EU Countries Seek to Tax Electronic Cigarettes the Same as Tobacco Ones
Ambassadors from all 28 member states of the European Union unanimously agreed to take the first step toward imposing a high excise tax on electronic cigarettes by asking the European Commission to draft an “appropriate legislative proposal” in 2017. Under current legislation, member countries must impose an excise tax of at least 57% on tobacco products, while electronic cigarettes are only subject to VAT, which averages at about 20% across the EU. And that's...
Read More...Shady “Study” Claims E-Cigarettes Are a Million Times Worse than Polluted City Air
It's time for vapers to throw away their e-cigarettes and run for the hills after a new study from Hong Kong found that the vapor they produce is ONE MILLION times worse than the air in a heavily polluted city. Damn, how am I still breathing?!? Commissioned by the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health and carried out by researchers at Baptist University, the study analyzed 13 different e-cigarette models acquired from the local market. I couldn't find any kind of...
Read More...UK Data Suggests Electronic Cigarettes Help People Quit Smoking
The efficacy of electronic cigarettes in helping smokers quit has been heavily contested in recent years, despite consistent scientific evidence that these revolutionary devices do improve users chances of kicking the dirty habit. New data collected by the UK's University College London confirms that in 2014 alone they have helped tens of thousands of people quit cigarettes. A study...
Read More...Study on Benzaldehyde in Flavored E-Cigarettes Gets Blown Out of Proportion by the Media
A new study published in the Thorax medical journal analyzed 145 different electronic cigarettes and reported the levels of a chemical known as benzaldehyde. The organic compound found in many flavorings was detected in 108 of the samples studied, with significantly higher levels found in cherry flavored products. Since benzaldehyde has been shown to irritate the airways in animal and workplace exposure studies, a number of prominent media outlets took this opportunity...
Read More...Italian Company Launches Scientifically Approved E-Liquid
FlavorArt, the largest e-liquid and flavorings company in Italy and one of the largest in the world, has teamed up with researchers from Fem2 Ambiente, an offshoot of The University of Milano Bicocca, in order to ensure consumer safety while complying with forthcoming EU regulations. Known as ClearStream Onward, the project kicked off in February 2015 with the goal of improving the quality of FlavorArt e-liquids, offering consumers a clear, detailed analysis of each...
Read More...French Vapers Come Up with Ingenious Way of Giving Regulators a Piece of Their Mind
The French vaping community has received some serious blows recently, after Parliament adopted a new Health Act containing a very strict framework for the use and marketing of electronic cigarettes - vaping is no longer allowed in public spaces and in enclosed workplaces and advertising has been heavily regulated. Furthermore, the adoption of the EU's new tobacco directive without its provisions being discussed in the National Assembly is set to render vaping virtually...
Read More...Large Survey Finds E-Cigarettes Do Help Smokers Quit
An online survey conducted late last year by the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association (CASAA) found that the overwhelming majority of questioned vapers attribute smoking cessation to the use of electronic cigarettes. The self-administered survey was conducted in the months of November and December 2015, took about five to ten minutes to complete and was targeted at US-based members of the CASAA. Of the approximately 120,000 members, a total of...
Read More...E-Voke Becomes First E-Cigarette to Be Awarded Medicine License in the UK
CLARIFICATION: Ok, so I really messed this time, telling you guys that the e-Voke was not really an electronic cigarette when in fact it actually is. The MHRA has recently awarded a medicine license to BAT-owned company Nicoventures for their e-Voke device, whereas I thought they were referring to the Voke inhaler, developed by the same company. It was an embarrassing mistake on my part and I apologize for doing the exact thing I have accused...
Read More...E-Cigarettes Increasingly Perceived as Harmful Due to Media Scaremongering
Science keeps providing proof that electronic cigarettes are a significantly safer alternative to smoking, yet data shows a growing number of people perceive them to be just as harmful, if not more so, than tobacco cigarettes. That sounds like somewhat of a paradox, but only if you ignore a very important variable - the media. According to a new British study published in the Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal, the number of smokers who believed smoking to be...
Read More...Cigarette Company to Launch Tobacco/E-Cigarette Hybrid
British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's second largest cigarette maker, will start testing a hybrid product that uses both tobacco and e-cigarette technology in an undisclosed European market. Called "iFuse", the device vaporizes a nicotine-infused liquid, like an electronic cigarette, but also incorporates a capsule containing actual tobacco, through which the created vapor passes through to pick up that distinct cigarette flavor. Although health research is still...
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