Stubborn and cynical lobbying by the anti-smoking lobby leads to e-cigarettes being taken over completely by the tobacco companies. And smokers continue to die.
After SVT's report on young people and vejpning, reactions from vejpers and business owners have been thick in the comment fields on Facebook. "It is better that young people vejpar instead of smoking tobacco" writes one...
Disposable vapes, highly concentrated nicotine salts, some nicotine cones and ready-to-use e-liquids. These are products that require a license to be sold over the counter. But how does it work in reality?
THR SUMMIT SPAIN. Nearly 700 people participated online as doctors met with researchers, activists and health scientists in a discussion on e-cigarettes and the role of technology in smoking cessation and harm reduction.
"It's about the right to a healthier life, no matter what bad choices you made in the past." says Atakan Befrits, an activist who wants to give smokers alternatives.
The government wants to ban our flavors. They don't want our e-cigarettes to taste good. They want it to taste only like 'tobacco smoke'. What is the issue?
I don't want to become a smoker again. Why do you want me to?" This is the question posed by users and entrepreneurs in a film aimed at politicians in the Social Affairs Committee.
Young people smoked more after San Francisco banned flavors in e-cigarettes. "The ban has created incentives to smoke instead of vejpa" say researchers.
Road users are avoiding nicotine medicines. This is the result of a survey of 3000 e-cigarette users in the Netherlands. A majority had tried several different medicines before successfully quitting smoking with the help of e-cigs.
Where do tobacco companies really stand in the e-cigarette debate? Vejpkollen visited Philip Morris and met with PMI's Scientific Director Claude Guiron.