Tag: Australia
Delayed study confirms low-risk claims, while resistance from vapers gains strength
“New” US study finds E-cigarettes “lower cancer risk”
A study released on Wednesday found that smokers who switch completely to electronic cigarettes “significantly reduce” their...
Pro-vaping crowds in Victoria Australia protesting new vaping laws
In the ongoing debate about vaping, many health experts, organizations and health centers such as Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in the US, and...
A proposal to exempt Nicotine from being classified as a poisonous...
“E-cigarettes are relatively new and evolving products. There is scientific consensus that they are less harmful than tobacco cigarettes” stated Kiwi minister, Mr Lotu-Iiga,...
ACMS meeting in Australia – proposals to amend various regulations on...
The Advisory Committee on Medicines Scheduling is a classification system that oversees and determines the accessibility of medicinal substances and other chemicals to consumers,...
Blindness Causes Smoking
Associate Professor Simone Dennis from the Australian National University (ANU) has, for a long time now, been looking at the effects, or rather, the...
Mixed headlines as PHE support switching in pregnant women, but Manchester...
British doctors claim vaping “can cause COPD”
A team of researchers at the University of Manchester say they have uncovered new evidence that electronic cigarettes...
Australia: Regulating Ecigs, yes, but under which regime?
In an editorial note of the Medical Journal of Australia, the authors Martin McKnee, Mike Daube and Simon Chapman advocate Australia should regulate nicotine e-cigarettes as medicines. Their...
Australia: Senate Committee recommends ecigs on prescription only
On 25 June 2015, the Australian Senate referred to the Senate Economics References Committee composed of 7 Senators an inquiry into economic and social impact...
