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What electronic cigarettes users think about a potential ban.

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There’s a great US site well worth checking out which is dedicated to stopping the electronic cigarette ban. On the front page video they explain how, after an FDA attempt to ban the e-cigarette failed in court, Lung Cancer America has taken the battle to the individual states, pushing in each state for  a ban [...]

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Is the MHRA deliberately messing electronic cigarette companies around?

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A customer reaction to a possible electronic cigarette ban in the UK.

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Cancer America lobbies to force e-cigarette user to return to conventional cigarettes.

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Based on public health claims, the nicorette inhaler is targetted at children.

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A certain Dr Mintz seems to be changing his mind on the electronic cigarette! As we recorded at the time, in his original post he wrote: “…the electronic cigarette is dangerously being promoted as safe alternatives to cigarettes that contain tobacco as well as possible aids to smoking cessation. Make no mistake: these products are [...]

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The government is currently trying to decide what to do about the electronic cigarette. And they are inviting the public’s views. By letting them know, you can decide the fate of the electronic cigarette. What could happen: 1. The government could ban the e-cigarette. 2. The government may only allow it to be sold as [...]

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Professor Carl Phillips has just made an excellent reply to our recent listing of grants to pharmaceutical companies. In his post New Catalog of Financial Conflict of Interest r.e. Anti-E-Cig Activism he points out that the actual funding of the companies is not the problem. The pharmaceutical companies provides lots of funding to lots of [...]

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This is a post we have been meaning to do for some time! We have been tracking down funding for the electronic cigarette campaign. Some funding has been easy to find. However, some organisations are more secretive. ASH International’s funding from suicide drug maker Pfizer was difficult to track down, as they have no reference [...]

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