China Considering Expanding Tobacco Rules to Include Electronic Cigarettes
Chinese authorities recently announced plans to expand current rules for tobacco cigarettes to include electronic cigarettes as well, which would seriously impact the vaping industry. In a draft amendment to China’s Detailed Rules for the Implementation of...
Read More...Does Vaping Help Spread Covid-19? New Research Says ‘No’
There has been a lot of talk about the possibility of vaping acting as a transmission vector for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with some mainstream media outlets flat-out denouncing vaping as an imminent threat, but according to a recent scientific study, the risk of spreading infection while vaping is not more considerable than that of simple breathing. Last month, an international team of researchers...
Read More...Tobacco Control Experts Stress the Need for Harm-Reduction Solutions In Anti-Smoking Strategies
55 members of the International Association for Tobacco Control and Harm Reduction (SCOHRE) got together virtually at the end of last month for the 3rd International Summit on Harm Reduction, where they discussed the importance of a
Read More...California’s Proposed Vapor Tax Would Make Smoking Tobacco Cheaper Than Vaping
With an estimated budget deficit of $54 billion, due to the coronavirus pandemic, California is desperate to rake in some revenue, and it reportedly has its sight on vaping with a proposed vapor tax which, if passed, will make tobacco cigarettes more affordable than nicotine-containing e-liquid. According to the
Read More...State Attorney General Acknowledges the Potential of Vaping as a Tool of Harm Reduction
It's not every day that you get to see a politician or a diplomat, let a lone a state attorney general take an objective approach on a sensitive issue like vaping, especially in today's generally hostile climate. And that's exactly what makes this story so special. Iowa Attorney General, Thomas J. Miller, recently published a
Read More...Curban Urge – Is This the Future of Smoking Cessation?
There was a time, not too long ago, when many of us truly believed that vaping could render smoking tobacco obsolete, but a lot has happened since then, and I for one am not that naive anymore. But just because vaping can't be the future of smoking cessation, it doesn't mean a piece of plastic can't be. Introducing Curban Urge a simple device designed to distract you from lighting your...
Read More...Vaping Still A Lot Better Than Smoking, Public Health England Report Suggests
In its sixth independent electronic cigarette use report, Public Health England warns that smokers' perception of vaping has become more negative in the wake of the 2019 US lung illness craze, despite solid scientific evidence that electronic cigarettes are much less harmful than tobacco cigarettes.
Read More...Majority of People Continue to Wrongly Blame E-Cigarettes for Vaping-Related Deaths
Remember that scary vaping-related lung disease that killed over 60 people and put another 2,700 in the hospital last year? Of course you do, how could you forget? Well it turns out people still think it was linked to nicotine-containing electronic cigarettes like JUUL, despite official source having clarified that it wasn't. Vaping had been continuously attacked from all sides for...
Read More...New Zealand Government to Recommend Vaping as Safer Alternative to Smoking
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has announced a campaign promoting electronic cigarettes as a safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes in an effort to encourage smokers to quit the habit. The campaign, scheduled to be launched in August, marks a significant change in the Government stance on vaping. The Ministry of Health has so far been cautious in regards to electronic cigarettes, and its...
Read More...Researchers Accuse EU Commission of Ignoring Science on E-Cigarettes
Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that electronic cigarettes are a much less harmful alternative to smoking tobacco, lawmakers continue to ignore facts, preferring instead to make all sorts of ridiculous claims that make absolutely no sense, either out of ignorance or to support their agenda.
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