The FDA’s disastrous deeming regulations for e-cigarettes are all based around the legal definition of “tobacco product”:
“Any product made or derived from tobacco that is intended for human consumption, including any component, part, or accessory of a tobacco product.”
This means that e-juice is a “tobacco product” because the nicotine used is “made or derived from tobacco.” Devices and other.....
Ashtray Blog - Chronicling Vaping's Journey Since 2008
Back in 2013, e-cigs faced a huge threat: Medical regulation.
If medical regulation had gone ahead in Europe, vaping as we know it would have been changed for ever.
Tanks would have disappeared off the shelves, e-liquid would only be available on the black market and the only devices you could buy in shops would be out-of-date cigalikes.
Part of the reason.....
You don’t have to know the stats to know that e-cigarettes are booming in popularity in 21st Century Britain. Just take a walk and you’ll be sure to spot passers-by vaping.
But the numbers do back up that evidence, with an estimated 2.2million Brits regularly using e-cigarettes in 2015, according to Office of National Statistics data.
And over the last six.....
Exposing Discovery Health’s Misinformation on E-Cigarettes
A customer recently sent us a report entitled: The Dirty Secrets of Those "Healthy" E-Cigarettes.
Lee Johnson investigates.
Vapers have gotten wearily accustomed to seeing extreme, unsupported statements made about vaping.
It seems like a week can’t go by without somebody going above and beyond the evidence to scare people away from the safer alternative.
The latest.....
By Patricia Vaz
Set up a vape store but are not seeing any positive results yet? Or seeing positive results but feel you could be doing even better?
Then maybe your store is missing the vital elements that make a customer come back to your store every time.
As an e-cig retailer, you need to come up with fresh ideas to increase.....
Yesterday saw an extraordinary debate in the House of Lords which was hugely helpful for vaping. Thank you to Ian Gregory of Abzed and The 100k Campaign for providing this summary, note and transcript.
Executive Summary
Political support for the TPD among Westminster politicians has close to disappeared. All that is left is the legal shell
This creates an unintended.....
E-cigs have been mired in controversy for years.
The author of highly restrictive EU e-cig regulations was accused of soliciting bribes from tobacco companies and had to resign.
He was later found moving millions of euros to an offshore bank account.
E-cig scientists have written to the EU claiming their studies were twisted to support the case for regulation.
The EU is accused.....
Update: The 2020 annual predictions are now out - and better than ever! See what 17 vape experts think is going to happen next year here...
Essential reading for the informed vaper.
The future of vaping is uncertain.
Think:
The FDA is on a mission to ban 99% of e-cigs in the USA...
denying choice to the 10% of adult Americans who vape.
And EU.....
I've popped these notes up for anyone interested in the e-cig summit but was unable to attend.
This year saw a hectic pace, with more speakers and more content in the same amount of time. Konstantinos alone had over 50 slides in a (theoretical!) 20 minutes.
So this time round, I've chosen just to highlight key points, quotes and data. If you.....
Facebook might seem like a goliath, but pressure from the vaping community recently got them to reverse a decision to censor vaping film A Billion Lives. Director Aaron Biebert told us what happened.
First could you tell us a little bit about the film?
A billion people are projected to die this century from smoking. Despite those sort of sobering predictions, the.....
I recently asked Lorien Jollye if she could write a post for us on vaping advocacy. Lorien’s a great advocate, and like many other advocates she’s digging deep into her pockets to campaign for e-cigarettes. The pressures are big - Lorien and others are constantly travelling to conferences and giving talks on e-cigs, and that costs money.
Unfortunately, the answer.....
Yesterday I followed a link from Twitter to a consultation on a ban on smoking outdoor places.
The consultation asks whether smoking should be banned in places like beaches (presumably because of the passive smoking danger to cockles) and parks.
The questionnaire even asks you if smoking outside pubs should be prohibited, which sounds like the final nail in coffin for Swansea's suffering pubs! (UK.....
But Instead Of Trusting Its Own Surveys, Welsh Gov Turns To Dodgy Foreign Studies
In its desperate search for evidence behind its claim that e-cigs are a gateway to smoking, the Welsh government has carried out a survey of 3,565 users.
But they failed to find ONE regular user who had been a non-smoker. And of the total surveyed, which included people who had.....
Are you an e-cig reseller? We've put this guide together for both our shop staff and for our resellers, and it's something you might find useful too.
Update: We've worked with Trading Standards to improve and update the PDF version of this guide. To get your free copy just click on the download link below. You'll also find instructions on how to.....
Welsh Assembly Needs to Hear From Vapers "On The Front Line"
Last Friday I got the chance to meet Edwina Hart, who is Business Minister for Wales and also our AM, at her surgery in Clydach to discuss the public ban on e-cigs in Wales.
I wanted to share some of the details with other vapers and also retailers, because to.....