Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
How to end cigarette use in a generation, the report
The report starts by pointing out that the campaign launched in 1962 to exterminate smoking was only half successful, and that the US is...
US Navy bans vaping over exploding batteries concerns
An article published earlier today on The Virginian Pilot, said that due to such incidents at least one aircraft had to land, fires were...
Findings from NZ latest study, confirm PHE figures
Study authors Jinsong Chen, Chris Bullen and Kim Dirks from the School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Science at the University...
Vaping products excluded from NY State budget
In the recent weeks several health experts had been speaking up against Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to ban vaping in certain public spaces. The...
‘Big tobacco’ loses battle against plain packaging laws in the UK
“Standardised packaging will cut smoking rates and reduce suffering, disease and avoidable deaths.” said health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Regulations that came into effect on...
Strict e-cig rules are pushing youths to smoke
Confirming what many public health experts have been fearing and incessantly pointing out, the study found that since e-cigarette laws started being implemented in...
Smokers needed for a stop-smoking trial in New Zealand
“I have . But I’m not very good at it but I don’t smoke either. I suggest anyone who smokes here has a go...
Hong Kong government against WHO’s guidelines for cigarette packets
The government of Hong Kong is looking to increase the size of warnings to 85% of the surface of tobacco packets. However the government...
