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  1. Tom09

    EU Health Commissioner Dalli resigns over Swedish snus scandal, proposed e-cig sales ban

    “The Tobacco Products Directive is dead” [John Dalli Video Interview 10/19/2012] link changed: http://www.neurope.eu/article/john-dalli-tobacco-products-directive-will-be-killed-video-interview
  2. Tom09

    USA Today article on pv's.

    Not too bad article. Well, there is Banzhaff and Legacy‘s prohibition shills quoted. But author decided to give a positive lead-out based on an actually realistic story.
  3. Tom09

    Promote harm reduction for smokers and prevent dead bodies [Maguire, Pharmaceutical Journal]

    News and views article in the official journal of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (UK): Promote harm reduction for smokers and let
  4. Tom09

    CSP (Convenience News Petroleum): “Disposables or Rechargeables”

    An extended cspnet article, discussing e-cigs (market/marketing) in regard to this magazine’s audience.
  5. Tom09

    Article: "Harms of e-cigs re overstated relative to potential benefits..."

    Wagener et al. REPLY to comments on the Wagener et al. 2012 discussion paper published (free access): LET'S KEEP OUR 'EYE ON THE BALL': REDUCING TOBACCO-RELATED HARM - WAGENER - 2012 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library
  6. Tom09

    Kentucky smoking ban proposal includes e-cigarettes

    Kentucky bill announced to return in 2013 (regarding e-cigs: Ellen Hahn’s backyard).
  7. Tom09

    ALF releases e-cigarette survey results

    And here is also M. Siegel’s commentary blog (The Rest of the Story, July 24) on the Legacy paper.
  8. Tom09

    ALF releases e-cigarette survey results

    ACSH comments (July 23) on ALF’s PR: It’s working, so don’t use it
  9. Tom09

    Gerry Stimson (UK, IHRA) on Tobacco Harm Reduction (e-cigs and snus)

    Haven’t read his name before, but Prof. Stimson appears to have been executive director of the International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA). Traditionally, IHRA has been mostly concerned with questions relating to illict drug use - but also kept an eye on alcohol and tobacco. In this recent...
  10. Tom09

    Statement from Totally Wicked

    I apologize to the e-cig community for previously having bought some stuff from TW and TECC. Not that I did it regularly, was just when their price tags came back to normal in discount promos. I promise that I won’t feel tempted to do this again. Quite surprising how overly polite and friendly...
  11. Tom09

    Nicotine treatment 'could control obesity'

    Related, there is also this new study on Weight gain in smokers after quitting cigarettes: meta-analysis, Aubin et al., BMJ 2012 [open access]:
  12. Tom09

    New Study Suggests E-Cigs Less Harmful Than Tobacco Cigarettes

    The referenced CSP (Convenience Store Petroleum) news story (OP) recaps a blog post by Michael Siegel (June 29, 2012, The Rest of the Story), where Siegel breaks down a recent scientific publication authored by Schripp et al. (Indoor Air, 2012; follow the link in Siegel’s blog). While there is...
  13. Tom09

    Article: "Harms of e-cigs re overstated relative to potential benefits..."

    A key sentence in Etter 2012: “Researchers have lacked curiosity.” That’s certainly nothing to blame on Etter. He is probably not an outright fan of e-cigarettes - but he has proven himself to be one of the very few actually curious people within the tobacco control community. That‘s a true...
  14. Tom09

    Article: "Harms of e-cigs re overstated relative to potential benefits..."

    To read the published journal commentaries (free to access) to Wagener et al.’s discussion article, you may follow this link (Addiction - All Issues - Wiley Online Library), choose “search in this journal”, type “Wagener” and “Siegel” in the search box
  15. Tom09

    Norcross (GA) City Council unanimously rescinds outdoor tobacco use ban after constituents voice opposition

    pdf: Norcross’ repealed “tobacco free” ordinance was including e-cigs.
  16. Tom09

    EU EU Commission’s minutes of meeting with ECITA

    The EU Commission just published minutes of their latest meeting with UK’s trade association ECITA (note: that’sprobably the only “e-cig interest group” that managed to be recognized by the officials!) here.
  17. Tom09

    Philip Morris International COO makes inaccurate and misleading comments about e-cigarettes

    While you outlined the potential positive, we should not neglect a potential negative. Up to now, the winning moral argument for e-cig proponents had been that medical classification equals prohibition, condemning smokers to die early. CNC, however, actively seeks a medical classification...
  18. Tom09

    EU European Safety Recall for eHealth-Cigarette?

    Probably traces back to a Rapex warning, issued back in spring 2011 (here #18). Rapex is a database where regulatory and customs authorities from around the EU report any kind of product seizures, withdrawals and recalls. This product (and also # 15 in linked document) was ordered to be seized...
  19. Tom09

    EU Earlier verdict confirmed by Dutch Appeal Court

    Woot! :thumbs: So, that’s the highest court this case could go or is there still a possibility for the health minister for appeal? I think that, in the US, the Sottera vs. FDA ruling was specific for NJOY products. Nonetheless the outcome was general. Would you expect the same for the...
  20. Tom09

    EU Holland bans e-cigarettes

    Last December, minister announced ban (classify e-cigarettes with nicotine as a medicine). On March 13, court lifted ban: Rechtspraak.nl - LJN: BV8613, Rechtbank 's-Gravenhage, 414117 / KG ZA 12-209 Next, the minister went on to appeal this March 13 decision. Today, on June 26, the...