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New estimates double size of US e-cigarette market; increasing importance of refillable and modified devices.

March 29, 2014

Sales data from the US indicate that the value of sales of electronic cigarettes is roughly doubling each year: from $20m in 2008 to $750- $1b in 2013. But this is based on limited monitoring of m...

Update - Global Forum on Nicotine, 27-28th June 2014, Warsaw: Conference topics, speakers, and outline programme announced

March 24, 2014

This impacts upon on a wide range of stakeholders including: consumers – who now have a wider range of sources of nicotine;researchers – a new research agenda and new methods for studying the use ...

Smoking, e-cigarettes and excessive regulation

March 5, 2014

The Times - Monday 3 March 2014Smoking (and European regulation) killsMatt RidleyIf EU bureaucrats and drug companies throttle the electronic cigarette industry 105,000 lives will be at risk every...

Global Forum on Nicotine – the first conference to focus on the science, policy and regulation of nicotine

Feb. 23, 2014

Consumers – now have a wider range of sources of nicotine; researchers – a new research agenda and new methods for studying the use of nicotine containing products; public health and tobacco contr...

Low mortality attributable to tobacco among men in Sweden compared with other European countries: an analysis of WHO data

Feb. 14, 2014

 SUMMARY This article was presented at SRNT 2014 in Seattle, on Thursday, February 6, 2014, during the Poster Session 1 (POS1-37) The current WHO report [1] measures the health burden of tobacco ...

New research shows electronic cigarettes better for quitting, than no aid; over the counter NRT worse than no aid

Feb. 7, 2014

The study was conducted on a large representative sample of the English population, and was based on people who had smoked during the last 12 months. It looked at those who had made at least one q...

Further exchanges between the European Commission and Scientists

Feb. 3, 2014

European Commission Health and Consumers Directorate-General, Brussels,Dear Dr Le Houezec and colleagues,Subject: Scientific declaration on TPDThank you for your mail of 17 January addressed to Co...

UK Public Health Doctors and e-cigarettes – why this matters

Jan. 18, 2014

  Many public health experts have in the past been strong supporters of harm reduction for illicit drugs. Indeed it was brave public health experts in a number of UK cities who took the reputation...

Scientific Errors in Proposed EU Tobacco Products Directive

Jan. 17, 2014

Madam, Sir, We are among the key scientists in the field of tobacco and e-cigarettes whose research is cited by the EU Commission and other public bodies interested in tobacco control. We underst...

The positive effects of nicotine

Jan. 11, 2014

Ritual tobacco use in shamanism is probably as old as the beginning of horticulture, some 8000 years ago. American Indians recognised tobacco (nicotine) as a powerful insecticide for seed protecti...