The involvement of the tobacco and pharma industries could be crucial if a new international society on nicotine studies is to make a contribution to the public health and regulation debate - but that will...
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...
Battle lines are drawing up around the World Health Organization (WHO) as it prepares to formulate policy on e-cigarettes which will powerfully influence most countries’ domestic...
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...
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...
Another large British e-cigarette manufacturer is being acquired by an overseas company, as the UK market becomes a battleground for international e-cig and tobacco...
U.S. e-cig supplier Victory Electronic Cigarettes is claiming leadership of the British and wider European markets following its fourth takeover of the...
The process of drawing up detailed rules on e-cigarettes to implement the new European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) could become mired in political disagreements, following a European Parliament election which has fragmented power in...
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...
Robust evidence for e-cigarettes’ effectiveness as aids to smoking cessation effectiveness has until now been sparse. But that may have changed, if the conclusions of a large study published in the journal Addiction prove to...
With two years still to run before the European Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) comes into practical force, there are hints already that regulation will bring about a consolidation in major e-cigarette...
A nasty surprise could await those who believe that Fontem’s patent litigation against an assortment of e-cigarette makers will be rendered irrelevant by the U.S. market moving to open-tank system designs, not covered by the...
British pharmacies have yet to fully exploit the retail opportunities presented by e-cigarettes, according to a prominent market researcher, although pharmacy professionals themselves disagree vehemently over how to approach e-cigs that aren’t medically...
Feeding consumers’ hunger for information on e-cigarettes is essential if the category is to flourish at retail, according to one of the biggest British brands in the...
E-cigarettes are on the agenda for a host of trade and professional conferences over the coming weeks, reflecting the urgent need for understanding of new regulatory measures as well as the sector’s development and improving...
A new survey on e-cigarette usage in the UK from pressure group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) highlights the extent of dual use with tobacco, and the differing product choices of current and former...
The European Union’s revised Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) becomes law in three weeks, setting it on the road to full implementation by member states in...
The new regulations for e-cigarettes proposed yesterday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are the second major regulatory framework for the products to appear in two months, following the European Union’s release of...
The European Union (EU) does not plan to issue detailed guidance on how e-cigarette regulations in the recent Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) should be interpreted, according to a source close to the EU’s Directorate General...
U.S. e-cig manufacturer Victory Electronic Cigarettes is further strengthening its position in the European market with the acquisition of British counterpart VIP, the second UK firm it has bought this...
More details are emerging of likely changes to the Italian tax regime on e-cigarettes, following a court challenge to rules which came into effect in the new...
The European Parliament’s new rules on e-cigarettes in the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) have grabbed the attention of key members of the U.S. Senate, generating mixed reactions on whether it should influence the efforts of...
British e-cig vendor JAC Vapour is taking an unusual approach for its first advertising campaign, presenting its products in a manner more typically employed for personal technology...
The man who leads the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) wants to see e-cigarettes brought into the international agreement, according to a news report...
E-cigarettes made the headlines today in Britain, and they weren’t good ones. The Sun, the nation’s biggest-selling daily newspaper, ran a story headlined “E-Cig Gran Blown Up In Hospital” on its front...
The Spanish e-cigarette sector is now working under national-level regulation for the first time, after the introduction of a new law which anticipates the measures required by the European Tobacco Products...
The European Commission is expected to issue technical specifications on the measurement of nicotine intake from e-cigarettes, as member states’ law-makers and the industry prepare to comply with the testing requirements of the EU’s new...
A Member of the European Parliament involved in the drafting of the EU’s new Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) has criticised the finally adopted version, which the Parliament voted for in late February, as “hastily-drafted and...
A British right-wing political party received £36,000 ($60,000) in donations from an e-cigarette manufacturer before its leader appeared in a YouTube video apparently designed to influence European policy-making on...
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint concerning health claims made in advertising literature by e-cigarette maker Ten...
E-cigs do not generally act as a gateway to smoking, according to British smokers and ex-smokers surveyed by Mintel for its new “Smoking Cessation and E-cigarettes”...
The UK’s two Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP and BCAP) today launched a consultation on e-cigarettes before shaping new rules on advertising the...
The European Parliament voted today in favour of revising the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), bringing e-cigarettes under its control for the first time and raising the prospect of further wrangling across Europe as member...
What e-cigarettes can and can’t do, compared to tobacco cigarettes, is a subject of fierce and continuing debate. One difference, however, is clear: no tobacco product can double as a microphone for a mobile phone...
The debut today of TV commercials for the Vype e-cigarette from British American Tobacco/Nicoventures is likely to focus attention on the regulation of e-cig advertising....