Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
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...
Farsalinos in the Philippines promoting e-cig regulations
Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos, a researcher at Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre in Athens and University of Paltras in Paltras, Greece, explains how the smoking prevalence...
Royal Society of Public Health conducts unnecessary investigation
The RSPH is asking UK vape shops to adhere to a code of conduct and refuse selling vaping products to non smokers. This plea...
Latest data finds that 1 in every 10 deaths is caused by smoking
Between 1990 and 2015, smoking declined by almost a third, from 29.4% to 15.3%. Yet due to the population increase, the number of smokers...
Australia refusing to hop on the harm reduction bandwagon
“There’s another option called harm reduction that Australia hasn’t yet come to terms with in the same way as in the UK has.” said...
E-cig rules found to affect the products’ effectiveness
The data revealed that in the US and the UK, where the regulations where milder 73% quit successfully, as opposed to 32% in Canada...
Cigarette use steadily declining in Canada, yet ‘no-smoking efforts’ persist
From 18.1 percent of the population that smoked in 2014, the percentage went down to 17.7 percent in 2015. Despite these figures, according to...
FDA head nominee against condemning e-cig flavours
"I recognize there is a line here somewhere, and I don't know where that line gets drawn," was Scott Gottlieb’s reply to Sen. Patty...
