Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
US FDA Extends Deadline for New Cigarette Warnings Once Again
The United States has long been lagging behind other countries with regards to cigarette warnings. In fact, the FDA has not updated cigarette pack...
New Study Links Nicotine Exposure to Breast Cancer Metastasis
Cigarette smoking has been associated with a higher incidence of breast cancer spread, or metastasis, lowering the survival rate by 33% at diagnosis, however...
India: Shops in Karnataka Must Obtain Licences to Sell Tobacco Products
The license applications should be submitted to the Commissioner or Chief Officer of the jurisdictional municipal corporation in the stipulated form, along with a...
US: Rutgers Researchers Call For Nationwide Ban on Menthols
Rutgers researchers Cristine Delnevo, director of the Center for Tobacco Studies and Prof. Ollie Ganz, a public health researcher and instructor in the Department...
HARAP: A New Harm Reduction Association Forms in The Philippines
The aim of the organization will be the promoting and campaigning to the Philippine government with regards to the adoption of harm reduction strategies....
Morocco Passes Bill That Creates a Tax on E-Cigarettes
A 2017 investigation by Swiss journalists Marie Maurisse and Gie Goris, had found that the cigarettes sold from Switzerland to Morocco, contained significantly higher...
New Study: Smokers Living in Green Areas Are More Likely to Quit
Titled, “Neighbourhood greenspace and smoking prevalence: Results from a nationally representative survey in England,” the study looked into the smoking-related behaviour of over 8,000...
French Food Safety Agency Publishes Content Review of Vaping Products
“This analysis made it possible to identify inconsistencies and non-conformities in the declarations of which the manufacturers were informed so that they could take...
