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Hopes and Aspirations for the New Year
Dec. 28, 2013
Prof. Peter Hajek - UK I would like to see a year in which common sense and science trump ideology and vested interests and e-cigarettes are allowed to continue to replace combustible tobacco as ...
Medicinal regulation of vaping could kill people
Dec. 28, 2013
Matt Ridley - Viscount Ridley - is a member of the UK Parliament and this blog is taken from a speech he made in a recent debate on e-cigarettes, in the House of Lords I congratulate my noble fr...
Making sense of the proposed new e-cigarette regulations
Dec. 20, 2013
This is wrong in every respect – and not one scintilla of evidence justifies it, but plenty confounds it. So how come someone so ignorant is meddling in legislation to regulate products that are i...
Electronic Cigarettes – a perspective on the German situation from IG-ED
Dec. 14, 2013
The current German regulatory framework works in much the same way as the US, with varying regulations from one federal state to another. In terms of the EU legislative process, the German govern...
Dependence on tobacco and nicotine
Dec. 14, 2013
Dependence – a multi-component phenomenonDependence is a very complex phenomenon with behavioural, sensory, psychosocial, cultural and pharmacological aspects. The influence of some of these aspec...
Smoking Kills, and So Might E-Cigarette Regulation
Dec. 8, 2013
Yet our nation’s main health regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will issue regulations within the next few weeks that could harm our nation’s 45 million smokers. Smokers trying ...
Swedish snus can contribute to the attainment of “a high level of health protection” in Europe
Nov. 25, 2013
Some ‘other STP’ products are very harmful to health and are causing increasing concerns in the UK and elsewhere. These are allowed in the Directive. ‘Oral tobacco’ - snus - is not much more harmf...
