Huge thanks to Aaron Frazier of Utah Vapers for this post.
While out camping over this last weekend, I had some down time to catch up on some reading due to a round of storms. One of the articles discussed the pro's and con's along with the anti-tobacco movement as it related to pipe smoking from nearly a decade ago......
Ashtray Blog - Chronicling Vaping's Journey Since 2008
We recently published a blog complaining about the way papers have only been publishing negative news about e-cigarettes.
The blog was in response to media stories about a new study which claims e-cigs lead to a restriction in airway passages, published as a press release entitled: Experts warn that e-cigarettes can damage the lungs.
While we were complaining, The Electronic Cigarette Trade.....
Spread the word!
As I wrote before, on Thursday 29th August our Facebook page TheSmokersAngel was disabled.
We lost all contact with over 14,000 friends and customers.
We had no warning.
We had no explanation, before or after the event. (However, an agency we work with did have one short reply which you can see here.)
Facebook continued to take.....
[caption id='attachment_5332' align='aligncenter' width='500'] A cached version of our facebook page - the page itself is no more.[/caption]
Update: We are holding a petition to ask Facebook to give warning to pages before they delete them! Please check this post out for more information!
We had a shock yesterday.
Without pre-warning, and after hundreds of hours and thousands of pounds spent, our.....
Last week we wrote about a very positive study on passive vaping which showed using an e-cigarette had no effect on the blood of users and non-users .
Now an All Voices articles discusses two more studies which show there is no reason for concern about passive vaping - or direct use of e-cigarettes!
Clearstream
An All Voices article (link since removed) announced that.....
A new study into the effects of electronic cigarette by a World Health Organisation (WHO) expert found that passive vaping leaves NO effect on the blood of non-vapers.
Not only that, it left no effect on smokers who actually used e-cigarettes.
In contrast, the study reported that both active and passive smoking lead to an increase in the number of white.....
The e-cigarette has had some poor press recently.
Poor in both senses of the word as the piece was:
badly researched
one sided
Here's some of what was said - and why it's wrong.
'Electronic Cigarettes Are Unsafe'
But the safety of e-cigarettes is not the point.
Almost everything, by definition, is unsafe. Coffee, although much safer than cigarettes, is considered unhealthy. And that's.....
Updated...
The number one UK vapers forum has been taken down today following threatened legal action by an electronic cigarette vendor.
The vendor (not us!) previously told UK Vapers:
I want no part in your community, neither does my company and to that end i wish no products to be reviewed, talked about in a good or bad light. In fact my request.....
A recent survey came up with some fantastic stats about electronic cigarettes.
How many people have heard of the electronic cigarette?
For instance, did you realise that less than half of Brits have still not heard of electronic cigarettes.
As the graph below shows, just 46% of the UK respondents knew what an e-cig was - although awareness is higher in some.....
[caption id="attachment_4654" align="aligncenter" width="346"] Will big tobacco crush small vapers?[/caption]
Hi there! There's big moves in the tobacco and e-cigarette industry. And whether you are a smoker, a vaper , a blogger or an e-cig retailer, chances are it is going to affect you. Read this post to see what is happening, and the impact it will have on you.
A.....
Move aside no-smoking day - a new contender for the hearts and, um, lungs of smokers is coming in March.
World Vaping Day aims to spread the word about the benefits of switching from smoking to vaping to millions of other smokers - many of whom will otherwise die!
World Vaping Day Needs You
There was a question mark after the title.....
Updated: October 2022
In the New World, tobacco was both thought of as a panacea for all that could ail you and as a spiritual conduit. Using it cured you, kept you safe, and gave you visions. And it also helped with what was more common in those days: a less reliable food supply.
In other words, more people were more.....
Snus is considered by many scientists to be vastly more healthier than cigarettes.
[caption id="attachment_3469" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Snus, a vastly safer alternative to cigarettes."][/caption]
The only country where Snus is legal, Sweden, has the lowest lung cancer rates in Europe.
In the UK, the Royal College of Physicians estimates “that regular snus usage is 1,000 times less harmful than smoking cigarettes”.
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Here is the long belated follow up to 10 Celebrities who Vape. This time we have focussed on UK celebrity vapers, and once again I'd be grateful to anyone who could add to this list and/or suggest photos of the celebrities vaping which we can reuse or link to.
1. Jimmy White
The pro-snooker player now regularly vapes at contests!
Here's a before.....
The anti-smoking movement is hoping to stop smoking through policies such as:
increased taxes
pub and car bans
a policy of denormalisation (no really - I'm not making that up!)
But despite the protests of smoker's rights groups, these are nothing compared to what anti-smokers did in the past:
Imprisoning smokers
[caption id="attachment_3256" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Prison at the time of the inquisition.....