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Political news coverage pertaining to the vapor industry at Vaporizer Wire.
Despite a growing body of scientific evidence to the contrary, HealthJustice Philippines, a health group which advocates for higher tobacco product taxes and increased tobacco control, claims vaping is not safer than smoking cigarettes. According to former Health Secretary Jaime Galvez Tan, now a member of the HealthJustice Philippines board, the notion that vaping is …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a new nicotine reduction policy that, by their account, could prevent millions of premature deaths from tobacco over the next 80 years or so. According to the FDA’s projection, if their proposed nicotine reduction policy, which would limit the amount of nicotine contained within cigarettes sold …
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking aimed at regulating nicotine levels in cigarettes. According to a recently released statement issued by the FDA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the advance notice of proposed rulemaking was issued in order to “obtain information …
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Nicopure Labs, a U.S.-based manufacturer of e-liquids, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over its vaping regulations, which, by their account, subjects vaping products to restrictions that are “more onerous” than those imposed upon cigarettes under the Tobacco Control Act. While the company has challenged the FDA’s deeming rule …
Billionaire media mogul and world renown philanthropist Michael Bloomberg, whose wealth is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars, has announced yet another effort to combat tobacco use around the planet: the formation of a new tobacco industry watchdog organization that will be tasked with monitoring the practices of tobacco companies. To …
The Russian Minister for Industry and Trade Denis Manturov was quoted by Moscow-based business oriented newspaper Vedomosti as having said that electronic cigarettes will be “regulated as a ‘separate’ product category because they are ‘safer’ than cigarettes.” In response to news of the Russian government’s stance on e-cigs and the prospect of how they might …
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Vapers in the City of Baguio (known also as “Baguio City”), located in the Philippines’ Northern Luzon, are fighting for their right to vape after the city council approved an amendment to the city’s Anti-Smoking Ordinance last year that effectively banned the sale, distribution, possession, and use of vaping products within the city’s limits. Now …
Have the days of students sparking up cigarettes in school bathrooms all but come to an end? Schools in the state of New Hampshire are updating their policies to reflect their concerns over a growing trend in vape use among students. At Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire, the school’s principal, Brian Stack, …
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Vaporizing, or vaping as it’s known in short, is increasing in popularity across the United States, but there’s one state in particular where its popularity exceeds all others and that state is apparently Oklahoma. According to new research out of the New York University School of Medicine, it’s Oklahoma’s tobacco laws and regulations, or rather, …
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The legal vaping age in the state of Idaho remains the same after a bill to raise the age requirement, SB 1233, was rejected. Had the bill been succeeded, it would have raised the age requirement for buying tobacco products from 18 to 21. And not just for tobacco products, but for vaping products as …
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