Anti-smoking campaigners in the UK believe the use of e-cigarettes as unofficial cessation aids has contributed to a sharp drop in the number of people joining quit-smoking programmes, although nearly all successful participants in those...

Zippo Manufacturing, maker of the famous cigarette lighter, has won a round in its worldwide legal dispute over the use of the brand name Blu – also employed by Lorillard for its market-leading...

A British e-cigarette supplier is the sector’s first independent to launch a legal challenge against the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), the EU rules published this year that will regulate the e-cig market in European member...

Low brand loyalty, low tobacco prices and the popularity of online auctions are among the factors keeping down the value of the Polish e-cigarette sector, but it remains one of Europe’s larger...

Does the future of the e-cigarette industry lies in bricks-and-mortar retail sales rather than...

India’s main tobacco cigarette supplier has launched its first e-cig in two major cities, with the promise of a national rollout to...

The term “vape” has just been added to Oxford Dictionaries’ huge list of English words, joining “e-cigarette”, which has been there since...

Prison inmates in North Carolina are to be allowed e-cigarettes, following an unusual law-making decision which implicitly gives official recognition to the products as substitutes for tobacco...

Two thirds of American doctors in a small survey believe e-cigarettes can help patients give up smoking and a third recommend them for that purpose, according to a new...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is likely to have received a deluge of comments in the run-up to the closing of the public consultation period on its e-cigarette regulations last Friday – among...

The public comments period on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed e-cigarette regulations now has only hours left to run, with the agency likely to have received well over 70,000 responses by the time...

Laypeople reading a new opinion paper in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer may be alarmed, but it is important to note that although nicotine can contribute to cancer, on its own the current evidence does...

Italy’s Council of Ministers has approved a controversially high new tax on e-cigarettes, which would add an estimated 600% to the price of...

A new review of medical and public health research on e-cigarettes concludes that tobacco-style regulation is unjustifiably strict, but also suggests that further research is needed on health effects and the relationship of e-cigs to...

A German man’s attempt to kill himself by ingesting e-liquid could add to the clamour for regulating the availability, concentration, and packaging of nicotine-containing fluid on safety...

India’s dominant tobacco company is encouraging the government to develop policy on e-cigarettes, and is ready to bring products to market once a regulatory framework is in place, its chairman has...

Lorillard’s brand Blu retains around a 40% share of the U.S. mainstream retail market for e-cigarettes, an enviable position in many categories. But there are signs in the firm’s latest financial results and in measurement...

A new survey suggests that two-thirds of UK doctors would like to see greater restrictions on the accessibility of...

Could handling e-liquid really be as safe as doing the dishes? European regulations on classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) have been wrongly categorising nicotine as extremely toxic when it should be considered the equivalent of washing-up...

While U.S. federal regulation of e-cigarettes creeps through a lengthy consultation and review stage, individual states and lower levels of government are trying to fill the legal...

merge - Flickr, Michael CoghlanThe Lorillard-Reynolds merger could lead to more consistent lobbying of the U.S. government on e-cigarettes as it blends the interests of the tobacco giants involved, industry executives...

The director of public health for Canada’s second-largest city has called for national regulation specifically covering e-cigarettes, which would clarify the country’s confusing mixture of proclaimed prohibition and actual...

An influential member of the U.S. Congress has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to mandate child-proofing for e-liquid containers, as the wrangling over whether e-cigarettes pose a threat to young people rumbles...

A Swedish court has upheld attempts by the country’s medical products regulator to treat nicotine-containing e-cigarettes as pharmaceuticals, meaning that they must go through a licensing process and cannot be sold in outlets such as...

Rapid changes in the U.S. e-cigarette market leave it wide open for any brand to dominate, according to the CEO of the country’s biggest tobacco...

Our infographic shows how the brand arsenals and new product development plans of U.S. Big Tobacco are likely to look in the post-merger world....

There is concern in the e-cigarette industry over the sale of the Blu e-cigarette brand to Imperial Tobacco as part of the merger of tobacco giants Lorillard and...

The chief executive of U.S. tobacco firm Reynolds American has strongly hinted that it will take its Vuse e-cigarette brand to international markets through a partnership with British American Tobacco...

U.S. tobacco giant Lorillard is losing its best-selling e-cigarette brand Blu to British counterpart Imperial Tobacco, as part of a complex four-way deal which sees Reynolds American pay $27bn for Lorillard while Imperial picks up...

Divisions among British pharmacists over whether to sell e-cigarettes, and who to, have been further highlighted this week by a survey showing that a substantial minority would support making the products available to...

Recent research on the possible cardiovascular health effects of nicotine and smokeless tobacco have generated fierce rejoinders from advocates of...

Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in Maryland has elected to stop hiring nicotine users from 1 July,...

An Australian e-cigarette retailer is attempting to crowd-fund an appeal after a court ruled that the e-cigarettes the company sold resembled conventional cigarettes – violating Australia’s Tobacco Products Control Act of...

The e-cigarette industry has much to learn from the experiences of the online gambling business, including the precedence of politics over science, according to a new analysis by...

India should prohibit e-cigarettes because it cannot effectively enforce regulation of them and its young population is vulnerable to the industry’s enticements, according to two health...

Almost three out of four independent UK pharmacies failed to stop under-age consumers attempting to purchase an e-cigarette, according to a new investigation from two UK governmental bodies, Public Health England and the Trading Standards...

Campaigners have accused two New York state senators of failing to see the wood for the trees after they introduced a bill that could prevent businesses from selling, offering to sell or giving away e-liquids....

Philip Morris International (PMI) will no longer be conspicuous in the tobacco alternatives market by its...

The major gaps in scientific knowledge of nicotine are related to delivery methods rather than the substance itself, according to one of the most prominent researchers in the e-cigarette...

Comments to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its proposed e-cigarette regulations should focus on public health and skip business issues, an industry organisation has...

A Harvard University study widely quoted as demonstrating extensive use of e-cigarettes among young people in fact only recorded whether they had ever tried an e-cig....

Whether e-cigarettes could increase consumption of conventional tobacco is "the only thing that matters" about them from a public health perspective, a prominent British academic said...

The involvement of the tobacco and pharma industries could be crucial if a new international society on nicotine studies is to make a contribution to the public health and regulation debate - but that will...

Edits made to e-cigarette proposal documents could significantly weaken the Food and Drug Administration's final...

PMI becomes the latest tobacco company to enter the UK e-cigarette market with the purchase of the makets of Nicolites....

The proposed e-cigarette regulations of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could face legal challenges on at least five separate grounds if they are enacted without change, a new analysis from ECigIntelligence...

Can nicotine cause cancer? It’s a question that has been posed for some time, and answered in the negative, although some studies have found potentially carcinogenic associations. And now new research raises the issue...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the period for industry and public comments on its proposed e-cigarette regulations by 30 days, to 8th...

France appears to be edging closer to its long-awaited regulation of...

Two e-cigarette executives drew unusually heated criticism Wednesday from U.S. Senate Democrats during a hearing on what law-makers view as the industry’s aggressive marketing tactics targeting kids....