Tag: smoke
New Zealand: Tax increase seen as a “backbone”measure for tobacco control
The Aotearoan Parliament consulted tobacco control specialists, on February 10, 2016, among which Pr Murray Laugesen (Health New Zealand Ltd), Zoe Hawke (National Maori Tobacco Control...
New Zealand: The Very Low Nicotine Cigarette (VLNC) versus the e-cigarette
Tobacco use remains the single biggest cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in New Zealand. Along with many other organisations, New Zealand Health Promotion...
Belgium: Minister of Health urged to take action against smoking
"If the law allows young people to have sex at 16, why prohibiting cigarettes? At 16, they are adult." -M. De BlockThe opposition is...
Vaping doesn’t help smokers quit. Really?
A meta-analysis of 38 studies by the University of California San Francisco concludes that e-cigarettes are associated with significantly less quitting among smokers, as...
“You vape, you vote”: A Campaign for the Campaign
The United States presidential election of 2016 is scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, and a dozen of Republicans candidates and 3 Democrats are currently on campaign...
Uncertainty and misunderstanding around e-cigarettes for British quitters
E-cigarettes are increasingly popular among smokers as a quitting tool
Since a growing number of scientific results suggest that e-cigarettes may help smokers quit smoking,...
E-cigarette and body weight: Smoking cessation Italian survey
A scientific report by Italian researchers from the University of Catania, Italy, was published in the prestigious journal Nature on January 5. This is...
US study on e-cigarette emissions quality
A study published in late December 2015 in the The Journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research, Aerosol Science and Technology, by researchers from the...
