“My butts are recharged. I think I’m going to the break room to have an electronic smoke-like device.” Even as I was quitting smoking several years ago, I don’t think I could have brought myself to say such a thing, much less “smoke” the thing I would have been talking about. That thing is...

Cigarettes are not just costly to society when they are smoked. As litter they cost taxpayers billions every year. Local governments are particularly hardhit by the costs of cleaning up cigarette litter, the most abundant type of litter. Efforts to reduce and cleanup cigarette pollution and litter are...

Cigarette Butt Pollution No matter which way you look at them, cigarette butts are deadly. Tossed into gutters and on the shoulders of roads, if they do not first cause a fire or are eaten by wildlife (or young children), cigarette butts will likely travel through storm drains and enter our watershed,...

* By FOX 5 HEALTH MYFOXNY.COM – Because of the smoke, the smell, the health concerns of smoking cigarettes, Michael Lohan, the father of Lindsey Lohan, is pushing an alternative to cigarettes that he says won’t create harmful smoke and won’t get you kicked out if a restaurant if...

In Arizona, smokers are getting around smoking ordinances by lighting up the allegedly non-toxic Vapure e-Cigarette. These seemingly smokeless cigarettes are a way to get a nicotine buzz without distributing harmful toxins to others nearby. What makes these a minefield for smoke-free advocates are their...

Rising cigarette prices mean lighting up in Massachusetts will lighten smokers’ wallets, too. The federal tax on cigarettes, now 39 cents a pack, will rise to $1.01 beginning April 1. Cigarette manufacturers such as Philip Morris U.S.A. and R.J. Reynolds have already increased the price-per-pack...

After years of being sold overseas, electronic cigarettes are starting to catch on in the United States. » Click to enlarge image Electronic cigarettes are all the rage overseas, but the FDA is trying to halt their importation. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is trying to stop importation...

Nicotine-delivering e-cigarettes may pose a new problem for HR By Dan Sorenson Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 03.22.2009 advertisement Attention anti-smoking zealots: Before you pummel that diner lighting up and taking a deep, satisfying drag in the next booth, make sure he’s not...

One statement about the electronic cigarette that I have seen again and again is that the electronic cigarette contains pure nicotine. CNN, for example, states:  ”The only ingredient: pure liquid nicotine“. Reports often go on to claim we should not take up the electronic cigarette as...

Clinical trials have now been carried out in New Zealand by Dr Murray Laugeson of Health New Zealand. The test found that the E-Cigarette tested was: “…very safe relative to cigarettes, and also safe in absolute terms on all measurements we have applied. Using micro-electronics it vaporizes,...