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From the BBC: What can one say, it's SanFran, the city whose representative Nancy Pelosi accuses Trump of not caring about the poor and destroying the country - even as SanFran sets new records for the number of homeless people in the city and the amount of human faeces found on city streets...

It's a problem with no readily apparent solution. Both political parties in the US favour big business to an extraordinary degree. Both Dems and GOP are funded by donations from huge corporations. So the belief that Trump would side with the little guy in opposing the tobacco and pharmaceutical...

Time to add my review of the Vladdin RE Pod System, which was provided to me by @Alisa of Vladdin for the purposes of review. I won't add pictures or tech specs as @StompieZA has already covered these areas. Instead, I'll give my thoughts on the device and the vape that it offers. Packaging: I...

Everybody has at least two MTL atties in their vape gear: the first is an old one from when they started vaping and thought MTL was the only way to go, and the second is a new one from when MTL became cool again. :cool:

This is hardly new information, Maciej Goniewicz found the same thing years ago - that certain flavours lead to greater cell death counts than others. He also found that menthol and cinnamon were bad. These flavours were approved for ingestion, not inhalation, so more research is required...

The R240 Blck scale will work, I've had mine for a few years now and it's reliable and solid. 120ml of VG weighs well under 200g so you won't ever push the scale past its limit. Mixing by scale is ridiculously easy. Just input the correct weights into your recipe app and it will give you the...

Harvard has an abysmal record of research into vaping. Their school is heavily funded by pharma companies. Here is a NYT article outlining how prevalent pharma industry positions are among the faculty. Harvard was also the school that did the infamous diacetyl study announcing that the "popcorn...

I think it's a numbers game currently. Smokers are around 15% of the population, vapers 3%. It just doesn't make financial sense for public organisations to build or assign special facilities for such a small group. As the numbers approach parity, they will probably have more vaping facilities.

There is no sub for Inw Waffle unfortunately. If you don't have it, I would avoid the Dutchie recipe. It sucks but what can we do.

The industry has experienced deflation as economies of scale have kicked in. When I started vaping in 2016, the standard price for a local juice was R150 for 30ml. Today, it's just over half that. For DIYers, TFA, FA and FW flavours were R40 each. They are now R25 and you can find them for as...

That's the whole point of a sin tax. They have tracked this in the US and elsewhere. Every time the cost of a pack of cigs goes up, consumption goes down, i.e. people either smoke less or they quit altogether. Considering that is what govt is aiming to achieve, it is working very well.

Actual DIY - buying concentrates and doing your own recipes and mixes - can be very expensive due to the sheer number of concentrates required. You really need to have at least 500 concentrates to experience even half of what DIY has to offer. At R30 a pop average, that is an investment of R15k...

There is this article about high nic levels being problematic for the liver but I doubt it would cause actual pain.

The first thing to do is ask yourself why you want to be a reviewer. If it's to score free gear then I wouldn't start. Every reviewer who built a following bought a lot of their own gear initially to review. If you don't have the cash to afford that, I don't think you'll get a foothold. If you...

That awkward moment when you realise you're under attack by flying salami shrapnel.

Thanks @Dela Rey Steyn, I'm glad you found it useful!

Your nic won't freeze solid, PG is one of the main ingredients in anti-freeze. I imagine keeping the juice in the fridge after mixing would delay steeping slightly. There is no reason to do it, though. Flavours last a lot longer in juice than they do in the concentrate bottle. It's highly...

I vape for around R200 a month now. That is only possible with DIY for coils and juice. It cost me a lot to reach this point, buying all the devices, batteries, charger, tools, concentrates, scale, bottles, etc. But once you've done the heavy lifting early on, it gets crazy cheap. It's really...

This is why I use 1ml = 1g for all mixing, even recipes that use VG-based concentrates. Using the correct specific gravity just pushes mixes slightly out and makes them deviate from the original. Almost all recipes on ATF use 1:1.

Mine was relatively short because I mixed it up for the show, so about ten days I'd say. It was delicious then but, like most creams, it would benefit from a bit longer. I'd say two weeks and you're good to go. Especially with the Vienna Cream in there, you want that acetone note to steep out.