The Assault On E-Cigs Accelerates

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The Public Thinks E-Cigarettes Are Harmless



"The Public Thinks E-Cigarettes Are Harmless, But They Aren't': Leading Health Experts Call For More Safety Checks On The Devices"

"The WHO is assessing its position on e-cigarettes, and has indicated it is leaning toward restrictions like those on all nicotine-containing products, including banning advertising and flavours.

The call comes as new research showed that almost 30 million people around Europe have tried the battery operated nicotine products."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...devicesxx.html

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Congresswoman Proposes E-Cigarette Regulations

"A San Francisco congresswoman unveiled legislation Friday that would regulate electronic cigarettes in the same way as typical tobacco products, accusing the e-cigarette industry of targeting children and teenagers with its marketing.

"With flavors like gummy bear, cotton candy, and chocolate cake, our kids are literally vaping these things up," said U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, who announced the proposal outside the San Francisco General Hospital emergency room. "With ads using sex and sex appeal, our teens are lusting after these objects."

"Poisonings and burnings by e-cigarettes have increased, said Dr. Neal Benowitz, associate medical director of the San Francisco Division of the California Poison Control System, which is based at San Francisco General.

"We have seen a significant jump from two to three cases of e-cigarette-related poisoning per month in 2012 to 12 cases in 2014," he said.

Dr. Tomas Aragon of the San Francisco Department of Public Health said regulating e-cigarettes like regular tobacco products is a common-sense move to "prevent increased recruitment of our youth into a life of nicotine addiction."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...130677&ft=1&f=

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Alarming Spread Of E-Cigarettes Prompts Calls For Regulations (in Japan)

"The Law on Prohibition of Smoking by Minors bans those aged under 20 from lighting up. But the National Police Agency said there is no consensus on whether e-cigarettes with nicotine should be legally classified as tobacco products."

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_...AJ201407010023

[Andy105]

San Francisco and Tokyo probably have more deaths per year from Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation, and they're panicking about nicotine use? They should hand e-cigs out to the homeless, so they can quit bumming smokes from people.

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From the article:

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is spending $270 million on these and 45 other research projects to determine the risks of e-cigarettes before millions more Americans become hooked on the devices.

The Yale team, for instance, will study whether menthol and flavors such as chocolate and cherry increase the appeal of e-cigarettes, especially to 16-to-18-year-old smokers or "dual users" who both smoke and vape. If that turns out to be the case, the FDA would have scientific support for regulating.

Another crucial question researchers are trying to answer is whether e-cigarettes will be used mostly by nicotine newbies, including adolescents; by ex-smokers craving a nicotine hit without the carcinogens of tobacco; or by smokers trying to quit.

"If it turns out that people are tinkering with the electronics to increase the voltage of e-cigarettes, and FDA regulations limit the maximum voltage, that's useful to know," since it may justify a requirement that the devices be tinker-proof, said Balster."

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science...uffs-1.1715375

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Restrict or Ban E-Cigarettes, Lung Societies Say



"Electronic cigarettes should be restricted or even banned, pending better safety data, lung societies urged.

As a precaution, electronic nicotine delivery devices should be restricted or banned until more information about their safety is available," it said. "If they are allowed, they should be closely regulated as medicines or tobacco products."

Many governments have chosen to restrict the sale of nicotine delivery systems, or to ban them entirely," it pointed out.

The U.K. will regulate the devices as medicines starting in 2016, while Brazil, Norway, Singapore, and Indonesia have banned them entirely."

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pulmonology/Smoking/46697

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Heart Group Calls On FDA To Quickly Regulate E-Cigs

"Electronic cigarettes need to be strongly regulated – and quickly – to prevent another generation of young people from becoming addicted to nicotine, according to the American Heart Association's first policy statement on the products.

In its statement, the heart association pointed to studies suggesting that e-cigarettes, which contain nicotine but no tobacco, could serve as a "gateway" drug to addict young people, who may go on to regular cigarettes or smokeless tobacco. The association pointed to flavors in e-cigarettes, such as bubble gum, arguing that these are intended to attract kids.

"We are fiercely committed to preventing the tobacco industry from addicting another generation of smokers," said Nancy Brown, CEO of the heart association, in a statement.

An April proposal from the Food and Drug Administration would require most e-cigarettes to undergo an agency review. The proposed rules would ban sales of e-cigarettes to minors and require warning labels. Though some health advocates hailed the announcement, others said the FDA didn't go far enough, because it failed to ban flavors."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ment/14450967/

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Heart Group Calls On FDA To Quickly Regulate E-Cigs

"Electronic cigarettes need to be strongly regulated – and quickly – to prevent another generation of young people from becoming addicted to nicotine, according to the American Heart Association's first policy statement on the products.

In its statement, the heart association pointed to studies suggesting that e-cigarettes, which contain nicotine but no tobacco, could serve as a "gateway" drug to addict young people, who may go on to regular cigarettes or smokeless tobacco. The association pointed to flavors in e-cigarettes, such as bubble gum, arguing that these are intended to attract kids.

"We are fiercely committed to preventing the tobacco industry from addicting another generation of smokers," said Nancy Brown, CEO of the heart association, in a statement.

An April proposal from the Food and Drug Administration would require most e-cigarettes to undergo an agency review. The proposed rules would ban sales of e-cigarettes to minors and require warning labels. Though some health advocates hailed the announcement, others said the FDA didn't go far enough, because it failed to ban flavors."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ment/14450967/

Banning flavors....because you can do anything you want....but you damn sure better not enjoy it.

[Kaplan]

I would never trust any of these health associations, because you can be sure they're corrupt. But you can't ban flavors. Sure, you could ban premixed flavors, but you can't ban the flavors sold separately. It doesn't take any great skill to add flavoring to a juice. Heck, even a teenager could do it.

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They keep going through this constant loop. They should ban ecigs because it might be a "gateway" for teenagers to use real cigarettes then they should ban ecigs because kids might think its a healthy alternative to normal cigarettes. Banning flavors won't change anything it will just open up a new market for "flavor sold separately" just like kaplan said.

Has anyone considered that a pack of cigarettes is 4-10 bucks or more depending on where you live while the startup cost for an ecig is atleast 30$ Unless you get one of those 20 puff disposable blue ecigs. So getting your hands on it is tough when you are a young child, spend 30 dollars just for the device or lets just say 7 for a pack of 20 of the real thing.

Why is it everyone loves to just call things tobacco? Or that tobacco=cancer in the same amount regardless of use? Yes i know tobacco is bad but why do we say smokeless/vaping is equally as bad as smoking when every shred of evidence points otherwise? Why do we allow our politicians to nitpick and try to twist everything to satisfy consumers into something "marketed to kids?" When will they start doing this with our food? Why can mcdonalds give away toys to market unhealthy food towards children? I don't know of a person who started smoking because they could smoke something that tasted like chocolate....why wouldn't they just eat chocolate? Noone every said no i would smoke but there aren't good flavors for a kid like me.


Speaking of banning things does anyone have any info on how the snus ban is working out in Denmark?

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'Ban E-Cigarette Use Indoors,' Says WHO




"The World Health Organization is calling for a range of tough regulations restricting the use of e-cigarettes.


In a report the health body recommends banning their indoor use and says sales to children should stop.


The WHO urges manufacturers not to make claims the devices can help people quit smoking - until there is firm evidence to support this.


The report says flavours attractive to children should be prohibited.


According to the WHO legal steps should be taken to end the use of e-cigarettes indoors - both in public spaces and in work places.


The health experts suggest fruit, candy or alcoholic-drink style flavours should be banned too, while the sales of electronic cigarettes from vending machines should be heavily restricted."


http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28937610

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E-Cigarette Criticisms 'Alarmist' Say Researchers







"For every million smokers who switch to e-cigarettes, more than 6,000 lives a year could be saved, according to the University College London team.


Meanwhile another group of London-based experts has attacked criticism of e-cigarettes as "misleading"."


http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29061169

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E-Cigarettes May Be A "Gateway" Drug For Teenagers, Study Shows

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Then yesterday the New England Journal of Medicine published a study calling e-cigarettes a “gateway drug” for nicotine addiction and possibly for other addictive drugs as well."


"Pointing to a body of previous epidemiological research demonstrating that nicotine is a gateway for marijuana and cocaine use, the Kandels argue that e-cigarettes, by introducing nonsmoking kids to nicotine, extend that gateway. To back up the accusation, they marshal biological data on the effects of nicotine in the brains of mice, and psychological studies into the processes of addiction."


http://www.forbes.com/sites/melanieh...s-experts-say/

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Then yesterday the New England Journal of Medicine published a study calling e-cigarettes a “gateway drug” for nicotine addiction and possibly for other addictive drugs as well."


"Pointing to a body of previous epidemiological research demonstrating that nicotine is a gateway for marijuana and cocaine use, the Kandels argue that e-cigarettes, by introducing nonsmoking kids to nicotine, extend that gateway. To back up the accusation, they marshal biological data on the effects of nicotine in the brains of mice, and psychological studies into the processes of addiction."



http://www.forbes.com/sites/melanieh...s-experts-say/

So basically they confirmed nicotine is addicting? I don't think anyone has ever argued that fact ever

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They are also claiming that nicotine is a gateway to cocaine use.