The e-cigarette has had some poor press recently.
Poor in both senses of the word as the piece was:
badly researched
one sided
Here's some of what was said - and why it's wrong.
'Electronic Cigarettes Are Unsafe'
But the safety of e-cigarettes is not the point.
Almost everything, by definition, is unsafe. Coffee, although much safer than cigarettes, is considered unhealthy. And that's.....
A recent survey came up with some fantastic stats about electronic cigarettes.
How many people have heard of the electronic cigarette?
For instance, did you realise that less than half of Brits have still not heard of electronic cigarettes.
As the graph below shows, just 46% of the UK respondents knew what an e-cig was - although awareness is higher in some.....
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Hi there! There's big moves in the tobacco and e-cigarette industry. And whether you are a smoker, a vaper , a blogger or an e-cig retailer, chances are it is going to affect you. Read this post to see what is happening, and the impact it will have on you.
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Move aside no-smoking day - a new contender for the hearts and, um, lungs of smokers is coming in March.
World Vaping Day aims to spread the word about the benefits of switching from smoking to vaping to millions of other smokers - many of whom will otherwise die!
World Vaping Day Needs You
There was a question mark after the title.....
Snus is considered by many scientists to be vastly more healthier than cigarettes.
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The only country where Snus is legal, Sweden, has the lowest lung cancer rates in Europe.
In the UK, the Royal College of Physicians estimates “that regular snus usage is 1,000 times less harmful than smoking cigarettes”.
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Here is the long belated follow up to 10 Celebrities who Vape. This time we have focussed on UK celebrity vapers, and once again I'd be grateful to anyone who could add to this list and/or suggest photos of the celebrities vaping which we can reuse or link to.
1. Jimmy White
The pro-snooker player now regularly vapes at contests!
Here's a before.....
(This post has been updated following clarification from Riccardo - see bottom of post.)
Hard on the heels of the UK government's enthusiastic comments on electronic cigarettes, the Italian Non-Smoking Association (Lega Italiano Anti Fumo (LIAF)) is close to announcing positive results from their own research.
Professor Riccardo Polosa, Scientific advisor of LIAF and a Professor of Medicine at Catania University, examined the.....
There's an electronic cigarette scam about, and we're getting about 3 telephone calls a week from people who have been scammed, probably because one of the companies has a similar name to our own.
I say scam, but it may be barely legal. The company offer a free or very cheap electronic cigarette kit, take your card details and then.....
The World Self-Medication Federation has directly attacked the electronic cigarette - and for the first time their motivation has been laid bare.
In the past we have had to dig into financial statements for evidence that NRT producers were behind a concerted campaign to discredit the e-cigarette. That digging around found that the anti-smoking organisations that were campaigning against the.....