18 Words That Mean Completely Different Things To Vapers
Were you confused when you started vaping? (Or are you still confused now?) In the six years I have been writing about vaping (a word that has itself only just made it into the Oxford English Dictionary) the vocabulary associated with vaping has exploded like a badly put-together mechanical mod charged on.....
Phew! Yesterday I was called in from a day off to do an interview with Radio Wales with an hour's notice.
The subject? The WHO's latest statements on ecigarettes (that's a lot to digest in an hour!)
With little time to prepare, I was so nervous in the interview that I was shaking throughout. (If you are interested, you can listen here - it starts.....
After the success of our last blog post on famous people who use ecigarettes, we decided to follow this up with an updated version and show you 10 more smart celebs who have switched to ecigarettes.
Lindsay Lohan
The celebrity who recently celebrated her 28th birthday was spotted relaxing in the sun, brushing up on movie scripts and puffing on an ecigarette! - one.....
It wasn't so long ago that we all assumed Hon Lik invented the ecigarette.
Then we found Herbert Gilbert invented a similar device in 1963, and that Dr Jacobson trialled a vaping device (albeit not electronic cigarette) in the late 70's and 80's.
Now it seems there is another contender.
If you look on the Simple English Wikipedia here, you won’t see the usual claim that.....
1. “I understand why people use the nicotine replacement aids, but I don’t understand why people want to pretend that they’re smoking. If you had a serial killer who liked to stab people, would you give him a rubber knife?" Serena Chen
I love this quote, since it’s used by an anti-nicotine extremist and totally proves our point.
Sure, we’d rather murders don’t.....
Since the Electronic Cigarette Summit, it's been generally accepted in the UK that electronic cigarettes are orders of magnitude safer than tobacco cigarettes.
So anti-ecig activists have taken a new tack - that electronic cigarettes, despite helping over 2,000,000 stop or reduce tobacco consumption are leading adults and children into smoking.
However, as this infographic shows, the current evidence (sourced from.....
Meanwhile Economists Say EU Mistake Will Cost 105,000 Lives a Year
Elementary mistakes lead the EU government to wrongly classify eliquid as toxic when it is really safer than washing up liquid say several top nicotine and tobacco scientists.
The mistakes also informed the EU’s move to restrict access to electronic cigarettes, ban effective levels of nicotine and effectively outlaw the most.....
My hands were clammy, my throat was dry and my heart was pounding so hard it seemed to shake my whole body.
As I waited for the SKY TV camera to go live, I felt like I was staring down the barrel of a gun.
But despite being absolutely terrified, by the end of the interview I had won an aggressive.....
Who do you consider to be the inventor of the electronic cigarette?
Most vapers would answer Hon Lik, who came up with an electronic inhalation device in the first decade of this century.
But last year we interviewed Herbert Gilbert, who developed a smokeless cigarette in 1960's.
The debate is still ongoing as to whether Herbert Gilbert or Hon Lik is the true.....
Dan Steeds is the wholesale manager at ECigaretteDirect.co.uk, and has helped dozens of sellers get started selling ecigarettes and eliquid. In this blog post, with the help of our retail manager who runs our chain of shops, he shares some of the lessons he has learned.
If all the smokers in Britain stopped smoking cigarettes and started smoking e- cigarettes.....
The answer is probably yes.
But if you change the question to: Are electronic cigarettes safer than tobacco cigarettes?
You'd get a very different answer, at least from scientists involved in ecigarette research.
That's because while ecigarettes are not healthy for you in an absolute sense, many scientists believe they could be 100 or more times safer than their tobacco equivalents.
The Science.....
Lorien from the ECigarette Consumer Association kindly sent me a link to a leaflet to promote the European Free Vaping Association's campaign to save ecigarettes.
(You can read more about what they are doing here, or see the original leaflet Lorien sent me here).
I've rewritten the leaflet for our customers (we have several thousand copies on order). We've put our details.....
The EU has rejected electronic cigarettes today, despite a majority of UK MEPs voting against it.
While some compromises have been won, from 2016 we can expect the following:
a likely ban on refillable ecigarettes
ecigarettes to deliver a consistent dose of nicotine, despite the fact the technology has not yet been invented
a limit on the amount of nicotine.....
Last month over 1600 of you took a survey, saying how you would react to an ECIG ban.
The results are now out. Click on the infographic below to view the results in full size!
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Update: Thank you so much to everyone who took the survey - we had a massive response in a very short time!
The survey is now closed. The winners are Peter Cobb, Michel Finney and Nuria Mary. All winners were randomly selected using Random.org.
You can see the final results in infographic form here:
7 Huge Consequences of An Ecig Ban
The EU.....