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21 October 2021 Source: The Standard Hong Kong lawmakers have passed a bill banning the sales of electronic cigarettes and heat-not-burn tobacco products.  The ban will come into effect as soon as mid-2022, Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan Siu-chee said.  The move makes Hong Kong the 47th territory to ban e-cigarettes. Legislative Council …

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11 October 2021 Corinne Gretler. Source: Bloomberg   Vectura Group Plc faces a growing backlash over its acquisition by a tobacco company, with some doctors and patients signaling they may switch to treatments made by rivals such as AstraZeneca Plc and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.  Respiratory organizations plan to issue guidance within the coming weeks on how health-care …

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11 October 2021 Alison Branley. Source: ABC They are flavoured, colourful and popular with teenagers, but new Australian research is discovering mounting evidence that vapes are also unsafe to use. Key points: Researchers found pesticides, cleaning agents and potentially dangerous chemicals in vaping products They also found trace elements of nicotine in products that claim …

New Australian vaping research finds ‘suite of chemicals’ in liquids used in vapes, some at ‘dangerously high’ levels Read More »

7 October 2021 Dan Sales. Source: Mail Online Illegal super-strength vapes popular with children are being sold online disguised as Cadbury chocolates to get past worried parents.  The high level smoking ElfBar and GeekBarPro devices – which feature liquid with two times the legal nicotine strength and three the capacity – are being promoted on …

EXCLUSIVE: Illegal super-strength nicotine vapes disguised as Cadbury’s chocolates are being sold to children for £5 on TikTok so they can be ‘smuggled past parents Read More »

7 October 2021 Alejandro Zúñiga. Source: The Tico Times Costa Rican lawmakers this week approved in a second debate a bill that will the use of ban vaping devices and electronic cigarettes in public spaces. Project 21.658 was approved with 33 votes in favor and seven against. Seventeen deputies did not participate in the vote. The …

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6 October 2021 Brian P. Dunleavy. Source: UPI  E-cigarettes and other vaping devices contain thousands of unknown chemicals and substances not disclosed by manufacturers, including industrial materials and caffeine, a study published Wednesday by Chemical Research in Toxicology found. The aerosols produced by these devices contained more than 2,000 chemicals, the vast majority of which are unidentified, the …

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