Ashtray Blog: An Electronic Cigarette Blog

Browsing Month 'February, 2009'

New Zealand to ban E-Cig despite the all clear from Kiwi Researcher Stuff.CO.NZ is currently running a story about the E-Cigarette research by Kiwi researcher Murray Laugesen. The site has followed the product and the trials being held in New Zealand closely over the last few months. “All pointers so far show the device is [...]

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Non-smoker Helen Thomson of the New Scientist magazine has published a detailed assessment of an e cigarette!” First she “lit up” in a bar – causing the usual reaction, but was fortunately not thrown out when she explained that it was a tobacco free electronic cigarette that she had bought from a UK company for [...]

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Electronic Cigarette Kit

We get a bit carried away on the blog sometimes, and forget we are actually selling a product! Getting back on target, we’d just like to talk about what you get when you order your electronic cigarette starter kit. Alternatively, you can see what we are talking about on the short movie at the bottom [...]

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A new electronic cigarette site has produced the following movie questioning whether this is a conpiracy against electronic cigarettes. You can read more on their page: Conspiracy to Kill: Governments and Public Health Campaigners.

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Google ads back up for the e-cigarette?

Google ads for the electronic cigarette appear to be back up and running in the UK. While Google has allowed the e-cigarette to show up in results, for months they have banned them from showing for ads. I’m currently out of the country, and although I am searching via Google UK I am getting only [...]

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Electronic Cigarette Competition

Over at the website we are holding an Electronic Cigarette Photo Competition. The theme is smoking, and in fact you can take any smoking related picture – it doesn’t have to be of an electronic cigarette! The prize will be a magnificient picture of Electronic Cigars, as pictured below: Our judge will be prize winning [...]

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Killing by the Million – and that’s just the health campaigners…

Image above by Jim Frazier This is not our title, but that of Clives Bates, a previous director of ASH-UK. This short fascinating post points out that health campaigner’s insistance on pushing quitting on smokers rather than on suggesting alternative smoking methods could lead to millions dying. If the world tobacco market shifted to selling [...]

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It’s the Dog’s Day…

BBC news has reported that US researchers have established that smokers will give up for their pet’s sake rather than their own health! The Center for Health promotion and Disease Prevention in Detroit set up a survey. 28% of smokers would consider giving up for the sake of their pet, when advised that studies have [...]

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Medical writer Danny Rose wrote on Feb 4th that Australia looks set to fail to meet the target set for reducing smoking by 2020. Research by the University of Queensland has suggested that a substantial proportion of Australians will still be smoking in 2020! Dr. Gartner says that the number of people quitting smoking must [...]

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The Mail Tribune reports on 8th February that state officials in Florida are looking carefully at electronic cigarettes to make sure they do not violate state laws. The local spokes-lady for the Tobacco Prevention and Education programme of Oregon said that the electronic cigarettes are a growing trend, and some bars are now selling these [...]

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