Press Release: Big D Vapor Announces Distribution Agreement with Southwind International Group, Inc. Products include the entire line of Playboy® Branded Electronic Cigarettes, Vaporizers, and Hookahs [Dallas, TX] – Big D Vapor and Southwind International Group Inc. are pleased to announce a new sales and distribution agreement, effective immediately. The first products under this new agreement will be Playboy® Branded Electronic Cigarettes, Vaporizers, Disposable Hookahs, and E-Liquid. Additional products featuring...
Posted by: Vranks on July 17, 2014 Under: E-Cig News Imperial Tobacco has gone from just getting its feet wet in the electronic cigarette market to owning the world’s most successful e-cigarettes brand, after it acquired Blu Electronic Cigarettes from the newly-newly formed R.J. Reynolds-Lorillard tobacco juggernaut. Blu is currently the best-selling electronic cigarette brand in the United States, accounting for around 47% of the market. Established as an independent...
Jun 17, 2014 10:31 AM EDT by Doug Horn, Design & Trend The largest study ever of electronic cigarette use in Europe has shed light on the type of people using them and alleviated fears that they are a gateway to smoking real cigarettes. (Photo : Commons) The largest study ever of electronic cigarette use in Europe has shed light on the type of people using them and alleviated fears that...
By Anna Edney Jun 11, 2014 11:01 PM CT -www.bloomberg.com Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Most e-cigarettes deliver nicotine while leaving out the tars, arsenic and other...Read More Electronic cigarettes may be closer to smoking cessation devices than regular smokes and regulators are keeping “an open mind” on their potential health benefit, said the top U.S. official overseeing their use. In comments that may boost the developing $3 billion e-cigarette market, Mitch Zeller,...
By: ActiveBeat Author on Thursday, May 29, 2014 @ 9:11 am , www.activebeat.com E-cigarettes, or electronic cigarettes, simulate tobacco smoking by producing a smoke-like vapor. For some, it’s a dangerous idea that could lead kids to become accustomed to the act of smoking. But a team of fifty international health researchers says it’s critical that governing bodies not consider e-cigarettes, which can help people ditch the smoking habit, a tobacco product. The...
'Vaporizers' Are the New Draw in E-Cigarettes Refillable Contraptions Are Cheaper, More Potent Than 'Cigalikes' MIKE ESTERL , wallstreetjournal.com Updated May 29, 2014 5:23 p.m. ET The fastest growth in e-cigarettes comes from devices called 'vaporizers' sold in specialty shops like Popie's Vapor Lounge, in Marlton, N.J. Will Figg for The Wall Street Journal ATLANTA—VapeRite, a specialty store in a strip mall here, represents the latest rage in electronic cigarettes and the...
LONDON Tue May 20, 2014 9:53am EDT CREDIT: REUTERS/REGIS DUVIGNAU (Reuters) - Smokers trying to quit are 60 percent more likely to report success if they switch to e-cigarettes than if they use nicotine products like patches or gum, or just willpower, scientists said on Tuesday. Presenting findings from a study of almost 6,000 smokers over five years, the researchers said the results suggest e-cigarettes could play an important...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Electronic Cigarette Industry Group, Inc., today urged members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee to use the Committee hearing Thursday on electronic cigarettes to constructively stress how electronic cigarettes offer millions of smokers an alternative to the combustible cigarette. "E-cigarettes should not be regulated the same way traditional tobacco products are regulated," said Eric Criss, president and CEO of ECIG....
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014 Second Call to Action for FDA Proposed Regulations - Consumer Comment on Paperwork Reduction Act On Thursday, May 8th, CASAA released the Overview of its Action Plan Regarding Proposed FDA Regulations. On May 11, 2014, CASAA released the first of several Calls to Action anticipated in CASAA's Action Plan. This is the second Call to Action in CASAA's Action Plan. There is an interim deadline for comments on the deeming...
Note: We believe the author of this meant "milliliters" rather than "millimeters" and his math is off, but a good article nonetheless - Big D Vapor May 8, 2014, By Brandon Rook, WTVY.com In America, more than 42 million people ages 18 and older smoke cigarettes according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number is going down though, thanks in part to higher tobacco taxes,...
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...
By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press Laws in New York and Chicago making electronic cigarettes subject to the same regulations as tobacco are taking effect, and their sellers and users are steadfast in their opposition. The New York ban — along with the measure in Chicago, one that previously went into effect in Los Angeles and federal regulations proposed last week — are keeping debate smoldering among public health officials,...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Electronic Cigarette Industry Group (ECIG) today thanked the FDA for releasing its long-awaited deeming regulation. In response to the proposed rules, ECIG President and CEO Eric Criss observed, "It will take some time to analyze the potential impact of these proposed rules in a meaningful way. However, it is our long-held position that common-sense regulation should restrict underage access while treating electronic...
Getty Images Electronic cigarettes have managed to build up enough of a fast-growing following that the big tobacco companies are all moving into the market with products of their own. And even if some think that smokers are unlikely to switch en masse from smoke to nicotine vapor, Big Tobacco is still taking the market seriously. While e-cigarettes made by the industry’s giants have plenty of advantages, from distribution to scale and...
The following article, by Sally Satel who is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a psychiatrist specializing in addiction is one of the rare pro e-Cigarette/Vaporizers subjects of safety. Safety is very important to Big D Vapor and we also concur that regulation to prevent minors from using them is unequivocally important: Should electronic cigarettes be regulated like tobacco products, emblazoned with warnings and subject to tight marketing...
With the EU setting member states tight energy efficiency and green targets by the year 2020, the Government and the Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) have been promoting ways in which all citizens can reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint. These have ranged from promoting the much maligned Green Deal to promoting cycling to work schemes. As we search for endless ways in which to lessen the negative environmental effect...
E-Cig Bans Should Go Up In Smoke Electronic Cigarette Inhalation (Photo credit: planetc1) New York City, Chicago and other parts of the country are banning electronic cigarettes anywhere smoking is prohibited. The nanny state ninnies pushing this are doing a severe disservice to folks who are trying to stop smoking or want the pleasure of seeming to smoke without doing it. These devices simulate smoking by vaporizing a liquid...
Philip Morris International Inc. PM +0.05% and Altria Group Inc. MO +0.92% are joining forces globally to sell electronic cigarettes and other smokeless products, a bid by the tobacco behemoths to compensate for falling sales of combustible cigarettes. The makers of the best-selling Marlboro cigarette are betting their combined firepower will give them a leg up on rivals in the small but fast-growing market for alternative nicotine products. Altria sells Marlboro exclusively in the U.S.; Philip Morris sells Marlboro...
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