A guest post by Steve from Steve’s Vaping World Introduction Electronic cigarettes share a number of similarities with consumer electronics besides rechargeable batteries. Some say e-cigarettes are more complicated than traditional cigarettes requiring a little bit more dedication on the part of the user. Learning curves are common in many areas of technology. The amount [...]

Snus is considered by many scientists to be vastly more healthier than cigarettes. The only country where Snus is legal, Sweden, has the lowest lung cancer rates in Europe. In the UK, the Royal College of Physicians estimates “that regular snus usage is 1,000 times less harmful than smoking cigarettes”. But the EU has banned [...]

Like many Brits, I, along with the rest of us at ecigarettedirect, like a pint or three at our local pub. But with 8000 pubs shutting down since the British government banned smoking in public houses, our choice of where to drink is becoming ever more limited. One campaign aims to reverse this. CAMVIP (Campaign [...]

Update: The competition is now over. Thank you to everyone who entered, and worked hard to make sure the news of the petition reached as many people as possible. We will announce the winners shortly. Vaping Under Threat In the US, the campaign against the electronic cigarette, having failed to have the e-cig banned, is [...]

Scientific opinion maintains that e-cigarettes have in the region of 1% or less the risk of tobacco cigarettes. Yet vaping threatens huge financial interests. tobacco pharmaceutical (via the supply of nicotine cessation aids) the anti-smoking lobby (funded by the big pharm payments) government via smokers taxes and, in the US, special payments from tobacco companies [...]

Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org interviews Katherine Devlin of ECITA. Bio: Before having my children, I spent several years working as a bi-lingual legal secretary for various firms in and out of London. After starting my family, I became a degree tutor, working privately with students. When my brother first told me about electronic cigarettes, I [...]

These shocking ads will repel, disgust, intrigue, confuse – and possibly even arouse! But the most shocking information is not an advert, but a little known fact ignored by the makers of these ads. Read on to find out what it is – and find out what smoker’s/ex-smokers reactions are to these adverts. Sexual/Erotic Anti-Smoking [...]

This letter, reproduced on the blog with the kind permission of Dr John Connell, a vaping activist and a member of CASSAA, is a little bit longer than most of our posts. However, it explains the issues and the science behind vaping (as well as the feelings of a converted smoker) so clearly and articulately that I [...]

We had good news in the UK yesterday, with the MHRA deciding there was no need to regulate electronic cigarettes as medicines. In the US things are different. After NJOY twice defeated its opponents at a federal level (and in both court cases judges made clear that they had no health concerns about the use [...]

Over on UK Vapers Katherine Devlin of ECITA is doing a good job of rebutting inaccuracies generated by BBC reporting. Check out BBC 4 Radio Joins Other Media in Disappointingly Inaccurate Reporting.