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Clinical Notes: Users Deem E-Cigs Safer

Some 80% of individuals who reported using so-called electronic cigarettes in a large survey said the products are safer than traditional cigarettes.
MedPage Today
added Feb 11, 2013 11:28
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[Canada] Analysis: Are e-cigarettes safe and do they help smokers quit?

"These are now becoming a mainstream product," Hammond says, adding that reality will soon pose significant challenges for tobacco control advocates, the public health community and government regulatory bodies. "It's something that whether public healt
Global Television (ca)
added Feb 6, 2013 21:01
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[Canada] Jesse Kline: E-cigarettes are not your father’s smokes

policy-markers must realize that, as a harm-reduction technology, e-cigarettes have the potential to save many lives. And, ultimately, adults who choose to use them should be free to make their own decisions.
National Post (ca)
added Feb 4, 2013 10:05
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Low-tar cigarette researcher stirs controversy in China

Claims by a Chinese scientist to have invented low-tar herbal cigarettes stated to be less harmful have stirred up a controversy, with calls for his removal from a state-run research body.
PTI - Press Trust of India (in)
added Feb 1, 2013 16:31
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[Europe, Sweden, UK] EDITORIAL: Two steps forward, one step back ($$)

Smokers and e-cigarette users can expect to get up to 20mg of nicotine per day and, at that dose, nicotine appears to have minimal effects on physical health for the large majority of people. Millions of people in Sweden use a form of tobacco called snu
Times Of London (uk)
added Jan 28, 2013 17:28
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Third Party Governance of Industry-Sponsored Tobacco Product Research - A Public Workshop

to discuss the recommendation in the Institute of Medicine’s report, “Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products,” that sponsors of Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) applications use independent third parties to undertake one or
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
added Jan 25, 2013 17:38
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[Malaysia] E-ciggy is more dangerous than normal ones

BANGI: The Health Ministry has urged smokers who have switched to electronic cigarettes to refrain from using liquid nicotine as it was more hazardous. Its minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said liquid nicotine was a controlled drug under the Poisons Ac
New Straits Times (my)
added Jan 16, 2013 15:12
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[UK] ASA Adjudication on Nicocigs Ltd

The ad must not appear again in its current form. We told Nicolites to ensure they did not claim products were harmless in future in the absence of adequate evidence.
Advertising Standards Authority (uk)
added Jan 16, 2013 05:55
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[Minnesota] AUDIO: Cigarette Makers Frustrated As Product Approvals Stall

the agency has yet to clear any products under the new system, and some cigarette makers are frustrated by the backlog of applications. The FDA typically evaluates new drugs and other products with a "safe and effective" standard. But Lawrence Deyton, th
Minnesota Public Radio (MPR)
added Jan 12, 2013 10:56
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[Europe, Sweden] ROSS: The EU's New Tobacco Directive: Protecting Cigarette Markets, Killing Smokers

the net effect will be, paradoxically but inevitably, damaging to Europeans’ health. The Directive proposes to continue (indeed strengthen) the prior ban on Swedish smokeless tobacco, known as snus. Worse, restrictions and regulations dealing with the rel
Forbes
added Jan 10, 2013 10:22
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