Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
German Vape Group to File Complaint Against Imminent Tax Scheme
A report published earlier this year in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, had discussed the German Federal Ministry of Finance plans to increase the current...
Michele Mital to Become Acting Director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products
Mitch Zeller, who had been the director of CTP for close to a decade, announced that he would retire in April.The CTP is still...
EU Survey: Most Respondents Support Harmonized Tax Rules
Following calls from EU member states and the vape industry to put an end to the different national tax regimes within Europe, tax officials...
Canada: The Tobacco and Vaping Products Act is Open For Consultation
The TVPA was amended in 2018, to recognize vaping as a safer alternative to smoking, yet also to include measures to protect youth from...
New Study Suggests Relationship Between Smoking and COVID-19 Severity
Findings keep suggesting that daily smokers have a significantly lower probability of developing symptomatic or a severe SARS-CoV-2 infection, when compared to the general...
Thousands of Swede Vapers Could go Back to Smoking if Flavours Are Banned
A billboard bike explaining how vape flavours help smokers quit cigarettes, was driven to the Parliament buildings in Stockholm.The announcement has certainly taken many...
Anti-Vaping Congressman Shares More Misinformation About Vaping
US vaping rates are actually decreasing.Last year, Raja Krishnamoorthi sent a letter to the former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Dr. Stephen...
The FDA Has Granted PMTAs to Several Tobacco Flavoured Vape Products
The FDA believes that the tobacco-flavoured products could probably be of benefit to adult smokers seeking an alternative to traditional cigarettes.While public health advocates...
