“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.”
- Dale Carnegie
Why, you might wonder, do people continue to oppose electronic cigarettes when there is so much evidence proving they can help smokers?
Surely someone surveying the evidence would judge e-cigarettes to lead to more good.....
Imagine you’re looking for a reason to ban vaping in public places. No, really, put yourself in the shoes of somebody in that position.
The best approach is clear.
With an air of confidence, you say, “Vapers expose non-users to harmful chemicals and nicotine,” (taking care to say “chemicals” like it’s a dirty word).
But, just as you’re patting yourself on the.....
What a shame the UK E-Cigarette All Party Parliamentary Group didn’t write the EU Tobacco Products Directive.
I attended a meeting of the group yesterday and there was not a single person who thought the TPD was good legislation, while the value of e-cigarettes was clearly recognised by everyone in the room.
While the EU legislation on e-cigs is a badly written.....
Shocking news today, courtesy of Kirsty Williams of the Welsh Liberal democrats. The following is her email (posted with permission), along with a link to the petition they are holding against the ban.
Please take the moment to sign and share the petition. It takes seconds, and if enough of us sign it it could help save vaping in Wales......
By Fergus Mason
Anyone who’s been following the battle over vaping will, by now, be very familiar with a lot of the myths being circulated by our opponents in the public health industry:
Formaldehyde! Gateway effect! Think of the children!
You know the sort of thing I mean; it’s in every hysterical UCSF press release, every shoddy Daily Mail article and every.....
There’s no doubt it [The Electronic Cigarette] can save many lives and hundreds of millions of pounds.
David Halpern, UK Government Nudge Unit
When Spain banned e-cigs in public places, e-cig sales dropped 70%.
Because of this law and the message it sends, thousands of Spanish people still smoke the cigarettes that are estimated to kill around one in two of all smokers.
Perhaps.....
Update: Welsh Health Minister Drakeford has just released 'evidence' in favour of a ban.
The letter ignores the massive body of positive e-cig evidence, the opinions of the Welsh public who were opposed to e-cigs in a public consultation and the many public health bodies mentioned below who oppose an e-cig ban.
This post is more relevant - so please keep.....
Updated by Lee Johnson October 2018
Time after time we have been told that there is no proof that e-cigs are better for your health than tobacco cigarettes.
In doing so, the anti-ecig lobby, have ignored the advice and research of the very experts and scientists who are at the forefront of electronic cigarette research.
So while in the past we’ve looked.....
How the EU TPD Will Change Vaping - and What You Can Do About It...
Guess which country has the lowest rate of lung cancer in Western Europe?
Sweden.
And the reason is simple.
Snus is an oral tobacco which has become popular as an alternative to cigarettes in Sweden.
In fact, Sweden now has the lowest rate of smoking in Europe, and the highest.....
Are you thinking of becoming an e-liquid reviewer, or do you already review e-juices?
Strangely enough, while hundreds if not thousands of people are reviewing e-liquids on YouTube, Reddit, forums, blogs magazines and elsewhere, I've struggled to find one post giving advice on how to do it.
So I asked 10 e-liquid reviewers to provide tips for new reviewers. I've also added a couple.....
Are you new to vaping? Or haven't started yet?
Then you're bound to have some questions.
So we've asked experienced vapers what their top questions were when they started vaping.
We've also drawn upon the advice of our experienced customer service team (some of who have been answering e-cig questions every day since 2011!).
1. How do you fill electronic cigarettes?
http://twitter.com/schristieauthor/status/578621259271008256
So, it all depends.....
If you know anything about e-cigarettes, you probably find it absolutely astounding how much rubbish is written about them by people who DON'T know anything about them.
A typical example is a recent Metro article by Rob Waugh, who screamed aloud:
Passive smoking warning as e-cigarettes are found to harm bystanders
Read the article, though, and there's nothing of the sort - all it said.....
We do not offer these flavours anymore, but you can check out our variety of Halo e liquid flavours.
After the success of our barbeque e-liquid at last year's Vapefest (one vaper told us it was the first time he had tasted anything since a stroke!) we are now launching a delicious new range of e-liquid called:
Voop Juice
The first two e-liquids are now.....
Last month we surveyed over 1000 readers to find what the consensus is on how vapers should behave (see The Ten Rules of Vaping Etiquette for the original post).
There are three reasons we did this:
Vaping Etiquette is contentious, often triggering disagreement online (especially on Reddit!)
Non-vapers feel happy to produce infographics telling us how we should behave -.....
Update: Feb 2021
Not so long ago a reader told me she was still completely confused about voltage, watts and ohms, and I have a feeling she’s not the only one. In fact, while we were writing this post, we had at least five emails from readers asking for an explanation!
So we’ve put together this tutorial for our Vape Academy......