ecigarettedirect.co.uk is in the Mail on Sunday! The story features one of our customers, Julie Parnell, and how she managed to buy a house with the savings she made from switching to electronic cigarettes. Click here to read the fully story! Alternatively, use our cigarette calculator below to find out how much money smoking is [...]

Nicotine cessation aids don’t work! The public health organisations have lied to you. The National Health Service has lied to you. The pharmaceutical companies have lied to you. What’s the lie? That nicotine cessation aids work. Pfizer is currently running a campaign to stop smokers from quitting cold turkey. The NHS gives out big pharm [...]

By tobacco harm reduction researcher Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org No one knows if e-cigarettes actually do help smokers kick the habit! This statement (my exclamation mark!) arises predictably in many a tobacco control research paper and article. The statement can only be compared to someone watching television and saying: no one knows if it is [...]

A campaign in Portsmouth is telling smokers NOT to quit cold turkey. Whose funding the campaign? Surprise, surprise, it’s Pfizer, a manufacturer of quit smoking aids. One problem – pharmaceutical aids, when measured at 12 months, have half the effectiveness of quitting cold turkey. In fact, according to one study, effectiveness can be low as 0.8% - [...]

Here is the long belated follow up to 10 Celebrities who Vape. This time we have focussed on UK celebrity vapers, and once again I’d be grateful to anyone who could add to this list and/or suggest photos of the celebrities vaping which we can reuse or link to. 1. Jimmy White The pro-snooker player now [...]

By Paul Bergen from tobaccoharmreduction.org. What news! When it comes to matters of nicotine, its rare that a government report not only exhibits common sense but gets as far as being reported in two major newspapers without some prohibitionary lunatics weaseling themselves into the mix. Though both the report in the MailOnline and the The Guardian  [...]

Eissenberg, you are once again claiming that e-cigarettes do not contain any nicotine. My problem with that is: 1. How can one million US smokers and one hundred thousand UK smokers be wrong? (As I write, one of our customers is asking if he can return a extra-high nicotine to be replaced with a high-nicotine, [...]

The Welsh National Opera has been using our electronic cigarette again, this time in a performance of Cosi fan tutte. The Welsh National Opera set Mozart’s tale of seduction in the Welsh seaside in the 1950′s. The picture above and below shows Gary Griffiths, who plays officer Guglielmo, vaping a HALO electronic cigarette during the performance. [...]

There’s another story from New Zealand about the safety of electronic cigarettes, with the Health Ministry stating that the devices are far safer than regular cigarettes. So that’s it, they are going to be made legal. Oh no! You see, that makes smokers seem normal: Let’s summarise. Electronic cigarettes are vastly safer than cigarettes but [...]

The Welsh Assembly has a bold action plan: to slash the number of smokers in Wales by a third in just 10 years. How are they going to do it? Legislation, even more taxes, public bans? No, by talking: it called on councils to lead a debate about the issue…[and] will lobby the UK Government [...]