The Food & Drug Administration announced recently an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for flavors used in tobacco products, including e-cigarettes. The FDA then allowed public comments where commentaries, opinions, proposals and data could be submitted. Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos, a research fellow at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens, is
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Regional delegates were treated to an often-lively debate in which compelling scientific evidence and pressing regulatory imperatives were presented by internationally-recognized expert speakers at the factasia.org Regional E-cigarette Symposium, held in Hong Kong last December 12, 2015. Factasia’s John Boley and Heneage Mitchell chaired a distinguished panel of speakers including
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The less harmful alternative – legal in London but a criminal offence in Hong Kong In Asia as in the rest of the world, there is a deep division of opinion about e-cigarettes. In many countries they are banned but widely available; bans are almost certainly there to protect governments
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A top British specialist has endorsed the findings of a new report that shows the supposed “dangers” of using e-cigarettes are overrated because of bad science in the research methods previously used. Professor Peter Hajek, director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Barts and The London School of Medicine
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More than half of Australian adults believe the issue of legalising e-cigarettes to improve public health is important enough to influence how they will vote. New research from the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) shows that 54 percent say the legalisation of e-cigarettes is a potential vote-influencing or even
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Smokers in Philippines are calling for action to make e-cigarettes more widely available and regulated properly. In a first-of-its-kind survey of adult smokers in Philippines, regional consumer advocacy group factasia.org has found that most smokers (70 percent) see e-cigarettes as a “positive alternative” to tobacco products. The same number –
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Smokers in India are calling for action to make e-cigarettes more widely available and regulated properly. In a first-of-its-kind survey of adult smokers in India, regional consumer advocacy group factasia.org has found that most smokers (66 percent) see e-cigarettes as a “positive alternative” to tobacco products. Even more – 69
Read MoreAs the New Zealand government heard some health professionals call for further rises in cigarette taxes as the sole measure to curb the country's smoking prevalence, one expert has suggested not only that e-cigarettes could be the answer, but that they don't need regulating. Associate Professor Marewa Glover of Massey
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In the latest in its series of opinion polls of adult smokers across Asia, factasia.org has found that adult smokers in Malaysia are overwhelmingly calling for e-cigarettes to be regulated properly and more widely available. Most smokers (83 percent) see e-cigarettes as a “positive alternative” to tobacco products. Even more
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In the second of its opinion polls of adult smokers across Asia, factasia.org has found that adult smokers in Singapore have strong opinions regarding the regulation of e-cigarettes. An overwhelming majority (79 percent) believes it would be wrong for the Government to prevent or delay the introduction of safer alternatives
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