Electronic Cigarette & Vapor News

Tobacco Dollars and The Political Elite December 23 2014

Mark Benson, OK Premium Electronic Cigarettes, December 23, 2014 Tobacco dollars and the political elite  There are few industries in history that have shown the growth seen in the vaping sector over the last decade. It is easy to forget that the vaping industry was seen as something of a niche market at the turn-of-the-century yet 2015 is expected to see the turnover of $2 billion in the US electronic cigarette...

Why Anti-Smoking Groups Should Endorse Snus And E-Cigarettes December 08 2014

Sally Satel, Forbes, 12/01/2013 The good news is that the smoking rate has hit a new low. It is now just under 18% of all adults – but the goal of a totally smokeless society is elusive. Epidemiologists estimate that if the smoking rate continues to decline at the current pace, it will take 40 years to halve again, and cigarettes will claim millions more lives. Now if only anti-smoking...

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...

Innokin Launches the New VV 4.0 with Improved Battery and Circuitry December 02 2014

Innokin is extremely proud to announce the immediate launch of the iTaste VV4. The Innokin R&D and Engineering teams have used their combined experience and skill to upgrade the best parts of the iTaste VV line and create the iTaste VV4. Your customers demand complete reliability and higher vaping power and the Innokin iTaste VV4 delivers exactly what is promised and has been built to last. The iTaste VV4 has...

Vape Named Word of The Year By Oxford Dictionary November 19 2014

Have you been seeing everyone puff water vapor at bars this year? You're not alone. e-cigarettes and marijuana have become so popular that "vape" was just named word of the year.The Oxford Dictionaries name its top word every year, and they're usually pretty good at predicting what has staying power. Last year, they picked "selfie" as their top term, and that's certainly stuck around.They define vape as "to inhale and...

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...

National Review Online: Vaping for Tax Freedom October 29 2014

E-cigarettes have exposed the fraud of public-health advocates.  By Grover Norquist & Paul Blair For years, people claiming to be public-health advocates have pushed for higher tobacco taxes. They argued that if you were to increase taxes on tobacco, consumers would be forced to kick their unhealthy habits and quit smoking cigarettes. And if you continued to increase prices, you could continue to accomplish the same results over and over again. In fact,...

E-cig, Vape Users Brace For FDA Regulations October 28 2014

Photo by Susan Du Thomas McCool of New Element Fine Vapors  10/28/2014, Susan Du, www.houstonpress.com Cloud blowers, flavor connoisseurs, smokeless e-cig puffers, surreptitious stoners, cancer patients trying to quit cigarettes -- Houston's e-cigarette and vape consumers are as diverse as the products created in the local DIY market. It's a market that's been allowed to Frankenstein and modify new contraptions for vaporizing countless blends of liquid nicotine and flavored juices to...

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...

Open System Vaporizers Officially Overtake E-Cigs, Top $1 Billion in Sales for the First-Time Ever September 26 2014

MIAMI, FL, Sep 25, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- VMR Products, a global leader in the electronic cigarette industry and the makers of V2(R), one of the nation's leading brands of electronic cigarette products, today announced that for the first-time, open system vaporizers have exceeded electronic cigarette sales by $500 million. They have also surpassed $1 billion in annual sales across both traditional and digital retail channels. According to Wells...

Videographic on how basic e-Cigarettes work September 26 2014

VIDEOGRAPHIC: Electronic cigarettes, fast growing in popularity as a cheaper alternative to tobacco and a good way of giving up.

As Big Tobacco Takes Up E-cigarettes, Investors Look Ahead September 12 2014

By Martinne Geller and Jilian Mincer   LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - As electronic cigarettes flew off shelves on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years, investors flocked to a business some hope will be the future for tobacco.     Now sales growth is slowing from a 2011 peak and private funds are more cautious about smokeless devices, making it harder for independent e-cigarette firms to raise capital and hitting...

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...

As E-Cigs Begin to Take a Back Seat to Vaporizers, the Market looks for a Leader to Emerge August 25 2014

New York, NY / August 25, 2014 / If we look at this vape industry as a whole, it's just starting to gain in popularity as you'll see later in this article. Ironically, as big tobacco spends billion of dollars to gain ground in the e-cig space (most notably Reynold's America's $27.4B acquisition of Lorillard), they may actually soon find themselves behind the 8-ball when it comes to vaporizer sales....

Public Health Officials Should Embrace E-Cigarettes August 22 2014

   It’s time for public health officials to advise smokers that electronic cigarettes are a worthy alternative to smoking that can help them quit the tobacco habit. Most e-cigarettes look like cigarettes. But people who “vape” – use e-cigarettes – are not smoking. They are instead inhaling a water-like vapor that is free of the tar and the sky-high levels of carcinogens that make cigarette smoking so dangerous. Activists who...

Review of E-Cigarette Studies Concludes E-Cigs Are Less Harmful Thank Tobacco Cigarettes August 08 2014

Posted by: Vranks on August 1, 2014 Under: E-Cigarette Studies  According to a review of 81 electronic cigarette studies conducted by an international team of healthcare experts and tobacco researchers, electronic cigarettes are much less harmful, if at all, to users and bystanders, when compared to tobacco cigarettes. The long-term effects of electronic cigarettes on human health may still be unknown, but after analyzing the data we have on them so...

BBC News Health - E-cigarettes 'less harmful' than cigarettes August 01 2014

July 30, 2014, BBC News Researchers say national policies need to be made once all evidence is reviewed E-cigarettes are likely to be much less harmful than conventional cigarettes, an analysis of current scientific research suggests. Scientists argue replacing conventional cigarettes with electronic ones could reduce smoking-related deaths even though long-term effects are unknown. In the journal Addiction, researchers suggest e-cigarettes should face less stringent regulations than tobacco. But experts...

Big D Vapor To Distribute Playboy Branded Vaporizers July 24 2014

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...

Imperial Tobacco Acquires Blu E-Cigarettes Following R.J. Reynolds-Lorillard Merger July 18 2014

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...

New York Times says Vape Pens are Fashionable July 11 2014

In a New York Times Style piece puzzlingly entitled “For Vaporizers, Smoke Means Fire,” which is a phrase truly meaningless in this context, intrepid trend reporting discovered that vaporizer pens are — gasp! — fashionable. What’s more, getting high is so common, that it falls under the banner of “lifestyle.” “Hip-hop artists like Wiz Khalifa rap about them regularly,” the piece matter-of-factly opens (seriously), before detailing how couture vape pens are currently being designed by and marketed...

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...