Electronic Cigarette & Vapor News

Vaping Products Shortage from Coronavirus February 25 2020

Vaping product inventories crushed by lack of shipments from China due to the Coronavirus.

CDC Admits E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit and Has Data To Prove It November 27 2015

A NEW STUDY FROM THE CDC SAYS ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES HAVE BEEN BENEFICIAL IN HELPING PEOPLE QUIT SMOKING. PHOTO: VAPING360.COM. Sales of electronic cigarettes are slowing, but the Centers for Disease Control may have just done the industry a favor that could help reignite growth. According to a recent survey of tobacco shops and convenience stores, the once meteoric expansion of alternative-smoking products is moderating, and may soon be stubbed out, particularly...

Enacted Vapor Legislation By State June 25 2015

June 21, 2015 | Vape Vendor Digest  The laws discussed on this page pertain to, but are not limited to, the sale, solicitation, and/or exchange of alternative nicotine and e-liquid products.  These new state laws may require vape vendors to obtain registrations, licenses, and permits for said products.  We do not intend to advise our readers on whether their businesses should complete additional filings within their states.  We only seek to...

DC In A Battle Over E-Cigarette Regulation June 05 2015

By Lydia Wheeler - The Hill - 05/31/15 07:00 AM EDT Washington is locked in a growing debate over what restrictions should be placed on the booming electronic cigarette industry.The Food and Drug Administration is pushing ahead with a proposed rule that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to people under the age of 18 and prohibit sales in vending machines.But to the dismay of many health activists, the rule...

Aspire Launches a High Rate 40A 18650 Battery June 02 2015

Aspire has proven once again that they can aspire to a better world, where things are easier to use, more reliable and last longer. Aspire has recently launched a new product on the market that has broken new ground in the e-cigarette niche. This produce is Aspire’s new 18650 Battery. Battery safety could be the most important thing about low-ohm vaping.  Sub-ohming is almost a non-issue at this point if you’re...

U.S. Ad Campaign to Challenge Value of E-Cigarettes in Quitting Smoking March 27 2015

TRIPP MICKLE, The Wall Street Journal, Updated March 26, 2015 12:16 a.m. ET   Paul Frohman smokes an electronic cigarette outside an office building in downtown Los Angeles in January. California health officials declared e-cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS   The U.S. government for the first time is taking aim at electronic cigarettes in an advertising campaign, challenging their use as...

House Public Health Committee Introduces Several Bills Impeding Consumer Access to Vapor Products March 20 2015

Several bills that would impede consumer access to vapor products are scheduled for a public hearing in the House Public Health Committee on Tuesday, March 23rd at 8:00 AM in the Capitol Extension, 2nd floor, room E.012 (Central Gallery - click here for a map).  We have Identified HB 170, HB 81, HB 970, and HB 2321 as all containing language that would impact consumer access, choice, and awareness of...

World Health Organization Calls for International Ban On E-Cigarettes March 20 2015

THE head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for governments across the world to ban e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes, which some experts consider to be less addictive than tobacco, have been viewed as potential alternatives by some researchers. But speaking at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi yesterday Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General, WHO, insisted “non-smoking should be the norm”. She also said that e-cigarettes encourage young...

Study Confirms That E-Cigarettes Generate Virtually No Toxins March 06 2015

Levels are about the same as those found in air. Jacob Sullum|Mar. 4, 2015 6:32 pm | www.reason.com Anti-smoking activists and public health officials who question the usefulness of electronic cigarettes in reducing tobacco-related disease often talk as if the content of the aerosol generated by these newfangled contraptions is utterly mysterious. While it may be plausible that the absence of combustion makes e-cigarettes safer than the conventional kind, they...

WSJ Reports E-Cigarette Makers Face Rise of Counterfeit February 21 2015

PHOTO: REUTERSBy PETER EVANS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Feb. 20, 2015 9:09 a.m. ETLONDON—Liberty Flights Ltd., a British maker of electronic cigarettes, is facing a problem more associated with handbags than with nicotine vaporizers: counterfeiting.Imitation versions of the company’s products—which allow users, known as “vapers,” to heat nicotine-laced liquid for a tobacco-free hit—have started appearing in several markets around the world. The cloned e-cigarettes use cheaper materials and are sold at...

New Evidence Shows Vaping Nicotine Is Less Addictive Than Smoking It February 13 2015

9 Feb 2015 — By Gary Cox , ECF / www.vaping.com Opponents of vaping have been fond of saying that e-cigarettes are just as addictive as combustible smokes, because they contain addictive nicotine. They have never seemed to feel the need to produce any evidence for this supposition. Nicotine is nicotine, right? And nicotine is addictive, right? Enough said. End of story. Wrong? It is becoming increasingly clear, indeed, now beyond...

State By State E-Cig Regulation Map January 30 2015

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Forbes: E-Cigs: A Lifesaver That Health Fascists Want To Kill January 07 2015

1/05/2015 @ 6:00AM, Steve Forbes, www.forbes.com TIME AND AGAIN technology has come along to help solve big problems or blast away sclerotic, anti-progress government rules and restrictions. Think about Uber and local taxi cartels or, decades ago, how the invention of money funds upended Depression-era diktats that forced individuals to receive below-market interest rates on their deposits. One breakthrough that gets absolutely no respect–in fact, it’s aroused intense hostility from people...

The beef against electronic cigarettes is based on false evidence December 05 2014

Jacques Le Houezec,The Daily Star, December 5, 2014 We have long known that people smoke for the nicotine, but die from the smoke. Indeed, the vast majority of cigarette-related diseases and deaths arise from the inhalation of tar particles and toxic gases, including carbon monoxide. Though nicotine replacement therapy has helped smokers quit, the cigarette habit remains pervasive in many countries. The use of nicotine in noncombustible forms such as...

Success rates with nicotine personal vaporizers: a prospective 6-month pilot study of smokers not intending to quit November 10 2014

Electronic cigarettes (e-Cigs) are an attractive long-term alternative nicotine source to conventional cigarettes. Although they may assist smokers to remain abstinent during their quit attempt, studies using first-generation e-Cigs report low success rates.Second-generation devices (personal vaporisers - PVs) may result in much higher quit rates, but their efficacy and safety in smoking cessation and/or reduction in clinical trials is unreported. Method:  We conducted a prospective proof-of-concept study monitoring modifications in smoking...

University of Mass Boston Study: Smokers Who Use E-Cigarettes More Likely to Quit Tobacco October 31 2014

Office of Communications | October 30, 2014   Electronic cigarettes—a tobacco-free alternative to traditional cigarettes that generated more than $400 million in sales last year—have ignited controversy throughout the country as politicians and public health officials decide whether to include them in wide-reaching smoking bans.But researchers at the University of Massachusetts Boston have found that regular use of e-cigarettes may benefit smokers who are trying to kick the habit. The...

Vaporin, Inc. Continues to See Increased Sales Growth as the Vaporizer Segment Surpasses E-Cig Sales October 27 2014

October 23, 2014: 08:38 AM ET www.money.cnn.com Vaporin, Inc. (OTCQB: VAPO), a distributor and marketer of vaporizers, tanks, mods (VTM's) and e-liquids products, today announced the Company continues to see a strong increase in sales and revenue as VTM's and the e-liquids industry exceeded electronic cigarette sales for the first time by half a billion dollars. According to Wells Fargo Securities, VTM's now contribute more than $1.5 billion to the...

Democrats Target E-Cigarettes October 15 2014

October 14, 2014 - 11:27 AM By Dan Joseph www.cnsnews.com    It wasn’t supposed to be like this.  Electronic cigarettes were intended to be a healthier alternative to real cigarettes and there was even hope that they could be used as a tool to help people quit smoking. However, despite evidence that e-cigarettes are, in fact, safer than the smoke that is inhaled when a person inhales a tobacco-filled product, this...

STATEMENT FROM VMR PRODUCTS CEO JAN VERLEUR ON THE CALL TO BAN 'OPEN SYSTEM' VAPORIZERS BY REYNOLDS AMERICAN INC. October 01 2014

MIAMI, FL -- (Marketwired) -- 09/30/14 -- In response to the 119-page document submitted by Reynolds American Inc. to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking it to ban "open system" vaporizers and devices, Jan Verleur, CEO & Co-Founder of VMR Products, a global electronic cigarette company and the makers of V2®, a leading brand, has the following comment: For many adult smokers, vaporizing devices like e-cigarettes represent an alternative...

University of New Orleans Allows Vapor on Campus while Banning Analog Cigarettes September 03 2014

Where E-Cigs Land in Campus Smoking Bans by Brendan Frost In 2013, the Louisiana state legislature passed a resolution that requires public universities in the state to create a smoking prohibition on campus. It's up to the individual universities how to implement this, and the decision has motivated some universities to take a stance on electronic cigarettes as well.   In New Orleans, Tulane, Delgado, Dillard, Southern University at New...

FDA Extends Comment Period for E-Cigarette Regulation June 27 2014

By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM  AP Tobacco WriterJune 27, 2014 - 4:55 pm EDT   RICHMOND, Virginia — The public will have more time to weigh in on a federal proposal to regulate electronic cigarettes and other tobacco products. The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that the public comment period slated to end July 9 is being extended an additional 30 days to Aug. 8 after getting lots of input on how...

FDA Regulations for Electronic Cigarettes May 05 2014

FDA Finally Issues Proposed Regulations for Electronic Cigarettes Posted by: Vranks on April 25, 2014 Under: E-Cigarette Legislation | It has taken the Food and Drug Administration five long years to finally issue proposed regulations for electronic cigarettes, after failed attempt to establish authority over them as drugs or drug delivery devices, in 2009. The highly anticipated announcement was made yesterday, and was received with mixed reactions. US cities and states have...

Vapor Corp introduces a biometric vaporizer to detract from theft and underage use January 08 2014

DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- Vapor Corp. is taking a high-tech approach to electronic cigarettes by adding biometrics to its latest product. The company unveiled a prototype of its Vapor X personalized, rechargeable vaporizer at the ShowStoppers at CES 2014 in Las Vegas today. According to Vapor Corp., vaporizers are the rechargeable, customizable, high-end cousin of the disposable electronic cigarette. The Vapor X, with patent-pending fingerprint lock technology, will incorporate biometric technologies in order to...