http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...a4c5ee-f589-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html
In the print edition, the headline reads "E-cigarette market is booming."
In the print edition, the headline reads "E-cigarette market is booming."
The electronic cigarette market is booming both online and in brick-and-mortar retail outlets in ways hardly imaginable half a decade ago, and the growth continues to be largely unregulated, according to a series of studies published Monday in the journal tobacco Control.
Its exploding, said Shu-Hong Zhu, a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California at San Diego, who co-authored one of nine studies funded by the National Cancer Institute. Theres no sign of slowing down.
Zhu and other researchers found a staggering proliferation of e-cigarette brands and flavors on the Internet in the past two years alone, with roughly 10 new brands and 240 new flavors arriving on the market every month. As of January, researchers trawling English-language Web sites identified 466 e-cigarette brands and 7,764 flavors, from peppermint to piña colada.