Miroslaw Dworniczak

TPD implementation in Poland – the end of vaping as we know it?

July 20, 2016

  The first draft of the act was based on a straightforward transposition of the TPD, without any additional requirements. However, in November 2015, there were parliamentary elections in Poland a...

Glycerine in e-liquid

June 1, 2016

  (The black represents carbon, the red oxygen and the white hydrogen) Glycerine is a colourless, odourless, quite viscous liquid that tastes sweet – its name derives from Greek word glykerós (sw...

Carbonyls – friend or foe?

April 18, 2016

The carbonyl group (sometimes called simply carbonyl), chemically speaking, is a functional group composed of one carbon atom and one oxygen atom. There is a double bond between those two atoms, s...

Propylene glycol classified as toxic? There's no scientific proof for that!

March 21, 2016

The PDF of the formal document can be found here: http://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/13626/clh_propane-1%2C2-diol_en.pdfTheir idea is to classify propylene glycol as STOT SE 3. What does that a...

E-cigarette coils from a chemist's point of view

March 6, 2016

NSP is running a short series of blogs concerning the chemistry of nicotine devices.This is a first blog in a series demistyfying the chemistry of nicotine devices.Heating elementsIn general, heat...

Situation of vapers in Poland on the threshold of the implementation of the EU Tobacco Products Directive

Feb. 8, 2016

Vaping in PolandElectronic cigarettes have been available in Poland since 2006/2007, but a real explosion in their use took place around 2010. Although there are no official data, we could estimat...

E-cigarettes: doubts, allegations, answers. A view from Poland.

Nov. 17, 2013

When four years ago I started vaping, this last argument was the most annoying. I come from the scientific community, which supports good research aimed at the results published in good journals a...