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With vaping becoming part of the lifestyle of more people, is it time healthcare professionals routinely asked questions about it, as they might about smoking, alcohol or diet?
Falling Spanish e-cigarette sales have led to job losses, with vape stores closing, according to the country’s Union of Vaping Promoters and Entrepreneurs
E-liquid cartridges with flavours other than tobacco or menthol are to be excluded from the US market at the end of this month, the FDA says, while advertising and marketing will come under scrutiny too
“The year just gone has been an intense one for the vaping industry – and don’t expect 2019 to be any less so.” So we said a year ago. We didn’t know the half of it
The root of the US lung illness outbreak is now believed to lie in vaping of cannabis oils, but the damage to e-cigs’ reputation goes on – as do efforts to restrict vaping, especially flavoured products. Here is the story so far
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have seized 44 websites they said were selling illicit vapour cartridges containing THC
Regulation in Belgium and possibly across Europe may change as a result of the link being made between vaping and a teenager’s death – though that link has not been verified
Marijuana vaping is growing much faster among US teens than nicotine vaping, according to research released by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)
The French National Academy of Medicine (Académie nationale de médecine, ANM) says an outbreak of vaping-related lung illness like that in the US could not happen in France
Switzerland’s Tobacco Prevention Fund should finance e-cigarette initiatives, harm reduction organisations have told the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health
Cannabis vaping products won’t be legally available in Canada’s second-largest province “for the time being” after a decision by the Quebec government-owned cannabis monopoly
Amid all the alarm about vaping, a new study has found that smokers, particularly women, showed significant improvement in vascular health within a month of switching to e-cigarettes
The 2018-19 National Survey for Wales on adult smoking and e-cigarette use shows that e-cigarettes are the most popular tool among Welsh adults to help them in quitting smoking
Some US states are preparing action after vitamin E acetate was named by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the chief culprit behind the outbreak of vape-related lung illness
This report provides an overview of harm-reduction policies with regards to tobacco use from 18 selected countries from around the world
The outbreak of vape-related lung illness across the US is having a damaging effect on e-cig retail, from small vape stores hit by plummeting receipts to big store chains emptying their shelves of vapour products
Germany’s leading authority on the safety of food and chemical products has issued a warning against do-it-yourself mixing of e-liquids and urged vapers to stick to legally regulated products
The Italian Ministry of Health has banned sales of a nicotine salt product from Milan-based company Blendfeel while tests are carried out to ascertain its safety for consumers
More than four out of five adult smokers in the US favour requiring tobacco companies to lower the levels of nicotine in cigarettes to make them less addictive, researchers have found
South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare has announced a set of measures to restrict imports, sales and use of e-cigarettes and recommended users to stop vaping to avoid “lung damage and death”
Rules proposed by the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division could provide a national US model on product safety in the light of the on-going vape-related lung illness outbreak
A motion from a Los Angeles councilmember is requesting the city attorney to prohibit the sale of all e-cigarettes and vaping devices in LA until they are approved by the US FDA
The US FDA has granted its first ever modified risk orders to eight snus products from Swedish Match, which can now be advertised as less harmful than traditional cigarettes
Two UK professors of psychology have called for e-cigarette research to adopt “open science” practices to improve the standard of research and to prevent bias
The Oregon Court of Appeals has temporarily barred governor Kate Brown and the Oregon Health Authority from enforcing a prohibition on flavoured nicotine vapour products
E-cigs that don’t deliver enough nicotine may do more harm than good by encouraging the use of tobacco, according to a new US study. We report on this and other research into vaping prevalence and behaviour
Faced with its first case of a vaping-related illness, Canada’s public health agency is calling on provincial authorities to report cases that could be linked to vaping and has set up a joint federal/provincial task group
With fear running high over the US outbreak of vaping-related lung illness, a number of states have leapt ahead of promised federal action to clamp down themselves on flavoured e-cigarette products
Flavoured vaping products, including those containing CBD and THC, are to be banned in Montana under a 120-day emergency rule from 22nd October
The use of Juul and other e-cigarettes has risen to “epidemic levels” among students in the US, yet there is a lack of awareness and response within schools, according to a new survey
Respiratory effects of e-cigs have been a concern since their introduction, but there is a consistent lack of evidence for any substantial harm – and despite perceptions, the current US lung illness outbreak doesn’t change that
The recent outbreak of lung disease linked to vaping in the US will seriously inhibit growth in the world’s e-cigarette industry over the coming year, ECigIntelligence analysis predicts
How much do consumers in different countries really know about e-cigarettes – and what are public attitudes to vaping? A number of researchers have set out to find answers to these and related questions
Oregon governor Kate Brown has issued an executive order prohibiting the sale of all flavoured vaping products in the state, “including those containing nicotine or THC”
The American public believes nicotine e-cigarettes to be more dangerous than THC vaping, even as official statements on the recent outbreak of lung disease start to emphasise the role of cannabis and play down the involvement of nicotine products
While the CDC has raised the number of suspected lung disease cases to 805, key industry figures admit that vaping in the US is at a crossroads – and the next steps could prove vital
Acting US FDA commissioner Ned Sharpless told a House hearing there would be no blanket e-cigarette flavour ban in response to the country’s outbreak of lung illness
Massachusetts and Rhode Island have joined the list of US states that have banned sales of e-liquids since the lung illness outbreak that was declared at the end of August
Local authorities across South Korea are carrying out patrols to enforce regulations against smoking, vaping and use of heat-not-burn (HnB) products in a wide range of public places
Legalising e-cigarettes in countries where they are currently banned may not be the best available approach to reducing smoking, a recent study suggests
New data has been published by UK anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) to show that there are now half as many vapers in the UK as smokers, with 3.6million people vaping compared to 7.2m smokers in 2018 – and the majority of those vapers are ex-smokers.
The FDA’s draft guidelines for PMTAs acknowledge a continuum of risk in tobacco products, while also placing much emphasis on youth protection
Although in most of the cases THC or other illicit substances have almost certainly been involved, the US outbreak of vape-related lung illness is extremely damaging to the e-cig industry
A new anti-smoking campaign by the Spanish government takes on smoking, vaping, heated tobacco and hookahs under the motto “El tabaco ata y te mata” (“Tobacco ties and kills you”)
How can Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer justify her “emergency rules” action against flavoured e-cigarettes? ECigIntelligence has obtained a copy of the regulations that explain it
In the midst of US president Donald Trump’s declared crackdown on flavoured e-cigarettes, new research finds flavours have a strong appeal to vapers and play a part in initiating e-cig use
Figures released by the Hamburg city council show an increase in vaping by minors – and come with a warning by the researchers about the possibility of youth vaping leading on to smoking
Public health authorities across the 50 US states are using language that ranges from moderate to dramatic in the advice they offer about the recent outbreak of lung illness
Since Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer used her executive authority as governor to ban flavoured e-cigarettes, the public health community has applauded her actions.
German scientists are reviewing the current state of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco devices for a forthcoming report expected to help the federal government shape future legislative approaches
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