While advertising for conventional cigarettes has long been prohibited in the US e-cigarettes are being routinely advertised in traditional and social media including Twitter claims a new study. E-cigarettes are commonly advertised on these platforms and tweets often link to commercial websites promoting e-cigs researchers from the University of Illinois said. 'There is this whole wild west of social media platforms - Facebook Twitter and Instagram - and the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has no way to track what is happening in those platforms' said lead study author Jidong Huang from the University of Illinois. To reach this