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

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.

A leading E-Cigarette scientist has defended links between the Tobacco and Vaping industries.

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

Across Canada, some provinces have legislated that e-cigarettes are equivalent to tobacco products, by promoting the idea that combustible tobacco smoke and vapour are equally harmful. The assertion that e-cigarettes are not a viable cessation tool is scientifically incorrect, morally dangerous and likely in violation of our charter right to access harm-reduction alternatives

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.

This is the first long-term research into the effects of vaping in former tobacco users