The Emperor’s New Electronic Cigarette! By Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org CN Creative have announced that they are moving forward with plans to finish Nicadex, “a nicotine replacement therapy product for use as part of medically supervised smoking cessation programmes”. E-Cigarettes and Nicotine Replacement Therapy This sounded like very good news, another alternative for smokers. However, whereas there are several [...]

Nicotine causes cancer. That’s just one of the misconceptions that surrounds nicotine. In fact, while not healthy in an absolute sense, nicotine is nothing like as bad as nicotine plus the tar, toxins and carcinogens that are in cigarette smoke. And in this post we aim to clear up some of the misconceptions. 1. Nicotine [...]

By Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org In the New World, tobacco was both thought of as a panacea for all that could ail you and also as a spiritual conduit. Using it cured you, kept you safe, and could give you visions. And it also helped with what was more common in those days: a less [...]

By researcher Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org What anti-smokers never seem to quite understand is that smoking is a pleasure.  It is not, as some have characterized it, a disease.  And any solutions or alternatives to smoking that are based on the ludicrous idea that people don’t actually enjoy it are bound to have dismal success [...]

Does vaping make your smarter? Take our survey and win a free e-cigarette kit! We already know that smoking helps with stress, and vaping seems to have the same effect. (You should see how furiously our MD, Jean, puffs away at her e-cig when stressed, normally while bashing away at the keyboard as if it [...]

Okay, really we mean quitting nicotine. But let’s back up a bit. I ran across a couple of interesting comments in relation to quitting yesterday. First a lady from Spain rang for a bit of advice on electronic cigarettes. She had actually tried quitting smoking cold turkey, cutting down from 40 a day to zero. [...]

This is an email from Kate at Vapers Network which she kindly said we could share: Hi Vapers, Nicotine Users and Friends Plans to hand all nicotine sales rights to pharmaceutical companies are moving along. There are now proposals from the EU and WHO to bring nicotine under tobacco control regulations where it hasn’t been [...]

Lab study spun to show alarming results, but study of 63,000 women suggests no risk I noticed a rather alarming article the other day suggesting that nicotine can cause breast cancer. We already know that in labatory conditions nicotine can accelerate the growth of cancer. (As we saw in our recent article on nicotine on [...]

Why a zero nicotine e-cigarette can still give you pleasure.

The UK Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) has issued a withering criticism of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)’s consultation letter calling for the regulation of electronic cigarettes as a medicine, pointing out out that there is insufficient evidence that the electronic cigarette poses a risk to public health. The MHRA, while acknowledging the [...]