Ashtray Blog: An Electronic Cigarette Blog

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MHRA/E Cigarette Update We recently spoke to the MHRA on the topic of electronic cigarettes. It was hard to get much feedback, especially after we told them we were recording the call, as they simply repeated that we should put our comments in writing. However, one of the most interesting points was that the MHRA [...]

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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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Would it make sense to ban something which may cause some harm in favour of something that we know for sure does cause a lot of harm? That’s what is proposed with electronic cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes have been smoked for long enough and in enough quantities that we know they do not have negative effects [...]

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Electronic Cigarette: Special Offer (Limited Time Only!) Today is the start of what we think is our best offer yet! Buy an electronic cigarette starter kit and you will receive three nicotine refills – with a total value of £14.97! With our electronic cigarette kit currently retailing at £36.97, that means you are paying the [...]

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Non-smoker Helen Thomson of the New Scientist magazine has published a detailed assessment of an e cigarette!” First she “lit up” in a bar – causing the usual reaction, but was fortunately not thrown out when she explained that it was a tobacco free electronic cigarette that she had bought from a UK company for [...]

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A new electronic cigarette site has produced the following movie questioning whether this is a conpiracy against electronic cigarettes. You can read more on their page: Conspiracy to Kill: Governments and Public Health Campaigners.

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Killing by the Million – and that’s just the health campaigners…

Image above by Jim Frazier This is not our title, but that of Clives Bates, a previous director of ASH-UK. This short fascinating post points out that health campaigner’s insistance on pushing quitting on smokers rather than on suggesting alternative smoking methods could lead to millions dying. If the world tobacco market shifted to selling [...]

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We don’t normally publish a post three times on the same day, but we have just been sent a report by researchers in New Zealand, and thought it was too important to wait: Note – Also see the original Electronic Cigarette Safety Report (PDF), and our more detailed article on the subject on our website: [...]

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In which our IT director is saved from being beaten up by a Hungarian gangster by his innovative use of the E-Cigarette. Also see our other movie: The Electronic Cigarette Movie

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Short movie demonstrating how our IT guy is now able to smoke at work (yes, we know he looks a bit scruffy…) You may also be interested in our other You Tube movie: The E-Cigarette: The Movie

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