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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

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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

Many worries have been voiced about vaping since it has taken off and become a common sight in our environment. Those that have been raised include the following, to which I have put rebuttals afterwards; Ecig vapour is a risk to

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