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July 17, 2018 by euronews.com

Silicon Valley e-cigarette start-up Juul Labs is bringing its small flash drive-sized vaping device to the United Kingdom this week, aiming to reproduce its break-neck U.S. growth overseas.

Since launching in 2015 Juul has transformed the market in the United States, where it now accounts for nearly 70 percent of tracked e-cigarette sales.

Juul says it targets adult smokers, but it has faced scrutiny over the popularity of its products with teenagers. [...]

July 10, 2018 by thestandard.com.hk

Most parents asked for views on e-cigarettes want them banned outright rather than legalized with warnings and restrictions.

Eighty-two percent of 3,374 parents who responded to a survey called for the ban in the wake of a proposal last month to amend the current Smoking (Public Health) Ordinance to regulate e-cigarettes and herbal smoking products.

Suggestions now include prohibitions on sales to youngsters, packages with health warnings and indications of harmful substances, [...]

June 27, 2018 by scmp.com

Smoking is banned in all ­public indoor areas including malls and public transport facilities, and some outdoor areas such as parks. Offenders face a fixed fine of HK$1,500.

Kuan recalled: “I told him not to run and said: ‘You have committed an offence. Stand still!’”

He is among a group of 20 ­former policemen, most in their 50s, spending their retirement cracking down on smoking offenders. [...]

June 19, 2018 by thestandard.com.hk

Representatives from across the medical sector today voiced their strong opposition to a proposal to regulate electronic cigarettes, and demanded a total ban on the products instead, RTHK reports.

At a joint press conference, the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine, the Medical Association and the medical schools of the Chinese University and the University of Hong Kong said e-cigarettes and other new smoking alternatives could cause substantial harm to people's health.

June 16, 2018 by scmp.com

Watered-down government proposals to regulate electronic cigarettes and other new smoking alternatives have failed to impress either the tobacco industry or health experts, with both sides saying they will lobby lawmakers for changes ahead of a Legislative Council debate next week. A move to tax these new products in the same way as traditional cigarettes has prompted much discussion, as the government paper did not detail the duty size or how it would be implemented.

June 08, 2018 by businessinsider.com.pl

Philip Morris International Inc is planning to launch its iQOS smoking device in India, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as the tobacco giant seeks a foothold in a country with the world's second-biggest smoker population. India has stringent laws to deter tobacco use, which the government says kills more than 900,000 people every year. But the country still has 106 million adult smokers, second only to China according to the World Health Organization [...]

May 30, 2018 by scmp.com

Asia is home to 60 per cent of the world’s 1.1 billion smokers. Globally, millions of smokers are switching like never before to smoke-free alternatives, like heated tobacco products or e-cigarettes. These disruptive products eliminate the combustion and the smoke and, by doing so, significantly reduce levels of harmful chemicals, while still delivering the nicotine and ritual that millions seek.

May 07, 2018 by scotsman.com

The company is unique in that it conducts all of its design work from its Scottish base to ensure quality and content. Although it has a small retail operation, the bulk of sales are generated online and via wholesale agreements. Chief executive Neil McCallum said the business was growing at a rate of about 30 per cent a year – double what the market is doing. “We decided very early on that we wanted to design something that was a bit different,” he told The Scotsman. [...]

April 23, 2018 by scmp.com

With the daily smoking rate of Hong Kong’s population at a record low, one might think public health advocate Antonio Kwong Cho-sing could not be any happier as head of the Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health, an anti-smoking activist group. But he now faces a new challenge that has reared its ugly head: e-cigarettes.

“If I have the power to make it work, I wish Hong Kong can be a smoke-free society, Kwong says. “Is this a far-fetched idea? I personally don’t really think so.”

January 30, 2018 by washingtonexaminer.com

<p>Even the most ardent e-cigarette enthusiasts hardly ever claim that e-cigarettes are “medicine.” And, by conventional standards, they aren’t. While Chinese pharmacist Hon Li, creator of the first commercially viable e-cigarette, did hope to create a smoking cessation aid, the people responsible for the design and marketing of today’s products mostly aim to create things that are pleasurable and profitable. [...]<br/><b>2018-01-30 | <a href='http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/e-cigarettes-are-what-the-doctor-ordered/article/2647376' target='_blank'>washingtonexaminer.com</a></b></p>