• A Botched Execution in Alabama

    Jesse Walker

  • A Lethal Injection of Reality

    Jacob Sullum

  • Friday Funnies Good News Is Relative

    Chip Bok

Obamacare

  • Did Massachusetts’ High Quality Health Care System Give Romneycare a Boost?

    Peter Suderman

  • Insurers Testify that 10 20 Percent of Obamacare Sign Ups Haven t Paid, Some Are Duplicates

    Peter Suderman

  • Obamacare and the Uninsured

    Peter Suderman

Marijuana

  • Operation Grow4Vets Is Helping Colorado Veterans With Free Marijuana and Grow Lessons

    Elizabeth Nolan Brown

  • Did Massachusetts’ High Quality Health Care System Give Romneycare a Boost?

    Peter Suderman

  • Why Colorado’s ‘Cannabis Credit Co Ops’ Won’t Solve the Marijuana Banking Problem

    Jacob Sullum

Police abuse

  • Nearly Two Dozen Miami Dade Cops Fired 377 Rounds at Two Unarmed Men in a Car

    Ed Krayewski

  • Albuquerque Protesters Try to Arrest Police Chief at City Council Meeting

    Ed Krayewski

  • Cory Booker Can Talk Donald Sterling, Mum on Newark Deputy Chief Accused of Racism, Corruption

    Ed Krayewski

Joint declaration of the e-cigarette industry – the regulation of e-cigarettes under the tobacco products directive

Philip morris earnings preview: regulatory headwinds continue to challenge growth — trefis

  1. Nicotine limits as the key scientists in the field of tobacco and e cigarettes have identified in their 16 January 2014 declaration (attached), a 20mg/ml nicotine content is proven as insufficient for smokers using e cigarettes as a substitute for cigarettes
  2. Advertising ban preventing consumers from finding out about products products recognised as safer than cigarettes and the industry from informing them in a responsible manner
  3. Pharmaceutical style product standards requirements for consistent dosing (same puff always delivers the same amount of nicotine), pharmacokinetic testing, leak free refilling and post market pharmacovigilance which appear to be copied from medicinal regulation and are not achievable for the majority of existing products
  4. Refillables provision to extend ban across EU if three Member States apply a ban
  5. National Governments ability to ban cross border sales and maintain status quo to classify e cigarettes as medicinal products