Boston Commission Proposes Electronic Cigarette Rules
BOSTON – The Boston Public Health Commission has approved rules governing the sale and regulation of electronic cigarettes. The vote came at the commission’s meeting on Sept. 8.
Under the commission’s proposed rules, retailers would be required to obtain a permit to sell the products and would be prohibited to sell them to minors. The proposal would also ban use of e-cigarettes in the workplace, according to a report by the Boston Globe.
“We don’t know what people are inhaling with these e-cigarettes,” said Nikysha Harding, director …

The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed banning the use of electronic cigarettes on airline flights, saying there is concern the smokeless cigarettes may be harmful.
“Airline passengers have rights, and this new rule would enhance passenger comfort and reduce any confusion surrounding the use of electronic cigarettes in flight,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement.
The ban would clarify an existing Transportation Department rule prohibiting smoking cigarettes or similar products on airline flights.
The proposal would apply to all domestic airline flights, as well as scheduled flights of U.S. and foreign …

Tobacco Control Act
On 22, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, otherwise known as the Tobacco Control Act. The law represents another major decision by government to neutralize the surging tide of tobacco addiction. It also marks the first time that the authority to regulate the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products to protect public health was assigned to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
 
The law seeks primarily to prevent and reduce tobacco use by young people before they get addicted and …

According an article, “A success story on MSN Health and Fitness,” that appeared on the Nicotine Times website, one smoker claims that choosing electronic cigarettes as a smoking alternative gave him the incentive to quit the habit. While the Food and Drug Administration does not approve of using electronic cigarettes as smoking cessation devices, the aforementioned smoker maintains a different perspective.
35 years of smoking – 2 years smoke free
The former smoker enjoyed the habit for 3 and a half decades and had tried all the approved methods to stop smoking, …

Individual states are failing “miserably” in their tobacco control efforts, trailing even the attempts of the federal government, according to the American Lung Assn.’s State of Tobacco Control 2010 report released Thursday. While the federal government has begun implementing the tobacco control policies made possible by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gives the Food and Drug Administration new powers to regulate tobacco, states have taken little new action to prevent or control smoking, instead diverting the vast majority of antismoking funds available under tobacco settlements to address general …

E-CigaretteDirect.com sets the record straight by informing their customers of the truth.
Since the release of the short FDA study on electronic cigarettes, there has been much mis-information that has flooded the market.  Gina King of E-CigaretteDirect.com has had enough. “This vagrant derailing of information is getting out of hand.  Reporters and the FDA are using scare tactics to undermine the health of the American people.”
Scare tactics
The FDA report stated that electronic cigarettes are dangerous because they contain an ingredient, diethylene glycol (DG), that is found in anti-freeze.  The FDA recognizes …

The FDA hasn’t pronounced e-cigs safe. Are they being paranoid, or just doing what we want them to do, protecting us from those who would do us harm?
To win FDA approval, a product must be subjected to a barrage of tests. Its efficacy for its particular purpose must be established. Its chemical content must be analyzed. Its effect on human health must be determined before it can be given “FDA” approval.
The procedure for getting the FDA’s okay on anything takes years, and costs a lot of money. Although a product …

A proposed FDA ban would indicate 
Electronic cigarettes have been a prominent debate in the news media and several online forums.  The controversy stems from FDA reports that claim that electronic cigarettes are dangerous to the American public and should, therefore, be banned.
An electronic cigarette or “e-cigarette“ is “a battery-powered device that provides inhaled doses of nicotine by delivering a vaporized liquid nicotine solution. It is an alternative to smoked tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, or pipes. In addition to nicotine delivery, this vapor also provides the physical sensation similar …

He took a drag, closed his eyes briefly — felt the nicotine hit — and blew a white cloud out of his mouth. He took a drag again.
But he wasn’t smoking.
He was vaping.
Gregg Leplae of Fort Gratiot is among a growing group of smokers who have turned to electronic cigarettes as a way to help them quit smoking.
For Leplae, a former two-pack-a-day smoker for 36 years, e-cigarettes have helped him kick the smoking habit entirely.
E-cigarettes are battery-powered, pen-like plastic and metal devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution in a …

The use of tobacco in various forms has been with us for several centuries, but it was only in the early 20th century that its ill effects on health became suspect.
In the United States, tobacco and its ill effects on health caught the attention of the Surgeon General of the US Public Health Service, Dr. Luther Terry, who organized in 1962 an advisory committee to study the link between cigarette smoking and illness. Subsequently, in January 1964, the advisory committee submitted its report confirming that “smoking is a health hazard …