Since the NY Times “scare piece” last week, which implied that the liquid used in e-cigarettes was like “selling poison by the barrel,” there’s been an ongoing debate about electronic cigarette safety. While many news organizations echoed the fears sparked by the...
Electronic cigarette sales are booming! Although the final numbers have yet to be tallied, estimates for 2013 were expected to reach $1.7 billion. Wells Fargo projects that the figure will top $10 billion by 2017 and Bloomberg predicts that sales will exceed...
With the safety of electronic cigarettes in question and comparisons being made to traditional tobacco products, it’s no surprise that politicians have entered into the fray. Sadly, the cliché of ‘just following the money’ leads directly to the offices of many elected...
In the vast majority of news stories about electronic cigarettes lately, the author provides some basic, generally positive information about e-cigarettes and then leads into all the fears and worries that the so-called “experts” have about these devices. They almost always feature...
There was a time (not that long ago) when traditional cigarette ads littered the pages of newspapers, magazines, television and almost every form of media. They depicted famous celebrities, beautiful models, rugged mountain men, doctors, cartoon characters and even Santa Clause smoking...
According to the American Lung Association, smoking is the number one cause of preventable disease worldwide. In 2004, smoking cost the U. S. over $193 billion, including $97 billion in lost productivity and $96 billion in direct health care expenditures – an...
This week Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper joined 37 other state attorney generals in signing a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the agency to regulate electronic cigarettes like tobacco. The letter states that e-cigarettes are being marketed to...
According to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week, the percentage of middle and high school students who have tried electronic cigarettes more than doubled in the U.S. from 2011 to 2012. All of the major news...
A top tobacco industry analyst is predicting $1.7 billion in electronic cigarette sales for 2013 – more than double the previous year’s numbers. Analyst Bonnie Herzog of Wells Fargo Securities said “conservative data” from traditional retail stores already indicates $700 million in...