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More and more leading campaigners, scientists and health authorities are behind vaping and opposed to anti-vaping rules that could push the products off the shelf. The reactions are increasingly scornful of reactionary health policies. We’ve had it in Europe and now

This question is important to ask and answer. As a vaper and ex-smoker myself, I am concerned that if I continue vaping that I will not be causing harm to my lungs. Improving my lung function was a key objective for

With the general phobia of non-users towards vaping, and also the constant presumptions of any possible negative aspect of vaping compounds, the impression could only be that e-cigs are still more harm than good and should be treated much like combusted

How do you know who is a scientific leader in the field of tobacco harm reduction? Increasingly it is clear that the leading researchers – persons involved directly in the field of treating cancer and who see the harms of tobacco

Experts in Italy are concerned that continuous, disproportionate alarmism and regulations against e-cigs is leading to a recovery in conventional, much more harmful tobacco smoking. “A recent statement made by Giovanni Risso, president of the Federation of Italian Tobacconists, which revealed

Tiger Airways has pulled in the Australian Police to investigate a passenger over ‘violating their no smoking policy’, because he vaped on the flight. This could be called an extreme zero-tolerance policy, which certainly would make sense if it constituted a

Casting my mind back to the recent coverage of a hypothesis that nicotine is a gateway drug, I was aware at the time that research already suggests tobacco contains several compounds that appear to increase addiction not only towards the nicotine

Increasingly, as Vapers become more common, we have seen the debate shift from the toxicity of cigarette smoke, based on non nicotine components of the fumes, to that of the supposed harms of nicotine itself. This switch in concern appears to

Professor John Aston recently had to resign his post as the President of a major public health department after a Twitter spat in which, amongst other things, he strongly insinuated commentators criticising his position on e-cigarettes were working for the tobacco