A warning has been issued to keep minors away from e-cigarettes after a nine-year-old girl from Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada drank e-liquid she found in her school’s playground.

The e-liquid, which was labeled as ‘Unicorn Milk, was tasted by the girl and a few of her friends and was contained inside packaging decorated with a brightly colored unicorn.

The mother of the girl, Lea L’Hoir, said that her daughter started complaining about nausea, chest cramps, and dizziness shortly after tasting the e-liquid.

Shortly after, she took her daughter to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with nicotine poisoning and released later that night.

Although there was a small poison symbol on the side of the container, L’Hoir stressed that the packaging should have been clearer.

Anthony Knight, CEO of the New Brunswick Medical Society, said it’s troubling that e-vaping products might be designed and marketed to appeal to young people.

“That speaks to a need for tougher regulation and tougher oversight around how these products are marketed and that oversight rests with the government,” he said.

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Should Australia follow other countries and legalize the sale of nicotine for e-cigarettes? One tobacconist thinks so.

Franchise owner of an e-cigarette stockist, Naeem Ismail is hoping an inquiry into the devices will align Australia with the rest of the world when it comes to legalizing the sale of nicotine products.

“People are looking for an alternative to smoking for health benefits and to save money,” he said.

“Not only are e-cigarettes a cheaper alternative, they are slightly healthier and help people eventually wean off smoking.”

The said inquiry was raised by the Australian Parliament’s Health, Aged Care and Sport Committee and will look into the use of e-cigarettes in Australia.

Currently e-cigarettes containing nicotine are not uniformly available for commercial sale in Australia, but the inquiry hopes to change this as it investigates the health impacts of e-cigarettes and personal vaporizers, as well as their marketing and use as an aid for people attempting to quit smoking.

Mr Ismail argues that one of the main reasons he is in favor of the inquiry is due to the number of customers who had successfully quit smoking by using e-cigarettes.

“It’s that habit of having a cigarette in hand that is hard to break but your brain is also telling you that you need nicotine. People are training their brains to do the action without getting the nicotine hit,” he said.

“As much as it is requested, e-juice with nicotine is unfortunately banned in Australia.

“If the government is serious about getting people to quit smoking there needs to be an alternative method.

“Overseas, people can cut down their nicotine from 12mg to 6mg to 4mg and wean themselves off. We don’t have that option here.”

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Researchers at the University of Dundee in the UK are asking smokers for help with a research project which looks into the effects of e-cigs and vaping.

The study, which is funded by the British Heart Foundation, is looking to recruit 135 volunteers over the age of 18 who have been smokers for two years or longer.

Dr. Jacob George from the University is leading the study. “This is a vital question we need to answer – what actually are the effects of e-cigarettes?” he said.

“There is little scientific evidence which really shows the benefits or otherwise of using e-cigarettes as opposed to tobacco.

“We want to test the effects of e-cigarettes, with and without nicotine, on the blood vessels — a key health indicator — and compare them to tobacco cigarettes.

“To do that we really need the help of people who smoke, not only those who may be thinking of stopping or switching to e-cigarettes but also smokers who don’t want give up but want to be involved.

“They can really help us without too much time required on their part, so I would appeal to all smokers to get involved and make a real difference.”

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The United States is continuing to crack down on rules governing e-cigs, but one drug abuse researcher, Dr. Carrie Wade, says US lawmakers need to realize that vaping is a huge help in the fight to stop smoking.

“As a harm-reduction tool, e-cigarettes should be available, even promoted, to current smokers as an alternative to traditional cigarettes,” said Wade.

“History has proven that abstinence approaches do not work: Teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates did not decline in states that emphasized an abstinence-only sex education curriculum and criminalization of heroin use did not stop overdose deaths,” she added.

FDA figures estimate cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the US.

But this figure is now likely to be much lower in the UK, with research showing that for the first time in this European country, more than half of the country’s vapers have given up smoking tobacco since using e-cigs.

“This year’s ASH survey finds that around 1.5 million vapers are ex-smokers, for the first time a larger number than those who continue to smoke,” said Professor Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction at King’s College London.

“This is encouraging news as we know that vapers who continue to smoke continue to be exposed to cancer-causing substances. The message for the 1.3 million vapers who still smoke is that they need to go further and switch completely,” she said.

“It’s very important smokers realize that vaping is much, much less harmful than smoking,” added Deborah Arnott, Chief Executive of public health charity ASH

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Tobacco companies are now pushing cigarettes smokers to quit smoking cigarettes and make the switch to e-cigs, according to experts.

British American Tobacco chief scientist, David O’Reilly said in a statement: “If you smoke cigarettes and you smoke cigarettes all your life, then on average half of those cigarette smokers will die prematurely.”

“Maybe ten years prematurely from a variation of diseases, whether that’s lung cancer, heart disease, respiratory disease,” he added.

Studies have proven that vaping is around 95 percent less harmful than smoking cigarettes, which explains why British American Tobacco are keen to crack the e-cig market and have invested a billion dollars into researching the devices.

“We’re very confident that compared to smoking, the harms involved (with using e-cigarettes) are certainly no more than five percent of the risks from smoking,” added Dr. Nick Hopkinson from the Royal College of Physicians.

“So for someone who is a smoker, switching across to vaping is a huge improvement in terms of their health risk,” he said.

This view is also shared by various Australian medical professionals, including Associate Professor of Public Health, Colin Mendelsohn.

“We can say for sure it’s safer than tobacco, which kills two out of three long-term smokers,” he said.

“We’ve had 10 years of vaping so far, there’s been no evidence of any serious harm from vaping.”

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The New Zealand Government plans to make e-cigs legal in order to reach their target of becoming smoke-free by 2025.

“Scientific evidence on the safety of e-cigarettes is still developing but there’s a general consensus that vaping is much less harmful than smoking,” said Associate Health Minister, Nick Wagner.

“This is an opportunity to see if restricted access to e-cigarettes and e-liquid can help lower our smoking rates, reduce harm and save lives.” she said.

There will be new rules put in place for all e-cigarettes, regardless of whether or not they contain nicotine. The rules include restricting sales to those 18 years and over and prohibiting vaping in indoor workplaces and other areas where smoking is banned under the Smoke-free Environments Act.

The tax that applies to cigarettes would not be added on to e-cigarettes, and strict advertising rules will limit the exposure of the products to children and young people who are unlikely to smoke otherwise.

The Ministry of Health says there is “emerging evidence that e‑cigarette use may substantially reduce the burden of disease caused by smoking”.

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As we know, regulations placed on e-cigs by the FDA during Obama’s final year of administration have the potential to wipe out many small players in the vaping industry.

But with President Donald Trump in power, repealing these regulations could be a great start in bringing American jobs back, without the need to impose tariffs, or build walls for that matter.

According to the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association, 99 percent of all e-cig and vaping products now on the market will have to be submitted for FDA review, which, could potentially push many people out of jobs, and also place the 9 million smokers who switched to vaping in jeopardy of returning to smoking cigarettes.

A report by the R Street Institute, a Washington, D.C. based free market think tank, says that the Trump administration should take action to overturn the regulations.

“Perverse tobacco policy is failing the American public and will soon destroy thousands of small and medium-sized businesses that are part of the solution, not part of the problem,” said the authors of the R Street report, Eli Lehrer and David Sweanor, professor at the University of Ottawa’s Center for Health Law.

Although the changes will not take effect immediately, this is essentially a slow-motion ban on vaping products, which could be intervened by the Trump administration. However, there have not yet been any signals on whether it will continue with Obama-era policies on e-cigs or move in a new direction.

The R Street report is also arguing that vaping products should be advertised as being healthier than traditional cigarettes. As a large majority of evidence supports this statement, such as one study from the UK that found that e-cigs are 95 percent safer than traditional cigarettes that contain tobacco.

Should the Trump Administration continue to take a hard stance on vaping, not only will this deter existing smokers from switching to vaping, but it is also likely to push vapers back onto the habit of smoking traditional cigarettes.

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Vaping was brought to a bigger stage when 20-year-old, Michael Lee from Toronto, Canada entered France Has Got Talent.

After putting on an impressive performance ‘cloud chasing’ to music, he was applauded by his audience and received great comments from the judges of the show, which has been widely favored by young people.

The performance really surprised and amazed a lot of people and also exposed vaping and ecigs to a much wider audience, with the video receiving hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube.

You can check out his performance below:

 

https://youtu.be/jP1gGdmRt30

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a ruling on August 8, 2016, to regulate all electronic cigarette products in an effort to improve public health. The rule bans the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors and requires all e-cig manufacturers to submit products for premarket laboratory review.

Mitch Zeller, J.D, Director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, says the rule is being enforced to prevent e-cigs from being sold without review of their ingredients.

The FDA recognizes that some tobacco products have the potential to be less harmful than others. However, they argue that ‘more evidence is needed’ for products such as e-cigs to determine their impact on public health.

They believe the reduced toxicity of e-cigs compared to conventional cigarettes mean they have the potential to reduce disease and death, but are concerned that young people may become addicted to nicotine, despite some e-cigs containing no nicotine at all.

The new rule is concerning for e-cigarette industry advocates who say that premarket approval will run small companies out of business, consolidating the industry to fewer products produced by major tobacco companies and giving consumers limited options.

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