Not so long ago, most people in UK Public Health were advising smokers to steer clear of e-cigarettes.
The very best we could hope for was:
They might be safer, but we need more research.
Fast forward to today and it’s a very different situation. In fact, the UK, with a few notable exceptions, probably has the strongest public health support for e-cigs.....
Facebook might seem like a goliath, but pressure from the vaping community recently got them to reverse a decision to censor vaping film A Billion Lives. Director Aaron Biebert told us what happened.
First could you tell us a little bit about the film?
A billion people are projected to die this century from smoking. Despite those sort of sobering predictions, the.....
I recently asked Lorien Jollye if she could write a post for us on vaping advocacy. Lorien’s a great advocate, and like many other advocates she’s digging deep into her pockets to campaign for e-cigarettes. The pressures are big - Lorien and others are constantly travelling to conferences and giving talks on e-cigs, and that costs money.
Unfortunately, the answer.....
Could water vapour from e-cigs collect in your lungs, and become a breeding ground for germs?
That's the advice some health professionals are giving. And because of this, some smokers are still smoking, despite the fact Public Health England believes e-cigs are at least 95% safer than smoking.
Here’s a recent email I received:
Hi, James
Sorry to bother you, but I wonder could.....
Yesterday I followed a link from Twitter to a consultation on a ban on smoking outdoor places.
The consultation asks whether smoking should be banned in places like beaches (presumably because of the passive smoking danger to cockles) and parks.
The questionnaire even asks you if smoking outside pubs should be prohibited, which sounds like the final nail in coffin for Swansea's suffering pubs! (UK.....
But Instead Of Trusting Its Own Surveys, Welsh Gov Turns To Dodgy Foreign Studies
In its desperate search for evidence behind its claim that e-cigs are a gateway to smoking, the Welsh government has carried out a survey of 3,565 users.
But they failed to find ONE regular user who had been a non-smoker. And of the total surveyed, which included people who had.....
E-cigarette technology has been advancing at an incredible pace over the last few years, and it shows no sign of slowing down.
Early devices were either mechanical or delivered a constant, regulated voltage to the atomiser.
Then came variable voltage mods, which let you fine-tune your vape exactly the way you wanted.
The next upgrade to that was variable power, which did.....
Are you an e-cig reseller? We've put this guide together for both our shop staff and for our resellers, and it's something you might find useful too.
Update: We've worked with Trading Standards to improve and update the PDF version of this guide. To get your free copy just click on the download link below. You'll also find instructions on how to.....
Like many people, Bernd Mayer had encountered the widespread claims that 60 mg of nicotine is enough to kill an average-sized adult. But unlike most people, he didn’t accept it at face value. He went to look for the actual evidence.
After following a chain of “circular and often misleading references” he eventually found where the figure had come from:.....
Welsh Assembly Needs to Hear From Vapers "On The Front Line"
Last Friday I got the chance to meet Edwina Hart, who is Business Minister for Wales and also our AM, at her surgery in Clydach to discuss the public ban on e-cigs in Wales.
I wanted to share some of the details with other vapers and also retailers, because to.....
Updated November 2017 with the first long term data for the effect of vaping on the lungs.
Whether lurking in the comments section of a vaping-related news story or in a beer-soaked pub conversation, most vapers will eventually encounter the piece of folk wisdom that:
inhaling anything that isn’t air isn’t good for your lungs.
We might not like it, but it.....
A Report on the All Party Parliamentary Committee on E-Cigs (September 9th 2015)
The All Party Parliamentary Committee on e-cigs met again yesterday (you can see details of the last one here). Clive Bates and Oliver Kershaw of E-Cigarette Forum were the main speakers, and the committee focussed on the Public Health England report and its impact.
I’ve put together these.....
Journalists, scientists and public health experts have all had a lot to say about electronic cigarettes recently.
As you’d expect when a subject’s as controversial as this one, what they’ve been saying covers a wide spectrum of accuracy.
Some of it’s highly reliable, some might benefit from a less biased interpretation and of course quite a bit is just wrong.
And then there’s.....
Amongst all the recent negative media stories on e-cigarettes a new report by Public Health England (PHE) has shone a positive light on e-cigarettes.
Although the media headlines are focused on how ‘E-Cigs Could Be Prescribed on the NHS’ this is not the main focus of the report.
The key messages from the report are:
Vaping is 95% safer than smoking
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“E-cigarettes are just the latest gimmick from Big Tobacco to hook a new generation on their products. The majority of e-cigarette brands are owned by tobacco companies.”
You might be hoping that this is a joke – a scathing piece of satire of anti-vaping arguments – but you’d be sadly mistaken. This is a direct quote from the CurbIt anti-vaping.....