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Preventing and reducing cigarette, tobacco and nicotine use are reasonable goals given the dangers and societal costs involved.  One method commonly advocated is increasing taxes on tobacco.  In a Healthline article highlighting a tobacco tax increase in California, a couple of... Read More

As we look back at the last 2 years and the ups and downs of being a start-up company,  We’re reminded to think about Why we started down this path in the first place.  It was not to become another tobacco company, or another pharmaceutical giant. We started because we... Read More

Sentiens, LLC announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) issued a Notice of Allowance on October 9th, 2013 in Application No. 13/710,801, “Device and Method for Simulating Chemosensation of Smoking”.  This application covers the technology behind the... Read More

New York Times editorialist Joe Nocera penned a very compelling piece about the issues around the e-cigarette, and the potential it has for harm reduction.  As Clive Bates has repeatedly noted,  harm reduction is the combination of reduced risk and the number of people who use... Read More

October 2, 2013 / Forbes / — Lorillard’s announcement it will pay as much as $100 million for a top British e-cigarette manufacturer demonstrates the rapid evolution of what started out as a niche business. On top of Lorillard’s $135 million purchase of blu eCigs in April... Read More

A recent study out of Europe is one of the first to have enough longitudinal data to provide a baseline to the continuing discussion of e-cigarettes.  The conclusions of the authors are that e-cigarettes are an interesting alternative to smoking, and they believe their study can... Read More

  For Immediate Release NEW NOVUS® SOLUTION TARGETED TO E-CIGARETTE USERS PROVIDING SATISFACTION WITHOUT NICOTINE  eTwig by Novus®:  The New Choice for Vapers   Charlotte, NC /8/19/2013 –  The developer of the revolutionary Novus® Twigs announced today the launch of... Read More

  For Immediate Release LIFE JUST GOT EASIER Novus Twigs:  A New Choice For New Year’s Smoking Resolutions   New York City,NY/1/28/2013 —  Now that all of the holidays and celebrations are behind us, many who made those well-intentioned New Year’s... Read More

December 24, 2012 / Syracuse.com / ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New state laws banning sales of electronic cigarettes to minors and giving businesses new tax exemptions for installing solar energy systems are set to take effect next week. In 2013, New Yorkers will also calculate state... Read More

December 19, 2012 / WebMD / — Plans for e-cigarettes to be regulated for the first time and bigger health warnings on cigarette packets have been announced by the European Commission. The plans have been welcomed by Cancer Research UK and the anti-smoking group ASH. Tobacco... Read More