CHART OF THE DAY: How Cigarettes Became Bigger Than Spitting Tobacco 100 Years Ago

SAM RO, Business Insider These days, you can’t talk about tobacco without talking about the rise of e-cigarettes. “By year-end 2013, the e-cigarette category is expected to have doubled to over $1B from $500MM in 2012, according to various industry sources,” noted RBC Capital analyst Nik Modi. Still, e-cigarettes represent a very tiny fraction of the tobacco business. […]

E-cigarettes: a burning question for U.S. regulators

Marina Lopes, Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters) – At the Henley Vaporium, one of a growing number of e-cigarette lounges sprouting up in New York and other U.S. cities, patrons can indulge in their choice of more than 90 flavors of nicotine-infused vapor, ranging from bacon to bubble gum. The lounge, located in Manhattan’s trendy Lower […]

Will your children buy candy, gum or little cigars?

By Dr. Tom Frieden, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Dr. Tom Frieden is director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (CNN) — They’re on display at cash registers all across America: Candy bars, packs of gum — and little cigars. In some cases, those cigars aren’t tucked away behind the counter where only the attendant can […]

E-cigs: Just how safe are they?

Article by: JEREMY OLSON , Star Tribune One of the great unanswered questions for smokers who are trying to quit — and for the advocacy groups trying to help them — is whether electronic cigarettes are friends or foes. University of Minnesota researchers aim to address that dilemma with a study examining exactly what smokers inhale when […]

FDA’s anti-smoking campaign to target teens

By Brady Dennis Early next year, half a century after the U.S. surgeon general first proclaimed the deadly effects of smoking, the Food and Drug Administration will launch a public health campaign unlike any the federal government has ever attempted. Slick, data-driven and well-funded, the effort could cost up to $600 million over the next five years, all […]