The future of e-cigarette

Juul Labs has cut its valuation to about $10 billion from $12 billion at the end of last year, according to a company memo seen by Reuters on Thursday, as the once red-hot e-cigarette maker fizzles in a tumultuous period for the industry.

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Following intense scrutiny by US authorities, as of 2018, Juul Labs has been decreasing its variety of flavours. Despite this, recent reports have indicated that the manufacturer is still dominating the market via it's tobacco and menthol flavours.

Older smokers who had switched to e-cigarettes are turning back to traditional cigarettes because of negative news coverage and regulatory crackdowns on vaping, Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc. said.

E-cigarettes were more effective for smoking cessation than nicotine-replacement therapy, when both products were accompanied by behavioral support.

Vaping has been associated with severe respiratory health inju … and untimely deaths, and there is now the possibility that vaping may in … that causes COVID-19. These emerging risks raise serious concerns that vaping's real consequences—either to individuals or broader society—are not yet known.

"We have more and more concerns coming out around safety of the devices," said Penz. "We have limited data that says e-cigarettes on the whole are safer to use and limited high-quality data around how effective they are to help people to quit smoking."

There are no studies yet, but reports showing heightened dangers for tobacco smokers and lung damage from vaping are raising alarms for doctors and parents.

Although smoking has long been known to have a genetic element, relatively little has been known about the genes involved since it has been difficult to identify them from human studies alone.
In a study published in eLife journal, the researchers tested families of genetically altered zebrafish for nicotine preference. When one family showed a much stronger nicotine preference compared to the others, the researchers identified all the mutations in the family, eventually narrowing down to a mutation in the Slit3 gene linked to the behaviour.

The use of high-temperature headspace (180 °C) permitted terpene and terpenoid profiles to be monitored at temperatures consistent with vaping conditions.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has halted activities such as domestic compliance checks and vape shop inspections, the health regulator said on Thursday, as its staff switch to teleworking amid the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.
The health regulator has been scaling back domestic and foreign inspections in the wake of the outbreak, which has infected more than 227,700 people across 175 countries, based on a Reuters tally.

As the coronavirus pandemic actively spreads around the world, previous data have shown that children, teens, and young adults have a lesser chance of experiencing severe symptoms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

The first-ever technology wasn’t even near to providing what the modern vapes have to offer today. The evolution timeline can be categorized into three generations:

In countries where vaping is much more common, such as Britain and the US, the decline in smoking rates began accelerating after vaping became popular.

The prospective cohort study will use anonymous data from 8.3 million people’s GP records linked to the Public Health England (PHE) database of tests for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, records of hospital and intensive care admissions and deaths due to COVID-19.

Vaping is being popularized across the world as an alternative to cigarettes. The rise of e-cigarettes is popular among youngsters as it offers a wide range of flavors. Whether it is a safe alternative or not is a debatable question. A vape is a battery controlled device that converts the liquid to vapor. E-cigarettes are known to have less harmful substances, and as a result, they are less harmful to the human body. The CDC approves vaping to be the perfect substitute for traditional smoking.

Let me be clear -- we do not currently have any research that proves there is a link between vaping and the novel coronavirus. "We are awaiting studies in COVID-19 patients to determine definitively whether smoking, vaping and/or other substance use are risk factors for complications from COVID-19 infection," Dr. Baldassari says.

Customer Douglas J. Reece filed a class action lawsuit against JUUL and Altria on April 7 alleging that anticompetitive agreements between the two companies caused consumers to pay more for e-cigarettes. He claims the defendants restrained competition and violated federal antitrust laws. The suit comes days after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened a similar investigation.

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Facing ire at home, the e-cigarette giant counted on international expansion to offset losses in the U.S., but the regulatory response abroad has been even worse.

When heated, an ingredient in some e-cigarette mixtures is transformed into a dangerous gas.