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Q: We have a new resident who is smoking the e-cigarette. What are facilities doing with it?

A: An electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette, is an electrical device that simulates the act of tobacco smoking by producing an inhaled mist bearing the physical sensation, appearance and often the flavor and nicotine content of inhaled tobacco smoke; though without its odor, it is intended to eliminate health risks. The device uses heat (or in some cases, ultrasonics) to vaporize a liquid solution into an aerosol mist. 

In speaking with a dozen or more facilities, the e-cigarette seems to be handled in an individual facility- or corporate-wide policy. Many facilities are not allowing it at all; others allow it after the resident is deemed by the doctor or advanced practice nurse to be safe at handling the device.

It does seem that all of the facilities allowing the e-cigarette keep the charging device at the nurses’ station, just to keep an eye on how often it is smoked, and to monitor on an ongoing basis for safety.

As far as purchasing the device, it seems to fall upon the family or POA, if the resident is unable to order one.

As of April 2010, The American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) supports e-cigarettes sales to adults “because the possibility exists to save the lives of four million of the eight million current adult American smokers who will otherwise die of a tobacco-related illness over the next 20 years.”

Still, the e-cigarette is controversial. Laws governing the use and sale, as well as the accompanying liquid solutions, currently vary widely, with pending legislation and ongoing debate in many regions. If your facility decides to allow the e-cigarette, as with all other devices, you will need a policy on it that is reviewed and updated regularly.

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Or, it could be a bad sign. Now more people will be linking ecigs — vapor cigs, with regular cigarettes more. What do you think?

By Chris Parsons

PUBLISHED: 03:07 EST, 27 April 2012 |

Cigarette giant Lorillard today became the first major tobacco firm to buy an electronic cigarette after announcing a deal to acquire Blu Ecigs.

The third biggest tobacco firm in the U.S. has bought the ecig firm in a deal worth $135million.

Lorillard announced the acquisition off the back of figures which showed its net income had fallen 10 per cent in the first quarter of the year.

Sale: Blu Ecigs said the acquisition would help them ‘move to the next level of expansion’

Lorillard, which produces Newport and Kent cigarettes, is the third biggest tobacco firm in the U.S.

The cigarette firm earned $223 million, or or $1.70 per share, for the period ended March 31. Those figures were down from $248 million, or $1.71 per share, a year ago.

Lorillard, the maker of Newport and Kent branded cigarettes, saw its shares fall 3.9 per cent yesterday.

Blu Ecigs, based in Charlotte, NC, said in a statement the sale ‘gives us access to the tremendously experienced team and resources at Lorillard and will allow us to move to the next level on our expansion.’

Electronic cigarettes, which have no tobacco but do contain nicotine, are thought to be worth around $500million in the U.S., although this figure is still dwarfed by the £100billion generated by cigarettes.

Ecigs are battery powered plastic and metal devices featuring a liquid nicotine solution in a disposable cartridge.

They create a vapour which users inhale to imitate the nicotine flavour and sensation of smoking a real cigarette.

The news comes after it emerged last year that a number of U.S. cities have already banned electronic cigarettes in the workplace and for under-18s.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Just about anyone who has tried to quit smoking will tell you it’s not easy. There are plenty of alternatives, including electronic cigarettes. But researchers say that may pose some health risks.

When you first meet Ellen Harmon and her husband, Michael, you’d think they were smoking actual cigarettes. But the smoke coming from their mouths is actually vapor, formed by using an ‘e-cigarette.’

“Some people can just stop cold turkey. I’m not one of them. I just couldn’t do it,” Ellen said, when asked why she was using the device.

E-cigarettes are a battery-operated device with cartridges of nicotine and/or flavor.

“Do I want a cigarette?” Michael questioned. “Yes I do. But to me, this is the best way I have found to release myself from that thing.”

The Harmons say “vaping,” as it’s known, is the safer alternative to smoking.

Despite the prevalent use of e-cigarettes in the United States, our neighbors to the north have effectively banned them. The Canadian government says e-cigarettes are more like a drug, while the FDA says they’re a tobacco product.

Because of the FDA distinction, they have little regulation of these devices.

Richard O’Connor, a Roswell Park Assistant Professor of Oncology, told News 4, the lack of regulation poses a public health risk.

“There’s no manufacturing standards, there’s nobody testing that the contents are what they say they are on the label,” he said.

The FDA warns, e-cigarettes may contain ingredients that are known to be toxic to humans and may not be safe. But after smoking for 40 years, the Harmons say they’ll continue to use the product, because it’s keeping them away from an actual cigarette.

One of the ingredients the FDA warns of is diethylene glycol. That’s something used inside antifreeze.

Researchers say it may still be possible to develop cancer from using these e-cigarettes.

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More Laws Coming and Bans Coming for the eCig

By Erin Rigik, Associate Editor.

Once speculated to be a passing fad, e-cigarettes are increasing in sales and popularity and pushing their way toward becoming a mainstream product. Celebrities from Leonardo DiCaprio to Britney Spears have been spotted “vaping,” attracting further public attention to the e-cig trend. As the trend takes hold, government regulators at both the local and federal levels are lying in the weeds waiting to pounce on the good times.

The market for e-cigarettes is expected to quadruple between now and mid-2014, according to Thomas Kiklas, co-founder of the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association. “In 2010 there were 750,000 units sold and that jumped to 2.5 million units sold in 2011. In the U.S., close to 20 million cartridges and about 10 million disposables are sold on a weekly basis.”

A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated 2.7% of U.S. adults had tried e-cigarettes by 2010, up from 0.6% a year earlier. Annual sales of e-cigarettes in the U.S. have grown to between $250 million and $500 million since arriving from China five years ago, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

If e-cigs aren’t lighting up across bars and restaurants near you, it could have to do with your location—but rest assured they’re on the way. Research shows the product appears to be catching on fastest in the South, with 33% of e-cigarette users living in Southern states compared to 19% of e-cigarette users living in Northeast states, according to ECH Research in conjunction with Opinionnaire, June 2011.

There is even a World Vaping Day—March 22—to celebrate the success of the electronic cigarette, and to encourage new smokers who can’t or don’t want to quit smoking to switch to e-cigs.

C-Stores Finding Room
As the product grows toward the mainstream, c-stores are getting in on the action.

Nice N Easy Grocery Shoppes in Canastota, N.Y. began offering e-cigs when they were first introduced. “These were the $60 kits and, frankly, they did not do very well,” said Matthew Paduano, vice president of category management at Nice N Easy. “Over the past several years we have brought in some of the less expensive kits as well as the disposables.”

Nice N Easy now stocks the NJOY brand, which is carried by its wholesaler. “I am worried about some of the other brands out in the market because I don’t know where they are made, and because of concern over what happens if one of those injures a customer in any way,” Paduano said, adding that he looks to his wholesaler to supply reputable brands that he can trust.

Demand for e-cigs in Nice N Easy’s markets is growing slowly, but consistently. “I think these items are still foreign to many customers even though there has been press and media around them. There is no clear No. 1 brand out there in our market right now, but there are a lot of choices,” Paduano said. “I expect that as the cost comes down further, more customers will try them. This is a niche item that will gain acceptance slowly, but will not be replacing real tobacco any time in the foreseeable future.”

Couche-Tard became the first Canadian c-store chain to push electronic tobacco when it rolled out the blu e-cigarette brand, which it now offers in more than 500 stores in Quebec. It plans to roll out the tobacco line to its other stores across Canada later in 2012. Couche-Tard is selling blu’s zero-nicotine disposable e-cigarettes—a budget-friendly alternative to traditional cigarettes, with one disposable equaling approximately 20-30 cigarettes.

In the U.S., Couch-Tard’s Circle K Stores Inc. is offering FIN e-cigarettes in each of the chain’s eight regions. In addition to carrying the disposable FIN e-cigarettes, which are equivalent to more than two packs of traditional cigarettes, Circle K stores are also offering rechargeable FIN accessories.

Safe Debate
Because e-cigarettes deliver nicotine without the tar and 5,300 other chemicals and carcinogens found in regular cigarettes, they are often reported to be safer. The American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) has defended the product.

“If we get all tobacco smokers to switch from regular cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, we would eventually reduce the U.S. death toll from more than 400,000 a year to less than 4,000, maybe as low as 400,” said Joel L. Nitzkin, chairman of the AAPHP’s Tobacco Control Task Force. “AAPHP favors a permissive approach to e-cigarettes because the possibility exists to save the lives of four million of the eight million current adult American smokers who will otherwise die of a tobacco-related illness over the next 20 years.”

Nitzkin also noted that cigarette smokers could reduce their risk of future tobacco-related death by 99.9% or better by switching to a nicotine-only delivery product like e-cigarettes.

While c-store retailers report it’s too soon to determine if smokers are gravitating toward e-cigs for health reasons, ECH Research in conjunction with Opinionnaire found in its June 2011 survey of 200 respondents from 70,000 households that 62% of e-cigarette smokers reported they have stopped smoking traditional cigarettes or smoke fewer cigarettes since starting e-cigarettes.

Barriers to Success
As with other forms of cigarettes, anti-smoking groups are arguing that flavored e-cigarettes could attract teens that could use the device as a gateway into cigarette smoking. As a result, state lawmakers are cracking down on the devices with proposals that would ban everything from the purchase of the devices to vaping in public. Among the measures that have been recently proposed include:

Hawaii. Lawmakers in Hawaii had debated e-cigarette bill, SB2233, which aimed to limit sales of e-cigs to minors and to tax e-cigs at the same price as traditional cigarettes (70%). But after receiving more than 1,000 written submissions, many from e-cigarette users opposing the measure, the Hawaii Senate Ways and Means Committee voted to delete language that would require the 70% tax before passing the bill. Meanwhile the main portion of the bill, restricting sales of e-cigarettes to minors, remains intact.

Vermont. Vermont State Rep. Bill Frank introduced a bill that would ban the sale of e-cigarettes to those under 18 years of age and ban the purchase, sales and delivery of e-cigarettes via the Internet, phone and mail order, with penalties for each violation of up to five years imprisonment, a $5,000 criminal fine and a $5,000 civil fine. In March, however, the Vermont Human Services Committee announced they would be removing the section of H. 747 that would have banned sales of e-cigarettes through the Internet, phone and mail order.

Utah. A bill has been passed by the Utah state legislature, which adds the use of electronic cigarettes to the definition of smoking in the Utah Clean Indoor Air Act, which before had banned only “igniting tobacco.” The bill exempts e-cigarette shops from the ban for five years. After passing the House and Senate, it has gone to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert who is expected to sign it into law.

New Jersey. Like cities Seattle and Boston, New Jersey already has banned e-cigarette smoking in public and is also considering a law that would ban smoking and the use of e-cigarettes in cars if children 16 or under are present. A violation would carry a $100 fine.

Alabama. The Alabama Smoke-free Air Amendment of 2012 would ban the use of e-cigarettes in any public place where smoking is prohibited.

Wisconsin. A bill seeks to specify the term “smoking” in an effort to exempt electronic cigarettes from the state’s indoor smoking ban. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Glenn Grothman, is currently seeking co-sponsorship. There is an identical bill that was introduced in the Wisconsin House. Groups such as the American Lung Association are contacting legislators in opposition of the bill.

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London, Apr 14 (ANI): Health experts are demanding stringent controls on electronic cigarettes over concerns that customers could be exposed to poisonous chemicals.

The nicotine vapour inhaler devices, mostly imported from China, are not subject to regulations and fears are growing that people could be subjected to ‘unclean’ and ‘unsafe’ products.

E-cigs do not contain tobacco and therefore are not regulated by Tobacco Product Regulations, they are also not classed as medical devices so can they not be regulated in the same way as other nicotine replacement products.

A Chinese pharmacist invented the devices, which can be charged through a computer USB port, in 2004.

Prof John Britton, chair of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group, said that regulating e-cigarettes would ensure a ‘guaranteed standard’ for consumers was met.

“Electronic cigarettes have the potential to save thousands of lives, but the fact that they are unregulated is bad as it leaves people open to using unclean and unsafe products,” the Daily Mail quoted Prof Britton as saying.

“Electronic cigarettes can not be seen as being as safe as other regulated nicotine replacement therapies which meet pharmaceutical standards, these products are tested and have additives in them that we know to be safe – e-cigarettes don’t have this.

“The concept of nicotine replacement is powerful and good, but e-cigarettes are really testing this system – they are new and they are unregulated. Regulation would be useful and it would be nice to clean up the loopholes,” he said.

Prof Britton also said that due to lack of regulation there was no way to prove that the contents listed on the packet were actually the contents of the e cigarettes.

“At the moment electronic cigarettes may list the contents on the side of the packet, but there is no way of proving that this is the true content as there is no regulation,” he said.

“Electronic cigarettes are probably positive and if everyone switched to e-cigarettes it could potentially save millions of lives, but regulation would certainly be useful at this time,” he added.

A lack of regulation has led several countries, including Canada, Australia, and Singapore to ban the products because of fears over possible side effects.

Jean King, Cancer Research UK’s director of tobacco control, warned that e-cigarettes do not have the same safety standards as some other nicotine containing products.

“E-cigarettes are unlicensed products. This means there are no national safety standards or controls as to how they are sold, King said.

“Also, little is known about their ingredients or the reliability of nicotine dosage. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is considering whether to regulate e-cigarettes and other new products that contain nicotine. At least until the MHRA reports back, Cancer Research UK does not recommend the use of e-cigarettes,” King said. (ANI)

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A growing number of states are taking aim at electronic cigarettes in an absence of federal regulations, intensifying a public-health debate over the fast-growing alternative to traditional cigarettes. Lawmakers in more than half a dozen states from Arizona to New York have introduced bills this year that would prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to minors. Mike Esterl has details on The News Hub.

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