Blog

While the US FDA announces a new blitz aimed at targeting E-Cig sales to minors, a UK minister has said he would consider placing e-cigarette adverts on cigarette packets.

In a somewhat extraordinary and unexpected development Scott Gottlieb, the newly appointed head of FDA, has announced that the submission deadline for PMTAs is to be delayed until 2022.

This report provides an update on the use of harm reduction in tobacco smoking, in relation to all non-tobacco nicotine products but particularly e-cigarettes. It shows that, for all the potential risks involved, harm reduction has huge potential to prevent death and disability from tobacco use, and to hasten our progress to a tobacco-free society.

For the first time, more than half of the UK's electronic-cigarette users have since given up smoking tobacco, a study suggests.

New research suggests availability of e-cigarettes makes smoking appear less attractive to young people, discourages tobacco uptake.

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

There has been an interesting mix of small businesses and Big Tobacco companies that have entered the vaping industry in the last five years, but the newest player speculated to be entering the arena may just be the most well-known: Apple.

Lots of other plants contain nicotine, including eggplant, potatoes, and tomatoes. So, one forward-thinking company named Next Generation Labs decided to test the FDA’s logic.

An excise duty of €0.30/ml now applies to all e-liquids, even those without nicotine, and the only flavor allowed is "tobacco". In the future, cross-border sales of e-liquid will be banned, a situation that will turn the 50,000 Finnish vapers into cash cows.

If Old Hollywood glamour is defined by the thickness of the cloud hovering over any given gathering of VIPs, then we’re in a golden age.

E-cigarette vapour does not damage DNA, even at doses 28 times that of equivalent smoke exposure.

The Health Information and Quality Authority has said that an increased use of e-cigarettes by smokers trying to quit "would increase the number of people who successfully quit compared with the existing situation in Ireland."

Scientists at British American Tobacco have compared the potential for cigarette smoke and Vapour to cause genetic mutations in bacteria strains. Genetic mutations are thought to be involved in the development of cancer and this study will add more weight to the argument that Vaping should be being championed by the likes of the World Health Organisation rather than being treated with caution.

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.

Rigorous assessment of available evidence on E-Cigarettes