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- Category: Hazel Mabe
Hazel Mabe | 14 December 2013
As in the rest of Europe, e-cigarettes were first introduced in Germany around 2007. Since then there has been a massive increase in their use and it is estimated that there are two million vapers in Germany. It is estimated that around 7% use first generation cigalike products, and 93% second and third generation.
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- Category: Karl Fagerstrom
Karl Fagerstrom | 14 December 2013
We used to believe that nicotine is very dependence producing, but the evidence suggests that there are a number of problems with this statement. For example, animals do not self-administer nicotine as readily as they do other dependence producing drugs such as amphetamine, cocaine, and heroin (Villegier et al. 2003); nicotine is a relatively weak reinforcer in human laboratory studies (Perkins et al. 2001); abstinent smokers seem to prefer a much reduced or nicotine free e-cigarette rather than other - often stronger - nicotine-containing products like gum; and although nicotine replacement treatment is an effective aid for quitting smoking, its efficacy is moderate even in doses that replace most or all nicotine from the cigarettes formerly used (Dale et al. 1995). There is very little to no evidence for the abuse of nicotine when not delivered in a tobacco vehicle.
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- Category: Gilbert Ross
Gilbert Ross | 8 December 2013
Anyone with a modicum of knowledge regarding public health will agree that the most important, devastating, and preventable issue facing America is the human toll of cigarettes.
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- Category: Jon Spring
Jon Spring | 1 December 2013
All quotes attributed in the following piece are from the transcripts of the E-Cigarette Summit, held at the Royal Society in London, on November 12, 2013 [i] The Summit provided a vital and timely meeting for scientists, policymakers, public health professionals and e-cigarette stakeholders to come together and debate the future of e-cigarettes in context of health, efficacy and regulation.
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- Category: Gerry Stimson
Gerry Stimson | 25 November 2013
The European Parliament voted on October 8th voted to reject medicines regulation for e-cigarettes. Instead it passed Amendment 170 which sought to regulate e-cigarettes as consumer products. The main elements of this amendment were that medicines legislation would apply to products where a health claim is made i.e. that the product can be used for treating or preventing disease.
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- Category: Lars Ramström
Lars Ramström | 25 November 2013
The revision of the EU Tobacco Products Directive raises some interesting issues regarding smokeless tobacco products (STP). In the Directive those oral STPs that are kept in the mouth (Swedish snus) are called ‘oral tobacco’, while those oral STPs that are chewed in the mouth are called ‘other STP’.
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- Category: Miroslaw Dworniczak
Mirosław Dworniczak | 17 November 2013
From time to time e-cigarettes appear in the media. Unfortunately, they are usually still presented in a bad light. The usual arguments are as follows: we do not know exactly what's inside an e-cigarette, they are as poisonous as „the real ones”, there's no research concerning e-cigarettes.
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- Category: Clive Bates
Clive Bates | 17 November 2013
The investment analysts are always interesting on tobacco and e-cigs, and in a usefully dispassionate ‘follow-the-money’ kind of way.
Here’s a small collection of quotes I’ve seen in recent analyst reports mainly as they relate to regulation of e-cigarettes. I don’t see all reports of course so this is necessarily selective.
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- Category: Marcel Goertz
Marcel Göertz | 10 November 2013
A couple of months ago, e-cigarette users from the Dutch speaking part of Belgium and the Netherlands joined hands and formed a group of activist vapers. Acvoda - Actie Comité voor Dampers (Action Committee for Vapers) - was born. While this seems a logical unison, the fact is that the current situation for Dutch e-cigarette users is completely different than the situation for the Belgian users.
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- Category: Suzi Gage
Suzi Gage | 02 November 2013
The tobacco industry has been shown to mislead with its research, but is forcing it to become more hidden a better option? Last week, the BMJ announced that it was finally implementing a practice that it had been discussing since the mid 1990s. Research partly or fully funded by the tobacco industry will no longer be published in BMJ, BMJ Open, Thorax and Heart.