The basis of a blanket ban on electronic cigarettes imposed two months ago by the government of Karnataka, India, is being challenged by consumers, according to a story in the Times of India.Read More

Writing on his blog, The counterfactual, Clive Bates says that the US Food and Drug Administration’s deeming rule, which came into force on Monday, spells the end of innovation.Read More

The head of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products praised the agency's deeming rule that, among other things, bans sales of the products to anyone under 18. Forty-eight states already had laws preventing sales to minors.Read More

A new study indicates that 95 percent of Malaysian vapers have either quit or cut down on smoking, according to a story in The Star.Read More

TechFreedom and the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) have filed an amicus brief in support of the challenge to the FDA’s new regulation of e-cigarettes being brought by Nicopure Labs.Read More

On Monday, August 8, innovation in the vapor industry dies. This is the date the first phase of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) rules regulating the vapor industry go into effect.Read More

In the case of e-cigarettes, the FDA is sacrificing millions of people who will certainly die because of their tobacco addiction for the unknown number of people who might be harmed by the long-term effects Read More

The New Zealand government has agreed in principle that, with ‘appropriate controls’ in place, nicotine for electronic cigarettes should be legally available, according to a scoop.co.nz story. Currently nicotine may be imported only Read More

Mistic has made sub-ohming simple. Today, Ballantyne Brands, parent to Mistic, reinvents the vaping experience with the introduction of the Mistic 2.0 POD-MOD, a sleek and powerful closed-ended personal vaporizer.Read More

British American Tobacco said today that it was leading efforts to develop and harmonize standards around vaping products to further reassure consumers of these products’ potential ‘in reducing the harm from smoking’.Read More