Diane Caruana
In-house journalist covering international vaping news.
The CVA Reiterates That Vaping Could Save Billions of Lives and Dollars
In 2012, smoking-attributable mortality resulted in nearly 600,000 potential years of life lost, mainly via malignant neoplasms, cardiovascular diseases, and respiratory diseases. Figures by...
Juul Settlement For Over 5,000 Lawsuits Believed to Total $1.7 Billion
Juul Labs has agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits brought by over 10,000 plaintiffs accusing the company of intentionally marketing their products to youth....
Miami Beach Police May Arrest Repeat Offenders Caught Smoking
Miami Beach started the new year with a ban on cigarette smoking on the beach and at public parks. Gov. Ron DeSantis made the...
Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry Reiterates That Vapes Help Smokers Quit
Experts have asked the 182 member-states to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control under the World Health Organization to reconsider its position on tobacco...
Irish Health Authority Launches Quit Smoking Campaign
Data recently released by Ireland’s Department of Health from the Healthy Ireland Survey 2021 has indicated that smoking rates have risen from 17% to...
UK Audit Reports Drop in Smoking Cessation Referrals in Hospitals
The actual number of smokers admitted to hospital has declined from 24% of acute care patients in 2019 to 21% in 2021.Conducted by the...
Maine Lawmakers to Propose Statewide Ban on Flavoured Tobacco Products
If the ban goes through, Maine would join a group of US states including Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, with such a restriction...
Parental Smoking Puts Offspring at Risk of Nicotine Addiction
The study titled, “Paternal nicotine taking elicits heritable sex-specific phenotypes that are mediated by hippocampal Satb2,” concluded that parental nicotine exposure may promote addiction-like...
