An interesting quote courtesy of FTC Scotland: Around 25 per cent of people in England admit to smoking cigarettes. To cut this figure by one per cent, every single smoker in the country would have to try to stop, and at least half of them would have to use effective treatments to help them do [...]

First, let’s just say that condoms bear no actual resemblance to electronic cigarettes. I think few people think condoms make sex better (well, maybe the ribbed ones…) whereas a lot of dedicated vapers think e-cigarettes are better than tobacco cigarettes. The comparison comes when we get to harm reduction. The Pope has said that we [...]

Over in Kiwi the Kiwi Blog is highlighting an article exposing faulty reasoning behind estimates of smoking costs. Estimates of smoking costs there have suddenly jumped from $350 million dollars to $1.9 billion dollars and one journalist was attempting to work out why. David Crampton found that the Ministry of Health arrived at the estimate [...]

The title above is not an exaggeration – if anything the opposite. An 88 year old women is having to leave her sheltered accommodation because she is a smoker. The Bishop O’Byrne Housing for Seniors Association, which runs the housing complex, has decided that smokers will just no longer be allowed. That includes an 88 [...]

Smokers and electronic cigarette users are sceptical of anti-smoking claims according to a survey into attitudes towards smoking and smokers.

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 [...]

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 [...]

William Corr, former executive director of Tobacco Free Kids, has been made number two in the US Department of Health and Human Services. That was the news as reported in The Wall Street Journal yesterday. That’s bad news for people who think smokers should have the right to tar and carinogen free smoking alternatives: Tobacco [...]

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 [...]

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.