U.S. Congressmen Resume Efforts to Ease FDA Vaping Regulations
Republican congressmen Tom Cole (Oklahoma) and Sanford Bishop (Georgia) have recently introduced legislation to amend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s regulations of new tobacco products. They are attempting to change the predicate date for new tobacco products from February 15, 2007 to August 8, 2016, the day that the FDA regulations came into effect, thus ensuring that most vaping products remain on the market without having to go through the...
Read More...U.S. Surgeon General Calls Vaping “Major Public Health Concern”
With tobacco smoking killing 1 in 2 smokers, many reputed health professional see vaping as a benefit for public health, but according to U.S. Surgeon Genral Vivek H. Murthy they are a "major public health concern" that has to be treated the same as any other tobacco product. In a report released last Thursday, Murthy repeatedly refers to vaping as "a form of tobacco use", conveniently...
Read More...Republican Senator Urges FDA to Cease Implementation of E-Cigarette Regulations Pending Administration Change
Republican Senator Ron Johnson, a long-time supporter of vaping, recently wrote to a letter to the Food and Drug Administration, urging it to cease the implementation of e-cigarette deeming regulations pending the change in administration coming in January. "On November 8, the American people voiced their disapproval of the type of government that ignores the input of small business...
Read More...Company That Opened First Brick-and-Mortar Vape Shop in U.S. to Shut Down Due to FDA Regulations
Totally Wicked, one of the world's first electronic cigarette companies, and the first to open a brick-and-mortar vape shop on U.S. soil, recently announced that it would be shutting down by 2018, primarily as a result of the new FDA regulations. "It is currently impossible to see any way through the impasse the FDA is imposing on businesses like ours across the USA," Fraser Cropper,...
Read More...E-Liquid Now a Health Hazard for the Eyes, Ophthalmologists Warn
Dripping e-cigarette liquid in your eyes is apparently a bad idea, at least according to the conclusion of a case report recently published in the JAMA Ophthalmology journal. The authors, a team of eye doctors from Scotland, recounted the case of an unnamed woman who dripped e-liquid, instead of eye-drops, in her eyes, by mistake. She claimed that the bottles looked very similar at a glance, and...
Read More...Research Center Calls E-Cigarette Regulations “A Win for Liars and Big Tobacco”
Capital Research Center, an independent investigative think tank founded in 1984, recently published an article about the deeming regulations of electronic cigarettes recently enforced by the Food and Drug Administration. After analyzing the facts, they called the new rules "a win for liars and Big Tobacco". "The Food and Drug Administration has joined with Big Tobacco in an effort...
Read More...NJOY Becomes First Major U.S. E-Cigarette Company to Declare Bankruptcy
Scottsdale-based electronic cigarette company NJOY has recently filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11, citing $32 million in debt and a serious liquidity crisis. Last month, NJOY announced that it had a deficit of more than $234 million and had begun operating under a cash preservation strategy that included delaying payments to vendors. In 2012, NJOY was considered the biggest player in the...
Read More...Italy’s Over-Taxation of E-Liquid, or How to Vaporize 160 Million Euros in Tax Revenue
In 2013, when the Italian Parliament voted to raise the price of e-liquid by a whopping 150%, by introducing steep taxes, authorities estimated an increase of 85 million euros per year in tax revenue. They were wrong. According to Ignazio Abrignani, an Italian deputy and member of the parliamentary intergroup "electronic cigarettes", of the originally predicted 85 million euros, only 5 million in e-liquid taxes entered state coffers, in 2015, and the same is expected to...
Read More...Big Media Falsely Claims That Vaping Is Just as Bad as Smoking, Again
Some of the largest publications in the United Kingdom are using a comment made at the world's largest cardiology conference as justification for claiming that electronic cigarettes are just as bad for your heart as tobacco cigarettes. While speaking at the European Society of Cardiology conference in Rome (August 27 - August 31), Professor Peter Weissberg, Medical Director of the British Heart Foundation, commented on a study that shows electronic cigarettes "have a...
Read More...After Italy, Another Major European E-Cig Market Is About to Collapse
Poland, the sixth largest country in the European Union and one of the largest e-cigarette markets on the Old Continent, has chosen to implement the provisions of the Tobacco Products Directive more harshly than required by the EU, banning both online and cross-border sale of electronic cigarettes. As a member of the European Union, Poland had no choice but to adopt the requirements of the
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