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 whose department has received $850,000 to:fund research.....
Update: This blog post was written five years. Research such as this suggest some of these fears over eliquid are not valid, although of course vapers should continue to ensure eliquid is kept out of reach of children.One vaper, contributing to a discussion on an e-cigarette forum, recently speculated on the lethal nature of the e-juice he was carrying.A little.....
David Sweanor (bio) has worked with numerous companies and organisations, including the International Union Against Cancer, World Health Organization, World Bank and the Pan American Health Organization, on the issue of tobacco harm reduction. He has received both international recognition and prestigious prizes for his work. David has also been outspoken on vaping issues.
Q: How did you get interested in.....
Every year the UK government commissions an independent review of the evidence around the safety of vaping. The review of vaping, now in its eighth reiteration, is already the most solid review of vaping evidence in the world - and this year is the most comprehensive yet.
Evidence on vaping safety
The report reiterated that vaping poses only a small fraction.....
A replication study has demonstrated that vaping is far less toxic than tobacco cigarettes.
The study was carried out by Center of Excellence for the acceleration of Harm Reduction of the University of Catania. (CoEHAR). The study is part of the Replica Project, which aims to replicate high quality studies that compare cigarettes with electronic alternatives.
The studies chosen were originally.....
Dr Marewa Glover, Director of Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking, shares her predictions for vaping in 2022. Also see our full 2022 vape predictions round up.
Vaping displaces cigarette smoking. That’s not a prediction, it’s a fact. New Zealand’s 2020/21 government health survey provides more weight to the evidence that vaping can increase quit rates, reduce smoking.....
Professor Gerry Stimson of Knowledge-Action-Change shares his thoughts for the future of vaping. Also see our full 2022 Vape Predictions Roundup.
The end of combustion is in sight for tobacco, just as it is for fossil fuels. Many groups are trying to stop tobacco harm reduction (THR), but THR will be driven forward by the dynamic of new nicotine technologies,.....
A new study has found that switching from smoking to vaping can restore the lungs' primary defence against harmful substances.
This decreases the risk of infection and lung diseases such as COPD and can help to improve symptoms of pre-existing lung diseases.
The study, conducted by a team led by Professor Polosa of the University of Catania, looked at the impact.....
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has released a major report calling for the UK government to promote electronic cigarettes via a mass media campaign.
This would form part of a campaign that returned funding for anti-smoking campaigns to at least 2008 levels.
The suggestion is just one of a number of recommendations the RCP has made to encourage the use.....
Coils have come a long way in the past ten years.
But they still burn out, particularly when used at high wattages.
It’s unpleasant when it happens, and it makes vaping more expensive - especially for Direct-Lung and restricted Direct-Lung vapers.
What’s more, I suspect it has an impact on the relative safety of vaping to cigarettes. While Public Health England estimates.....
Dr Marewa Glover, Director of the independent Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking based in Auckland, New Zealand
This post is a part of our 2021 vape predictions.
One slogan from my radical feminist past seems highly relevant when contemplating what's in store for vaping in 2021. “The personal is political” when applied to vaping, reminds us that an.....
Smoking used to be everywhere. The first time I went to the pub – more years ago than I would like to admit – it was a decidedly smoky experience. It seemed like basically everybody at the pub smoked as they drank, to a level that youngsters today would probably find quite shocking.
I quickly found myself among them, holding.....
A vape study co-published by Stanton Glantz which claimed vaping causes heart attacks was finally retracted yesterday by the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA).
The study had incensed vape researchers after it claimed that using vape products caused heart attacks - while failing to mention that most of the subjects in the study had suffered heart attacks.....
Updated: August 2022
What is EVALI?
EVALI stands for E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use-Associated Lung Injury. It refers to a severe, sometimes fatal, respiratory illness. Symptoms include shortness of breath and chest pains.
EVALI was first recorded in 2019, when a sudden spate of respiratory illnesses broke out in the USA, leading to 68 deaths by February 2020.
In this post I look.....
Professor Polosa has recently completed his latest study, a review of the effect of vaping on respiratory health. We got together with Riccardo Polosa to discuss how vaping can reverse harm, the potential to reduce infections, the latest controversy over vaping and respiratory diseases in the US and more.
In a recent press release you reiterated that vaping is at.....