Delightful: Booming e-cigarette market largely unregulated, studies say

The electronic cigarette market is booming both online and in brick-and-mortar retail outlets in ways hardly imaginable half a decade ago, and the growth continues to be largely unregulated, according to a series of studies published Monday in the journal Tobacco Control.

Delightful: Booming e-cigarette market largely unregulated, studies say Lorillard_Zippo_Trademark-0dae0-1359

Delightful: Booming e-cigarette market largely unregulated, studies say Lorillard_Zippo_Trademark-0dae0-1359

“It’s exploding,” said Shu-Hong Zhu, a professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California at San Diego, who co-authored one of nine studies funded by the National Cancer Institute. “There’s no sign of slowing down.”

Zhu and other researchers found a “staggering” proliferation of e-cigarette brands and flavors on the Internet in the past two years alone, with roughly 10 new brands and 240 new flavors arriving on the market every month. As of January, researchers trawling English-language Web sites identified 466 different e-cigarette brands and 7,764 individual flavors, from peppermint to piña colada.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/booming-e-cigarette-market-largely-unregulated-studies-say/2014/06/16/e2a4c5ee-f589-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html

Delightful: Booming e-cigarette market largely unregulated, studies say

Delightful: Booming e-cigarette market largely unregulated, studies say

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