Do you know that feeling when something gives a huge number of people a bit of pleasure, and helps them kick a habit that stands a substantial chance of killing them, and all you want to do is criticise it and mock them for it?
No, neither do I.
But you can’t spend very long as a vaper or involved in.....
Ashtray Blog - Chronicling Vaping's Journey Since 2008
Big tobacco companies are heavily promoting heat not burn (HNB) products to vape shops around the UK, in some cases offering cash incentives to stock their product. While this could lead to a short term profit boost, this could be a poor long term move for vape shops.
How has the vape industry affected big tobacco?
In 1990, the UK population.....
Updated: July 2022
As I sat in the cafe, without thinking my hand slipped to my pocket. I took out my vape device, raised it to my mouth and inhaled, savouring the delicious nicotine-infused vapour as it hit the back of my throat.
Then a loud voice interrupted me.
“Oi, you do know you’re not allowed to vape in here!?,” said an.....
Millions of people now vape as an alternative to smoking. With Public Health England estimating that it’s at least 95% safer than smoking, it’s been a massive success.
But many more millions of people continue to use tobacco cigarettes.
Why?
One reason is that while vaping replicates the hand to mouth experience of cigarettes, it doesn’t deliver nicotine to the body as.....
And How You Could Help Science!
Critics of vaping often point out that “we don’t have enough long-term studies” to really know how much risk vaping poses to users. While the Royal College of Physicians and Public Health England have famously estimated that vaping isn’t likely to pose more than 5% of the risk of smoking, there is still some.....
An Interview with Karen House – Leicester City Stop Smoking Service
Listening to Louise Ross from the Leicester City Stop Smoking Service last year I was astonished by some of the reasons smokers are continuing to smoke.
For example, some people are still smoking because they fear popcorn lung (very rare, and zero established cases from vaping) more than lung cancer.....
Introducing the Jac Series B DNA 75W
Update: The Jac Vapour Series B DNA 75W has now been discontinued. For current alternatives see our regularly updated Best Vape Mods post, which reviews the best mods currently available and matches them to different needs and requirements.
At a glance
The Series B from Jac is a seriously impressive regulated mod built around the.....
For the first time, we have a study which looks at the effect of vaping on the lungs over the long term. The result? No negative impact on the lungs over a period of several years.
Most vapers are ex-smokers, and could be expected to have some lung damage. To get round this problem, the researchers decided to seek out.....
What is the e-cig summit?
For the last five years the E-Cig Summit has been bringing together vapers, researchers, industry (both independent and big tobacco and pharma), public health and government.
The summit has been key in cutting through misinformation and contributing towards a huge change in attitudes towards e-cigs. I think it is probably also one of the reasons the.....
Smokers have a reputation for having bad teeth. They get “nicotine stains,” people say, turning their teeth from a brilliant white into a dull yellow-brown.
Faced with comments like this, most vapers would rightly point out that nicotine in pure form is actually colourless. It seems obvious that – much like with the health risks – the problem for your.....
If you've heard of the US surgeon generals report on e-cigarettes, you're probably aware that it is far from positive.
The report:
painted a picture of an e-cigarette epidemic amongst youth smokers
ignored rapidly falling smoking rates amongst youth since e-cigs became popular
used data from smoking studies to reach conclusions on nicotine in vapour
ignored the potential health benefits.....
In hindsight, I wish I’d taken all of the safety advice for DIY e-liquid mixing seriously.
But I used to smoke, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that I have a bit of a cavalier attitude to risk.
It didn’t happen on my first mix, but I quickly learned that DIY mixing wasn’t the place for risk-taking.
I was.....
Dripping is awesome.
A little more hands-on and hard work than vaping with a tank, I’ll admit, but the flavour and clouds of vapour are hard to beat even with a sub ohm tank.
But if you’ve been reading the news over the last few weeks, you’ve probably heard another side to the story.
According to various articles, dripping is a new.....
The Welsh government may have failed to ban e-cigs in public places, but they’re determined that if you do use e-cigarettes to get off tobacco cigarettes, you’re not going to enjoy it.
In its latest attack on vapers, Public Health Wales has stated:
confectionary-like flavours of e-liquid should not be permitted, in order to reduce the appeal of vaping to children and.....
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.....