My aunt has Alzheimers. It’s fairly early stages. She still recognised me when I met her recently, and can usually have a conversation. But she is increasingly getting confused. Sometimes she thinks her money has been taken away from her and bursts into tears. There may, however, be help for her. Prevention Some research suggests that nicotine [...]

Although she received an $850,000 grant towards research, Prue Talbot’s e-cig latest study involved nothing more expensive than watching YouTube videos. And I have doubts about one of the conclusions of that study, in particular that:  Most users were between 19 and 35 years of age. Minor problem:  People lie about their age on social profiles. (I [...]

By Paul Bergen from the tobaccoharmreduction.org site. Imagine the following. You chance upon an article reporting on a study which explored how many American adolescents might have heard of or tried e-cigarettes. Oddly enough, the opening paragraph talks about how many Koreans die each year as a result of smoking cigarettes. And the authors of [...]

One thing we at ecigarettedirect have noticed is that we don’t seem to need electronic cigarettes in the same way we used to need cigarettes. I have also seen discussions on forums speculating that it is not just nicotine that causes the addiction in cigarettes. I’m not a scientist, but it did lead me to [...]

This is our promised follow up post to Why we switched to e-cigarettes – what users said! In case you missed it, we surveyed 140 e-cigarette users on this blog, on google plus and on our facebook page to find why they switched to e-cigarettes. The results? Comments from vapers speaking from their hearts about [...]

Last week dozens of e-cigarette users told us why they switched to e-cigarette in our facebook poll, on this blog and on google plus. When we finished the poll, I put all my favourite comments in a single document, and did a word count. It came to 4,800 words – too much for a single [...]

By Paul Bergen from tobaccoharmreduction.org A recent study by Jean-Francois Etter and Chris Bullen, Saliva cotinine levels in users of electronic cigarettes, concludes that vapers ingest about the same amount of nicotine as smokers. Since it is often difficult to mimic the real world, Etter and Bullen used cotinine levels to compare nicotine acquisitions. Vapers [...]

Vapers, you are thick. And female. At least that’s what one researcher in America is claiming.  ”Use of ENDS [electronic nicotine delivery systems] was most common among women and those with lower education…” I wonder if the ‘research’ is a continuing of the denormalisation of nicotine users. Some researchers into the effects of nicotine find that [...]

Professor Riccardo Polosa, MD, PhD, is Director of the Institute for Internal Medicine and Clinical Immunology of the University of Catania – Italy. He is also in charge of the University Centre for Tobacco Research (CPCT – University of Catania) and Honorary Professor of Medicine at Southampton University (UK). He is author of more than [...]

Paul Bergen, from tobaccoharmreduction.org, examines the safety of vegetable glycerin, an alternative to propylene glycol as the principal ingredient of e-cigarettes. Vegetable Glycirin and Health According to CanadaVapes up to 20% of the e-liquids on the market are vegetable glycerin (VG) based. What is most pertinent for health-conscious vapers is the knowledge that while VG is [...]