Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
US Health Groups Urge The FDA to Ban Menthol Cigarettes
“The public health and medical community have long been united in calling on FDA to use its authority under the Family Smoking Prevention and...
UK: ASH Calls For Smoking Cessation Training for Mental Health Staff
Data gathered across the globe keep indicating that mental health patients are more likely to smoke than individuals who do not suffer from psychological...
The US’s Concern About Disposable E-Cigarette Use Among Youth
The NYTS is a cross-sectional, school-based electronic survey that uses a stratified, three-stage, cluster-sampling design (across counties, schools, and classrooms) to generate a nationally...
New Study: Teens Who Vape Are Three Times More Likely to Take Up Smoking
Published online in the journal Addictive Behaviors, the study titled, “Electronic cigarette use and risk of cigarette and smokeless tobacco initiation among adolescent boys:...
Idaho House Kills Bill Proposing a Hike in The Local Tobacco Age Limit
Last month, Senate Bill 1087, which proposed raising the legal age at which one can purchase tobacco products and safer nicotine alternatives such as...
New Study Looks Into Factors Influencing Smokers’ and Ex-Smokers’ Use of IQOS
PMI’s IQOS is the most commonly sold heated tobacco product. The battery operated smokeless alternative to combustible cigarettes, works by heating sticks containing tobacco...
Public Health Experts on Why Canada’s Proposed Nicotine Cap Would be Counterproductive
Until only a couple of years ago, Canada was on the right trajectory in terms of tobacco harm reduction, and had fully endorsed the...
Review: Available Evidence Linking Vaping to Smoking Initiation is Weak
Analysing studies published in PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Wiley Cochrane Library databases, and the 2018 Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco and...
