International Updates

18 December 2019 Sean Morrison Vaping may be just as risky as smoking tobacco in terms of increasing the potential for bacterial infections in the lungs, researchers have found. There is “little difference” in the effect […]

18 December 2019 Jane Wakefield Four vaping companies, including British American Tobacco (BAT), have had Instagram posts promoting e-cigarettes banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The posts showed models and celebrities such as Lily […]

15 December 2019 Andy Riga E-cigarettes are on the market ostensibly to help smokers quit tobacco, but Quebec teens are getting addicted at an alarming rate. Nicholas Chadi treats a new generation of nicotine addicts: […]

12 December 2019 James Hamblin A glass-walled bastion of minimalism in a retail mall in Atlanta is the first of its kind in the United States. It looks like an Apple Store, but with a […]

5 December 2019 Sarah Owermohle More that 27 percent of high schoolers and 10.5 percent of middle schoolers reported vaping in the last 30 days. Data released Thursday reveal a big increase in e-cigarette use […]

4 December 2019 Adam Miller, Christine Birak Pulegone and benzaldehyde could be dangerous to human health when vaped at high levels E-cigarette liquids currently on the Canadian market contain potentially harmful chemicals, including a suspected carcinogen banned […]

4 December 2019 Mark Harrison New CBC News series examines the policy and industry failures that accompanied the introduction of vaping CBC News has been doing a lot of reporting about vaping over the past few years. […]

1 December 2019 Michael Standaert E-cigarette-related deaths in the US and a Beijing directive have China’s manufacturing sector on tenterhooks Online e-cigarette sales looked like a promising industry for Edwin Wong when he started his […]

1 December 2019 Kari Paul Districts in states across the country sue to recoup money seek on fighting widespread use of e-cigarettes More than a dozen school districts across the US have filed lawsuits against […]

25 November 2019 Lena H. Sun  Scientists were ecstatic. The test results were in. For the first time, the lab team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had direct evidence that a chemical […]