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Washington Washout

Trump dumped the fleeting meeting where he should have been greeting vaping advocates and justifying his new anti-business vape stance

Pharma Ecig On The Horizon

Questions are being raised about the motives behind the rash of US vape bans as news breaks that there is a Pharma ecig in the pipeline

ETHRA: New European Organisation

The European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates umbrella organisation has been launched to promote safer nicotine use across Europe

VOKE To Be Prescribed

Now removed from an association with British American Tobacco, the VOKE device is to be launched next month and will be prescribable to NHS patients

New Facts From ASH UK

Action on Smoking and Health releases a fact sheet summarising data are taken from an annual survey

Exploding RCT

New vape-related problems have been identified after researchers were paid to cut up buzzwords and pluck them randomly from a hat

The Briefing Room

David Aaronovitch introduced experts to speak about the burning issues of the day. Linda Bauld, Professor of Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh, and Lion Shahab, Associate Professor in Health Psychology at the University College London, defended a common sense approach to vaping.

Walmart Dumps Vaping

Asda’s parent company Walmart has decided to drop safer vape products but continues to sell cigarettes and guns

The Big Drop

Success rates up, smoking rates down, as England records the best smoking stats for over a decade

“Half-Baked” India

India passes “half-baked” measures to ban e-cigarettes but allows cigarettes to remain on sale in a country where 1 million die from smoking-related disease annually