A recent study and review by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands has brought to the fore questions regarding e-cigarette vapour testing methods and the possible health risks of...
French e-liquid manufacturer Gaïatrend has strengthened its U.S. presence despite the uncertainty brought about by the FDA’s deeming regulations, and is confident they will be amended via one legal route or...
New guidance on public-vaping policies from Public Health England (PHE) provides a detailed rationale for allowing e-cigarette use even where smoking is...
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...
The Advertising Association in the UK has called for bans on e-cigarette advertising in various media to be lifted, while the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) found no problem with an advertisement in the recent “Just...
New e-cigarette taxes are due to be introduced in Hungary and Slovenia, bringing to eight the number of European countries which impose special levies on the...
At June’s Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw, ECigIntelligence editorial director Barnaby Page took a look at some of the inconsistencies that are emerging in European regulation of e-cigarettes despite the standardisation imposed by the EU...
British e-cigarette businesses have reacted cautiously to the UK referendum vote in favour of leaving the European Union, although some users have seen it as a triumph for...
However badly Britain’s skeptical Brexiters may feel the European Union has failed them, it appears to have delivered a big new prize to advocates of vaping: new research showing that 6.1m Europeans have given up...
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union following yesterday’s knife-edge referendum will have little immediate impact on either vapers or the...
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...
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...
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...
Last month’s e-cigarette commercials on British TV as part of Blu’s “Just you and Blu” campaign will probably prove to be the last ever in the country, but the Imperial Brands subsidiary is continuing...
As Britain’s debate on whether to leave the European Union reaches fever pitch in anticipation of Thursday’s referendum, vapers and e-cigarette advocates are as divided as the split...
Stories about the poisonous threat of e-cigarettes have been hitting the headlines in recent years, particularly cases affecting young children, and the most serious incidents have involved fatalities. We take a look at the facts...
All British e-cigarette brands marketed as “lite” will have to change their names in order to comply with the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), at an estimated cost of £23m (€30m,...
The EU’s Common Entry Gate for e-cigarette product notifications is now fully up and running – and manufacturers who used the interim version launched in May have only until 24th June to transfer those submissions...
A senior scientist in the tobacco sector will this week urge the editors of scientific journals not to exclude research on e-cigarettes that is produced or funded by the...
Young vapers in the UK do not see e-cigarettes primarily as substitutes for conventional tobacco products and are attracted to them for different reasons, according to a new...
Altria subsidiary Nu Mark has successfully launched a recall for some of its Green Smoke chargers. But is all of the industry ready to act if things go suddenly wrong?...
Two British members of the European Parliament have asked the EU to take the first steps in reassessing the scientific information that supports its Tobacco Products Directive...
Tobacco control leaders from around the globe will be presented with the latest findings of the World Health Organization (WHO) on e-cigarettes and public health at a meeting in India this...
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 –...
The EU may be resorting to Excel spreadsheets and email after failing to get its online gateway for e-cigarette manufacturers up and running by today’s...
The EU’s new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and national legislation are broadly sufficient to protect the public from nicotine poisoning, an official European study has concluded. But it does recommend further consumer education on the...
Europe’s online e-cigarette vendors are so far overwhelmingly ignoring new Internet sales bans where they exist, and taking full advantage of delays in legislation where they...
The Republic of Ireland has succeeded in transposing the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) at the eleventh hour, with recently-appointed health minister Simon Harris signing the necessary regulations to come into force...
UK e-cig firms feel as prepared as they can be for the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), but many would still have liked to see it overturned by the European Court of...
Although the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) and the U.S. deeming regulations are coming into effect almost simultaneously this summer, their approaches could hardly be more...
While the U.S. deeming regulations and the EU’s TPD will come into effect almost simultaneously this summer, bringing some regulatory consistency and clarity to the world’s largest e-cigarette markets, their approaches could hardly be more...