Are you worried about metals in ecigarettes? With recent media headlines screaming that ecig vapour contain metals, you won't be the only one.
But with the levels of metal seemingly very low, I thought further analysis was needed. That proved difficult, as every study into metals in vapour and cigarette smoke seems to use different variables.
Fortunately, in the latest of our Interviews.....
Ashtray Blog - Chronicling Vaping's Journey Since 2008
Are you having problems with your vape tank?
Most of us will experience issues with our ecig at one time or another, be it that horrible burnt taste, not getting any vapour, leaking, gurgling or even eliquid coming though the mouthpiece.
But, there are a couple of tips and tricks you can do to help resolve these problems.
The following infographic (produced in the form of a flow.....
A few weeks ago we published a guide to travelling abroad with your ecigarette.
(Thank you to everyone who shared helpful tips and stories!)
There's a bit of a story behind it - we had hoped to publish this some time ago with an interactive world map, but our programmer got stuck on it.
Fortunately, the map has now been finished off, and.....
Sitting on Highway 71 in Missouri is a factory producing microwavable popcorn.
The factory used a flavour called Diacetyl to produce its popcorn - and, according to one of its employees, Eric Peoples, it did so at three times the usual levels.
In the late 1990's, workers at the factory, including Eric Peoples, began to get ill.
Initially they thought it was just a cold.....
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.....