Study: Teens Using High-Nicotine Level E-Cigs Can Lead to Smoking Addiction
New research claims that teenagers used to smoking e-cigarettes containing high levels of nicotine are likely to move onto smoking conventional cigarettes.
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National Institutes of Health Spending Roughly $200,000 to Study Tweets on E-Cigarettes
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending roughly $200,000 to study tweets about electronic cigarettes.
Laguna Beach Bans Smoking Almost Everywhere
In approximately 30 days, the only place Laguna Beach residents and visitors will be able to smoke legally will be in their cars or homes.
E-Cigarette Bursts Into Flames on Fresno Bus
A rare e-cigarette malfunction sent a Fresno man to the hospital on Wednesday when the device he had placed in his pocket appeared to explode in flames on a bus.
Plain Packaging To Be Introduced Tomorrow As Tobacco Companies’ High Court Bid Fails
Plain packaging of cigarettes is to be introduced in the UK tomorrow, following the failure of leading tobacco firms to challenge the legislation in the UK’s High Court today. Packs of ten cigarettes will also disappear from the nations shelves
Jerry Brown Raises Smoking Age to 21, Limits Vaping
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Wednesday that raises the state’s legal smoking age to 21, and restricts the use of e-cigarettes — “vaping” — in public places.
UK Doctors Urge Wide Promotion Of E-cigs To Help Smokers Quit
LONDON (Reuters) – E-cigarettes are likely to bring benefits for public health and should be widely promoted to smokers to help them quit tobacco. Britain’s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said on Thursday. In a report likely to further fuel
EU Tax Hike Will See E-Cigarette Prices Skyrocket
The EU set to cause the price of e-cigarettes to soar under plans to tax them at the rates as regular tobacco, raising fears that thousands of smokers will be denied a cheap way to quit. Ambassadors for all 28
$2.5 Billion Vaping Boom Draws Class Action Lawsuits
Looking to form class action lawsuits under California’s Proposition 65, nominal plaintiff Jerod Harris filed a federal complaint against R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. claiming he didn’t know vaping uses nicotine.
E-Cig Manufacturers Take Fight Against ‘Disproportionate’ Legislation to Luxembourg Court
Lawyers for a British vaping company have appeared before judges at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg to challenge new European Union (EU) regulations on e-cigarettes. The manufacturers argue that the new rules, due to be introduced next year,
European Commission Puts Money Before Health With E-Cigarette Tax Proposals
The European Commission is considering hiking up tax on electronic cigarettes, even though an official government report shows that they are not a gateway to smoking and in fact help people quit tobacco. A report by the Office of National
Three E-Cig Ads Banned for ‘Glamourising tobacco’
Three adverts for e-cigs have been banned from British TV by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) on the grounds that they glamourise tobacco, despite not being a tobacco product. The ruling came just over a month after the first ‘vaping’
