A British blogger/vaper who works in TV is asking e-cigarette users to submit their video testimonials.
All you have to do is answer several question on YouTube and then upload your video.
More information on this video:
You can find the questions here: Smoke2Vape.
Humphrey Smiths of Sam Smiths breweries has banned electronic cigarettes, according to one of his (and our) customers, who was most upset.
We’ve written a letter to him asking him to reconsider:
Dear Mr Smith
We are writing on behalf of one of our – and your – customers.
We were astonished to receive a letter from him telling us that Sam Smith’s brewery had banished our electronic cigarette from your pubs.
He, and we, believe this is an unreasonable demand.
Electronic Cigarettes
Electronic cigarette are legal indoors and in places where the smoking ban prevents adults from engaging in smoking. Therefore, there is no legal need for your demand.
It’s a proud week for E Cigarette Direct as the Welsh National Opera uses electronic cigarettes to beat the Welsh smoking ban.
Unlike the English ban , the Welsh smoking ban even forbids smoking on stage.Which can be tricky when you are performing an opera about a cigarette factory!
Below is a picture of the gorgeous opera singer, Fiona, during dress rehearsals.
Opera singer Fiona Harrison smoking an e-cigarette on stage.
Fiona usually has to use talcom filled powder sticks, but non-smoker Fiona told us the electronic cigarette was a vast improvement.
Below is a picture of our MD, Jean, with her partner Mike on stage with Fiona.
The E Cigarette Direct Team on the stage of Carmen.
According to Jean, Mike just couldn’t stop himself from flirting with Fiona…
Mike flirting on the stage of Carmen.
E Cigarettes are an “Object of Coercion” state pro-choice group
Last week I interviewed David Atherton from Freedom to Choose.
David Atherton was immensely likable, and I found myself agreeing with everything he had to say.
However, I find his organisation’s position on the electronic cigarette astounding.
Smoker’s Against Electronic Cigarettes
David told me that he personally had no problem with the electronic cigarette, but that Freedom to Choose opposed their usage.
Freedom to Choose later clarified their position, writing:
“They [the electronic cigarette] are a product of coercion, who would use them anywhere you could smoke? our policy is detailed on the website.”
E Cigarettes A Product of Coercion?
I must admit I do not fully understand this statement. I have requested a clarification (but have not yet received one) and searched for their policy, but not yet found it.
I can only imagine that they see it as an instrument (of anti-smoking groups? the government?) to persuade people to accept the smoking ban.
Of course, if everybody used them, Freedom to Choose might lose support for the ban to be revoked. But that is different from arguing they are a deliberate act of coercion!
Liberty
Opposing the right to choose an alternative to smoking seems strange indeed given Freedom to Choose’s name.
Indeed, as David Atherton said in the interview:
“I think it is a personal choice, isn’t it?…I am really not here to dictate to people how they should live their lives.”
Which should be his organisation’s position – because for a group called Freedom to Choose to oppose the choice of using electronic cigarettes is a contradiction in terms.
Who would use them anywhere you could smoke?
Thirty thousand e-cigarette forum users, for a start!
There are a huge number of dedicated e-smokers who would prefer to use their electronic cigarette to using a real cigarette.
And with no tar, no toxins, no odour and costing a fraction of what traditional cigarettes do, that’s no surprise!
One could be forgiven for asking who would use cigarettes when you could use an electronic cigarette!
Threatened
For all the anti-smoking movement’s exaggeration, there is little denying that cigarettes are dangerous, expensive and odorous.
Electronic cigarettes, which offer the nicotine without the combustion and toxins that make cigarettes dangerous, are the perfect alternative.
Perhaps a useful comparison is Communist Russia after the second world war. They felt threatened most not by capitalist America – their ideology predicted that capitalism would lead to its own demise – but by Britain, a country which combined socialism and capitalism in one system.
For the same reason, both the anti-smoking movement and Freedom to Choose appear to feel threatened by the electronic cigarette, a device which keeps the pleasure of smoking while removing its disadvantages.
Sticking Together
It’s perhaps ironic that this position came clear after Paul Bergen wrote on our website calling for unity, writing:
“If they are not already, vapers and smokers must stay united as individuals who happen to enjoy nicotine without it implying anything about them as people.”
For the first time, tens of thousands of people, stunned by the hypocrisy of a movement which, in return for massive funds, promotes nicotine cessation aids but attacks the electronic cigarettes which contain the same ingredients, are openly discussing the lies of the anti-smoking movement.
That’s why Freedom to Choose should abandon their Luddite position and openly engage with the e-smoking community.
Interesting to note that that pro-choice smoking bloggers have raised more money from the public than ASH.
The Velvet Glove Iron Fist blog pointed out that ASH Wales raised just £2,697 from donations last year.
More than £45,000 came from Pfizer.
The rest was paid for by you and me – £115,800 came out of the tax we pay.
Bloggers, however, have managed to raise more than £9000 for a fund to help release Nick Hogan, a British Publican jailed for 6 months for not stopping adults from enjoying their cigarettes on his private property.
Our latest interview, with David Atherton of Freedom to Choose, is now up on the website.
In the interview we discuss the anti-smoking movement, the fallacy of third hand smoke and the threat that the anti-smoking movement poses to individual liberty.
And of course we also talk about the electronic cigarette.
To check out the interview click here: Freedom to Choose Interview. (If you have a blog or website and are looking for free material, you’ll also find a summary of the interview for your use.)
I’ll be writing more about their position on the electronic cigarette shortly.
The New NJOY Electronic Cigarette has now been released – and, for a short time, you can buy it at a discounted price.
Even better, if you already have an NJOY NPRO e-cigarette you don’t have to invest in a whole new kit to take advantage of the new technology. Just buy a new DUO refill and attach it to your existing NJOY battery!
New Electronic Cigarette – no more fiddling with atomisers!
The new NJOY DUO seamlessly merges the NJOY atomiser and cartridge into one piece, minimising the chance of atomiser failure and making changing cartridges a smooth and simple one step process. The new cartridges are also are best yet, with each one equivalent to a massive 30 + cigarettes.
Huge Annual Saving
We estimate that with the improved cartridges a smoker on 7 1/2 packs a week would save £1,500 a year after the initial outlay. A 40 a day smoker would save 3,000 pounds.
Limited Special Offer!
For a period of ten days only we are launching the DUO at a special reduced price. The full kit will cost £45.00, but currently costs £39.50 – that’s a saving of more than 11 percent!
Or just buy the cartridges!
The NJOY Duo cartridge/atomiser has been specifically designed so that it will match your existing NJOY NPRO electronic cigarette batteries.
Check it Out
Our latest article, Vaping by Paul Bergen, is now up on the website. Click here to check it out.
The article is part of a new magazine section of our website we are developing. To check it out see The Smoker’s Angel.
This made me laugh:
And of course electronic cigarettes blow your heads off:
New on the research section of the website – we summarise the latest research into the effectiveness of the electronic cigarette at delivering nicotine.
