Objective Study Finds ‘No Justification’ for Banning E-Cigarettes Indoors, in Public Places

Good news for the vaping community! A new study, produced by the environmental health consulting firm CHANGE LLC, claims that the secondhand risks from e-cigarette vapors are minuscule, and we should all just be chill about co-workers using them in the office.

Study abstract:
Comparisons of pollutant concentrations were made between e-cigarette vapor and tobacco smoke samples. Pollutants included VOCs, carbonyls, PAHs, nicotine, TSNAs, and glycols. From these results, risk analyses were conducted based on dilution into a 40 m3 room and standard toxicological data. Non-cancer risk analysis revealed “No Significant Risk” of harm to human health for vapor samples from e-liquids (A-D).
Before we get too excited, the study was contracted for $100,000 by the National Vapers Club from solicited donations at Vaping Expos. And “non-cancer risk analysis” is sort of a shady term: does that mean that checking for the risk of cancer in secondhand vapors wasn’t a factor in the study?

The British nearly half of the number one tax evaders cigarette smugglers

The British nearly half of the number one tax evaders cigarette smugglers Updated date: on November 2, 2012 Tobacco Nearly half of the UK's top tax evaders cigarette smugglers, their tax evasion amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds. The British HMRC data show that eight of the 20 number one tax evaders was sentenced to the crime of illegally imported cigarettes.

A member of the European Parliament requires the disclosure of the anti-smuggling trade agreement details

According to the TMA quoted today Malta "reported that a member of the Budget Control Committee of the European Parliament requested the European Commission, aims to provide the Committee with Philip Morris International, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco International and British American Tobacco in 2004-2010 signed to Parliamentin all documents and correspondence of the cooperation agreement to solve the problem of illegal cigarette trade.
 
Many persons love to smoke
Camel cigarettes, Winston cigarettes.

A member of the European Parliament, said the information requested "the possibility of a conflict of interest of the Commission assessment and analysis arising from those agreements is particularly important". EU anti-fraud agency, the European Anti-Fraud Office involved in the investigation of a legally binding agreement signed with the tobacco manufacturers, tobacco manufacturers agreed to pay the total cost of 1.65 billion euros to the EU and its member states.

"We demand full disclosure of comprehensive information related to the tobacco industry," a member of the European Parliament, said in a letter submitted to the European Commission.

Do Public Smoking Bans Affect Heart Disease?

Public smoking bans have been shown to have a major impact on the occurrence of heart disease. In Pueblo, Colorado, hospitalization for heart disease dropped over 40 percent just three years after a public smoking ban went into effect. Helena, Montana, saw similar effects after instituting a smoking ban in 2004. New research on the effects of cigarette smoke — including secondhand smoke — indicates that even a little bit of smoke can trigger a heart attack in someone whose arteries are already clogged. More facts about the effects of smoking: More than 7,000 chemicals go into the body with one puff of a cigarette, affecting every major organ. About one in five adults in the United States smokes, and it is estimated that tens of millions of people are exposed to secondhand smoke every day. Smoking bans are not a new thing, even though they have rapidly gained in popularity worldwide. In 1575, Mexican churches forbade the use of tobacco on church sites, and smoking has been banned from time to time in several cities. The first nationwide smoking ban took place in Germany in 1941 under the Nazi Party, and it lasted until the end of World War II.

Thinktank recommends issuing benefit cash on 'prepay' cards

Thinktank recommends issuing benefit cash on 'prepay' cards

Demos analysis of 'cashless' welfare payments fuels moral debate if authorities try to control recipients' spending choices

Lung cancer has become the most lethal form of the disease for women

Lung cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the most lethal form of the disease for women in the UK, research has shown. Scientists predict that by the middle of the decade it will be the main cause of women's cancer death in Europe. New figures show that the lung cancer death rate among women in the UK now stands at 21 per 100,000 women. Lung cancer has bucked the general trend over falling cancer mortality. Since 2009 the proportion of European men dying from cancer has dropped by 6% and of women by 4%.

How will Russians cope with the smoking ban?

Smoking is a ubiquitous Russian habit. Long after much of Europe lost interest, Russians have continued their unhealthy love affair with cigarettes. In restaurants, bars, outside the Bolshoi theatre, and beneath the ornate porticos of Moscow's metro stations, Russians still light up. But now President Putin – the country's bare-chested paragon of clean living – has signed a new law banning smoking in public places. From 1 June smoking will be outlawed in offices, playgrounds and station entrances, with a ban on restaurants, bars and long-distance trains following a year later.