Regulatory and market intelligence for the e-cigarette sector
The ECigIntelligence Health hub brings together a wide range of news and opinion from around the world related to the issue of vaping and health – whether e-cigarettes are a major harm-reduction tool or a hazard in themselves.
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.
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 smoking with the use of electronic cigarettes, with possibly the highest quit and reduction rates yet seen in a population survey.
There may be more recent ECigIntelligence reports on this territory. Please visit the home page for the United States or the advanced search page. Introduction On 10th May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finalised its regulations that deemed tobacco products to be subject to the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. […]
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.
The Indian state of Karnataka has become the third to ban e-cigarettes. It follows Maharahstra and Punjab in what appears likely to become a subcontinental trend, as India’s tobacco control tightens and grave concerns about the health risks of vaping are repeatedly pronounced by officials.
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 and figures.
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 industry.
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 study.
As the tobacco industry braces itself for a global epidemic of plain-packaging legislation, there have been calls for the controversial measure to be applied to e-cigarettes too.
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 (TPD).
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 November.
The attitudes of New Zealand’s policy-makers to e-cigarettes seem to be growing more liberal than those of their counterparts in Australia, with the smaller nation edging toward greater tolerance of vaping while the larger maintains an unforgiving stance.
The number of people in Europe who had tried an e-cigarette doubled between 2012 and 2014.
Two new studies on the correlation between youth vaping and e-cigarette advertising are likely to be used to support calls for regulation of marketing – but they may add less to the debate than they seem, being based on the same previously-published numbers.
E-cigarettes, public health and regulation will again be high on the agenda for the annual Global Forum on Nicotine held in Poland next month.
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.
Two large hospitals in England have become the country’s first to reverse vaping bans.
A massive decline in Malaysian vaper numbers has been confirmed by a local industry organisation.
Much of the external influence on the TPD’s formulation came from the pharmaceutical sector – more than from the tobacco companies.
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 risks of ingestion, as well as tight control of industrial nicotine.
This page provides you with links to all ECigIntelligence coverage of the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) since 1st January this year.
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 different.
Essential facts about the new EU Tobacco Products Directive and its rules for e-cigarettes, which come into practical effect on 20th May 2016.
Some of America’s most trusted public-health institutions have been accused of failing to tell consumes about the relative risk of smokeless nicotine products compared with cigarettes, a policy that is likely to cost lives.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes most e-cigarette manufacturers will need to conduct fresh scientific research in order to obtain authorisation for their products under the newly-published deeming regulations – but not necessarily full-blown clinical studies.
Regulation of e-cigarettes should encourage vaping and reflect its low risk compared with smoking, Britain’s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) says today.
Australia’s pharmaceuticals regulator has been ordered to consider an application from Nicovations to register its Voke nicotine inhalator as an over-the-counter medicine.
New numbers on U.S. youth tobacco use from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have caused consternation on both sides of the e-cigarette debate, focused on whether growing numbers of young vapers represent an achievement or a failure in public health.
Harm reduction vs the precautionary principle is an issue which has split public-health experts since the HIV epidemic of the 1980s, and still underlies debates over e-cigarette regulation such as the EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
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?
Conflicts of interest in research can blow up when the tobacco industry is seen to be involved in any area of research on smoking – or, now, vaping.
Attempts to regulate e-cigarette advertising in some U.S. states are falling foul of constitutional law, a new ECigIntelligence in-depth report finds.
E-cigarette regulation is expected in the near future in both Malaysia and Hong Kong, while other southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Vietnam face continuing battles with illegal imports.
A partial ban on the public use of e-cigarettes in Wales has fallen through. But this was not due to a vaper grassroots movement. Instead, it was down to bitterness over a petty insult by a politician.
Never say that medics don’t have a sense of humour, albeit often a black one. A case report by clinicians in Denmark is titled “A cancer that went up in smoke: pulmonary reaction to e-cigarettes imitating metastatic cancer”.
Bristol City Council is openly advocating for the use of e-cigarettes as part of nicotine replacement therapy proceedings, marking a change from normal local government views on e-cigs.
A new study commissioned by Hong Kong’s Council on Smoking and Health (COSH) purports to show significant problems with carcinogens in vapour from electronic cigarettes, leading the organisation to reiterate its calls for a complete ban on the products.
A team of U.S. researchers are in the process of creating a system for collecting e-cigarette data from Twitter. The group has set up a series of algorithms that enable a computer program to automatically sort through large amounts of tweet data from Twitter. The team used the program to classify tweets as ones that […]
A new study estimates that somewhere between 16,000 and 22,000 more people have been able to successfully quit conventional cigarettes for at least a year thanks to electronic cigarettes.
France should extend its planned vaping restrictions to all public places, the government was this week told by its public-health advisors.
Robert Califf has been confirmed as the next head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency which will spearhead federal regulation of e-cigarettes when it releases its long-awaited deeming rule.
Robert Califf has been confirmed as the next head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency which will spearhead federal regulation of e-cigarettes when it releases its long-awaited deeming rule.
A new survey showing higher-than-average e-cigarette usage among high-school-age students in Indiana could influence legislative measures for the sector there.
A new survey from the UK’s Office of National Statistics has found that general awareness of e-cigs is high among the British population, but there is a significant number of smokers who refuse to consider even trying an e-cig.
A Swedish supreme court has made e-cigarettes legal consumer products by rejecting the country’s requirement for pharmaceutical licensing.
A medically licensed e-cigarette could make it impossible to enact voluntary or regulatory bans in the UK. But first BAT’s Nicoventures needs to produce one.
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