Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
US Study: Camel Snus VS Nicotine Gum For Smoking Cessation
Titled, “Randomised clinical trial of snus versus medicinal nicotine among smokers interested in product switching,” the study was conducted by Dr. Dorothy Hatsukami and...
Are E-Cig Restrictions Undermining Efforts to Fight COVID-19?
An article on the Washington Times points out that anti-vaping entities are doing their utmost to capitalize on the infamous EVALI outbreak, by stating...
Minnesota Launches New Quitting Program For Smoking, Vaping and Chewing Tobacco
Called Quit Partner, the program offers free personal counseling over the phone and online, and sends free NRTs such as nicotine lozenges, gum, and...
New York’s Flavour Ban Goes Into Effect on July 1st
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new $117 billion budget signed last April, has set in place some questionable measures. Amongst other things, it banned flavoured vaping...
BAT Sues PMI on Grounds That IQOS Technology Infringed its Patents
BAT said that in the US, it filed two patent infringement claims against PMI, one via the International Trade Commission (ITC) and one in...
NZ Vaping Bill May Benefit Big Tobacco
“We make it very clear that the unintended consequences of such prohibitive regulation will not only make safer nicotine products (SNP) less accessible, less...
US Study: EVALI Occurrence Less Common In States With Legalized Marijuana
Last December, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), confirmed that EVALI, the infamous “vape related” lung disease that has sadly spread...
BAT: Potential COVID-19 Plant Based Vaccine Ready for Human Trials
Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), an American subsidiary of the British tobacco company BAT, has been working on a potential vaccine against COVID-19. Last month, BAT...
