Moreover, unlike real cigarettes, e-cigarettes can be advertised on radio and television.
Promulgating the lowest possible nicotine yield could push more people to e-cigarettes or to quit altogether.
And the various bans on e-cigarettes make just as little sense to me as that.
E-cigarettes are currently classed as a general consumer product and regulated by trading standards.
They have called for the ban on smoking in public places to be extended to e-cigarettes.
Minnesota recently moved to tax e-cigarettes and Hawaii also considered a tax last year.
Worse, restrictions and regulations dealing with the relatively new devices known as e-cigarettes will effectively ban them.
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Can anyone actually explain to me why there is this campaign against e-cigarettes?
The trade association for e-cigarettes, the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association, says they make no medicinal claims for their product.
E-cigarettes work by vaporising nicotine-laced liquid that can be inhaled, replicating the effect of smoking without all of the carcinogens.
Likewise, our first consumer data on e-cigarettes shows that 44% of smokers who used one of these devices were also Millennials.
The BMA is worried that the more people start using e-cigarettes the more it will normalise something that looks like smoking.
Some e-cigarettes are made to look like a real cigarette with a tiny light on the tip that glows like the real thing.
Attempts to classify e-cigarettes as a medicinal product have been made in Holland and Germany but the industry successfully overturned the decisions in court.
E-cigarettes work by vaporizing a liquid solution into an aerosol mist.
The success of e-cigarettes could soon hit some obstacles, however, with health regulators preparing new restrictions on the products and state legislatures considering taxing them.
"We continue to expect consumption of e-cigarettes could surpass consumption of traditional cigarettes within the next decade, " said Bonnie Herzog, tobacco analyst at Wells Fargo.
For example, should using e-cigarettes be allowed in a public place?
One reason consumers have been trying e-cigarettes is because they can be as little as half the price of traditional cigarettes sold by big tobacco companies.
The increasing acceptance of e-cigarettes caught big tobacco companies off guard initially but they are slowly recognising that they cannot ignore the changing tastes of their consumers.
Ray Story, chief executive of the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, warned that tax rises on e-cigarettes would only benefit tobacco companies, to the detriment of public health.
The agency lost a legal battle with e-cigarette companies in 2010 after trying to block imports of e-cigarettes and has been sceptical about claims they are not harmful.
There is a push to tax e-cigarettes like regular cigarettes.
He also indicates that it is rather challenging to figure out how to apply the same tax to e-cigarettes since the excises tend to be based on weight of tobacco.
This could be because e-cigarettes look similar to cigarettes, feel the same in the hand and can be social (think cigarette breaks or grabbing a smoke outside while at a bar with friends).
Adding what amounts to a ban on e-cigarettes will tie the hands of millions of EU smokers desperate to quit, and force a like amount of successful quitters back on to lethal addictive cigarettes.
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If you compare usage of e-cigarettes with that of regulated smoking cessation methods you find that 8% of adults who smoked cigarettes in the last 12 months used these devices to try to kick the habit.
Manufacturers say they are looking forward to greater oversight to make it more difficult for anyone to start importing and distributing low quality e-cigarettes to the US, but they are fearful of more states planning to tax their products.
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