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
Ukrainian legislators have prohibited the sale of vaping products in flavors other than tobacco, and banned public use and advertising.
A World Health Organization report, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, encourages bans and restrictions on vaping products..
A Health Canada rule limiting nicotine content in vaping products to 20 mg/mL will take effect on July 23.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has approved Brookline’s Tobacco-Free Generation law that bans sales to those born this century.
Following Smoore and RELX, Chinese vaping manufacturer Aspire Global is set to begin trading its stock publicly on the Nasdaq exchange.
A tobacco company partly owned by the Indian government will produce nicotine for export to countries that allow vaping.
More than 400 small vaping businesses are asking FedEx to reconsider its decision to no longer deliver vaping products.
Panama’s National Assembly has passed a law that would ban public use and sales of vaping and heated tobacco products, with or without nicotine.
Fourteen Malaysian men have been sentenced to prison terms in Singapore for smuggling vaping products, which are strictly prohibited.
Because of declining cigarette sales, state governments in the U.S. and countries around the world are looking to vapor products as a new source of tax revenue.
