AL-FARAJI Ahmad
Journalist at the Arabic edition of Vaping Post. As a former smoker who successfully quit cigarettes through vaping, I felt a personal responsibility to introduce harm reduction concepts to our Arab audience and to transform a personal journey into a media platform dedicated to serving millions of readers.
Anti-smoking seminar participant declares ecigs more toxic than smoking tobacco
For its first seminar, the Anti-Smoking International Alliance (ASIA) invited on April 18 international speakers for a meeting in Dubai, at the World Trade Center. The aim of the...
UK: Detailed TPD implementation plan
The UK's implementation plan has been released today and is also available in pdf version. A few extracts related to e-cigarettes are available below....
Fontem Ventures investigates indoor ecig vapor properties
Workplace and Indoor Aerosols conference, Barcelona (Spain)
On April 20, a poster entitled "Aerosol concentration variations in a room during use of an e-cigarette" was presented...
New Zealand: Scientists put forward ecigs as a harm reduction perspective
For smokers, cigarette smoke is far from being comparable with other forms of nicotine delivery, including patches, lozenges, gums and other nasal or mouth...
India: A Punjab retailer sentenced for selling vaping products
In Mohali, Punjab, an e-cigarette retailer has been sentenced to a 3-year in jail for selling e-cigarettes under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. The...
E-vapor, less harmful than tobacco smoke but still not innocuous, why?
Shen and co-authors demonstrated that significant differences in cellular response exist between e-vapor and tobacco smoke exposed cells. They further demonstrated that e-vapor has clear...
Ecigs and the “collateral benefits” on the respiratory function
A few weeks ago, the pulmonologist Riccardo Polosa and his co-authors from the University of Catania, Italy, confirmed preliminary findings of health benefits by switching to electronic cigarettes...
France: A benefit-risk approach for ecigs in smoking cessation
France, a bad pupil in terms of smoking prevalence
According to the author, the decrease of smoking prevalence that has been characterized in countries like the UK, the USA,...
