LATEST ALERTS
Health and science
Lambeth Council to provide free e-cigs to pregnant women or caregivers…
24th October 2022 - Alerts | Europe, United Kingdom |
Study published on impact of vaping prevention ads…
14th October 2022 - Alerts | North America, United States |
E-cigs and weed – gateway to confusion between correlation and causation
13th October 2022 - Blogs |
Another study has confused correlation and causation when it comes to youth vaping and the supposed gateway effect – this time linking vaping and later cannabis use
Why ‘wellness’ vapes just might be less healthy than the wicked nicotine kind
6th October 2022 - Blogs |
In demonising nicotine, have many of vaping’s bitterest opponents across the globe got their sights trained on the wrong enemy?
Annual update on vaping health harm evidence published today…
30th September 2022 - Alerts | Europe, United Kingdom |
FDA’s CTP launches resource on vaping and nicotine addiction for US schools
30th September 2022 - News analysis |
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has launched an online resource centre providing science-based, standards-mapped materials that teachers can use to help their students understand the dangers of vaping and nicotine addiction
The disposable truth: what you see on the label may not always be what you get
21st September 2022 - Blogs |
Scientists studying nicotine levels in disposable e-cigs found claims weren’t always backed up by facts. In fact, if their sample is truly representative and their methods accurate, vapers may be getting sold short
Health experts call for a changed public and political mindset on harm reduction
13th September 2022 - News analysis |
US scientists need to communicate more effectively with politicians and the public to ensure the country overcomes a prohibitionist mindset on tobacco harm reduction, according to some public health experts
Report finds novel products a threat to tobacco control progress in the Americas
8th September 2022 - News analysis |
New and emerging nicotine and tobacco products such as e-cigarettes are becoming increasingly available in the Americas and now pose a threat to the progress of tobacco control, a new report says
Minister states concerns over vaping…
8th September 2022 - Alerts | Europe, Scotland, United Kingdom |
Belgian Health Council recommends e-cigs to quit smoking and reduce risks
19th August 2022 - News analysis |
Belgian authorities have embraced harm reduction, with the country’s Superior Health Council advocating for the use of e-cigarettes as both a safer alternative to smoking tobacco and an aid for quitting
Report rubbishes ‘reduced harm’ claims…
17th August 2022 - Alerts | Central America, North America, South America |
20,000 authors of published research on vaping – but who and where are they?
10th August 2022 - Blogs |
Research into e-cigarettes is dominated by American scientists and a few names emerge as clear leaders in the field, despite the involvement of thousands of scholars over the last decade
The news on e-cigarette research may seem relentlessly bad – but do you buy it?
21st July 2022 - Blogs |
Bad news is like sex – it sells. And not every scientist is as rigorous as they might be – those who write their press releases even less so. Which leaves the question of who to believe
Study suggests big rise in mistaken belief about e-cig harm keeps people smoking
11th July 2022 - News analysis |
The number of US adults who think e-cigarettes are more harmful than traditional tobacco products has effectively doubled year on year from 2018 to 2020, according to new research – and that has affected smoking rates
We know the UK is vape-friendly – but can Khan influence the rest of the world?
7th July 2022 - Blogs |
Could the UK’s Khan review of tobacco policy have lessons for the rest of the world in its enthusiastic endorsement of vaping, even for countries where there is far more hostility toward novel tobacco products?
Which side is the e-cig science really on – does it support your tribe or mine?
24th June 2022 - Blogs |
As far as we can tell, God has no opinion on the subject of vaping. Science, almost equally unhelpfully, has plenty of opinions – and they don’t all agree
Khan report receives a largely warm welcome from UK vaping advocates
15th June 2022 - News analysis |
Recognition of the role vaping can play in the future of public health in England has been welcomed, though there is some criticism of proposals to continually raise the legal age for the purchase of smoking products
Dutch health and environment body wants ban on flavours, including tobacco
9th June 2022 - News analysis |
In a first, Dutch health authorities are looking to ban tobacco flavourings on top of those more usually prohibited, such as sweet and fruit flavours
US FDA bends to external pressures and lobbying over following science, says VTA
8th June 2022 - Blogs |
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) actions in the name of public health threaten to have the opposite effect by leaving the vaping sector in the hands of big tobacco, a vaping association claims
Secretary for environment says vaping helps people to quit smoking…
8th June 2022 - Alerts | Europe, United Kingdom |
Health, environment damage: e-cigs and vaping products ‘are not the solution’
3rd June 2022 - News analysis |
Next-generation tobacco products such as e-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco alternatives are not the solution to damage caused by the tobacco industry to both public health and the environment, according to speakers at a World Health Organization (WHO) conference
The WHO’s World No Tobacco Day campaign sparks mixed reactions
2nd June 2022 - News analysis |
On international World No Tobacco Day vaping industry representatives called out the WHO and governments for not supporting smoking alternatives as a cessation tool, but the campaign was celebrated by many charities and health organisations from across the world
Harm-reduction strategies: how much action lies behind the talk?
1st June 2022 - Blogs |
Most tobacco companies are keen to be seen supporting the concept of harm reduction, especially through reduced-risk products like e-cigarettes, heat-not-burn and pouches. But how far is their support for the idea actually having an effect on their activities right now, as well as their future direction?
Canadian vaping survey shows habits and preferences across age groups
27th May 2022 - News analysis |
The age of 25 is a stark divider among Canadian vapers, with differences in ever-use, recent use, flavour preferences and reasons for vaping, according to the recently released 2021 Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey (CTNS) that studied nearly 10,000 Canadians aged 15 and older
EU environmental rules for batteries could spell the end of disposable e-cigs
23rd May 2022 - News analysis |
Vaping hardware could be in for a big shake-up in the EU over the next few years, with the environmental impact of batteries squarely in the firing line
Are worries over novel products distracting from the real problem?
19th May 2022 - Blogs |
Speaking at the launch of the seventh edition of the Atlas, US public health scholar Jeffrey Drope suggested that new nicotine technologies are “a huge distraction” which have “confused governments, the public health community and the public”
Pennsylvania medical cannabis vape recall linked to added flavours?
13th May 2022 - News analysis |
A widespread recall of medical cannabis vaping products in the US state of Pennsylvania has given rise to questions about the role flavour additives play in product safety and has left patients with more questions than answers
New research suggests a link between vape heating mechanisms and EVALI
6th May 2022 - News analysis |
The heating mechanisms of vaping devices may have played a part in the vaping-associated lung injury (EVALI) crisis, new research suggests. Initial theories on the August 2019 outbreak of EVALI in the US quickly linked the condition to the use of vitamin E acetate, a synthetic analogue of naturally occurring vitamin E such as would be found in food
Programme to help teens quit e-cigs is launched…
6th May 2022 - Alerts | New Mexico, North America, United States |
MPs discuss Smokefree 2030 ambition…
27th April 2022 - Alerts | Europe, United Kingdom |
ANVISA director says e-cig evidence ‘not enough’…
26th April 2022 - Alerts | Brazil, South America |
Smoore puts faith in new testing lab to meet Chinese and export standards
26th April 2022 - News analysis |
Chinese e-cigarette company Smoore has opened what it is calling the vaping industry’s first laboratory to test for extractable and leachable (E&L) substances
School district files lawsuit against Juul…
22nd April 2022 - Alerts | North America, United States |
Misinformation and bad press ‘have turned people off the safer alternative’
21st April 2022 - News analysis |
Public opinion is turning against vaping due to misinformation and negative coverage from the media, according to John Dunne, director general of the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA)
Is the current peer-review system really giving us the best possible e-cig science?
20th April 2022 - Blogs |
Is the present system of peer-reviewed journal publication of scientific papers the best way to get the best science – particularly in the vaping world? There are those who think it may not be
Flair 1, Rigour 0 – how The Conversation turned against the benefits of vaping
18th April 2022 - Blogs |
An article in an international news magazine describes what it calls “A damning review of e-cigarettes” – a description that doesn’t do justice to a major piece of academic work that is much more balanced than that suggests
Much company interest but no new licence applications…
8th April 2022 - Alerts | Europe, United Kingdom |
Warning on youth vaping ‘a desperate effort to maintain a crisis narrative’
7th April 2022 - News analysis |
A study warning that vaping may have countered the decline in US youth nicotine usage has been strongly criticised by two professors of health psychology for flawed methods and wrong focus
