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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s an interesting post from the Tobacco Harm Reduction blog which points out the absurdity on banning something because it won’t be used. (See It’s more about options given than options taken.) The post follows an argument from Stanton Glantz that smokeless tobacco should be banned because it won’t become popular. (Stanton’s the one who [...]

Health Canada and the anti-tobacco industry.

Kate of Vaper’s Forum continues to do good work in the e-cigarette cause – this time setting up a war room for electronic cigarette companies to meet up and discuss the impending UK regulation. (If this is the first you have heard of this, the bug pharm funded MHRA has admitted the e-cigarette is a [...]