Harm reduction.
That’s been the key argument for switching from cigarettes to vaping.
But what if vaping didn’t just to lead to harm reduction but harm reversal?
Professor Polosa has been studying the effect vaping has on patients with blood pressure and asthma, and kindly agreed to answer a few of our questions.
What is it in smoking that leads to higher blood pressure?
The.....
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the shelves, e-liquid would only be available on the black market and the only devices you could buy in shops would be out-of-date cigalikes.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.....
My cat is a curious sort. If there’s somewhere you don’t want her to go or something you don’t want her to chew on, you better believe she’ll do it.
So when I started having bottles of e-juice around the house, I was understandably cautious. A tragic story of a puppy that died after getting access to some e-juice drives.....
Updated January 2020 by Lee Johnson
I still remember the time a customer wound up one of our customer services team by requesting a dual-triple horizontal-vertical kryptonite coil.
Perhaps because of the amount of coils and tanks coming in at the time, she passed on the request to our product manager - to much merriment.
And if anything, there have been even more coils.....
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.....
After updating this vaping glossary several times over the years, it’s astonishing to see the growth in e-cig slang and vocabulary. In fact, when I first wrote this in the very early days of vaping, we had about 15 words (and I had to scrape around for some of those)!
As we predicted at the time things are very different.....
By Lee Williams
Update: The Mini Volt has now been discontinued. You can shop alternative vape mods here.
The sleek looking, ultra-compact Mini Volt battery is perfect for people looking for a back up device or who prefer to vape discreetly.
As its compact (it can fit in your pocket without you noticing it) it’s perfect for nights out, and the tiny.....
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.....
Free Electronic Cigarette Trials
Have you been scammed?
It's over four years since we wrote this post, and we're still hearing reports of e-cig scams. (See the comments below this for some examples.)
Typically, the victim has bought an electronic cigarette from someone advertising a free trial - and they're wondering why their money is suddenly disappearing from their bank account.
How the E-Cigarette Free Trial Scam.....
Will EU attacks on e-cigs affect the vaper vote?
If so, what specific issues would affect how people voted?
As we think the opinions of vapers are often ignored, we decided to ask 1200 vapers.
Here's what we found out:
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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.....
Surprise test! Get your pens out and set your brain to mathematics mode.
How many amps are you drawing from your battery if you’re vaping at 40 W on a 0.4 ohm coil?
What will the nicotine strength of the resulting juice be if 4 percent of the mix is a 72 mg/ml nicotine base?
If you make a.....
By Andrew Nicholson
Update: Since we wrote this, the Cleito has been replaced by the new and upgraded Aspire Cleito Pro.
Contents
What we like
What we don't like
What's in the box
Features
Who is it aimed at
Compatibility
How to fill
How to change the coil
Cleito Cuffs
Conclusion
What we like:
Fantastic vapour and flavour
Super easy to fill
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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.....