Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
Minnesota: A Proposal To Raise Tobacco Purchase Age to 21
House File 3532, also known as the “Tobacco 21" bill was proposed by state Rep. Dario Anselmo, R-Edina. "Three billion dollars of hard costs...
Mount Pleasant SC Bans Vaping at Workplaces
The measure was introduced last month by Councilman Gary Santos, the same person who was also behind the town's workplace smoking ban enacted in...
PATH Study: A Large Number of Youth Receive Tobacco Coupons
The study titled Adolescent tobacco coupon receipt, vulnerability characteristics and subsequent tobacco use: analysis of PATH Study, Waves 1 and 2, was published in...
UK: A Proposed Bill to Omit E-Cigs from TPD Regulations
The fact that such a debate is taking place is an "indication that politicians are taking vaping and the contribution and concerns of IBVTA...
US High Cigarette Taxes are Leading to a Thriving Black Market
Senior director of fiscal policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market research institute based in Michigan, Michael LaFaive, and Todd Nesbit,...
Public Health Experts Release Statement in Favour of Cole-Bishop Rider
HR 1136 is a bi-partisan legislation, and a version of the bill introduced last year by Reps. Tom Cole of Oklahoma and Sanford Bishop...
FDA Issues ANPRM About the Role of Nicotine in Tobacco Addiction
“The ANPRM being issued today provides a wide-ranging review of the current scientific understanding about the role nicotine plays in creating or sustaining addiction...
New Zealand: Plain Cigarette Packaging Gone Into Effect
As the plain packaging regulation goes into effect, retailers have until the 6th of June to get rid of any remaining stock of branded...
