Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
Philip Morris announced that 3 million smokers have switched to iQOS
Last year PMI made headlines when Andre Calantzopoulos, the company’s CEO said that he would like “to work with governments towards the “phase-out” of...
FDA’s tobacco plan opens “pathway to new product innovations”
"We've opened up a pathway to new product innovations that we think can potentially provide nicotine to people who still want to enjoy satisfying...
NHIS 2016 vaping data lacks crucial details
The report titled, QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Ever Used an E-cigarette† and Percentage Who Currently Use E-cigarettes,§ by Age Group — National Health...
Survey from Indiana shows that e-cigarette use is on the decline
The 27th Indiana Youth Survey, was conducted by the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University’s School of Public Health-Bloomington and was partly funded...
Government-funded study spreads misinformation about smokeless tobacco
The study was conducted by Annah Wyss of the National Institute of Environment Health Science and 20 government-funded coauthors, and the results suggested that...
Smoking bans don’t work, increased cigarette prices do, say researchers
The latest research suggests that just adding $1 to the current price of a packet of cigarettes ‘could help millions of smokers quit’. "Older...
AHA ignores scientific data in claiming that vaping is as risky as smoking
In an interview published last week on the Daily Mail, the AHA said that research carried out by the University of West Virginia, indicates...
Regular vapers have the highest smoking cessation success rates
This study is considered as one of the first conducted in the states that looks into the correlation between smoking cessation and e-cigarette use...
