Imagine you have been a smoker for decades. You’ve tried to quit smoking many times. You tried with nicotine patches for weeks, despite that annoying rash on your arm. You put up with Champix, despite the weird dreams it gave you. You tried nicotine gum, despite the unpleasant, burning sensation in your mouth. But in …
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A new study has found that switching from smoking to vaping can restore the lungs’ primary defence against harmful substances. This decreases the risk of infection and lung diseases such as COPD and can help to improve symptoms of pre-existing lung diseases. The study, conducted by a team led by Professor Polosa of the University …
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Vaping and the environment Each cigarette contains over 1200 cellulose acetate fibres. It takes just one cigarette butt to kill half of the fish in a litre of water. Yet every year 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded into the environment, where they can take 10 years to break down. In the process, they leach …
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The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has released a major report calling for the UK government to promote electronic cigarettes via a mass media campaign. This would form part of a campaign that returned funding for anti-smoking campaigns to at least 2008 levels. The suggestion is just one of a number of recommendations the RCP …
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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 …
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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 …
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When I first launched a vape predictions post in 2012, I had no idea what a mammoth post this would end up being. I did consider shortening it considerably this year and asking fewer people to share their predictions. But that would lose the invaluable perspective I think we can gain when people from diverse …
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Dr Marewa Glover, Director of the independent Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking based in Auckland, New Zealand This post is a part of our 2021 vape predictions. One slogan from my radical feminist past seems highly relevant when contemplating what’s in store for vaping in 2021. “The personal is political” when applied …
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Smoking used to be everywhere. The first time I went to the pub – more years ago than I would like to admit – it was a decidedly smoky experience. It seemed like basically everybody at the pub smoked as they drank, to a level that youngsters today would probably find quite shocking. I quickly …
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A vape study co-published by Stanton Glantz which claimed vaping causes heart attacks was finally retracted yesterday by the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA). The study had incensed vape researchers after it claimed that using vape products caused heart attacks – while failing to mention that most of the subjects in the study …
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