Category : News This Week

More than half of UK businesses have no policy on the use of electronic cigarettes in the workplace, according to an International Business Times story citing research by the PMI Health Group. The study, which questioned 216 personnel managers across large and medium sized UK companies, found that more than 58 percent of them ‘have...Read More

ITC is ready to enter the e-cigarette era and is engaging with the government in the hope of developing a policy that would allow the launch of these products on to the Indian market, according to a story in The Economic Times quoting chairman Y.C. Deveshwar. The chairman said he expected that the new government...Read More

The CECMOL forum 2014 will take place Sept. 2-4 at the Kirin Parkview Hotel in Shenzhen, China on. This is the first major international forum in China dedicated to the vapor market. Experts will discuss issues such as public policy, standardization, R&D and manufacturing. This forum is an opportunity for visitors to meet China’s major...Read More

Forty percent of U.K. doctors believe that electronic cigarettes should be available only from pharmacies, according to a WalesOnline story quoting a recent poll. Thirteen percent of doctors believe the devices should be prescription-only, 16 percent think they should not be on the market at all, and 31 percent believe they should be freely available....Read More

A medical professor at King Saud University (KSU) has called for a ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes, at least in respect of those under the age of 18, according to a story in the Arab News. Sultan Ayoub Meo, a professor at the KSU’s College of Medicine, said that electronic cigarette use should...Read More

In Australia, it is illegal to sell electronic cigarettes to deliver nicotine, not because a bureaucrat has made a decision to ban them, but because no one has yet asked the right bureaucrat for permission, according to David Leyonhjelm, the Liberal Democrats’ senator for New South   Wales, writing in The Australian Financial Review. ‘It...Read More

France is set to ban electronic cigarettes from public places and generally subject them to the same controls as tobacco cigarettes, according to a story in World Observer. Health Minister Marisol Touraine was quoted as saying the electronic cigarette was not an ordinary product. However, she said also: “We need to apply the same measures...Read More

The organizers of the recently held Global Forum on Nicotine have announced that they will stage another such event in a year’s time. The second Global Forum on Nicotine is scheduled to take place at the Marriott Hotel, Warsaw, on June 5–6, 2015. The first GFN, which attracted about 200 people from 30 countries, was...Read More

The Aquitine Group has launched nationwide in the US Aqua-tine, which is described as a colorless, odorless homeopathic liquid nicotine formulation designed specifically to satisfy tobacco cravings. According to a press not issued through PRNewswire, Aqua-tine is an alternative to traditional and electronic cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco. ‘The product comes in airtight 2.4 ml individually...Read More

Smokio, described as the world’s first connected electronic cigarette that synchronizes automatically with users’ smartphones, has  formed a partnership with the Asian American Trade Association Council (AATAC), an organization designed to build partnerships between convenience stores and manufacturers. “We are very proud to partner with AATAC to be able to offer Smokio to such a...Read More