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The EU Tobacco Products Directive (TPD): essential facts
19th May 2016 - News analysis |
Essential facts about the new EU Tobacco Products Directive and its rules for e-cigarettes, which come into practical effect on 20th May 2016.
Health and science
U.S. health institutions accused of deceiving public over e-cig safety
17th May 2016 - News analysis |
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.
PMTAs can use many kinds of scientific support, FDA says
10th May 2016 - News analysis |
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.
E-cigs deserve support, urges UK’s Royal College of Physicians
28th April 2016 - News analysis |
Regulation of e-cigarettes should encourage vaping and reflect its low risk compared with smoking, Britain’s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) says today.
Australian regulator told to assess BAT’s Voke for OTC sales
24th April 2016 - News analysis |
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.
CDC’s numbers reignite debate on youth vaping in the U.S.
22nd April 2016 - News analysis |
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 precaution: why the debate is key to e-cig policy
18th April 2016 - News analysis |
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).
Britain and the U.S.: separated by attitudes to nicotine?
14th April 2016 - News analysis |
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.
UK smoking-cessation services encouraged to suggest vaping
11th April 2016 - News analysis |
New guidance for stop-smoking services in the UK demonstrates how e-cigarettes can contribute to smoking cessation.
E-cig science: do meta-analyses really matter?
5th April 2016 - News analysis |
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?
E-cig researchers beset by accusations of conflict
31st March 2016 - News analysis |
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.
State advertising restrictions running into constitutional problems
25th March 2016 - Marketing & retailing , News analysis |
Attempts to regulate e-cigarette advertising in some U.S. states are falling foul of constitutional law, a new ECigIntelligence in-depth report finds.
Black markets flourish as Asian governments ponder regulation
18th March 2016 - News analysis |
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.
“Cheap date” remark is an expensive mistake as Welsh health bill fails
17th March 2016 - News analysis |
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.
The cancer that wasn’t: doctors fooled by inflammation from vaping
17th March 2016 - News analysis |
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”.
British city council to advocate vaping on No Smoking Day
9th March 2016 - Marketing & retailing , News analysis |
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.
Complete ban predicted in Hong Kong after smoking body’s study
8th March 2016 - News analysis |
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.
Researchers developing automated tweet collection tool
4th March 2016 - Marketing & retailing , News analysis |
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 talked about e-cig use, and » Continue Reading.
16-22,000 more UK smokers quit with e-cigs, study says
2nd March 2016 - News analysis |
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.
French government advised to ban vaping in all public places
27th February 2016 - News analysis |
France should extend its planned vaping restrictions to all public places, the government was this week told by its public-health advisors.
Senate vote puts Califf among e-cig world’s most powerful
25th February 2016 - News analysis |
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 confirmed as new FDA commissioner
24th February 2016 - News analysis |
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.
New youth survey fuels “gateway” claims in Indiana
23rd February 2016 - News analysis |
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.
UK e-cig awareness high, but many are reluctant to try
22nd February 2016 - News analysis |
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.
E-cigarettes become consumer products in Sweden
18th February 2016 - News analysis |
A Swedish supreme court has made e-cigarettes legal consumer products by rejecting the country’s requirement for pharmaceutical licensing.
Medical licence for e-cigarette could stymie attempts to ban public vaping
14th February 2016 - News analysis |
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.
“Retweeting may be hazardous to public health” – study
14th February 2016 - Marketing & retailing , News analysis |
Public-health authorities should monitor e-cigarette firms on social media more closely to prevent non-vapers being tempted into trying nicotine products, new research claims.
Public vaping and the pickled-egg factor: Welsh wrangle continues
12th February 2016 - News analysis |
A new proposal from public vaping in Wales would only set prohibitions in place for certain specific areas – instead of the blanket tobacco-equivalent ban originally proposed.
U.S. state and federal regulation: what to expect in 2016
10th February 2016 - Regulatory reports , Topic regulatory reports |
More vapour-related bills were introduced during the 2015 state legislative sessions than ever before, and ECigIntelligence expects even more vapour regulation to be proposed during the 2016 regular session. This report looks at the current regulatory situation across the U.S. in key areas such as manufacturing, labelling, advertising and marketing, public place usage, youth access and taxation, and forecasts the regulatory trends for 2016.
Updated: US regulation in progress – state-by-state guide, February 2016
9th February 2016 - News analysis |
The latest in a series of regular reports from ECigIntelligence on the progress of vapour-related regulation in the U.S, focusing on the current sessions of state legislatures.
Do TV commercials persuade young people to try vaping?
27th January 2016 - Marketing & retailing , News analysis |
TV ads seen by young people may lead them to start vaping later, researchers claim in a report which is likely to add further fuel to the debate over e-cigarette marketing – a debate where studies that detect an influence are garnering much more attention than those that suggest advertising is less effectual.
Updated: US regulation in progress – state-by-state, January 2016
25th January 2016 - News analysis |
The latest in a series of regular reports from ECigIntelligence on the progress of vapour-related regulation in the U.S, focusing on the current sessions of state legislatures.
Germany to prohibit menthol, many other e-liquid flavours
21st January 2016 - News analysis |
Germany is to ban menthol e-liquid as well as many other flavours when it transposes the EU’s Tobacco Products Directive (TPD).
Cessation: beneath the startling numbers, a study in scientific doubt
21st January 2016 - News analysis |
The furore over Sara Kalkhoran and Stanton Glantz’s meta-analysis of e-cigarettes and smoking cessation illustrates some pitfalls in conducting, and interpreting, science. ECigIntelligence takes an in-depth look at the principles and problems behind the statistics.
U.S. regulation: all the bills in progress, state-by-state
20th January 2016 - News analysis |
The first in a series of regular reports from ECigIntelligence on the progress of vapour-related regulation in the U.S, focusing on the current sessions of state legislatures.
Updated: Germany’s draft TPD plans and beyond
19th January 2016 - Country regulatory reports , Regulatory reports |
Introduction • Regulatory landscape • Current national regulatory framework • National regulatory framework post-TPD • Age restrictions • Product restrictions • Ingredients • Labelling and packaging • Product notification • Annual reporting • Vigilance • Retailing • Public usage • North Rhine-Westphalia • Bavaria • Baden-Württemberg • Lower Saxony • Hesse • Public usage: an inconsistent future? • Advertising and marketing • Taxation • Enforcement • Case law: e-cigarettes as medical products • Case law: e-cigarettes as tobacco products • Case law: tobacco advertising restrictions • The missing pieces from the TPD jigsaw • Graphic: how German e-cigarette regulation will change
U.S. legislative terminology for e-cigarettes and related products
17th January 2016 - Resources |
A list of terms used to describe e-cigarettes and related products by U.S. legislatures
Education, sexuality affect vaping habits – but smoking is main factor
14th January 2016 - News analysis |
Members of sexual minorities are far more likely than others to use e-cigarettes, according to a new U.S. study which also suggests that vaping is most popular among younger, less-educated, and lower-income groups.
CDC report on kids and e-cig advertising may be flawed
12th January 2016 - Marketing & retailing , News analysis |
As the advertising spend of U.S. e-cigarette suppliers escalates, they are continuing to use themes such as independence, rebellion and sex to sell their products – and their advertisements are prompting interest among the many young people who see them, according to a critical report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Yet some of the data relied upon by the CDC appears to raise questions of accuracy and relevance.
Nelson bill passes: U.S. set to require child-proofing on e-liquid
12th January 2016 - News analysis |
The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday gave final legislative approval to a bipartisan bill requiring child-resistant packaging on liquid nicotine sold in the U.S., paving the way for it to become law shortly.
UK’s detailed TPD plans suggest light-touch approach
8th January 2016 - News analysis |
The shape of future e-cigarette regulation in the UK became clearer today with the release of the government’s response to one major public consultation, and the launch of another on the issue of fees.
Pharmacists welcome UK regulator’s licensing of an e-cig
29th December 2015 - News analysis |
Medical licensing of an e-cigarette seems to have been decisive in swinging the favour of Britain’s pharmacists toward vaping.
Scottish hospital board reverses vaping ban, now welcomes e-cigs
23rd December 2015 - News analysis |
The largest health board in Scotland has reversed a decision to ban e-cigarette use on hospital property.
Computer model of anti-smoking laws has lessons for e-cig regulation
22nd December 2015 - News analysis |
The lessons taught by a computer model of anti-smoking policies could also indicate the likely effects of anti-vaping measures.
Omani ban makes e-cig sales illegal in most of Arabia
17th December 2015 - News analysis |
The Gulf state of Oman has become the latest in the region to ban the sale of e-cigarettes.
Welsh government U-turns on proposed public vaping ban
14th December 2015 - News analysis |
The Welsh Labour party has backed down on a proposal to enact a wide-ranging ban on vaping in public spaces. However, it would still like to see some areas marked as off-limits to vapers.
Big Tobacco encouraged by research on heat-not-burn
7th December 2015 - News analysis |
Are big tobacco companies starting to favour heat-not-burn technology over e-cigarettes? While none has shown any signs of overtly stepping away from e-cigs, and such a move is unlikely, much enthusiasm and investment within the tobacco industry seems to be going toward heat-not-burn.
Recent quitters are most frequent vapers, U.S. study suggests
7th December 2015 - News analysis |
More evidence from the U.S. backs up the e-cigarette industry’s contention that non-smokers rarely take up vaping, and also suggests that recent quitters are the most frequent users.
Flavour important for under-age U.S. vapers
29th November 2015 - News analysis |
Most underage vapers in America prefer the taste of mint, clove, fruit, chocolate, or alcohol to plain nicotine juice. More than 80 per cent of the 1,450 teenage respondents who had experimented with e-cigs said that their first ever puff was flavoured. The only products more likely to be flavoured when teens first tried them were hookahs (88.7%), according to » Continue Reading.
Dual users experience significantly lower CO levels
29th November 2015 - News analysis |
It sounds like common sense: if people smoke fewer conventional cigarettes because they are using e-cigs as well, you would expect them to be exposed to fewer harmful substances. And that’s what a study has found after examining the effects on a group of smokers who were trying to quit by using e-cigs, although other research suggests that it may » Continue Reading.
