Electronic Smoking

E-cigarettes sparking controversy

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DEBATE Since their emergence around five years ago, the rapid expansion of e-cigarettes has provoked controversy, and challenged the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries alike, writes Simon Brooke Do you “vape”? Are any of your friends “vapers”? Your answer to these... Read more

From ‘electro fag’ to e-cigarette

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BEGINNINGS Invented less than a decade ago, “vaping” now has its own high street retailers and even a TV channel, as Josh Sims report The uptake of “vaping” has been phenomenal. In the first few years after 2006, when the... Read more

New ‘cig’ on the block

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MARKET DISRUPTION Both the traditional tobacco sector and the smoking cessation market are being challenged by the e-cigarette, while regulators are struggling to define this fast growing new product and develop controls, as Simon Brooke discovers Against the background of... Read more

World of Coffee

Costa lotta?

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PRICING Inflation and commodity prices may push up the cost of a cup of coffee. But is there a foam ceiling above which it just becomes too much? Simon Brooke reports How much would you pay for a cup of coffee?... Read more

Bean counters

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CONNOISSEURSHIP Coffee used to be a utilitarian drink. Now, increasingly, it is a connoisseur product, assessed with all the attention to flavour paid to fine wines and whiskies, writes Sarah Jane Evans Christmas is coming. It must be, because the... Read more

Coffee à la carte

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COOKING For chefs, coffee used to mean merely the multiple shots downed to keep them going through long shifts. Now it is increasingly likely to be used in their dishes, savoury as well as sweet, as Bill Knott discovers Anyone... Read more