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E-cigarette executives set for grilling over youth vaping

Executives from five of the largest e-cigarette companies are set to be grilled by House lawmakers on Wednesday about rising youth vaping rates, the first hearing since the Trump administration announced a limited ban on vaping flavors. The committee will hear from the CEOs of Juul, Reynolds American and NJOY, as well as the presidents of Logic and Fontem. Juul has long been the target of lawmakers’ ire as congressional investigators have probed the company’s role in the youth vaping crisis. [...]

2020-02-05
thehill.com

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Belgium will ban all tobacco advertising from 2021

All forms of tobacco advertising in Belgium will be banned from January 2021. Currently, newsagent’s shops are still allowed to advertise tobacco products in the store, and on the facades. However, the parliament voted unanimously that all these forms of advertising will also be abolished, reports VRT. Most of the advertising for tobacco products has been banned since 1999. The government’s aim is to discourage smoking as it is still the main cause of lung cancers that every person can choose to avoid. However, the legislation still allowed a few exceptions.

2020-02-05
brusselstimes.com

Those who vape cannabis spend twice as much

Vaping has become an increasingly popular alternative to smoking traditional cigarettes and cannabis. However, health officials are sounding the alarm. Earlier this year, the FDA banned manufacturers from making and selling favored e-cigarette cartridges [...] But how does all this news affect e-cigarette consumers? A new study by Harmony Healthcare IT sought to answer those questions. They surveyed 1,800 adults between the ages of 18 and 35 who regularly use vaping products and found the majority (79-percent) say they feel ‘safe’ vaping, despite the threat of illness and death.

2020-02-05
valuewalk.com

Juul, overall e-cigarette sales remain on down trend in January

Traditional electronic cigarette sales remained on a downward trend in January, particularly top-selling Juul, according to the latest Nielsen report released this week [...] “The e-cigarette category has now delivered sequential declines for five of the last six periods following the recent vaping-related illness outbreak and ahead of recent regulatory changes, and has now seen its first year-over-year decline in several years,” Cowen & Co. analyst Vivian Azer said.

2020-02-05
journalnow.com

E-cigarette use high among recent quitters but rare among those who gave up longer ago

Former smokers who quit tobacco within the last five years are likely to use e-cigarettes, while vaping is rare among those who quit more than a decade ago, reveal the findings of research published online in the journal Tobacco Control. The authors say their findings suggest that today's smokers who want to quit are using e-cigarettes as an aid whereas in the past quitters had to rely on other smoking cessation aids, so few long-standing quitters have tried e-cigarettes.

2020-02-05
eurekalert.org

Europe’s Menthol Ban Has Tobacco Firms Thinking Outside the Pack

As menthol cigarettes face a European Union ban, Big Tobacco is finding creative ways to keep giving smokers their minty fix. In January, Imperial Brands Plc started selling cardboard strips that can be inserted into a cigarette pack or pouch of rolling tobacco to impart a peppermint aroma. Rival Japan Tobacco Inc. has introduced cigarillos—small cigars that are exempt from the ban—with capsules that release menthol at the push of a button.

2020-02-05
bloomberg.com

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