Some rather thick skulled anti-smoking advocates over at SmokeFree Wisconsin have resorted to blatent if stupid lies in their effort to disparage the electronic cigarette. In the latest argument against e-cigarettes SmokeFree Wisconsin state that ECigarettes are “the latest ploy by big tobacco to hook kids.” In fact, the tobacco bill underway in the US, [...]

One question suppliers and indeed customers often ask of new products is: "Is it approved by the FDA?" Despite concerns over the overworked FDA – for example, by the fact that research is often paid for by the very companies whose products they are testing – FDA approval is still valued highly. This is likely [...]

The Chancellor has once again increased the tax on cigarettes.  The enourmous taxes already suffered by smokers – which pays for the cost of smoking diseases several times over – is obviously not enough for the high spending, money grabbing Labour government.  As a result the tax on cigarettes has increased by 7 pence a [...]

I have just finished an interview with Dr Nitzkin (it will take me a little while to transcribe and upload the interview) on e-cigarettes. Just as an aside, I asked him about a topic that interests me, that of passive smoking. I was originally convinced that passive smoking killed. However, a seed of doubt was [...]

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An academic article in Business Source argues that the current tobacco bill will damage the FDA and help the largest tobacco company, Philip Morris. Some of the salient points are: Philip Morris opposed regulation until it realised it could capture and manipulate the provisions to suit themselves Philip Morris has admitted that making profits is [...]

Paul Reynolds has kindly pointed out an e-cigarette petition on the the Number 10 website. We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to keep the use of electronic cigarettes indoors and in public places legal. Submitted by max – Deadline to sign up by: 16 June 2009 – Signatures: 96 Currently it has just 96 [...]

New evidence reveals that the expensive Nicotine Replacement Therapy products marketed by big pharm are effective for a tiny 1.6% of smokers. Measured over a 12 month period 98.4% of smokers were unable to quit with the NRT products. These finds have been exposed in a post by Michael Sigael, a professor in the Boston [...]

ECig org has a great post on the legality of the Electronic Cigarette. The writer has gone to the effort of contacting the officials involved and reported that all were suprised to hear that the electronic cigarette itself does not contain nicotine (as opposed to the cigarettes/e juice that fill it).  He also points out [...]

The number one SEO tip should be say something negative about the electronic cigarette or e-juice – it is a guaranteed way of getting both comments and links to your blog from fervent e-cigarette supporters. No exception is a blog post on the electronic cigarette by Dr Mathew Mintz – currently building up to 20 [...]