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...
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...
August 12 | James Meikle | The Guardian UK Health chiefs across the UK have been urged to take a less negative attitude towards e-cigarettes and embrace their use in the battle against more harmful tobacco smoking. The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) says a public education programme is needed to differentiate the problem of addiction to nicotine, which is an ingredient in both e-cigarettes and tobacco, from the...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
By MICHAEL B. SIEGEL, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Feb. 24, 2015 6:48 p.m. ET 202 COMMENTS When electronic cigarettes came to the U.S. about 2007, I was skeptical. My assumption was they were a ploy by the tobacco industry to hook more people into smoking under the guise of being a safer product—the notorious low-tar cigarette scam all over again. But as I talked to many e-cigarette users, known as...
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...
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