As global calls for smoking bans increase, scrutiny around e-cigarettes intensifies with many negative reports about their safety. Amidst a backdrop of growing regulatory pressure, this analysis aims to explore the realities of e-cigarettes versus traditional cigarettes, utilizing data primarily...
Came across this great video done in Yorkshire about demystifying vaping
Its a year old, but it’s very good
The UK is very pro Vaping as a means to quit smoking and this video shows why
Their public health executives, researchers and thought leaders are doing it right
I liked what Clive Bates...
To impose such a tax now is tantamount to depriving South African smokers and vapers of an opportunity to collectively define the place of ENDS, with the government, in the fight to reduce smoking. Government must be sensible; tobacco harm reduction is a sensible strategy to reduce harm to...
According to John Hopkins Medicine’s article about “Vaping Facts You Need To Know.”
Electronic cigarettes aren’t the best smoking cessation tool compared to other types of
NRT (nicotine replacement therapy). The reason behind that is e cigarettes have not received approval as a smoking...
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/on-this-day-what-happened-on-27-june/
"1957 | Great Britain Smoking and Lung Cancer Linked."
[1957 ... yet people still smoke. Incredible, isn't it?]
https://www.ecigclick.co.uk/e-cigarettes-on-the-nhs/
E Cigarettes On the NHS In Bid To Stub Out Smoking
UK Government Given 12 Step Plan To Create A Smoke Free Britain
By
Neil Humber
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June 9, 2021
An all party group of UK MPs wants e-cigarettes given out by the NHS to smokers desperate to...
https://filtermag.org/vape-taxes-increase-smoking/
To Increase Smoking Rates Among Young Adults, Keep Hiking Vape Taxes
Lindsey Stroud
April 20, 2021
Across the country, local and state lawmakers are proposing to enact new taxes and/or increasing existing excise taxes on e-cigarettes. Some...
https://www.environewsnigeria.com/why-africa-must-embrace-science-rather-than-ideology-in-fight-against-smoking/
Why Africa must embrace science rather than ideology in fight against smoking
Despite effort by Africa in achieving some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reducing...
https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-news/2021-03-02_danger-disappears.html
2 March 2021
"In 2019, Glantz claimed(1) that “the data are catching up with public perception” that vaping presents increased risks to dual use smokers because of “an aerosol of ultrafine particles and other...
Some South African vaping news..
https://southafricatoday.net/lifestyle/health/lower-taxes-for-less-harmful-nicotine-products-will-reduce-smoking-rates-dr-kgosi-letlape
February 22, 2021
Dr Kgosi Letlape
Smoking cigarettes is the most harmful form of consuming nicotine and it is the duty of...
https://www.pippaslive.com/post/the-great-australian-smoking-grant-racket
The Great Australian Smoking Grant Racket!
by Pippa Starr
21 February 2021
It's no secret smoking kills more people in Australia each year than any other cause. In fact the amount of people dying from a smoking...
https://www.ecigclick.co.uk/vaporesso-together-we-can/
The local government had brought in a new outdoor smoking ban, however e-cigarettes are exempt!"
The no smoking rule means smokers won’t be able to light up in parks – bus stops or even cemeteries!
The council says the ban has come in to...
Very few things in life are absolutes.
Vaping works as a smoking cessation tool.
Ja well, it does. Sometimes. For some folks. With varying degrees of ease, pain and/or commitment.
Some relapse quickly, some relapse after a while, some never relapse.
Vaping is the best cessation tool since...
https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/interviews/2021-01-13_the-best-ways-to-quit.html?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=news&utm_campaign=nid-9550
13 Jan. 2021
"Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce, managing editor of Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group and senior research fellow of the University of Oxford, will...
I got this little disposable pod from Univapo Vape with 3 different flvours:Mango ice, Classic Tobacco, Blueberry Parfait. Mango ice is actually pretty tasty but very frosty :)
It's an aluminum body and very lightweight. Drop it in the shirt pocket and you barely know it's there, very similar...
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Hi all. So it's sounding like this is going to become a thing. While I don't like to be around smokers and inhaling second hand smoke this umbrella could cover us as well. Any ideas where one could comment or at least voice an opinion. Would like to do something before it's too late.
I think...
These protests are being coordinated by multiple people in various cities across the country for July 8 at 7am.
More information and links to localized organizing groups.
https://t.me/joinchat/NVHWpkq_rF5H5MFW4ACgCQ
"INFO FOR 8 JULY
* Make sure you are there by 7 am
* Dress warmly
* Wear a...
https://vaalweekblad.com/63971/rokers-nou-gaan-die-staat-jul-dampies-nog-verder-inperk/#.XtOmKSf0-QQ.facebook
Translated excerpt:
"Phaala also says the new tobacco legislation will not only be limited to cigarettes. It will also apply to electronic cigarettes and related products so that they...
Saw this interesting article from New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2243944-smoking-probably-puts-you-at-greater-risk-of-coronavirus-not-less/
What they are saying is that smoking is actually more risky to lead to severe COVID not less risky. The stats that suggest its less...