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E-cigarette use continues to rise, with 6.3% of British adults vaping in 2018, up from 5.5% the previous year, according to figures analysed by NHS Digital earlier this month.

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.

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

Smoking shelters should become "vaping lounges" for less risky e-cigarette use, NHS bosses said.

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.

A forthcoming study investigating the health impact of aerosol vapour emitted from Electronic Cigarettes shows it poses no meaningful secondhand risks.

Amid the news that MPs will carry out an inquiry into e-cigarettes, Professor John Britton discusses e-cigs as a tool to help stop smoking, the gateway theory, the possibility of e-cigs on prescription and the effects of nicotine.

The consensus statement, published by Scotland's national health education and promotion agency, was agreed by the Scottish government, health boards, academia and charities such as the British Lung Foundation and Cancer Research UK.

Studies have consistently shown vaping to be far less hazardous than smoking with the Royal College of Physicians concluding the risks of vaping are unlikely to exceed 5 percent of those of smoking.

“The substantial increase in e-cigarette use among US adult smokers was associated with a statistically significant increase in the smoking cessation rate at the population level”, said the latest study published on BMJ.

A new study funded by Cancer Research UK is the first to explore the effects of e-cigarettes by looking at long-term human body-level exposure. The results are promising.

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.

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.