The traditional cigarette will receive the greatest boost it has gotten in many years thanks to federal law and a federal agency that is supposed to be focused on the protection of public health. By Guy Bentley originally on www.reason.orgSeptember 8, 2020 A large part of the e-cigarette industry may soon be put out of business and the Big Tobacco companies’ positions as the leading providers of vapor...
October Vaping News at a glance: A good week for pro-vaping science – E-cigarettes: Organized crime is exploding – Some public sessions at COP7 – Vaping bill sponsor admits ‘it did’ put people out of business – Where has all the nicotine gone? – Role of sweet and other flavours – E-cigs and Joe Camel – Prop. 56 Kills – Latest tobacco tax attempt – Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest – Friday, 7 October 2016 A good week...
May 17th, 2016 | Adam Winfrey | Big D Vapor The Food and Drug Administration’s Deeming Regulations for tobacco products were published on May 5th and went into effect on May 10th, 2016. Unfortunately, these regulations include electronic cigarettes, despite the fact that they contain no tobacco (only nicotine). These far-reaching new laws will decimate tens of thousands of small vapor businesses throughout the USA and will significantly decrease...
Vaping and Electronic Cigarettes 2015 Review A Groundbreaking Year For Innovation, Change, and Public Awareness In 2015, the Electronic Cigarette industry received more press than ever: some good, some great, and some downright negative. We also experienced unprecedented product improvements, cost decreases, and increased quality across the board. Finally, we encountered tremendous pressure from legislators, the FDA, anti-vaping groups, and an undereducated public that only knows what major media outlets...
By Clive Bates originally on CliveBates.comSeptember 8, 2020 A promising new documentary film is on the way to our screens: A billion lives –“a true story of government failure, big business and the vaping revolution”. See trailer above. It gets its name from the often-quoted figure that one billion lives may be lost to diseases caused by smoking in the 21st Century. The eminent epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto summarised the outlook in a comment to the Independent...
Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape store in Chicago, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The federal government wants to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors and require approval for new products and health warning labels under regulations being proposed by the Food and Drug Administration. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) October 30th | Todd Robberson | The Dallas Morning News I joined a pre-debate panel discussion Wednesday night in...
Travelers will no longer be permitted to carry battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices such as e-cigarettes in checked baggage on flights, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Monday. The rule also prohibits passengers from charging such devices and their batteries aboard aircraft. Passengers may, however, continue to carry e-cigarettes for personal use in carry-on baggage or in their pockets but may not use them on flights. "We know from recent incidents that e-cigarettes in checked...
10/25/2015 | Daniel Hall | Guide To Vaping For the sake of public health, leave vaping alone. Words I have often said over the last couple of years, as we have been fighting on every level to keep the vaping industry alive in the face of the many entities who would like us to disappear. Over the last month or two, I have heard and seen these exact words across...
10/5/15 | Michael D. Shaw | HealthNewsDigest.com This column has already documented officialdom's unrelenting war on e-cigarettes. In fact, those articles were some of the best-read I have ever posted, so I guess we touched a nerve. The insidious tag team--comprised of Big Tobacco and the supposed public health interest groups against smoking--is perfectly evocative of the Bootleggers and Baptists phenomenon, originally described by economist Bruce Yandle. This latest attack comes...
August 24, 2015 | Raven Clabough | The New American Despite evidence that electronic cigarettes are both safer for users than tobacco and also help smokers kick the habit, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a campaign against them. According to FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Ostroff, the FDA is looking to enact a “deeming rule” that would expand the agency’s regulation of tobacco to include e-cigarettes, which do not use...
July 8, 2015 | BY JEREMY B. WHITE | The Sacramento Bee A California bill regulating electronic cigarettes sputtered in a key committee on Wednesday as members made a major change that led the author to abandon his own measure. Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, who had carried the legislation, said the amendment undermined its central intent by declaring that e-cigarettes are not tobacco products. “I no longer believe in...
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...
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...
NEWS Hawaii Governor to Ban Electronic Cigarettes By Piyush Jain | April 25, 2015 | Clapway.com Along with raising the smoking age to 21, the Governor of Hawaii is also planning to sign a bill that will ban electronic cigarettes in the state. There have been some protests about the age limit increase, saying that an adult is age 18, there’s no reason to change it to 21. Electronic Cigarette BanGovernor David Ige...
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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...
By the middle of next week, 19 states will have begun their 2015 legislative sessions. By the end of January, all but 6 states will be in session. We’d like to take this opportunity to prepare you for what is shaping up to be a very, very busy year for Tobacco Harm Reduction advocates. STATES: Taxes Child Resistant Packaging Labeling Requirements Restrictions on Sales to Minors Online Sales Restrictions/Bans...
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