Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
South Korea Wants to Ban E-Cig Discounts and Promotions
The proposal has been put forward by the State Council and needs to be passed by the National Assembly, in order to become law....
COVID-19 Update: NY State Considers Six-Week Ban on Cigarettes
Data from Italy has indicated that the country’s high Coronavirus death rate, currently at 10%, is highly correlated to the high smoking rates amongst...
39 US States To Investigate Juul’s Marketing Practices
Only last month, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, filed a lawsuit against Juul alleging that the manufacturer has misled consumers about the health risks...
Are Vapers More Likely to Contract COVID-19?
A recent article on Time has rightly pointed out that media coverage about a possible link between vaping and COVID-19 has increased. On its...
Juul Applies for Patent of an AI-Powered Device That Restricts Nicotine
The device would be connected to a smartphone, would learn how often and how much nicotine one vapes and determine how and when to...
PMI £1bn Fund to Help Smokers Quit Called “Breathtakingly Hypocritical”
A measure supported by PMI would lift the current advertising and marketing ban on e-cigarettes.Leaked documents have revealed that the PMI fund would be...
CRUK: Scotland May Miss Tobacco-Free Target by 16 Years
In 2017, the Scottish government had announced that it was setting in place a tobacco plan in order to become “smoke-free” by 2034. At...
BAT Subsidiary Working on Potential COVID-19 Vaccine
Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), an American subsidiary of the British tobacco company BAT, is working on a potential vaccine against COVID-19, it was announced in...
