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• Arizona Eyes a New E-Cig Tax to Help With Billion-Dollar Deficit
  on Dec 6, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  Over the past seven years, electronic cigarettes have boomed into unexpected levels of success in the United States. With an industry now estimated at $1 billion per year, it only makes sense that money-hungry lawmakers are fixing their attention on...
• Judge Says E-Cigs Cannot Be Treated as Medications in Germany
  on Dec 4, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  Every country is debating how to handle the growing e-cig trend, but regulation plans are varied heavily from one place to the next. While the United States is looking to treat ecigs as tobacco products, the UK plans to classify them as medications a...
• Teen Ecig Use on the Rise, But is Regulation the Answer?
  on Nov 30, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  There is no denying that teenagers are using electronic cigarettes these days. In fact, public health officials worry that we are facing a new national problem as vaping is a growing trend among our youth. The most recent Minnesota Youth Tobacco Surv...
• US Smoking Rates Hit Historic Low As Ecig Industry Booms
  on Nov 27, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  As electronic cigarettes continue to help smokers find an alternative to tobacco, the CDC has released brand new data showing that smoking rates are now at a historic low. According to the latest data, the rate of smoking among American adults is now...
• V2 Cocktail Flavored Cartridges Review
  on Nov 25, 2014 in E-Cig Cartridge Reviews
  V2 Cigs has released limited edition cartridges in 3 delicious drink flavors: Sambuca, Mojito, and Piña Colada. These flavors are so spot-on it makes you feel like you’re enjoying the real thing! For those who don’t know, Sambuca is an anise-fla...
• New Jersey School Hands Down Drug Related Suspension for Ecig
  on Nov 23, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  In New Jersey, it is illegal to sell e-cigs to individuals under age 19, but that doesn’t stop teens from vaping. Local school districts have been scrambling to figure out how to handle ecigs, but some are taking things too far. This week, Kathleen...
• New Ecig Research Reveals that E-Cigs Can Quell Tobacco Cravings
  on Nov 20, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  When today’s smokers want to kick the habit, they often turn to electronic cigarettes. Vaping works and there is constantly new research to back up that claim. This week, a new research project was published in the International Journal of Environm...
• New Italian Study Reveals E-Cigs Work for Smoking Cessation
  on Nov 16, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  Regulatory agencies around the world are struggling to determine how to deal with e-cigs. Some countries are working towards regulating e-cigarettes as medications while others have chosen to treat them as tobacco products. In a handful of nations, v...
• V2 Pro Series 3 Review
  on Nov 11, 2014 in Vaporizers
  V2 Cigs Reviews are all over the internet these days because they are one of the best brands available. The V2 Pro Series 3 is a two piece design that delivers a large amount of vapor, 12 great e-liquid flavors to choose from, and many great accesso...
• What Caused the Ecig Market to Crash in Spain?
  on Nov 8, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  Just one year ago, Spain seemed like one of the most promising places in the world for electronic cigarettes to successfully overtake tobacco. There were an estimated 3,000 vape shops selling a wide variety of ecigs and e-liquids, but then things wen...
• College Editorial Board Calls for Tobacco Ban and E-Cig Support
  on Nov 6, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  Universities around the country are struggling to figure out how to handle the tobacco issue. While many have already banned smoking on campus, there are still a few colleges that allow smokers to freely smoke without any repercussions. This week, th...
• Big Tobacco Employees Make Cigarettes, But They Can’t Smoke Them at Work
  on Nov 1, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  While smoking in the workplace is prohibited in most of America’s businesses, Reynolds American has continued to stand firm that their employees have the right to light up at work. But this week, the Big Tobacco company responsible for the Camel an...
• India’s Health Ministry Presses Forward with Plans to Ban E-Cigarettes
  on Oct 31, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  India is currently fighting an uphill battle for public health. With over a billion citizens, the nation has high rates of HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis. Children often die of malnutrition and starvation in the dirty streets, but the health ministry...
• Pennsylvania Doctors Fight Back Against Ecigs on the Big Screen
  on Oct 25, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  Doctors know that cigarettes are lethal, so you would think they would be embracing electronic cigarettes as a helpful alternative to help their smoking patients finally kick the habit. Instead, physicians in Pennsylvania are putting their focus on e...
• Research Shows Smoking Causes More Deaths than Diabetes and AIDS
  on Oct 23, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  Our country is facing a major health crisis with increasing rates of diabetes, heart disease, and even AIDS. However, the biggest problem of all is still tobacco use according to a new study by UC San Francisco’s Institute for Health and Aging and...
• WHO Plans Top Secret Global Tobacco Tax to Drive Up Cigarette Prices
  on Oct 18, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  When the World Health Organization convened in Moscow this week, everyone knew tobacco control would be a top issue. However, everyone was shocked when delegates pushed for all media and public spectators to be removed from the room. In the past, mee...
• E-Cigs Face Massive Tax Hike in Philly
  on Oct 16, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  Last month, Philadelphia added a grueling $2 per pack tax on cigarettes that left many smokers flocking to local vape shops. But now, city officials are setting their sights on ecigs as a potential new money maker. Today, councilwoman Blondell Reynol...
• Study Shows UK Smoking Rates Hit All Time Low
  on Oct 11, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  In the UK, smoking has been a cultural fixture for decades. But with the rise of electronic cigarettes, everything is changing. As thousands of British smokers transition to vaping, researchers are seeing the difference. Now a new study reveals that...
• UK Grants Official Approval to Ecig Advertising on TV
  on Oct 9, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  Ecigs have created a lot of controversy in the past year, but in the UK it seems like the tide is turning and acceptance is just around the corner. This week, the Committee of Advertising Practice gave official approval for ecig companies to start ad...
• British American Tobacco Wants Medicinal Regulation for Ecigs
  on Oct 2, 2014 in E-Cigarette News
  British American Tobacco is the fifth largest tobacco company in the world today. After recently growth of the ecig industry, BAT decided to invest in Nicoventures, a new vaping subsidiary.  As they work to open doors for their own ecig brand to suc...