We Need to Talk About the COP7
From November 7-12, public health experts and policymakers from the entire world are convening in New Delhi, India for the 7th Conference of Parties (COP7) of the World Health Organization’s Framework Conventio...
“Quit or die”: The Reason Foundation’s report on the FCTC and its opposition to E-cigs
“To protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption, and exposure to tobacco smoke”. These are the rather lofty aims of...
E-cigarettes provoke former smokers to start smoking once again, suggests study
E-Cigarettes once hailed as a valuable aid in helping cigarette smokers kick off the habit. However recent studies have thrown up fresh doubts about its propounded benefits. A recent small but significant resea...
Health officials in California launch campaign against e-cigarettes
California health officials are calling on the public to stop getting deceived by commercial ads claiming that e-cigarettes help active smokers quit smoking, because this is not entirely true; rather e-cigs cou...
California health department warns users against ‘addictive’ e-cigarettes
A top public health official at the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has started a campaign against electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes on Wednesday, January 28. It was cited that these highly ad...
New study claims e-cigarettes promotes Cancer Matthew Thomas skeptical
Electronic Cigarettes might not be the ultimate solution to get rid of smoking since a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine states a bold fact: when e-cigarettes are cranked up to high voltages...
CDC Study shows increasing trend of E-Cigarettes in the US Teens
The latest study marks the first attempt to gauge the use of e-cigarettes by teens. The report which has been released Tuesday by the National Institute of Health reveals that 9% of eighth-graders say that they...
The Oxford Dictionary names VAPE as the International Word of The Year 2014
VAPE has been named by The Oxford dictionary as its International Word of the Year. For those of you who are still wondering what on earth vape means, it refers to the vapor produced by an electronic cigarette ...
Switch to e-cigarettes today and live
Medical and academic authorities in the UK are advocating that several thousands of lives could be saved from death if active smokers switched to smoking e-cigarettes instead of tobacco. The researchers from th...
Experts worldwide say e-cigarettes could save millions of lives
Over 50 health experts and nicotine experts from 15 different countries worldwide are trying to tell the World Health Organization (WHO) to not classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products because it could endange...