New EU rules will hit smokers trying to quit. This flies in the face of all we have learnt about managing addiction
The UN General Assembly is holding a special meeting on drug policy in April, its first since 1998. The mood of member states, as well as many international agencies, is now much less focused on law enforcement and abstinence, and much more favourably disposed to treating drugs as a public health issue
Originally Published by ECig Intelligence 2nd Feb 2016 The British e-cigarette sector should seek an early review of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD) rather than continue a doomed fight against this year’s introduction of the new EU rules, a politician has …
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Origianl article by Matt Ridley in The Times September 28th 2015 The latest emissions scandal is the draconian and health-threatening regulation being imposed on e-cigarettes. When regulation goes wrong, people call for more regulation. Sometimes, though, regulation is the cause of the …
Originally Published 2nd September 2015: Andrew Don – The Grocer Public Health England (PHE) has hit back at suggestions it made claims about the relative safety of e-cigarettes and vaping based on “flimsy” evidence. The advisory body to the Department of …
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Originally Published 25th August 2015 – A letter from Derek Yach Sir, Over the past decade, new reduced-risk nicotine products such as electronic cigarettes have appeared. Millions of smokers have used them to replace regular cigarettes, reducing their risk of …
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Originally Published in The Sunday Times – Jenny Hjul 23 August 2015 Prescribing ecigarettes may help a few smokers to quit but most users are fashion victims, not addicts, writes a former puffer There is something about the smell of cigarette …
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Originally Published in The Sunday Times 23rd August 2015 – Gabrielle Monaghan THE HSE has refused to endorse electronic cigarettes as a method of quitting smoking, despite new evidence from Britain that switching to the devices could save thousands of smokers’ …
Originally published 1st June 2016: http://watertowndailytimes.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=WD&Date=20150601&Category=OPINION&ArtNo=150609999&Ref=AR A one-size-fits-all approach to public health regulations where much remains unknown about the potential benefits is rarely a good idea. But this is what some legislators and health advocates are promoting by calling for …
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The Ministry of Health is planning: electronic cigarettes to be sold in stores E-cigarettes can be purchased in a store in the same way as cigarettes, if the amendment to the law, prepared by the Ministry of Health, becomes a reality. Similarly, …
‘Vaping leads to smoking’ claim is stubbed out Originally published by Siobhán Maguire Published: 26 April 2015 http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/ireland/News/article1548987.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2015_04_25 THE Irish Cancer Society has been criticised by a British cancer researcher and an economist for claiming that ecigarettes are being used …
