Vaping is at a crucial juncture, with the UK government considering banning flavours, imposing vape taxes, enforcing plain packaging and other measures. At this key time, the superb E-Cigarette Summit has once again brought together top experts and scientists for an unparalleled exchange of science, evidence and (often conflicting) views. The themes and questions this year are powerful. They include:How misinformation.....

Vaping is under scrutiny again, and that’s partly the result of its own success. Since vaping has become popular in the UK, smoking rates have fallen to the lowest in decades, with regular smoking amongst children now below 1%. (1)At the same time, vaping, while better than smoking, is not problem free. Many of these problems derive from irresponsible sellers.....

Calls for a ban on disposable vapes are growing, and it’s easy to see why.Most of us have seen a disposable device carelessly thrown onto the side of a road - not to mention the headlines telling us about the millions being binned every week.Disposables have also been blamed by many for an increase in youth vaping. They’re not good for.....

Early reports suggest the World Health Organisation (WHO) is about to launch a new assault on vaping.  Indeed, The New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) has identified proposals that are likely to destroy vaping as we know it. What’s more, member states like the UK are bound by law to apply the proposals. In this post we’ll cover some of the worst proposals, and what.....

Predicting the future of vaping can be hard - but whether you’re in industry, research or advocacy, it’s also key to making effective decisions.So every year we invite top experts from different countries, continents and fields to use their unique insight and expertise to peer into the future of vaping. (The extent of geography also means there is a bit.....

The vape industry is currently contending with two major problems.The first is illegal devices, which often have an e-liquid capacity of more than 2ml (and may have higher nicotine levels than allowed). As I’ve written before, the real danger is not higher nicotine levels or higher capacity, but the danger that untested, poor-quality e-liquid is used.Secondly, more younger people.....

Since 2013, the E-Cigarette Summit has been shaping the vaping debate, bringing key scientists, policymakers and public health professionals together. It’s an incredible opportunity to learn a huge amount about vaping in a very short period of time, and as usual Amanda Strange has done a simply superb job putting it together.In these posts, we’ll be aiming to.....

On October 27th 2021, the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction (GSTHR) launched their latest report ‘Fighting the Last War: The WHO and International Tobacco Control' at a conference at London’s Oval Cricket Ground - with both physical attendees and a further 100 (including us!) watching online. What the report saysWith 1.1 billion smokers worldwide, 8 million annual smoking-related deaths.....

The UK government has recently been mulling lifting the age limit on buying cigarettes and vaping products to 21.There are complex arguments around raising the age limits on cigarettes (think personal freedom, whether you have a choice when you are addicted, net public health gain and so on). But this is a vaping blog, so I’m purely going to.....

The World Health Organisation can sound pretty negative on vaping at times.So it might surprise you that harm reduction (such as switching from smoking to vaping) is embedded in its tobacco control charter.It might surprise you even more to find that one of the biggest influences on WHO policy is from an individual in a country that has not ratified.....

.blog-view #main-content img { max-width: 190px; max-height: 190px; } Update: Vape predictions for 2022 are coming soon - in the meantime, check out the 7 big themes experts have identified for vaping in 2022!When I first launched a vape predictions post in 2012, I had no idea what a mammoth post this would end up being.I.....

My daughter is a teenager and I hear all sorts of stories about the antics of her peers.They include teenagers smoking in the schoolyard, drinking alcohol until they collapse and doing drugs on the school bus.Crucially, they are not doing these things because they think they are safe.They are well aware that these things are forbidden and unhealthy. They do.....

A few years ago, vaping was very nearly banned in Europe.The European Commission and the majority of the Member States planned to medicinalise electronic cigarettes. As it can take 10-20 years to get a medical licence for a product, that would have essentially outlawed vaping.At the time, vapers across the UK and Europe mobilised, with thousands writing letters to their.....

Also see: 2021 Vape Predictions : Expert Roundup.What a year it’s been for the vaping industry. In the first half of the year it seemed nothing could stop vaping, with smokers switching from tobacco to electronic cigarettes in droves.Then an outbreak of serious respiratory illness broke out in the USA. While the illness was caused by the use.....

In interviews I’m often asked why, if vaping is 95% safer than smoking, there are so many negative stories around vaping.My answer is that vaping is a disruptive industry which threatens more than US$700 billion in tobacco revenues and US$250 billion in tax revenues. It’s inevitable there’s going to be opposition to vaping.But I’m always uneasy this may.....