Ashtray Blog: An Electronic Cigarette Blog

Browsing Month 'March, 2011'

survey-response

Do you use electronic cigarettes? Have you claimed to have replaced regular cigarettes with the devices? If so, according to Utah politicians, you are a liar. According to the Utah department of health, using electronic cigarettes doesn’t reduce smoking at all. That’s despite several surveys where vapers say they have replaced regular cigarettes with electronic [...]

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BBC Report

Mar 29, 2011 No Comments

A new BBC story reports that a doctor is calling for an investigation into the death of a smoker who also used electronic cigarettes. The smoker died of severe lipoid pneumonia, which can be caused by the inhalation of paraffin. The doctor is calling for more research into electronic cigarettes, stating the danger of using [...]

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li-magazine

I loved it when Kate of Vapers Network (site now sadly defunct) created a magazine of her favourite twitter contacts. The magazine looked great, but more importantly it was a constant source of great news about e-cigarettes, smoking and THR. Anyway, I have finally got round to creating my own – one which will send [...]

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The Electronic Cigarette Link Tank

Pharmaceutical companies announced they were developing an electronic cigarette last year Choose Vape advertisement in Times Square Bill Godshall interviewed on e-cigarettes and tobacco harm reduction US Congress committee wants to hear from e-cigarette users about FDA wasteful litigation Could Tobacco be good for you? asks Simon Rierdan No, it’s can’t, says one nurse after [...]

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jackie

Smokers are facing an extra 50p on a pack of budget cigarettes this year, and with many smokers in poorer income groups it is truly a tax that targets the poor! While the state obviously hopes to force smokers to quit, many smokers either can’t quit – or simply don’t want to. But some nicotine [...]

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Njoy1

Thanks to Kev Crowley and Martine Richardson for this super picture of them vaping with our e-cigarettes during a banjo-jamming session. You can see more user pics on our testimonials page!

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mad-scientist

Does vaping make your smarter? Take our survey and win a free e-cigarette kit! We already know that smoking helps with stress, and vaping seems to have the same effect. (You should see how furiously our MD, Jean, puffs away at her e-cig when stressed, normally while bashing away at the keyboard as if it [...]

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No_Smoking_Sign

The Consumer Advocates for Smoke Free Alternatives is offering businesses free decals. The decals make it clear that vaping is allowed in the establishments, and that smoking is not. See Organisations offers businesses e-cigarette decals for the full story.    

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detained

The FDA has repeatedly fought for and lost the right to regulate electronic cigarettes as drug delivery devices. However, the agency continues to seize shipments of electronic cigarettes – despite this being the very reason they were taken to court in the first place. Totally Wicked has taken the agency to court, while one e-cigarette [...]

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vapour-ring-2-small

Thanks to Antionio Ferreira from Portugal for sending in these super pictures of him blowing vapor rings with an electronic cigarette – along with the accompanying captions!   Visit our testimonials page for more user images and comments!  

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