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Professor Resigns After Ugly Twitter Spat. Professor John Ashton is a prominent adviser to the UK government on health matters and is known to be a virulent anti-vaping campaigner. As the balance of evidence slides against the dug-out perspective of these

It’s upon us. If you are thinking about stopping smoking, and excessive drinking, October has been semi-officially deemed the time to do it! And although giving up everything entirely might be a bridge too far, and a bit scary to boot

A new study led by Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos from the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens-Greece, highlights certain E Cigarette Risks and shows that some e-liquids have two potentially risky ingredients in them. These are not produced by the vaping process

Some in the vaping community, (certainly if online comments are anything to go by), were alarmed by press attention to an elaborate thesis recently published that suggested nicotine was a ‘gateway drug’, that could cause people to go on to become

With news that ecigarette users tend to prefer the non tobacco flavours, there seems to be an unexpected consequence. When attempting to give up smoking myself and first contemplated using ecigarettes, I worried initially that by vaping tobacco flavoured e-cigarettes I

Claims are being made by American researchers, which are strongly rebutted by British researchers, that e-cigarettes may cause people to take up smoking, acting as a so-called gateway drug. These claims are iffy at best. But it is theoretically possible that

Reading through the literature on how normal cigarettes cause addiction, I came across something of potentially great importance to researchers on the addictive potential of e-cigs. This is the evidence available that strongly suggests that normal cigarettes are not only addictive

Back in April there was a surge in anti-vaping articles and opinions, and many of these said the same things, such as there is no evidence they help people quit, and some have taken on a near hysterical tone such as

Research has come very close to proving what many vapers have long been saying is true – use of vaping devices does help smokers quit. But, you might have been convinced already by the knee-jerk reactions in mass media professing that

You may have noticed that Propylene Glycol is an ingredient in eliquids. Naturally, when giving up one thing because it is toxic (cigarettes) few amongst us would want to replace that with something that was just as bad. Propylene Glycol is