Center for Tobacco Products News

From: Military Times

Patricia Kime

Jon Bunte started smoking when he turned 18, a habit picked up from a friend that appeared to ease his chronic headaches.

He continued to smoke when he joined the Air Force, but about midway through his first enlistment, searching for a less dirty way to satisfy his nicotine cravings, he tried an electronic cigarette, or e-cig. Even though experience was wholly unsatisfying, sending him scrambling for a pack of Marlboro Menthol Lights, he tried again this past March, for the same reason.

And according to Bunte, he hasn’t smoked a tobacco cigarette since.

From: The Telegraph

Smokeless electronic cigarettes risk being taken off the market by a “short-sighted” vote in the European Parliament that will classify them as a medicinal product, critics said.

By Martin Banks in Brussels

From: EuropeanVoice.com

MEPs vote to back Commission proposal for new tobacco restrictions, including electronic cigarettes.

From: Sacramento Bee

By Jack Newsham

With names such as Vapor City and BJz Vape Shop, new businesses popping up around Sacramento make clear they’re not selling old-fashioned smokes.

These vendors hawk electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, whose sales have skyrocketed in the past few years. E-cigarette enthusiasts call themselves vapers, and many view “vaping” as a benign alternative to actual smoking – albeit one that still delivers a nicotine kick.

Legislators and health advocates aren’t convinced.