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E-cigarettes: doubts, allegations, answers. A view from Poland.
Nov. 17, 2013
When four years ago I started vaping, this last argument was the most annoying. I come from the scientific community, which supports good research aimed at the results published in good journals a...
E-cigs and regulation – what do investment analysts think?
Nov. 17, 2013
For ease of reference, I have highlighted some parts of quotes in red – these are my emphasis. The bold emphasis is in the original. BNP Paribas has set up its own e-cigarette operation to find o...
Vaping in the Netherlands and Belgium
Nov. 10, 2013
In the Netherlands, the sale and distribution of electronic cigarettes is allowed, and there are no specific rules and regulation that apply to nicotine content of the liquids used. Our current Mi...
BMJ to ban research funded by the tobacco industry
Nov. 3, 2013
This brings the journal in line with its own Tobacco Control journal, as well as a number of other publications, including PLoS Medicine, PLoS One, PLoS Biology and the Journal of Health Psycholog...
Tobacco products directive: after the insurrection – what next?
Oct. 26, 2013
The most important decision by far was a rejection of the proposal to regulate e-cigarettes as medicines. In its place was a proposal to apply aspects of tobacco regulation and other restrictions ...
European Parliament votes against proposal to regulate e-cigarettes as medicines
Oct. 13, 2013
After months of politicking among MEPs in Brussels, the proposal in the Tobacco Products Directive to treat nicotine containing products (electronic cigarettes) under medicine regulations was thro...
Nicotine lethal dose in humans: a common argument by regulatory authorities, based on poor science
Oct. 6, 2013
Special concerns are usually raised for children, because lethal dose is expected to be much lower at this age group. I always wondered how the lethal dose level was defined, because everyone ment...
Everyone is involved but no-one is responsible – amending the tobacco directive
Oct. 3, 2013
The proposed amendment is good and bad. Good mainly because it rejects medicines regulation. Never-the-less, I consider it significant progress and a breakthrough overall for which vapers should b...
Public health call for European ban on snus to be lifted
Sept. 29, 2013
What is so dismal about the Tobacco Products Directive is that it is so unambitious. The European Commission’s own impact assessment is that the total TPD package will only reduce tobacco consumpt...