Restrictions on store sales of flavored vaping products miss the point, retailers say
New federal regulations barring most stores from selling flavored e-cigarettes are being characterized as government over reach by some retailers.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA TOBACCO CONTROL ALLIANCE: Cambodia: Health experts call for more tobacco taxes to save lives
Health experts on Tuesday called on the government to save Cambodian lives by raising tobacco taxes and use the revenues to expand healthcare benefits for the general public.
Vaping is NOT Tobacco Campaign: A Pan-European Push for Smarter Vaping Rules
European vaping advocates launched the Vaping is NOT Tobacco campaign to lobby for smarter, evidence-based regulation of vaping products that takes account of public health differences between vaping and smoking.
Microbes found in e-cigarettes
According to research by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, popular e-cigarettes have bacterial and fungal toxins.
E-cigarette study showing trace contaminants should compare findings to traditional cigarettes: industry groups
A recent Harvard study looked at 75 different e-cigarettes to conclude that 81 percent of them contain traces of fungi and another 23 percent of them contained traces of bacteria.
WHO report forecasts 3.2% drop in tobacco smoking over 15 years
Tobacco smoking among men and women worldwide will decline 3.2 percent between the years 2010 and 2025, according to a report by the World Health Organization.
PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL: Announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration Authorization For Sale of IQOS in the United States
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today confirmed that IQOS, Philip Morris International’s electrically heated tobacco system, is appropriate for the protection of public health and has authorized it for sale in the United States. FDA’s decision follows its comprehensive assessment of PMI’s premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) filed with the Agency in 2017.
ALTRIA GROUP, INC.: FDA Authorizes Sale of IQOS Tobacco Heating System in the U.S.
Altria Group, Inc. (Altria) (NYSE:MO) announces today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized sale of the IQOS heated tobacco system in the U.S. market. FDA authorization follows review of the Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTA) submitted by Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI).
Altria supports raising age of purchase for tobacco products to 21
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wants to raise the age of purchase of all tobacco products from 18 to 21.
22ND CENTURY GROUP, INC.: 22nd Century’s Pre-Market Tobacco Application for VLN™ Cigarettes Advances with Completed FDA Inspection
FDA Inspection is an important milestone for 22nd Century’s VLN™ Cigarettes
FONTEM US, INC., Blu Submit Comments in Response to FDA Draft Guidance for the Regulation of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems
Fontem agrees, without equivocation, that youth should not use EVPs or any other tobacco or nicotine-containing products, and supports reasonable, effective, data-driven regulation of the marketing and sale of all tobacco products to support that goal.
CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: FDA Must Not Allow IQOS to Become the Next Juul Among Kids
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that it has authorized Philip Morris to market its IQOS heated tobacco product in the United States, with certain marketing restrictions that the FDA said are intended to prevent youth access and exposure.
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR HISPANIC HEALTH: Statement of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health on Introduction of the Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act
Rise of E-Cigarettes Represents a Tobacco Tipping Point for Hispanic Youth
VISIONGAIN: Report Claims There is Huge Potential Within the $8.95bn Countering Illicit Tobacco Trade Market
Countering Illicit Tobacco Trade Market Report 2019-2029
The number of Americans who believe vaping is less dangerous than smoking has dropped
Recent studies have shown that the number of Americans who believe that vaping is less dangerous than smoking cigarettes has dropped, causing concerns throughout the vaping industry.
VITAL STRATEGIES: As Tobacco and E-Cigarette Companies Continue to Use Marketing Dollars to Win New Customers, CVS Health Pledges Not to Work with Agencies that Promote Smoking or Vaping
CVS Health joins a growing list of companies to Quit Big Tobacco, a Vital Strategies initiative aimed at taking money, talent and expertise away from the tobacco and e-cigarette industries
CANADIAN VAPING ASSOCIATION: Issues statement on Health Canada action
The Canadian Vaping Association (CVA) shares our support of Health Canada’s action which shut down Vype’s Tunnel promotion on April 21st, at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto, Ontario.
SOUTHEAST ASIA TOBACCO CONTROL ALLIANCE: Cambodia: Call for increase in tobacco taxes
Health experts are calling for the government to increase tobacco tax and use the money to expand health care benefits for the general public.
Analysis: Connecticut, New York have highest state cigarette taxes
Connecticut and New York levy the highest cigarette taxes of any state, according to a new analysis from the Tax Foundation based on 2016 data.
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: More than 4 in 10 Americans Live with Unhealthy Air; Eight Cities Suffered Most Polluted Air Ever Recorded
American Lung Association's 20th annual 'State of the Air' report sounds the alarm on worsened air quality driven by climate change, placing health and lives at risk