Showing posts with label e-cig. Show all posts
Showing posts with label e-cig. Show all posts

Science: E-Cigs Could Save Hundreds Of Millions Of Lives

As U.S. politicians try to ban the device ...   A group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health Organization not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardize a major opportunity to slash disease and deaths caused by smoking. The UN agency, which is currently assessing its position on the matter,   ... MORE

Study Finds E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit Better Than Patches

by Brian Stallard.     No wonder big tobacco wants them banned. New evidence has surfaced that suggests using electronic cigarettes may actually help tobacco smokers kick their harmful habit. However, past studies have shown just the opposite, meaning that the consensus is still unclear even as the facts are finally coming in. A study recently    ... MORE

FDA And Big Tobacco Join Forces To Choke Out E-Cigs

Anti-smoking device in the crosshairs.      Depending on what happens next, the electronic tobaccoless smokes will either rot in the land of once-hyped forgotten gadgets, or would-be smokers will instead spend late nights puffing away in a hip sweet-smelling vape lounge with a beer in one hand and a pimped-out mod in the other.        ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: The 'Tobacco Products' That Aren't

FDA's slow-motion ban of e-cigs.      The option-reducers never rest. The first time the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved to regulate electronic cigarettes, it tried to ban them. Last month it took a different approach that may ultimately have a similar effect. Much will depend on whether the FDA irrationally decides to treat e-cigs    ... MORE

FDA Can't Wait To Reduce Options For E-Cig Users

Smoke-free device is in government's crosshairs.   Busybodies minding your own business.   The Food and Drug Administration will propose sweeping new rules on Thursday that for the first time would extend its regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, popular nicotine delivery devices that have grown into a     ... MORE 

Man Found Guilty Of E-Cig Law That Does Not Exist

by Jeff Sherwood.      Judge makes up law as he goes. On March 20, 2014, I brought you a story about the first man to ever get a ticket in the United States for using an electronic cigarette while driving. Today (Mar. 22), I had the opportunity to sit down and speak with the accused man, Jason Dewing, via a telephone conversation to get further         ... MORE