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NSP Website in 2014 - 12 months in numbers
Dec. 24, 2014
NSP editorial team has been reviewing the internet for news items every working day, and often during the weekends, too. We try to include all kinds of news, to reflect the activity that is taking...
Launch of the E-Research Foundation
Oct. 31, 2014
Global concerns over the safety of e-vapor products, including e-liquids, mandates a clear need to further advance scientific data to satisfy potential regulatory requirements. Continuing to ident...
Guide to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control meeting (Moscow 13-18 October 2014)
Oct. 10, 2014
1 What is this meeting for?179 countries are parties to the Convention, notable exceptions being the United States and Switzerland and several countries where tobacco growing is economically impor...
WHO position on ENDS - a critique of the use of science and communication of risk
Sept. 14, 2014
On 26 August 2014, WHO published its long-awaited paper on 'ENDS' Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, the term it uses to describe e-cigarettes and vapour products. This is published i...
Statement on today´s publication of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Report on e-cigarettes
Aug. 26, 2014
The WHO recommendations will do more harm than good, ironically protect cigarette sales, and do little to decrease the avoidable burden of non-communicable diseases.What is needed is light touch r...
European vapers speak up against WHO
Aug. 22, 2014
Vaping organisations from 13 countries have written to Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, ahead of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control meeting in October, with a passionate appeal ...
Legal challenge against EU Tobacco Products Directive
Aug. 19, 2014
The grounds for the action are that Article 20 of the Directive – which deals with the regulation of e-cigarettes – breaches EU law. Totally Wicked argues that Article 20 represents a disproportio...
E-cigarette taxation threat in Italy – expected to escalate cost of e-cigarettes
Aug. 18, 2014
The positive aspect of the tax proposals is that non-combusted tobacco and other inhaled nicotine products will be taxed and treated differently to regular cigarettes, due to their potential reduc...
Extinguishing the last combustible cigarette
Aug. 3, 2014
In contrast to popular belief, nicotine itself does not cause cancer. We have known for decades that smokers smoke for the nicotine but die from the smoke. Innovations in the ability to deliver ni...