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Some good news from Canada. MP’s there have recommended in a rare all-party concensus that bans on e-cigarettes are not a valid option and vaping could help further reduce smoking rates. The report was described as ‘much better than expected’ by

Dr Derek Yach was at the forefront of the global movement against tobacco use. Now he has declared that anti-ecig attitudes amongst lobbyists and government agencies is a threat to public health, that they supply virtually no evidence of their claims

The latest research on conventional e-cigs has been published, in the wake of the highly misleading formaldehyde scare, and it tested not only all the toxins looked at before and found to be almost absent from e-cig vapour but also the

In a very predictable move, EU bureaucrats have re-actively proposed a way to achieve tax ‘parity’ between conventional tobacco and e-cigarettes, most likely on e-liquids. The increased levy they propose would mean adding something like 57% value-added tax to products. The

The point of an e-cig is not, firstly, to get people hooked on nicotine. It was invented for a simple purpose, and that was to create a low temperature vaporiser that could deliver nicotine much more safely to people who were

Myth 1 – e-cigarettes produce formaldehyde at dangerous levels. The truth is crucially different. Only certain e-cigarettes MAY produce formaldehyde and under certain conditions. Most will not. Myth 2 – the formaldehyde seen exclusively in exceptional circumstances represents a cancer risk

In spite of current hurdles (which are mainly hysterical and misleading media reactions to science), vaping is the future. Vaping will evolve, and it will re-adjust to its original path as a safe nicotine/chemical delivery technology based on low atomiser temperatures.

Whilst E-liquids inhaled as vapour do have some cell stress inducing effects, i.e. propylene glycol is a slight irritant unless you are allergic to it, the impact is much less than for smoking. One factor that has been emerging over the

There’s two types of vaping, and e-cig device. The first and original, was built for the purpose of atomising a nicotine carrier at the lowest possible temperature so it can be inhaled, because it was clear that the toxins produced in

A new study shows that the medias implausible coverage of vaping is effecting smokers and keeping them hooked on conventional tobacco. There is only one winner and that is Big Tobacco – it’s time for some healthy cynicism of the medias