October Vaping News at a glance: A good week for pro-vaping science â E-cigarettes: Organized crime is exploding â Some public sessions at COP7 â Vaping bill sponsor admits âit didâ put people out of business â Where has all the nicotine gone? â Role of sweet and other flavours â E-cigs and Joe Camel â Prop. 56 Kills â Latest tobacco tax attempt â Nicotine Science and Policy Daily Digest â Friday, 7 October 2016 A good week...
 May 17th, 2016 | Adam Winfrey | Big D Vapor The Food and Drug Administrationâs Deeming Regulations for tobacco products were published on May 5th and went into effect on May 10th, 2016.  Unfortunately, these regulations include electronic cigarettes, despite the fact that they contain no tobacco (only nicotine).  These far-reaching new laws will decimate tens of thousands of small vapor businesses throughout the USA and will significantly decrease...
Vaping and Electronic Cigarettes 2015 Review A Groundbreaking Year For Innovation, Change, and Public Awareness In 2015, the Electronic Cigarette industry received more press than ever: some good, some great, and some downright negative.  We also experienced unprecedented product improvements, cost decreases, and increased quality across the board.  Finally, we encountered tremendous pressure from legislators, the FDA, anti-vaping groups, and an undereducated public that only knows what major media outlets...
By Clive Bates originally on CliveBates.comSeptember 8, 2020 A promising new documentary film is on the way to our screens: A billion lives ââa true story of government failure, big business and the vaping revolutionâ. See trailer above. It gets its name from the often-quoted figure that one billion lives may be lost to diseases caused by smoking in the 21st Century.  The eminent epidemiologist Sir Richard Peto summarised the outlook in a comment to the Independent...
 Daryl Cura demonstrates an e-cigarette at Vape store in Chicago, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The federal government wants to ban sales of electronic cigarettes to minors and require approval for new products and health warning labels under regulations being proposed by the Food and Drug Administration. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) October 30th | Todd Robberson | The Dallas Morning News I joined a pre-debate panel discussion Wednesday night in...
10/25/2015 | Daniel Hall | Guide To Vaping For the sake of public health, leave vaping alone. Â Words I have often said over the last couple of years, as we have been fighting on every level to keep the vaping industry alive in the face of the many entities who would like us to disappear. Â Over the last month or two, I have heard and seen these exact words across...
10/5/15 | Michael D. Shaw | HealthNewsDigest.com This column has already documented officialdom's unrelenting war on e-cigarettes. In fact, those articles were some of the best-read I have ever posted, so I guess we touched a nerve. The insidious tag team--comprised of Big Tobacco and the supposed public health interest groups against smoking--is perfectly evocative of the Bootleggers and Baptists phenomenon, originally described by economist Bruce Yandle. This latest attack comes...
 July 7, 2015 | Jake Bleiberg | VICE C/O https://vaping360.com/ Photo via Flickr user TBEC Review Ray Yeates always assumed he would die a smoker. An adherent of Alcoholics Anonymous with over 35 years of hard-fought sobriety, the 66-year-old says that when he found out that Bill W., one of AA's founders, had continued to smoke through emphysema and dependence on an oxygen tank, he became certain that his life would...
04/23/2015, Purplebox Vapours
This is a great infographic put together by our friends across the pond at Purplebox Vapours http://purplebox.ie/Â illustrating the market share of Big Tobacco in the e-cig and vapor business. (Click here for full size file download)
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Dec 29, 2014 (ACCESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- WHITEFISH, MT / ACCESSWIRE / December 29, 2014 / The electronic cigarette - also known as e-cig - industry has grown from virtually nil to over $1.7 billion in annual sales over the past five years. According to Wells Fargo, the relatively new industry is set to reach over $10 billion in annual sales by 2017 driven by increasing affordability and personalization, which...
Photo by Susan Du Thomas McCool of New Element Fine Vapors  10/28/2014, Susan Du, www.houstonpress.com Cloud blowers, flavor connoisseurs, smokeless e-cig puffers, surreptitious stoners, cancer patients trying to quit cigarettes -- Houston's e-cigarette and vape consumers are as diverse as the products created in the local DIY market. It's a market that's been allowed to Frankenstein and modify new contraptions for vaporizing countless blends of liquid nicotine and flavored juices to...