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Introductory note: This is a controversial interview. I thought hard before publishing comments about e-cig industry groups, not wanting to make enemies, but a form of censorship in an interview I had requested would be unfair. I also think is truth in what David Goerlitz says about what he says about some e-cig users, but [...]

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In the latest of our electronic cigarette interviews, Tobacco and Public Health Expert Scott Ballin (interviewed by Paul Bergen) argues the anti-smoking lobby faces a choice – adapt or face obscurity. You can read the full interview here, but for busy people here are a few choice excerpts. On the e-cigarette and the pharmaceutical industry: “In [...]

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vapefest

Fiona Douthwaite discusses Vapefest 2011 – and the hitherto unknown side effects of excessive vaping!!! Also check out the promotional video at the end of the interview. When was the first vapefest? October 2010 Who had the idea for the first vapefest? I have been told it was a group of vapers from the UKVapers [...]

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holokit

A Professor has suggested that we need to use more effective ways to reduce harm from tobacco – such as e-cigarettes! Also see our own interview with Professor Siegel.

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jackie

Smokers are facing an extra 50p on a pack of budget cigarettes this year, and with many smokers in poorer income groups it is truly a tax that targets the poor! While the state obviously hopes to force smokers to quit, many smokers either can’t quit – or simply don’t want to. But some nicotine [...]

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I missed this until I was copied in on an email comment by Elaine Keller on this interview with Professor Siegel. It has been a lot more difficult to keep up with e-cigarette news since Vapers Network on Facebook seems to have died! Anyway, on Vapers Place Live, you can hear Siegel talking about: the [...]

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Watch an interview with the President of the National Vaper’s Club.

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A narrow escape from the convent leads to a fascinating interview…

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Our latest interview, with David Atherton of Freedom to Choose, is now up on the website. In the interview we discuss the anti-smoking movement, the fallacy of third hand smoke and the threat that the anti-smoking movement poses to individual liberty. And of course we also talk about the electronic cigarette. To check out the [...]

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I have just completed an interview with Chris Snowden, author of Velvet Glove Iron Fist. Velvet Glove Iron Fist is probably the most comprehensive book there is about the anti-smoking movement. It chronicles the anti-smoking movement from the first European discrimination against smoking – when the inquisition arrested one of Columbus’ crew – through the [...]

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