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Youtube Interview of Dr Farsalinos. Leading pro e-cig scientist Dr Farsalinos talks about how he got into e-cig medical research, and more…

New research shows benefits to asthmatic smokers and their lung function after 1 year of switching to e-cigs: “Every one of the objective and subjective measures of asthma status evaluated in the study showed statistically significant improvement 1 year after patients

In the search for treatments to prevent deterioration of the brain in aging and alzheimers, hopefully to delay or prevent cognitive loss, researchers have looked at chemical changes in the brain that they may block in order to protect this vital

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

It isn’t difficult to keep safe, and the good news is that it’s generally intolerable to inhale when formaldehyde is being generated at significant levels, so you’ll know if there is a problem. If you use conventional e-cigs, like the ones

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

I’ve just finished reading an interesting and insightful article that would make putting increased taxes on e-cigarettes even more counter-productive, because as pointed out in the article we can’t find much reason to deem nicotine, in the amounts users ingest, as

When the Italian government added increased taxes to E-cigarettes including the liquids, batteries and accessories, which effectively doubled their price, we had an opportunity to observe the effect in terms of the number of users. These fell by half to 255,000

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