Online Survey Shows E-Cigarettes Are a Viable Alternative to Smoking
A recent online survey conducted on The Electronic Cigarette Company (TECC) and Totally Wicked E-Liquid customers has revealed that they have either replaced analogs with e-cigarettes completely or have significantly cut down their smoking. The survey was hosted at the University of East London with links from TECC/TWEL websites from September 2011 to May 2012. Its fiding was based on responses from 1,347 vapers from 33 countries (72% European), with an average age of...
Read More...American Cancer Society Advocacy Group Asks FDA to Regulate E-Cigarettes
Chris Hansen, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), has issued a statement urging the FDA to regulate electronic cigarettes, after the results of a CDC study showed e-cigarette awareness has increased considerably in recent years. Just days after the CDC published the results of a study that showed one in five US smokers had tried...
Read More...Bad News for E-Cigs: Pharmaceutical Consultant to Head FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products
Despite their increasing popularity, the future doesn't look too bright for electronic cigarettes. According to the media, the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products will soon be headed by Mitch Zeller, currently an executive at a firm that does consulting work for pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and a firm opposer of alternative cessation products like snus or e-cigarettes. The FDA's decision on analog alternatives like electronic cigarettes has been a long time...
Read More...Blu E-Cigs Acquisition Proves Profitable for Lorillard
Tobacco giant Lorillard bought Blu eCigs in April of last year, for a reported $135 million. It was big news in the electronic cigarette industry, as it signaled Big Tobacco's interest in a niche market it since then seemed to want to destroy in its infancy. Now, Lorillard has announced its profits for last week, and it seemed their new e-cigarette division contributed substantially to the company's bottom line. Although the acquisition of Blu eCigs was announced in the...
Read More...Research Shows International Awareness of E-Cigarette Benefits Is on the Rise
Despite media efforts to put electronic cigarettes in a bad light over the last few years, the recently published results of an international study shows the general public views these gadgets as beneficial compared to traditional cigarettes. You're not going to find too many positive articles about e-cigarettes. Instead of...
Read More...Psychiatrist Recommends Electronic Cigarettes as Smoking Cessation Aid for People Who Fail to Quit by Other Means
Doctor Keith Ablow, a renowned psychiatrist and a writer for the FOX News Medical Section has recently posted an article in which he acknowledges electronic cigarettes as an effective smoking cessation aid for patients who can't quit cold turkey. "Since many of my patients have reported using electronic cigarettes to successfully stop smoking, I now recommend the devices to anyone who has tried to quit smoking cold turkey and failed. And I think it is time that other...
Read More...Nicolites Advert Claims Electronic Cigarette Is Completely Harmless, Gets Banned
English e-cigarette brand Nicolites, recently got one of its adverts banned, after the Advertising Standards Authority decided it was misleading for claiming their e-cig "poses no health hazard". The ASA launched an investigation after receiving a complaint about the health claims of an advert on the Nicolites website. They wouldn't reveal who filed the complaint, but I guess it's not very hard to guess. Upon looking into the situation, authorities found the ad was indeed...
Read More...New Directive Shows EU Plans to Ban E-Cigarette Cartridges and E-Liquid
E-cigarettes have been under fire from all sides for some time now, but the European vaping community has been dealt a serious blow recently - a new tobacco product directive plans to ban the sale of nicotine products with a concentration higher than 4mg/ml, in the European Union. At the end of 2012, a new EU tobacco product directive was released to the public. Among other things,...
Read More...New Study Claims Electronic Cigarette Vapor Doesn’t Pose Significant Risk to Human Health
On September 26, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, a not-for-profit group, slammed e-cigarette manufacturers in a press release, for marketing devices whose safety had not been scientifically proven. They demanded that the use of e-cigarettes be prohibited from workplaces and public places where tobacco smoking is banned. As if in reply to their allegations, less than a month later, findings of a...
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