Jim McDonald
Smokers created vaping without any help from the tobacco industry or anti-smoking crusaders, and vapers have the right to keep innovating to help themselves. My goal is to provide clear, honest information about the challenges vaping faces from lawmakers, regulators, and brokers of disinformation. I recently joined the CASAA board, but my opinions aren’t necessarily CASAA’s, and vice versa. You can find me on Twitter @whycherrywhy
Altria announced it will end U.S. sales of heated tobacco product IQOS on Nov. 29 to comply with a court order in a patent dispute.
Hong Kong has passed a law banning the sales, import and manufacture of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products.
The U.S. Postal Service will issue a rule tomorrow prohibiting U.S. Mail shipment of vaping products. It will become effective immediately.
The FDA has authorized marketing of an Altria oral nicotine product called VERVE that hasn’t been produced or sold for nearly two years.
More than two dozen vaping manufacturers have filed legal actions challenging the FDA’s denials of their products submitted for review.
The Biden administration may nominate Duke cardiologist and former FDA commissioner Robert Califf to serve again in that position.
The FDA’s position on flavored vaping products, expressed in court filings, is that teens use them so they can't be responsibly sold to adults.
The FDA has granted marketing authorization for the first time to a vaping product, but it is a first generation-style e-cigarette.
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the state health agency have dropped a proposed ban on sales of flavored vaping products.
Vapers fly all over the world every day. Air travel with vaping gear is simply a matter of learning the rules and customs.
