Ashtray Blog: An Electronic Cigarette Blog

Browsing Month 'October, 2009'

Smokles

Oct 29, 2009 One Comment

A blog well worth of your support/ audience/ links is Smokles. This is the blog written by the staff of the Tobacco Harm Reduction organisation. Like Professor Siegel, this is an organisation which promotes and defends smokeless tobacco and electronic cigarette not because they want to make money, but because they believe it is the [...]

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Anger

Oct 26, 2009 No Comments

This is quite a hard blog post to write. At least, I have started to write it several times and got nowhere with it. Yet, I think it needs to be said that sections of the electronic cigarette community are defeating themselves with anger. Anger on the Net I’ve seen it before on the net. [...]

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An Ignored Study In 1959 a huge study was initiated by Cancer America into the effect on living with people with cancer. With a huge sample of 100,000 people it was to give the answers other studies had failed to give. By the late 1990′s, when it became obvious what the answer was going to [...]

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An Englishman’s home is his castle, the old saying goes in the UK. One’s right to privacy, and one’s own property, is paramount. And that may still be the case in the UK – but it may not be the case for very much longer in Canada. New plans in Canada may see government officers [...]

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According to a mass email from Vapour Talk, Arnold Schwarzenegger has terminated moves to make the electronic cigarette illegal in California. Initially, the bill planned to restrict children from buying the electronic cigarette, a move which the Electronic Cigarette Associationa and most E-Cigarette retailers supported. It was then extended to ban electronic cigarettes. Having been [...]

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Enough is enough, the Danish have said in response to calls for a total smoking ban in Holland. The government has denied attempts to extend restriction on smokers. This came about as a response to a suggestion to ban smoking rooms in hospitals. According to the blog Velvet Glove Iron First, Danish health speaker said [...]

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In a new press release Ash is calling all smokers throughout the US to pay more money on health insurance than non-smokers. Smokers already pay more on health insurance in a number of states. Carolina has just joined those states, forcing smokers to pay 30% of health care costs rather than 20%. Dodgy Maths Ash [...]

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The anti e-cigarette movement continues to use lies and ignorance in its fight against the devices which could transform the lives of millions – and strip billions from the income of America’s corporation and governments. These lies and or ignorance have been revealed in new quotes from an American CBS news report – I have [...]

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Well, maybe not in so many words. But health fascist Ann Gannon, of the Palm Beach County Tax Collector’s office, has certainly made clear that smokers are not welcome. According to a story on CBS Ann states that smoking contributes to increased insurance costs for her office and ultimately tax payers. Which, by the way, [...]

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