(This post has been updated following clarification from Riccardo – see bottom of post.) Hard on the heels of the UK government’s enthusiastic comments on electronic cigarettes, the Italian Non-Smoking Association (Lega Italiano Anti Fumo (LIAF)) is close to announcing positive results from their own research. Professor Riccardo Polosa, Scientific advisor of LIAF and a Professor of [...]

Positive news stories and support from some anti-smoking organisations bode well for the electronic cigarette in New Zealand.

A summary of Health New Zealand’s critique of the WHO’s report on the electronic cigarette.

More than 50% of smokers can quit using the liquid cigarette according to a new study.

A BMJ article on the electronic cigarette shows encouraging findings for e-cigarette users.

Non-smoker Helen Thomson of the New Scientist magazine has published a detailed assessment of an e cigarette!” First she “lit up” in a bar – causing the usual reaction, but was fortunately not thrown out when she explained that it was a tobacco free electronic cigarette that she had bought from a UK company for [...]

We don’t normally publish a post three times on the same day, but we have just been sent a report by researchers in New Zealand, and thought it was too important to wait: Note – Also see the original Electronic Cigarette Safety Report (PDF), and our more detailed article on the subject on our website: [...]