Positive news stories and support from some anti-smoking organisations bode well for the electronic cigarette in New Zealand.

Bill Godshall of SmokeFree Pensylvania has sent an email  describing how he attended a vapers’ festival – and tried out an electronic cigarette! We’ve published, with his permission, the whole report on our website – See Bill Godshall reports on VapeFest. Below we have included extracts from the report: “This past Saturday morning I drove [...]

In an advert Jason Cropper of the electronic cigarette company has called for tobacco products to be banned during the MHRA’s consultation. Will the RT Hon Andy Burnham ban all Tobacco products on 21st June 2010? The MHRA, the Nation’s Health Regulators, have created for Mr Burnham a golden opportunity to ban ALL tobacco products [...]

It’s a proud week for E Cigarette Direct as the Welsh National Opera uses our electronic cigarettes to beat the Welsh smoking ban. Unlike the English ban, the Welsh smoking ban even forbids smoking on stage – which can make things tricky when you are performing an opera about a cigarette factory! Below is a [...]

Earlier today we posted about the Ryanair electronic cigarette. We felt it was a good move forward that an airline was going beyond allowing an electronic cigarette and actually selling one. Not everyone agrees – Paul Bergen from the Tobacco Harm Reduction Center was not impressed with the device. In an email to us he [...]

Electronic cigarette trial at Auckland uni looking for volunteers 5:00AM Thursday Jan 10, 2008 An article in the New Zealand Herald advises that smokers are being sought for another trial of the electronic cigarette at the Clinical Trials Unit at Auckland University. The e-cigarette delivers nicotine without the tobacco’s harmful effects, and is presently legal [...]

A routine test as part of a quit smoking programme for mother-of-two Annette Bolesworth has potentially saved the whole of her family from death. The test revealed that she had carbon monoxide in her blood stream equivalent to that of a chain smoker puffing his way through a hundred a day. Further investigation eventually revealed [...]

Doctors in Australia and America may soon be offering vaccines exclusively for smokers. Unfortunately this is not a vaccine which will help people to stop smoking, or even avoid taking up smoking. Instead it is hoped the vaccination will help smokers from getting certain diseases that often affect smokers. The vaccine is pneumococcal vaccine, which [...]

I’ve got many friends who have the occasional cigarette, or who like a smoke at a party or with a drink, but who do not count themselves as smokers. I, like them, have never thought this would do any major damage. In what is bad news, then, for these social smokers, new research has discovered [...]

Barrack Obama has been heavily attacked over the last the couple of days over his smoking habits. The front runner for the US Presidential race has been an intermittent smoker for years, although at the height of his habit he only smoked a mere 7 or 8 cigarettes a day. At the insistence of his [...]