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2015 Electronic Cigarette & Vaping Summary December 22 2015

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...

A Billion Lives Counterfactual - Vaping Saving Lives November 30 2015

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...

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...

New CDC Data Shows E-Cigs Actually Work For Cessation November 03 2015

November 3, 2015 | Guy Bentley | Daily Caller A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has blown a major hole in the case against e-cigarettes. Many of the most vehement critics of e-cigarettes fear the devices could prove to be a gateway drug and will raise the risk of non-smoking vapers being lured into trying the real thing. Critics also fear that we haven’t seen...

eCigarettes and Vapor To Become A Major Election Issue in 2016 October 30 2015

  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...

For The Sake Of Public Health, Leave Vaping Alone October 26 2015

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...

New CDC Data Shows Smoking Continues to Fall as Vaping Increases September 02 2015

September 1, 2015 | Gregory Conley | American Vaping Association . Is the slow death of the combustible cigarette accelerating? WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The American Vaping Association, a leading advocate for the benefits of vapor products such as electronic cigarettes, is calling attention to new survey data on adult smoking from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).  The...

Public Health England Declares E-Cigarettes A Game Changer August 21 2015

August 19, 2015 | MSN Health & Fitness Image © Getty It's official. E-cigarettes are 95% less harmful than smoking and could be available on the NHS according to a comprehensive review by Public Health England (PHE). The PHE review describes smoking cessation using e-cigarettes as a potential "game-changer" that could save 4,000 lives a year. E-cigarettes are to be licensed as a medicine in the UK next year, so it's...

Want to Quit Smoking? Studies Suggest Vaping Daily Is Best Way to Kick the Habit for Good July 27 2015

July 24, 2015 | CNN iReport So you have made the decision to quit smoking and you have turned to vaping as a means to get rid of the stinky habit. Well there is good news on the horizon. Scientists now suggest that people who take up e-cigarettes in an effort to stop smoking should consider upping the nicotine dose they get by using them daily. Two new research papers...

UK Study Shows E-Cigs Are As Toxic As Regular Air July 16 2015

July 15, 2015 | Jasper Hamill | Mirror UK   Electronic cigarettes pump out vapour which has NO toxic effect on the cells found in human lungs, scientists have claimed. Fresh research funded by British American Tobacco has suggested inhaling nicotine vapour could be as safe as breathing air. To perform its experiments, the tobacco giant teamed up with the MatTek Corporation, which makes models of human cells used in...

Moffit Cancer Center Receives $3.6M Grant From NIH To Study Electronic Cigarettes July 10 2015

July 10, 2015 | Shaker Samman | Tampa Bay Times The Moffitt Cancer Center has received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the use of electronic cigarettes. The study will last five years and will focus on two topics — the safety of e-cigarettes for users, and how effective they are as a tool to quit smoking. Dr. Thomas Brandon, director of Moffitt's Tobacco Research...

Great Vice Article on E-Cigarette Regulation Being Harmful to Smokers July 08 2015

July 7, 2015 | Jake Bleiberg | VICE   Photo via Flickr user TBEC Review Ray Yeates always assumed he would die a smoker. An adherent of Alcoholics Anonymous with over 35 years of hard-fought sobriety, the 66-year-old says that when he found out that Bill W., one of AA's founders, had continued to smoke through emphysema and dependence on an oxygen tank, he became certain that his life would end the...

E-Cigarettes And How They Work - An Infographic June 30 2015

June 30, 2015: VapLab  

Interview With Hon Lik, Inventor of E-Cigarettes June 18 2015

June 20th | Matt Ridley | The Spectator UK Few people have heard of Hon Lik, which is a pity because he’s probably saved more lives already than anybody else I have met. Twelve years ago, he invented vaping — the idea of getting nicotine vapour from an electronic device rather than a miniature bonfire between your lips. Vaping is driving smoking out at an extraordinary rate, promising to achieve...

E-Cig Infographic - All About E-Cigarette Demographics June 12 2015

Great Infographic from Accelerated Nursing:   Source: Accelerated-Nursing.net

E-Cigarette Usage Surges In the U.S. June 10 2015

A woman exhales vapour from an e-cigarette in Blackburn, northern England March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Phil Noble/Files   By Jilian Mincer | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Significantly more Americans are using electronic-cigarettes and other vaporizing devices than a year ago, but most of those consumers are also smoking conventional cigarettes, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The findings support evidence that smokers are using both traditional tobacco products and e-cigarettes to deliver...

E-Cigarettes Can Save Lives, Taxpayer Dollars June 01 2015

Saturday May 30, 2015 10:00 AM | Matthew Glans | www.humanevents.com  Many elected officials are trying to undermine these efforts by treating e-cigarettes the same as traditional cigarettes even though they are completely different products. Banning the use of e-cigarettes in private establishments, in addition to excessive regulation and taxation of these products, is a shortsighted decision that ignores the benefits of e-cigarettes as a nicotine replacement. In a new...

Dry Burning Metal Coils: Is it a good thing? May 28 2015

By Dr. Farsalinos and Pedro Carvalho (material sciences expert) There has been a lot of discussion about my statement during the RY4 radio interview on Friday, May 22 concerning the dry burning of coils. This is a process in which vapers prepare the coil and then apply a lot of power to the bare coil (with no wick or liquid), heating it to the level of glowing red. The main...

Harvard Study Concludes E-Cigarettes Have Helped Smoking Cessation May 28 2015

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 | Michael Siegel   According to a new electronic cigarette survey study reported at the 2015 FAMRI meeting, as many as 18% of current electronic cigarette users are ex-smokers who may have quit smoking completely as a result of their e-cigarette use. Such a finding would represent perhaps the strongest evidence to date that not only are e-cigarettes helping smokers quit, but that the magnitude of...

Scientific Study on E-Cigarette Flavoring and the Cessation of Smoking April 28 2015

Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2013, 10(12), 7272-7282; doi:10.3390/ijerph10127272 Abstract Background: A major characteristic of the electronic cigarette (EC) market is the availability of a large number of different flavours. This has been criticised by the public health authorities, some of whom believe that diverse flavours will attract young users and that ECs are a gateway to smoking. At the same time, several reports in the news media mention that...

M.O.V.E. Formed: Medical Organizations Supporting Vaping and Electronic Cigarettes April 08 2015

CALL FOR DOCTORS, HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS AND SCIENTISTS IN SUPPORT OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES.  As physicians and health professionals we see everyday patients who are severely affected by tobacco smoking, many of whom will eventually die or have their health severely affected despite our help and advice. Tobacco smoking remains the most serious public health issue in the world. People smoke for the nicotine but die from the chemicals produced when...

E-Cigarettes Poised to Save Medicaid Billions April 02 2015

State Budget Solutions | by J. Scott Moody | March 31, 2015Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) have only been around since 2006, yet their potential to dramatically reduce the damaging health impacts of traditional cigarettes has garnered significant attention and credibility. Numerous scientific studies show that e-cigs not only reduce the harm from smoking, but can also be a part of the successful path to smoking cessation. The term "e-cig" is misleading...

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...

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...