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E-cigarette coils from a chemist's point of view

E-cigarette coils from a chemist's point of view

March 6, 2016

NSP is running a short series of blogs concerning the chemistry of nicotine devices.This is a first blog in a series demistyfying the chemistry of nicotine devices.Heating elementsIn general, heat...

Tobacco Industry Funded E-Cigarette Research and the Rise of Academic McCarthyism

Tobacco Industry Funded E-Cigarette Research and the Rise of Academic McCarthyism

Feb. 27, 2016

  McCambridge concedes that evidence of any current scientific misconduct on the part of the tobacco industry is “less strong”. However, in a world where allegation has supplanted evidence it is r...

Dissecting the Oral Oncology Cell Study

Dissecting the Oral Oncology Cell Study

Feb. 25, 2016

The primary objective of the study was to evaluate cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of both long- and short-term e-cigarette vapour exposure on a variety of epithelial cells to determine if the vapou...

Regulatory framework for electronic cigarettes in Belgium: Vapers and Tobacco Harm Reduction activists between hope and despair

Regulatory framework for electronic cigarettes in Belgium: Vapers and Tobacco Harm Reduction activists between hope and despair

Feb. 18, 2016

The good news is that nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and e-liquids will soon be legalized, and that sales will be allowed wherever tobacco products can be acquired, including tobacco stores, sup...

Sweden banning tobacco harm reduction due to senseless implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive – snus and e-cigarettes at risk

Sweden banning tobacco harm reduction due to senseless implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive – snus and e-cigarettes at risk

Feb. 16, 2016

The proposal on “snus” is to not invoke the unique derogation for this harm reduced product that is only allowed for sale in Sweden, and instead opt to harmonize the warning with other, more dange...

Situation of vapers in Poland on the threshold of the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive

Situation of vapers in Poland on the threshold of the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive

Feb. 8, 2016

Vaping in PolandElectronic cigarettes have been available in Poland since 2006/2007, but a real explosion in their use took place around 2010. Although there are no official data, we could estimat...

Ecigarettes and the gateway to smoking for young people, still no convincing evidence

Ecigarettes and the gateway to smoking for young people, still no convincing evidence

Jan. 26, 2016

You can read for example here http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-of-e-cigarette-use-and-cigarette-smoking-in-children/ and here http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/e-cigarett...

E-Cigarettes, Prescriptions and the UK National Health Service

E-Cigarettes, Prescriptions and the UK National Health Service

Jan. 18, 2016

The recent media frenzy surrounding “e-cigarettes on the NHS” and “GPs can prescribe e-cigarettes” have highlighted contrasting viewpoints.Many organisations over the course of the e-cigarette deb...

Is it time for the WHO to Upgrade and Redefine its MPOWER Program?

Is it time for the WHO to Upgrade and Redefine its MPOWER Program?

Oct. 27, 2015

Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a new paper on the use of taxation as part of its MPOWER global strategies for reducing disease and death caused by the use of tobacco...

Restricting the Advertising of Electronic Cigarettes Would be a Major Own Goal for Public Health

Restricting the Advertising of Electronic Cigarettes Would be a Major Own Goal for Public Health

Oct. 4, 2015

For those whose main concern is to protect young people from taking up use of nicotine products, there is a case for restricting advertising if, by doing so, the rate of regular use of nicotine-co...