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Graduate Student Awarded NIH Fellowship to Study Electronic Cigarettes

Jul 30

From: University of California, Riverside

UC Riverside’s Rachel Behar will study the effects of electronic cigarette aerosols on cell health

Rachel Behar is a third-year student in the Cell Molecular and Development Biology graduate program at UC Riverside. Photo courtesy of R. Behar, UC Riverside.

By Philip Vieira

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Ever since e-cigarettes hit the market in 2004, they have been advertised as an aid for cigarette smoking cessation. The aerosols produced by e-cigarettes, however, have yet to be screened for potential health risks.

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Associated Press: FDA: Menthol cigarettes likely pose health risk

Jul 24

Michael Felberbaum

RICHMOND, Va. — A Food and Drug Administration review concludes that menthol cigarettes likely pose a greater public health risk than regular cigarettes but does not make a recommendation on whether to limit or ban the minty smokes — one of the few growth sectors of the shrinking cigarette business.

The federal agency released the independent review on Tuesday and is seeking input from the health community, the tobacco industry and others on possible restrictions on the mint-flavored cigarettes.

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Smokers who try e-cigarettes to quit are younger and more motivated to quit, study finds

Jul 24

From: News-Medical.net

University of Hawaii Cancer Center Prevention and Control Program researchers Pallav Pokhrel, PhD and Thaddeus Herzog, PhD have found that smokers who use e-cigarettes as a tool to stop smoking tend to be younger and more motivated to quit smoking as compared to other smokers.

Their study published online ahead of the print version in the American Journal of Public Health, found that approximately 13 percent of smokers had tried e-cigarettes as a means of quitting smoking. They also found that smokers who had tried e-cigarettes for smoking cessation help were younger and had been smoking for fewer years compared to other smokers.

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FDA Plans to Issue Proposed Regulations on Other Tobacco Products by October 2013

Jul 16

By Thomas A. Briant

CSP

Tobacco E-News

This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released an updated version of the agency’s “Unified Agenda” indicating that the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) intends to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking by October 2013 on other products that fall within the definition of tobacco products under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.

This means that the FDA plans to issue proposed regulations on other tobacco products that may include cigars, pipe tobacco or electronic products such as electronic cigarettes and electronic cigars. Currently, the FDA regulates traditional cigarettes, roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco products and smokeless tobacco products.

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E-cigarettes: Is a smoking alternative being choked by regulation?

Jul 10

From: BBC

By William Kremer

Dozens of countries are introducing legislation restricting the use of electronic cigarettes, but their proponents say they are harmless and their use could in fact save millions of lives. Could they be right?

A group of friends sits around a table in a pub in south London, exchanging stories and putting the world to rights in a cloud of scented vapour.

One of them is 31-year-old Jonny Lavery.

“I had a big problem with death, a really big problem with dying,” he says. “I wanted to avoid dying at all costs.”

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Lorillard Tobacco Company First to Cross the Substantial Equivalence Finish Line

Jul 04

By Dave B. Clissold –FDA Law Blog

Earlier this week, FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products (“CTP”) released its first determinations regarding the marketing of new tobacco products through the substantial equivalence (SE) pathway. CTP authorized the marketing of two new tobacco products and denied the marketing of four others. Under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, one way manufacturers can legally sell a new tobacco product is to establish that their product is substantially equivalent to a predicate product that has been marketed at least since February 15, 2007 (for more on the SE pathway, see our previous posts here and here). Before marketing the new product, the manufacturer must submit a SE Report under Section 905(j) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. If the new and predicate products have different characteristics, the SE Report must demonstrate that the new product will not raise new questions of public health compared with the predicate product. After reviewing the SE Reports for two Lorillard Tobacco Company cigarette products, Newport Non-Menthol Gold Box 100s and Newport Non-Menthol Gold Box, CTP issued each a SE Marketing Order.

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Do smoking bans apply to e-cigarettes?

Jul 02

From: USA Today

Nancy Trejos

Look at any electronic cigarette company’s website, and you’ll read that you can smoke the battery-operated devices almost anywhere.

Up until recently, Blu eCigs boasted on its website that one benefit over traditional cigarettes is that you can “Smoke anywhere!” The website has since toned down its language to say that you can “Smoke in many places where traditional cigarettes aren’t allowed!”

The confusion about where you can or cannot smoke e-cigarettes has posed a challenge for the travel industry. The FDA has not ruled on the safety of e-cigarettes, but the agency will propose a rule on how to regulate them down the road.

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A Public Participation Forum for the FDA Center for Tobacco Products and its Federal Advisory Committee (TPSAC)

Graduate Student Awarded NIH Fellowship to Study Electronic Cigarettes

UC Riverside’s Rachel Behar will study the effects of electronic cigarette aerosols on cell health

Associated Press: FDA: Menthol cigarettes likely pose health risk

Smokers who try e-cigarettes to quit are younger and more motivated to quit, study finds

FDA Plans to Issue Proposed Regulations on Other Tobacco Products by October 2013

E-cigarettes: Is a smoking alternative being choked by regulation?

Lorillard Tobacco Company First to Cross the Substantial Equivalence Finish Line

Do smoking bans apply to e-cigarettes?

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