As featured in The Scotsman and The People One of the things I have been trying to do with this blog has been to build up resources and apps that can be used by bloggers and webmasters – and not just e-cigarette webmasters, but by people writing/blogging about smoking. Our latest gadget allows you to [...]

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 [...]

At ECigaretteDirect we‘re fond of eating, drinking and vaping, which we regard as an evolution of smoking. In fact on Fridays, we usually take an hour at lunchtime to enjoy some good food, a bottle of beer and a pleasant vape. Before we get lectured on our the errors of our ways, we thought we’d [...]

JF Etter (PHD), who has previously published research on vaping, is conducting a second survey on smoking and and sex. It’s likely to be more serious than the surveys we have conducted previously! The research aims to gain a better understanding of the link between smoking and sexual function, with a particular focus on the [...]

Our last post sparked off a bit of a debate, both on the blog and the website. The spark, I believe, was started by Russell’s comment regarding F2C and their opposition to e-cigarettes: F2C have made a mistake. Ecigs have been attacked by government agencies all over the world as a product of coercion by smokers! [...]

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 [...]

We asked our Spanish agent for a report on the smoking ban in Spain. Here it is! Reaction to the New Law against Smoking in Spain. Thousands of Spaniards are struggling to adapt to the New Law banning smoking in enclosed public spaces. So far, in my locality, there seems to have been acceptance of [...]

Every year millions of smokers around the world try to quit smoking. Unfortunately, according to statistics, just 5-10% of people are successful. And that includes people who use smoking cessation aids. Why quit smoking? And yet there is every reason to quit smoking. Smoking 20 cigarettes a day will cost you £2136 a year. You [...]

Except for those few brave die-hards amongst us everyone has, at one time or another tried, to quit smoking. As we all know the internet is awash with tips on how to give up the evil weed. For example, putting the money you would spend on cigarettes away to save up for a treat, or [...]

Anti-smokers claim that smoking has had no effect on the pub trade – but hundreds are shutting down every year. And pub landlords have been put in prison after customers have used their premises for smoking. However, conservative MP David Nutall aims to change that via a private member’s bill which will give pubs and [...]