Apple is pulling all 181 vaping-related apps currently available on its App Store as health concerns mount over vaping-related illnesses and 42 vaping-related deaths, Axios reported on Friday (Nov. 15). The App Store has never allowed the direct sale of tobacco or vaping cartridges, but...
May you live in interesting times. That’s supposedly a curse as much as a blessing, but no matter what, it certainly applies to the online sales of eCigarettes and vaping supplies, where regulations haven’t caught up to retail reality, and where legitimate businesses worry about...
More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. Bloomberg is reporting that the suit follows a crackdown on vaping following an outbreak of lung illnesses tied to the practice. New York City requested that a...
Regulators continue to examine reports of disease and deaths allegedly linked to eCigarettes. And amid that scrutiny, Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba said on Wednesday (Oct. 9) that it will stop selling eCigarette components in the United States, Reuters reports. The move by Alibaba follows other announcements...
October 15, 2019
May you live in interesting times. That’s supposedly a curse as much as a blessing, but no matter what, it certainly applies to the online sales of eCigarettes and vaping supplies, where regulations haven’t caught up to retail reality, and where legitimate businesses worry about keeping on the right side of the law. Karen Webster […]
September 25, 2019
Depending on your view, it might be a public health problem, a moral panic or something in between. However, no matter what you think of the illnesses and deaths related...
July 02, 2019
Thanks to the digital economy and its supporting technology, we can say we are in the “golden age” of this and that. The golden age of delivery and quick fulfillment....
June 28, 2019
Now that San Francisco is on the verge of banning eCigarettes, the question naturally turns to whether other municipalities and states will follow suit. Will that happen? “Likely not wide...
July 15, 2020
With the coronavirus pandemic surging in the United States, Vuse is ramping up its efforts to sell its vaping products online. On Wednesday (July 15), Vuse unveiled an “updated adult nicotine consumer-focused website” that will enable vapers to “customize and order their ideal vapor,” R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., the brand’s owner and part of the […]
November 15, 2019
Apple is pulling all 181 vaping-related apps currently available on its App Store as health concerns mount over vaping-related illnesses and 42 vaping-related deaths, Axios reported on Friday (Nov. 15)....
October 09, 2019
More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. Bloomberg is reporting that the suit follows a crackdown on vaping following...
October 09, 2019
Regulators continue to examine reports of disease and deaths allegedly linked to eCigarettes. And amid that scrutiny, Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba said on Wednesday (Oct. 9) that it will stop...
