Better for your lungs, worse for your hard drives, e-cigarettes can potentially infect a computer if plugged in to charge

Today Oxford Dictionaries announces vape as its international Word of the Year 2014. The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of interest during the year to date. Language research conducted by Oxford Dictionaries editors reveals that use of the word vape in 2014 has more than doubled compared to 2013.

Poison control workers say that as the e-cigarette industry has boomed, the number of children exposed to the liquid nicotine that gives hand-held vaporizing gadgets their kick also has spiked.

Public health officials disagree about the relative safety of e-cigarettes and nicotine vaporizers, noting that there's a dearth of research on the longterm effects of the products. But e-cigarettes just got a significant endorsement as a quitting tool from an unlikely source: The American Heart Association, a nonprofit health advocacy organization that has taken a strong stance against the tobacco industry for nearly a century.

In an official policy statement, the American Heart Association calls for stricter regulation of e-cigarettes.

The FDA's proposed rule could expand the agency's tobacco authority to cover additional products that meet the definition of 'tobacco product,' such as e-cig...

On the contrary, allowing e-cigarettes to compete with regular cigarettes might cut tobacco-related deaths and illness, the researchers concluded after reviewing 81 prior studies on the use and safety of the nicotine-emitting devices.

“There’s no such thing as a safe cigarette.” This is a line that has been used to describe menthols, filtered cigarettes, and slims, but it also applies to the latest product for smokers: electronic cigarettes. They have been widely heralded by users and manufacturers as a completely harmless smoking alternative, but there isn’t much research to back up that statement. Recent studies have shown that they still contain tiny particles that can irritate lung tissue and could cause disease.

A Dutch company called E-Njoint BV says it now produces 10,000 electronic joints in fruity flavors every day. The e-cig has paved the way for e-joints.

Electronic cigarettes, promoted as a healthier alternative to tobacco, are getting powerful new backers with an unhealthy reputation: big tobacco companies. The development points to ways Big Tobacco is moving to turn the young e-cigarette market to its advantage.

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A new study might clear some of the air in the e-cigarette debate: Researchers in the U.K. claim that e-cig users are 60 percent more likely to quit smoking than smokers who use traditional methods such as nicotine patches or gum.

Smokers trying to quit are 60 percent more likely to report success if they switch to e-cigarettes than if they use nicotine products like patches or gum, or just willpower, scientists said on Tuesday.

The agency said it has no idea if vaping is good or bad for public health, but will regulate it anyway.

A new company is trying to invent the safest, most sophisticated electronic cigarette on the market. But unless you’re trying to quit smoking, the firm’s founder says the product isn’t for you: It’s intended to be a new kind of inhaler that delivers a precise, physician-approved dose of nicotine to help smokers break their tobacco habit.

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are generally recognized as a safer alternative to combusted tobacco products, but there are conflicting claims about the degree to which these products warrant concern for the health of the vapers (e-cigarette users). This paper reviews available data on chemistry of aerosols and liquids of electronic cigarettes and compares modeled exposure of vapers with occupational safety standards.

We knew it was coming soon, and now the Federal Drug Administration has released its long-awaited proposed regulations for e-cigarettes. The end of the vaping free-for-all is in sight.

Anti-tobacco groups are hailing the proposal as a major step toward bringing order to the world of "vaping." But TV ads and flavored nicotine cartridges won't be affected.

Twitter never sleeps. So when the news broke in the dead of night that the Food and Drug Administration wants to regulate e-cigarettes, the response was swift.

Last year I gave our oldest daughter an electronic cigarette kit for her 20th birthday. At that point Francine, who started smoking at 17, was going through two or three packs of Camels a day—which was pretty impressive, especially since she was not allowed to smoke inside the house...