobacco control conference came to a close in India.
The Welsh are attempting to pass the Public Health Bill once again. This time minus a ban on public vaping.
Totally Wicked will withdraw from the U.S. market by the summer of 2018 if no changes to the FDA deeming regulations are put in place before then.
Companies must work harder to stand out at industry events or face becoming lost in a sea of competition, according to a recent award winner.
Convenience stores can improve their business by stocking less tobacco and more e-cigarettes, a new report claims.
Muddled definitions of addiction are undermining the recognition of e-cigarettes as reduced-risk products, according to specialists in harm reduction.
Barely a year after the Reynolds American takeover of Lorillard, the U.S. tobacco industry may face another upheaval as British American Tobacco (BAT) bids to buy Reynolds itself.
A new UK government body consultation will look at possibilities for new rules on e-cigarette advertising in the UK including whether limited health claims should be permitted for non-medically licensed e-cigs.
Scottish e-cig brand JAC Vapour is looking to take advantage of the growing support for e-cigarettes from Public Health England (PHE) by running an advertising promotion tied in to a national smoking cessation campaign.
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) wants to know whether tobacco shelves in stores can easily be modified to accommodate e-cigarettes.
A new study published in The BMJ by researchers at University College London tests the contentious view that e-cigs, far from aiding in smoking cessation, can in fact undermine motivation to quit.
A new study investigating young people’s perceptions of vaping and smoking has generated dramatic media headlines in the UK despite the tentative nature of the research findings.
Four out of ten English retailers are still unsure about age restrictions on e-cigarette products, according to a new review.
Nicoventures, the e-cig arm of British American Tobacco (BAT), is putting together a proprietary “toolbox” of pre-tested flavour ingredients for e-liquid to help it deal with the world’s rapidly changing regulatory frameworks.
UK doctors would consider recommending e-cigarettes for patients looking to quit smoking, but they would not want to see them available on National Health Service (NHS) prescriptions.
New advice from UK authorities advises consumers to switch from conventional smoking to vaping at home because of the reduced risk in fire as well as the health benefits for bystanders – particularly children.
New guidance on public-vaping policies from Public Health England (PHE) provides a detailed rationale for allowing e-cigarette use even where smoking is forbidden.
What do you get when you take 20 smokers and 20 non-smokers, give them tobacco cigarettes to puff on, and then ask them to try e-cigs? A study from the Sapienza University of Rome is one of the few to look at the direct effects of e-cigarettes on the functioning of the human body.
A new e-liquid flavour is targeting one of the narrowest niches yet addressed by the e-cigarette industry: fans of the Scottish soft drink Irn-Bru.
The British Medical Association is going against the trend of UK professional medical bodies and sticking to a more sceptical line on e-cigarettes, backing a public vaping ban.
The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has been accused of ignoring its own founding document in taking a stance against e-cigarettes, as well as neglecting the governance principles of its ultimate parent the United Nations.
Two new studies have reached profoundly different conclusions on the relationship between e-cig usage by young people and their take-up up of conventional tobacco – differences that may be partially explained by one coming from the U.S. and one from the UK.
A new systematic review of e-cigarettes and smoking cessation is claimed to be the most comprehensive so far as it covers not only published, peer-reviewed studies – including observational research as well as RCTs – but also so-called “grey literature”, material published outside of peer review.
The proposed Welsh public vaping ban is officially dead.
Two large hospitals in England have become the country’s first to reverse vaping bans.
The first meeting of an ISO standards committee covering e-cigarettes will take place on 24th October in Osaka, Japan.
A new study has shown some relation between e-cigarette point-of-sale (POS) advertising and youth uptake of e-cigs. But the authors urge people to not jump to conclusions because of the results.
Differing views of nicotine in Britain and the U.S. may underlie a sharp contrast in official attitudes toward e-cigarettes, according to a group of public-health scholars.
New guidance for stop-smoking services in the UK demonstrates how e-cigarettes can contribute to smoking cessation.
In the past year or so, scientists have conducted several systematic reviews that aim to analyse research evidence in order to find whether e-cigs help people quit smoking. The issue addressed by studies like these (which can also be known as meta-analyses) is, of course, one of the primary public-health and policy questions about the devices. But how much value should we place on their findings?
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