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Market players are launching several e-liquid flavors in the market to fulfill to the evolving preferences of people, tobacco-free formulation and availability of several flavors, the increase in the non-smoker's group essentially drives the market. E-liquid, also called e-juice or vape juice, is the liquid mixture of nicotine, base liquid, and (...)
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In September, fifteen past presidents of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) wrote a letter calling for more balance and understanding of the benefits and risks of vaping. In a late response, thirteen researchers have asked for academics to move away from characterising scientists as “opponents” or “supporters” of e-cigarettes. Planet of the Vapes has featured some of these (...)
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On Tuesday, I received e-mails from groups that oppose a Senate bill awaiting the President’s signature. In particular, the groups want the President to veto the proposed legislation that will allow more youngsters to “vape,” or use what are officially known as electronic nicotine and non-nicotine delivery systems as well as heated tobacco products. It is my understanding that both the Department of Health and the Department of Education are actually opposed to the vaping bill. Not that they oppose regulating vaping per se, but they question some provisions of the proposed law that seems to make vaping (...)
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Malaysia’s Ministry of Health (MOH) clarified that its proposed smoking ban for everyone born after 2005 does not only cover cigarettes and tobacco products, but also vape, e-cigarettes, and heated tobacco products. Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin announced at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) executive board meeting in Geneva about Malaysia’s plans to prohibit the sale of cigarettes and tobacco products to people born after 2005 in a bid to outlaw smoking for the next generation. This means that Malaysians who are 17 years old today will not be able to legally buy tobacco, vape, or e-cigarettes next year when they turn 18, the current legal age for smoking in Malaysia, or ever, in their lifetime.
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The use of tobacco products is proven to be the largest avoidable risk in the European Union. According to the latest Eurobarometer report, 23% of the respondents continue to smoke cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, or a pipe while in total tobacco use results in 700,000 deaths each year. It is also proven that around half of the smokers die prematurely, resulting in the loss of an average of 14 years of life per smoker. In addition, tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable cancer, with around 27% of all cancer and 80% of lung cancer deaths attributed to tobacco use.
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A group of international respiratory societies has banned researchers associated with tobacco companies from publishing papers in their journals after the controversial acquisition of a health-care firm that makes inhalers by a tobacco giant. Moira Gilchrist, vice-president of strategic and scientific communications at PMI in Lausanne, Switzerland, says the (...)
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Most enclosed public places and workplaces in Northern Ireland are smoke free. It is against the law to smoke in these places. You could be fined for smoking in enclosed public places. From 1 February 2022, new regulations to further protect children and young people from the dangers of second-hand smoke make it an offence to smoke in a smoke-free private vehicle. Under the smoke-free regulations in Northern Ireland, it is against the law to (...)
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals listened to oral arguments on January 31 about a case that could help to determine the future of the US vape industry. Eric Heyer, the lawyer for mid-sized e-liquid manufacturer Triton Distribution, argued that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) acted “arbitrarily” and “capriciously” in denying his client’s premarket tobacco product application (PMTA). All vapor manufacturers had to (...)
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The CEO of Philip Morris International (PMI) Jacek Olczak, says that cigarettes should be placed in the same category as petrol cars, which are to be outlawed as of 2030. The chief executive said the company can envision “the world without cigarettes … and actually, the sooner it happens, the better it is for everyone’, and has called on the UK government to ban cigarettes within a decade, alongside petrol cars. He added that the move would end the confusion regarding safer nicotine alternatives, which some smokers still believe are “worse than cigarettes.”
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Three quarters of e-cigarette users would still be smoking if they had not encountered the e-cigarette. That is the outcome of a large survey among 2,981 Dutch e-cigarette users by consumer organization Acvoda and trade association Esigbond. On average, vapers attempted 5.1 cessation attempts before switching from regular cigarettes to the e-cigarette. Furthermore, almost nine out of ten vapers (...)
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In this episode Assistant Professor Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr Nicola Lindson discuss the emerging evidence in e-cigarette research and interview Dr Sharon Cox. Dr Sharon Cox discusses her team’s multi centred cluster randomised controlled trial based in homeless centres in the UK. In this study people experiencing homelessness who smoke are being offered e-cigarettes or usual care.
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By introducing the tax, the South African government will further extend the list of its unsuccessful anti-smoking policies. Such an approach has not proven to be effective–neither in South Africa, nor anywhere else in the world.
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On January 20th, 2022, the virtual Harm Reduction Exchange took place with two panels of discussions that were held around the hot topic of Harm Reduction. It is now scientifically known that what kills people is not nicotine but the combustible toxicants in the cigarette. Michael Russell, who is considered as the father of Tobacco Harm Reduction, used to say: “People smoke for the nicotine, but they die from the tar”.
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The most effective intervention for stopping smoking is a combination of professional counselling and pharmacotherapy. Medicines are recommended for all smokers who are motivated to quit and are nicotine dependent. Combination nicotine replacement therapy with a patch and an oral product is more effective than the patch alone. An adequate dose of nicotine must be used for an adequate duration. Varenicline is the most effective oral drug. It is safe in people with stable mental illness. Vaping nicotine is a second-line treatment which can be considered for smokers who are (...)