The World Health Organisation can sound pretty negative on vaping at times. So it might surprise you that harm reduction (such as switching from smoking to vaping) is embedded in its tobacco control charter. It might surprise you even more to find that one of the biggest influences on WHO policy is from an individual …
Guess WHO? Vaping, harm reduction & the World Health Organisation Read More »
Imagine you’re a smoker who wants to switch to vaping for the sake of your health. You head to your local vape shop eager to start your vaping journey… only to discover a vape device costs 75 TIMES as much as a pack of cigarettes! Here in the UK, vaping will not only help your …
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So you’re looking for a vape device, but not for a huge device designed to block out the sun with massive clouds of vapour? A vape pen might well be your best choice! Small, lightweight and discreet, these devices are often easy to use and make a great choice for the office. In this post …
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You’re vaping away, when the battery runs out just as you’re leaving the house. Soon the nicotine cravings hit – along with the temptation to buy a pack of cigarettes. It’s a problem many vapers face. You either need to: have two devices have a device that takes replaceable batteries or put up with the …
Breakthrough Battery: The Vape Mod That Charges in 15 Minutes Read More »
Opposition to vaping is driven by a complex web of factors. These include money, anti-nicotine morality and a justified distrust of anything related to tobacco companies. To get further into the web, it’s important to understand the precautionary principle. What is the precautionary principle? The precautionary principle applies across different fields of science. It informs …
Vaping, Covid and the Precautionary Principle Read More »
This website wouldn’t exist if my mum hadn’t been a heavy smoker. It was she who came across a basic cigalike device in 2008. Fortunately, for her it worked, and she hasn’t had a single (tobacco!) cigarette since. That simple device has helped tens of thousands of smokers switch from tobacco to vaping. It didn’t …
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Vaping is at least 95% safer than smoking cigarettes. That’s the opinion of the UK government after multiple reviews of the evidence – which includes a huge weight of studies carried out in the UK. It’s also the opinion of dozens of UK scientists and public health experts. Yet an increasing number of the public …
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When Vanity Fair journalist Marie Brenner met Jeffrey Wigand in 1996, Jeffrey was accompanied by a bodyguard. His reputation was under attack. Lawyers were trying to destroy him. He and his children had received death threats, one accompanied by a bullet. One of the death threats read: “We want you to know that we have …
How Tobacco Industry Duped Anti-Smoking Lobby Over Vaping Read More »
Coils have come a long way in the past ten years. But they still burn out, particularly when used at high wattages. It’s unpleasant when it happens, and it makes vaping more expensive – especially for Direct-Lung and restricted Direct-Lung vapers. What’s more, I suspect it has an impact on the relative safety of vaping …
The Innokin Sensis: A New Breakthrough in Vape Technology? Read More »
Giving up smoking once seemed completely unachievable to me (after all it’s physically and mentally addictive)! However, I’ve recently hit the 6-week milestone without smoking a cigarette(!) after switching from smoking to vaping. As a content writer at E-Cigarette Direct, I decided that sharing my journey from smoking to vaping here on the blog was important, …
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