Philip Morris Patents Smart Internet-Connected Electronic Cigarette
Philip Morris International, has recently received its patent for a smart electronic cigarette that can communicate with a host computer/tablet in order to upload or download data. The concept of 'smart e-cigarettes' that can connect to the internet is not entirely new. Last year, the guys at R/GA, a New York-based creative agency, unveiled the TweetingCiggy, a concept...
Read More...War on Electronic Cigarettes Leads to Tobacco Cigarette Sales Recovery in Italy
A recent statement made by Giovanni Risso, president of the Federation of Italian Tobacconists, which revealed that tobacco cigarette sales have risen 3 percent in the first seven months of 2014 compared to the same period of last year, has convinced Italian public health experts that the Government's war on e-cigarettes has had the worst possible result. In an
Read More...E-Cigarette Company Wins Right to Challenge New EU Tobacco Directive in Luxembourg
Totally Wicked, one of the largest independent electronic cigarette companies in Europe, has recently won a preliminary hearing in London that will allow it to challenge Article 20 of the EU tobacco directive which defines regulations for e-cigarettes. When the new tobacco directive comes into effect in May 2016, the e-cigarette market will be radically altered, with many of the reusable vaporizers available today being completely removed. The limits imposed on the...
Read More...Mistic Becomes First E-Cigarette Company to Shift Production from China to the US
Greenville-based e-cigarette company Mistic recently announced it has shipped production from China to the US, making it the first independent electronic cigarette company to so. The move, first announced in April 2014, comes in response to growing quality concerns and the prospect of tighter federal regulations. Following the official announcement of proposed...
Read More...Tobacco Giant Pushes Electronic Cigarettes as Medicine to Enter Australian Market
Despite the constant controversy surrounding them, electronic cigarettes have become really good business in the United States and Europe. However, things are much different in Australia, due to restrictions on the retail sale of nicotine-containing products. But that hasn't stopped one tobacco company from sneaking its electronic cigarettes into the market by pushing them as medicine. According to documents revealed by the
Read More...Tobacco Companies Voluntarily Slap Lengthy Health Warnings on Electronic Cigarettes
For decades, tobacco companies fought lengthy legal battles to keep health warnings off their cigarette packs, which makes their decision to voluntarily include lengthy warnings on their electronic cigarette packs that more strange. Virtually every respectable e-cigarette brand has very clear warnings regarding the use of nicotine by adults only, the addiction caused by nicotine or the dangers it poses when used by pregnant women included on the packaging. Since the...
Read More...Reputed European Oncologist Defends E-Cigarettes as a Way to Fight Lung Cancer
Dr. Umberto Veronesi, a reputed Italian surgeon and scientific director of the European Institute of Oncology, has recently spoken in defense of electronic cigarettes as a way of fighting lung cancer and generally improving public health. For years, Dr. Veronesi, along with other Italian health experts like Carlo Cipolla, of the European Institute of Oncology, Ricardo Polosa, of the University of Catania and Umberto Tirelli, of the National Cancer Institute in Aviano, has...
Read More...Electronic Cigarettes Inspire Tobacco Company to Create World’s First Cigarette-Shaped Nicotine Inhaler
Tobacco giant British American Tobacco (BAT) has announced that the Voke, its first ever venture into the field of nicotine inhalers, has just received a medical license from the UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Industry analysts expect the cigarette-shaped inhaler to hit store and pharmacy shelves sometime in the first half of next year. Is this not the most ironic thing you've ever heard? A company that has been undermining public health...
Read More...Health Experts Criticize World Health Organization for ‘Alarmist’ Report on E-Cigarettes
Reputed researchers and tobacco health experts from University College London and King College London, in England, recently took a stand for electronic cigarettes and criticized the World Health Organization's report on the revolutionary devices, calling it 'alarmist' and 'misleading'. "We were surprised by the negativity of the commissioned review, and found it misleading and not an accurate reflection of available evidence." Professor Ann McNeill, lead author from the...
Read More...Are Specialized Vape Shops to Blame for the Drop in Electronic Cigarette Sales?
After years of exponential growth, the electronic cigarette market appears to be losing steam as 2014 sales drop significantly compared to the last three years. In the last two years, e-cigarette sales at convenience stores and other traditional retailers like supermarkets and drugstores soared by 150%, after a staggering 475% growth in 2011. Business was booming, and new brands entered the market virtually every single day. A recent study conducted by Dr Shu-Hong Zhu and...
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