US bans e-cigarettes on commercial flightsUS Transportation Department announced on Wednesday it has banned the use of electronic cigarettes on commercial flights. The rule applies to all scheduled flights by US and foreign carriers involving transportation in, to and fro More… |
E-cigarettes a ‘gateway’ to harder drugsLike conventional cigarettes, electronic cigarettes may function as a "gateway drug" that can prime the brain to be more receptive to harder drugs, US researchers said on Wednesday. The findings, published in the New Eng More… |
More safety studies on e-cigarettes urgedGreek researchers called on Wednesday for more safety studies into electronic cigarettes, saying scientific knowledge of them was "very limited". Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, were first made in China and are sold mostly on the I More… |