Every year millions of smokers around the world try to quit smoking. Unfortunately, according to statistics, just 5-10% of people are successful. And that includes people who use smoking cessation aids. Why quit smoking? And yet there is every reason to quit smoking. Smoking 20 cigarettes a day will cost you £2136 a year. You [...]

Do you believe Assenge really raped two Swedish girls? I have no proof that he did or didn’t. I am sceptical, though. The crime seems remarkably handy at a time when America needs to smear an awkward critic. Having seen a sneaky campaign ran against the electronic cigarette by industries with competing financial interests, I [...]

We work hard to follow Trading Standards rules. Not every retailer is the same. And the other day we found, not for the first time, a retailer blatently breaking all the rules. So we reported them to Trading Standards. And they couldn’t do a thing. The company was taking orders from UK customers. But it [...]

Electronic cigarettes contain 1000 times less carcinogens than cigarettes, have few if any chemicals that are likely to be of concern and as a result are likely to be much safer. That’s the result of a review of 16 separate laboratory studies into the electronic cigarette titled: Electronic cigarettes as a harm reduction strategy for [...]

Tobacco Smoke SG Report: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/tobaccosmoke/index.html http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/tobaccosmoke/report/full_report.pdf DHHS officials mislead public, alienate smokers, diminish public health credibility by exaggerating disease risks of brief smoke exposure http://www.visualwebcaster.com/National_Press_Club/74844/event.html http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2010pres/12/20101209a.html http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/tobaccosmoke/factsheet.html http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.2143/news_detail.asp News media repeat exaggerated claims by DHHS officials about risks of brief smoke exposure [...]

As we recently announced, NJOY have won a second court victory over the FDA in its battle to sell electronic cigarettes in the US. Yet anti-smoking groups with competing financial interests have spun the court judgement to be a disaster for public health. Which is strange, for judges in both cases have agreed with scientists [...]

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Yesterday NJOY won the right to continue marketing electronic cigarettes under tobacco regulations. (Read the judgement from the Courts of Appeal here.) If NJOY had lost their court battle with their FDA (which argued that e-cigarettes should be marketed as drug delivery devices) hundreds of thousands of Americans could have either returned to cigarettes or [...]

NJOY wins appeal case in the US! In what is a huge victory for NJOY and the electronic cigarette industry, an American appeals court have regulated that the electronic cigarette can not be regulated as a drug. Regulating it as a drug would have meant an effective ban on the device as it went through [...]

Prue Talbot, a researcher at the University of California, has launched a new attack on the electronic cigarette. In her paper, due to be released today, she thunders that electronic cigarettes are not regulated and should be banned until such a time as they are. Prue Talbot is a researcher at the University of California [...]