The Italian e-cigarette market is in decline as vaper numbers drop, but a revised tax regime holds some promise for the future, according to a new report from...

E-cigarettes were the fastest-growing product category in British supermarkets during 2014, according to market researcher...

A review of the top trends and stories from the year 2014 for the e-cigarette...

Fruit flavours may be even more popular for tobacco than for e-liquid, according to new U.S....

The e-cig industry is driven by rapidly growing consumer demand, splintered by diverse technologies, threatened by regulation, and niggled at by medical doubts. So the team at ECigIntelligence has drafted a SWOT analysis for the...

Trying nicotine through experimentation with e-cigarettes does not seem likely to lead to a tobacco smoking habit, according to new research from Oklahoma which casts tentative doubt on the “gateway hypothesis” of e-cigs as a...

A U.S. stock market watchdog has warned investors to steer clear of scams involving shares in e-cigarette...

Canadian vapers share many demographic characteristics with their UK counterparts, a new survey...

Regulation is holding the Australasian e-cigarette market far behind other...

E-cigarettes containing nicotine can help people quit and cut down on smoking: that is the digested version of the Cochrane review on the use of e-cigs for smoking cessation and reduction, but the review itself...

A group of proposed laws that would have affected the U.S. e-cigarette industry officially bit the dust this week when the historically dysfunctional 113th Congress finally closed its books on...

The abandonment by Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIG) of its IPO was sad for the industry but inevitable, according to e-cigarette...

Some youth who would otherwise have smoked may have opted for e-cigarettes as an alternative, according to a new...

Electronic Cigarettes International Group (ECIG) has withdrawn its application for an initial public offering (IPO) on the U.S. NASDAQ stock exchange, but kept the door open for a private offering in the...

Relatively little scientific work has been done on comparing dependence on nicotine via tobacco with dependence on the substance via other delivery vehicles. But new U.S. research attempts to answer this question using a new...

Members of the British parliament have launched an all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on...

E-cigarette companies in the UK are spending less on Internet marketing than on any other major advertising medium, according to market tracking firm...

More than 16m children under the age of 17 are able to legally buy e-cigarettes in the U.S., according to calculations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

E-cig brands and manufacturers should pay more attention to product design, all the way from components to packaging, an industry conference was told this...

E-cig retailers in Ireland would require licensing under proposed legislation which the government characterises as a first step toward meeting the requirements of the European Tobacco Products Directive...

E-liquid has no short-term deleterious effect on human lung cells, according to a German e-cig manufacturer which commissioned research comparing the vapour of nicotine-containing liquid with tobacco...

A basic chemical analysis of e-liquids could soon be provided by simple handheld...

The Indian state of Punjab has reiterated its ban on the manufacturing and sale of nicotine-containing...

New data from a Welsh youth survey suggests that indoor vaping bans may have little effect on e-cigarette awareness among children, and raises questions on the influence of e-cig use by...

Europe’s largest outsourced manufacturing facility for nicotine products is to open in the UK city of...

Product choice may be the main influence on consumers’ choice of vape stores, according to new research in the...

American e-liquid manufacturers face a significant rise in paperwork from the deeming regulations currently being finalised by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a consultancy has...

Introduction • The matrix of authority • State government regulation • Local government regulation • Regulation by quasi-governmental institutions • Regulatory trends • Appendix 1: state law and New York City law • Appendix 2:...

Some recent developments in the e-cig world will likely have an impact long after the more transient triumphs and tussles are...

The two largest countries in the world are preparing to launch strict anti-tobacco regulation which could open up huge markets for e-cigarettes or squash them at a hardly-developed stage....

The e-cig sector appears to anticipate no radical regulation emerging from a consultation currently underway in...

Young Britons are taking up e-cigarettes for reasons very different from older vapers, new research...

Designing workplace vaping policy is a matter of negotiating conflicting rights, according to public policy...

Smokers seeking alternatives to the combustible cigarette face problems that neither e-cigs nor nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) can fully solve, according to the CEO of a Swedish firm which is taking a completely different technology...

Legislators in Canada’s most populous province are considering a comprehensive e-cig bill which would prohibit vaping in public enclosed spaces, limit in-store marketing, forbid sale to minors, and make flavour bans...

Nearly 20% of middle and high school students in Minnesota have tried vaping, a proportion about three times higher than the national average – but the public health researchers who produced the figure have cautioned...

E-cigarettes may be more effective than previously thought in reducing craving for tobacco cigarettes and helping people quit smoking, according to a group of Belgian scientists who partially attribute their results to the use of...

The U.S. cities of Minneapolis and Baltimore have joined the likes of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia by banning the use of e-cigarettes in most indoor public places, while Boulder is considering an...

U.S. tobacco maker Reynolds American is preparing to test-market a heat-not-burn product which it hopes the regulator will approve as...

The matrix of authority • State government regulation • Local government regulation • Regulation by quasi-governmental institutions • Regulatory trends • Appendix 1: state law, consumer protection law and licensing law • Appendix 2: notable...

A panel of medical experts has said that e-cigarettes are 20 times safer than conventional...

Vaping among U.S. schoolkids is in the news again, but the rate of increase in take-up of e-cigarettes appears to have...

Public pressure has led to an about-face on e-liquid flavours by the Canadian province of Nova...

The British media has been busy recently with reports of fires caused by e-cigarettes. But do the numbers support the...

When policy-makers, scientists and health professionals gather in the august halls of London’s Royal Society for the E-Cigarette Summit this Thursday, it will be just the start of a busy conference season in...

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has released a draft of its specification for the manufacture, testing and labelling of e-cigarettes, one of the first proposed comprehensive standards for vapour products in the...

Republicans’ historic victory this week in taking the U.S. mid-term elections’ big prize – control of the Senate – could have a significant impact on the e-cigarette industry’s relationship with Congress, as power shifts to...

This article, republished from Tobacco Journal International exclusively for ECigIntelligence readers, takes a look at changes in smoking prevalence and smoking populations around the world – and explains some surprising apparent...

A new U.S. non-profit aims to speed up e-cigarette research by providing funding from the private...

The tempestuous relationship between New York City and e-cigarettes is continuing with the introduction of a bill that would ban flavoured e-cigs and...