Last year, when I was writing up the history of the electronic cigarette, I mentioned Herbert A. Gilbert, who is considered by many to be the inventor of the modern electronic cigarette.I also wrote:Herbert A Gilbert may still be alive, if this post is genuine. (Herbert, if you’re out there, I’d love to interview you!)Fortunately, Herbert, now in his 80's,.....
Text by Steve KryworukaThe electronic cigarette has in less than a decade become one of the most promising technologies in the field of tobacco harm reduction. From a modest beginning in the mid-2000s, e-cigarette adoption has grown to over 2.5 million users worldwide.How did the e-cigarette get.....
I've had lots of questions about diabetes and electronic cigarettes, but not being a medical professional I've always been reluctant to share my opinions.Fortunately for us, diabetes expert and author Sue Marshall kindly agreed to answer some of our questions.Sue Marshall has had Type 1 diabetes since 1972. Following a career in journalism, she set.....
Ask most vapers about the history of e-cigarettes, and they'll tell you it began in China, not much more than ten years ago. So let's start there...Like most men in China, Hon Lik was a smoker. He’d get through two or three packs per day, but he knew that one day, it could kill him.Then disaster struck.Hon’s father –.....
We have been releasing a spate of products recently, but our latest and most exciting is our move into the vrinking market with E-lager.It looks and feels just like a real can of lager, but when you hold up the can and vrink (def: to slurp vinkahol) an atomiser is activated which vaporises.....
Debra recently left a comment on our suggest a blog post competition suggesting a post on how e-cigs can help people with emphysema. We asked her if she would contribute, and she has very kindly answered our questions about how she got emphysema, the devastating effects it has had and how she feels e-cigs have helped. Tell us a bit about your background:
Quotes on SmokingFletcher Knebel1. Smoking is the leading cause of statistics.Smoking is the leading cause of statistics - Fletcher KnebelClick Here to TweetWinston Churchill to the Wahabbi king of Saudi Arabia2. My rule of life prescribed as absolutely sacred.....
Updated August 2022Smoking is one of the worst things you can do for your health. According to the NHS, smoking kills around 78,000 people a year in the UK alone and is the cause of over 50 diseases and health issues including:heart diseasemany types of canceremphysemaimpotenceIt goes without saying that you should never take up smoking. However, while the.....
By Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.orgThis really has nothing to do with vaping at all but it is amusing.Vaping has come in at a time when the ways of using tobacco and/or nicotine don't exhibit quite the imagination when compared to days of yore.Nowadays the choices are:inhalingchewingand a little.....
Introductory note: This is a controversial interview. I thought hard before publishing comments about e-cig industry groups, not wanting to make enemies, but a form of censorship in an interview I had requested would be unfair. I also think is truth in what David Goerlitz says about what he says about some e-cig users, but.....
Updated: April 2022Feeling lonely and strange when you vape? Don’t be! There are now around 40 million vapers worldwide. That includes many famous faces who have been spotted with e-cigarettes.From A-list actors to singers and sports stars, vaping is becoming so popular among celebs that some have even launched their own vaping brands!Here are a few of the A-listers you.....
Slowly but surely, vaper discussion is growing in Facebook, on walls, groups, pages - and even in the enemy camp!And if you want to look for friendly facebook discussion, support or advice on vaping, here are six eleven twelve places to get started. 1. CASAARun by users and proffessionals, including doctors, CASAA does sterling work to.....
These shocking ads will repel, disgust, intrigue, confuse - and possibly even arouse!But the most shocking information is not an advert, but a little known fact ignored by the makers of these ads. Read on to find out what it is - and find out what smoker's/ex-smokers reactions are to these adverts.Sexual/Erotic Anti-Smoking Adverts
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A new study is arousing great interest in China after being published on 中国科学日报 (China Science Daily) yesterday. The study finally provides evidence of a phenomenon which doctors and scientists had previously only suspected... the effect of vaping on our sex drive.I would have pasted.....
Smoking cigarettes is becoming increasingly expensive - but there is an alternative!Smokers are facing an extra 50p on a pack of budget cigarettes this year, and with many smokers in poorer income groups it is truly a tax that targets the poor!While the state obviously hopes to force smokers to quit, many smokers either can't quit -.....