Saving the lives of millions of smokers isn’t a priority. Protecting kids from nicotine seems to matter more. By Joe Nocera December 19, 2019, 10:00 AM EST What about the lives of existing smokers? In 2006, I interviewed Matthew Myers, …
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More than half of doctors say current guidance isn’t clear enough on use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, according to a Medscape UK poll. The five question poll was launched on November 8th during a period of growing concern over …
Inside the CDC’s scramble to solve a mysterious vaping disease
The equipment failure in early November was one of countless challenges confronted by the more than 100 CDC scientists who have been working around the clock on the agency’s Chamblee campus in Atlanta, scrambling to create new investigative tools and techniques as they seek to prevent additional injuries and deaths from the vaping related illness.
Christopher Snowdon 27th Sept ’19 It is now several weeks since people started being hospitalised with ‘vaping-related’ lung injuries in the United States. The epidemic has slowed considerably in recent days, but it is said to have claimed the lives …
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‘Vape Influencers’ worry they will become collateral damage in Trump’s new ban When the Trump administration announced Wednesday that it plans to ban most flavored e-cigarettes, Matt Culley knew within minutes that he had a job to do. He turned …
Medical experts have criticised the decision by San Francisco to ban the sale of all e-cigarettes, saying it could push adults back towards smoking tobacco. It will become the first big city in America to ban the sale of e-cigarettes …
The fees, if approved by Congress, would pay for federal oversight. The e-cigarette industry would pay $100 million a year in user fees under the Trump administration budget proposal released Monday. The funds would go to beefed-up regulatory oversight by the Food and Drug Administration.
To encourage switch to vaping Jawad Iqbal 29th October 2018 Smoking is one of the biggest killers in Britain today: each year it leads to just under 80,000 deaths and about half a million hospital admissions. The cost to the …
On vaping and harm reduction Lizi Jenkins 26th October 2018 Calls for reform to global vaping policy have fallen on deaf ears. Following the Eighth Session of the Conference of Parties (COP8) in Geneva this month, the World Health Organization’s …
Why this healthier alternative to smoking is under threat Matt Ridley 8th July 2018 Britain is the world leader in vaping. More people use ecigarettes in the UK than in any other European country. It’s more officially encouraged than in …
