New Documentary, You Don’t Know Nicotine, Aims To Separate Nicotine Fact And Fiction.
Aaron Biebert, the self-taught director of the award-winning A Billion Lives documentary, has returned with a new Kickstarter project for a documentary entitled You Don’t Know Nicotine. Whereas A Billion Lives aimed to take “a critical look at the history of smoking, and the corruption that’s led to the current situation where safer, healthier alternatives are banned or heavily restricted in most countries,” You Don’t Know Nicotine shifts its focus to nicotine itself. The new documentary seeks to answer three key questions: “How does nicotine actually affect developing brains,” “are there any benefits to adults who use nicotine without smoking,” and “who’s covering up the truth about nicotine, and why?”…
Tariffs May Inadvertently Change The U.S. Vaping Industry
In the U.S., vapers are no strangers to the effects of government policies on their lives, but it rarely happens as indirectly as it will soon. When the President announced new tariffs on imports from China, the effect on the vaping industry was likely the furthest thing from his mind. Unlike other regulations, this particular action is not meant to directly affect vaping, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t. In its broadest form, the act is set to subject Chinese imports to a 25% tariff when they fall in to certain categories. There are hundreds of different products that will see this increase as the tariffs attempt to drive…
FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb sits down with CNBC To Discuss Plans Involving Vaping
On March 28, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb sat down with CNBC’s Meg Tirrell to discuss a variety of topics. In the 30-minute interview Dr. Gottlieb touched on just about every aspect of the FDA’s reach, including some topics related to vaping. For the general consumer, it might not seem like much, but when the head of the FDA speaks about the vaping industry which they’ve been working to regulate in different ways, listening is important. When it came to the conversation about e-cigarettes, Dr. Gottlieb was quick to talk about the regulations they’ve put in place. He admitted that the initially instated regulations were “foundational” to get the actual…
