The nicotine in e-liquids for e-cigarettes has encouraged many smokers to take up vaping, but still causes concern as reflected in numerous regulations and policies. Studied for decades, this alkaloid continues to drive political and scientific debate.
Tag: Nicotine
Illinois: Teenagers caught vaping will be fined
Teenagers' use of electronic cigarettes has tripled between 2013 and 2014 in the USA, surpassing the use of all other tobacco products, and federal...
New Zealand: The Very Low Nicotine Cigarette (VLNC) versus the e-cigarette
Tobacco use remains the single biggest cause of preventable morbidity and mortality in New Zealand. Along with many other organisations, New Zealand Health Promotion...
Canada: Self-regulated E-liquid industry
Vaping has been elected by thousands of smokers worldwide to quit smoking, and the success of the method, according to users, is highly dependent on the quality...
Benzaldehyde: Another molecule in the flavors war?
The American researcher Maciej L. Goniewicz of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, N.Y.) and his Polish colleagues from the department of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Medical University...
E-cigarette: A state-of-the-art for caregivers and health professionals
In a word of controversies around the e-cigarette, what do we know for sure?
When browsing through scientific publications, one realizes that most of them only address a very...
Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 2015: Signed
The Child Nicotine Poisoning Prevention Act of 2015 has been signed by the US President Obama on January 28, 2016.
The Child Packaging Requirements of the...
Study: Tank-type atomizers more efficient than cartomizers
Beside this finding, the authors also aimed at establishing a robust protocol to evaluate the consistency in nicotine delivery to the aerosol of different types of...
Vapor differs in composition from e-liquid
The Swiss team of the Prof. R. Zenobi from the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, established protocols to investigate...
