E-cigarettes

Both, smokers and vapers, suffer similar level of DNA damage: Study

Scientists have found that vapers and smokers have similar levels of DNA damage, which is more than twice the amount found in non-users, according to a new study. According to the study, DNA damage was higher among those who vaped or smoked more frequently. It was also higher in vapers who used vape pods and mods, as well as sweet-, fruit- or mint-flavoured vapes, it said. A group of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California (USC), US, analysed epithelial cells taken from the mouths of vapers, smokers, and people who had never vaped or smoked, the study said. E-cigarettes, used regularly by more than 10 per cent of US teens and more than 3 per cent of adults, were once pitched as a healthy alternative to tobacco cigarettes. But research increasingly links the use of e-cigarettes, or vaping, to many of the same life-threatening diseases that plague smokers, the study published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research said. "For the first ..

Marijuana, vaping may be as harmful to heart as cigarettes, says study

E-cigarettes and marijuana may have harmful effects on the heart similar to those caused by tobacco cigarettes, opening the door to abnormal heart rhythms, according to a study conducted in mice. E-cigarettes and heated tobacco products have become popular because the public perceives them as being less harmful than smoking, the researchers said. Similarly, legal recreational marijuana has become more common in recent years, and is also frequently viewed by the public as being safer than smoking tobacco, they said. "We found that cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and marijuana greatly interfere with the electrical activity, structure, and neural regulation of the heart," said study lead author Huiliang Qiu, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the US. "Often, any single change can lead to arrhythmia disease. Unfortunately, these adverse effects on the heart are quite comprehensive," Qiu said. The study, published in the journal Heart Rhythm, expo

DRI seizes large cache of e-cigarettes worth Rs 48 crore from Gujarat port

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence said that it has seized e-cigarettes estimated to be worth Rs 48 crore from the Mundra Port in Gujarat as part of its operation to combat smuggling

Mexico bans sales of e-cigarettes extending govt's anti-vaping policy

Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador signed a decree Tuesday outlawing the sale of e-cigarettes, continuing the government's anti-vaping policy

Medical education reforms, vaping ban highlights of health ministry in 2019

In a huge step towards boosting the availability of human resources for the health sector, the ministry in 2019 initiated the process of converting 75 district hospitals into medical colleges by 2021-

Parliament passes bill to ban e-cigarettes; selling, storage prohibited

The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Bill, 2019, was passed in Rajya Sabha with voice vote. The bill was passed in Lok Sabha earlier this month

Parliament Winter Session: Lok Sabha passes Bill to ban e-cigarettes

The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Transport, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Bill, 2019, seeks to replace an ordinance issued on Sept 38

E-cigarettes banned to prevent youth from new way of intoxication: PM Modi

He also said there are several misconceptions being spread about use of e cigarettes, including the one which says that it is not harmful for health

Indonesia may join growing vaping ban after illness reaches Asia

The move comes a week after a teenager in central Philippines who had been vaping for six months and also smoking cigarettes was diagnosed with a lung injury

Govt introduces bill to ban production, sale of e-cigarettes in Lok Sabha

The government had cited health risk to people, especially youth and issued an ordinance to ban such products

'Will arrest if you do it': Philippines president Duterte bans e-cigarettes

His comments come days after Philippine health authorities reported the nation's first vaping-related lung injury

Ban on sale of e-cigarettes implies prohibition on usage also, says govt

The country banned the sale of e-cigarettes as it fears they could lead to increased nicotine addiction

E-cigarettes: US agency reports breakthrough in vaping lung injury probe

The discovery of Vitamin E acetate in lung samples offers the first direct evidence of a link with the substance and vaping-related lung injuries

E-cigarettes cause more harm, not less

E-cigarettes pose a huge health risk to users, who more often than not are adolescents and young adults

Cigar-maker ramps up even as vaping device hits dead-end in India

Gurkha Cigars, a traditional purveyor of tobacco-products is seeing its Indian entry gain momentum, as it starts sales through a duty free store at the Mumbai Duty Free store in Mumbai's International

E-cigarette ban: Phillip Morris develops an alternative to fill the gap

If things go according to plan, Phillip Morris might be selling the new product through Godfrey Phillips India

Govt puts Bill to ban e-cigarettes in public domain, invites comments

Govt intends to introduce the Bill to ban e-cigarettes in the forthcoming session of Parliament

Ban on vapes will stay, says govt official as protests fizzle out

India banned the sale and import of e-cigarettes this month, warning of an 'epidemic' of vaping among young people

Vapers, medical professionals protest nationwide against e-cigarette ban

Hundreds of vapers, advocates of electronic cigarettes and medical professionals held a nationwide protest demanding that the government roll back the ban on electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). The Association of Vapers India (AVI), an organisation that represents e-cigarette users, held protests in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai. The protesters termed the ban "wilful genocide by the government", saying "it will push current vapers back to deadly smoking and deprive the country's 11 crore smokers of safer options". The government on September 18 banned production, import and sale of e-cigarettes and similar products, citing health risk to people, especially youth, and an ordinance will be brought in to make it an offence, entailing jail term up to three years as well as fine. Smoking kills nearly a million people in India every year. The consumer body organised awareness drives in Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata where government authorities and

E-cigarette consumers and importers pitch in to oppose vaping ban

Apex vaping body consider taking matter to court, steps up campaigns to promote vaping as a means to quit cigarettes, claims it is less harmful than cigarettes