The United Kingdom is already at the forefront of global efforts to stub out smoking by urging smokers to use electronic cigarettes instead. Now, the nation is considering placing vaping adverts (Vape Ads) on cigarette packs to try and wean people off their unhealthy tobacco addiction. Yep. You heard that correctly ... vape ads on [...]
Rising awareness of vaping and the health benefits of electronic cigarettes over tobacco ones is leading to a seismic shift in people's attitudes towards vaping. Now, in a new survey carried out in the UK, it turns out that almost no one believes e-cigarettes are in any way as bad as smoking tobacco. The survey was [...]
After two years studying a group of people using electronic cigarettes in their everyday environments, researchers in the UK could find no negative impacts on their health from their vaping activity. The clinical trial was carried out to look for any risks associated with long-term vaping, and used smokers as subjects with a view to [...]
The End of Disposable E-Cigarettes? As many of us will remember very well, some of the first — and most influential — e-cigarettes to hit the market were the traditional cigarette-esque e-cigarettes, which came charged and completely ready to use. Quite literally, you just took off the wrapping and away you went! But a lot has [...]
It’s that time of the year again. Fall is here and everyone is readying their jack-o’-lanterns and fancy dress ideas for the October festivities! Yes, Halloween is here once more and we’ve got some clever tips to help you use sub-ohm vaping to make your Halloween celebrations even more memorable. Halloween in America has a history [...]
E-Cigarettes vs Fake News: A Battle of Fact vs Fiction In recent years, we’ve seen the strange and alarming rise of fake news. If you weren’t sure what it is already, fake news is content which has been “written and published with the intent to mislead in order to gain”. It often uses exaggerated, sensationalist or [...]
Chances are you’ll be planning — or will already have planned — your summer vacation by now. For us vapers who are traveling outside of the United States, it’s certainly worth considering the e-cigarette and e-liquid laws that apply in the country you’re destined for as you put those plans together. While common sense would [...]
A very lively debate about the E-Cigarette rages across America today. Since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stated its intent towards the regulation of electronic cigarettes in May of 2016, opposition has raised its head at almost every corner. The FDA’s reasoning behind the move is that electronic cigarettes are considered harmful, and therefore require [...]
In recent years, the regulation of the electronic cigarettes industry has significantly increased, be it via the Food & Drug Administration in America, or European Parliament overseas. Neither example has been able to create regulations that have been embraced by vape stores, or by vapers. In fact, both organisations have received criticism. It appears to some [...]
Are Brands of E-Cigarettes Owned by Big Tobacco Companies a Good Thing? An increasing number of e-cigarette brands are owned by Big Tobacco. Over the past few years, cigarette companies have either bought out existing e-cig brands or have created their own. This includes Vype — owned by British American Tobacco (BAT), the same company that [...]
The Word "Carcinogen" Could Be Redefined to Include Nicotine Pascal Culverhouse Talks Nicotine and Carcinogen - You’d think that whether a substance (Nicotine in this case) causes cancer or not is decided by science, not semantics. But at the history of several key terms shows us that tobacco control is not above moving the goalposts. In fact, [...]
What the critics don’t understand: vaping is fun and needs to stay that way If anti-vapers succeed in their quest to make vaping boring, then vaping will lose its power to compete with traditional cigarettes. Anti-vaping campaigners are worried by many aspects of vaping, but what they are most worried about is how fun it looks. To [...]
How to Spot Junk e-Cigarette Science in Four Easy Steps The best way for vapers to fight misinformation is through education. Learn how to spot and defeat pseudo-science, aka, junk science. Science journalism is dying. As newspapers find their revenue drying up in an increasingly online-only world, science journalists are being asked to generate more ‘clicks’ and [...]
What can other countries learn from the United Kingdom’s attitude towards e-cigarettes? By Pascal Culverhouse of the Electric Tobacconist An exclusive column from Pascal Culverhouse for Spinfuel eMagazine Compared to Australia, where buying or selling nicotine fluid is illegal, the UK’s laws on vaping are fairly relaxed. In fact, since Public Health England estimated that e-cigarettes are 95% [...]