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Alaskan House Rules Committee recently voted to revise a bill that had previously designated vaporizers as tobacco products.

In this extended (13 minute) film, experts take a deeper look at the evidence on some of the issues that surround the use of e-cigarettes - including the safety of e-liquids and vapour, secondhand vaping, the 'gateway' theory, and the safety of vaping relative to smoking.

New data reveals a significant decline in number of smokers over last five years, while the daily number of cigarettes consumed has also fallen

Policymakers should be mindful of the extensive research that supports tobacco harm reduction and understand that bans, excessive regulations, or high taxes on e-cigarettes could encourage smokers to stay with more-harmful traditional cigarettes.

Indian Vapers say they want access to Electronic Cigarettes, experts state that Vaping works as a way to quit smoking but lawmakers remain opposed to harm reduction. The country houses 12% of the world’s smokers and loses the equivalent populations of Leicester, Nottingham, Coventry and Canterbury to smoking-related deaths each year.

At the release of the latest findings from University College London, Robert West added a word of caution that the efficacy evidence might not translate to other nations. One week later and reports are coming in from as far apart as Malaysia and Detroit that it does – or would if it were given a chance.

A total saving of around 90 million life-years! Millions of smokers have already made the switch to the safer alternative, E Cigarettes and economists agree that if things keep moving forward at this rate smoking will be eliminated altogether.

When a world leading cancer research rep says that smoking related cancers could be reduced by switching people to E-Cigarettes, you would think the rest of the public health community would take notice. They have, but the reaction is not what you might expect.