Vapers Progress to Open Systems
The World Health Organization (WHO) wants to ban them, but latest research from University College London (UCL) shows ex-smokers end up migrating to using open system vapes from whatever style...
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Vapers Progress to Open Systems
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What Do Doctors Know About Vaping?What Do Doctors Know About Vaping?
A new survey that covered over 15,000 doctors in eleven countries has discovered worryingly high levels of misunderstanding about nicotine and ignorance when it comes to vapes. The research was...
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Are Vapes Set To Come In Plain Packaging?Are Vapes Set To Come In Plain Packaging?
An increasing number of calls are being heard for vapes to only be available in plain packaging, recently one from Leeds city councillors drew a response from trade body the...
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CRUK Aims To Understand DisposablesCRUK Aims To Understand Disposables
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) is commissioning research looking at disposable vapes to find out why they appeal to adult smokers who are attempting to or have quit smoking. The charity's...
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Vapes Are Safer During PregnancyVapes Are Safer During Pregnancy
A University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus study is being reported and claims "vaping nicotine during pregnancy can be detrimental to the baby". Newspapers are publishing the claimed findings without...
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Is There A Problem With Vape Advocacy?Is There A Problem With Vape Advocacy?
Is there a problem with advocacy organisation claiming to represent vapers? One newspaper certainly thinks so in a recent article. It called some groups "AstroTurf" and sought to impugn their...
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Vaping: The FactsVaping: The Facts
A few self-appointed experts are sharing their feelings about vaping, but feelings aren't the same as facts and so this is a good time to get reacquainted with what the...
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WHO Plays Bad COPWHO Plays Bad COP
The World Health Organization's Framework Convention for Tobacco Control is set to hold its Conference of Parties later this year, in November, in Panama. This article looks at the threat...
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Are Vapes Dangerous?Are Vapes Dangerous?
Stories are cropping up in the media regarding vapers being hospitalised. Newspapers have listed off examples of seizures, being rendered unconscious, lungs failing and speak about a "vaping crisis". It...
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Banning Vaping Fails SmokersBanning Vaping Fails Smokers
A new study has found that taking a strong anti-vaping approach as part of an approach to combat tobacco use ends up being a threat to public health in South-East...
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UK eCigarettes Promoted by GovernmentUK eCigarettes Promoted by Government
This week's announcement that the Government has thrown its weight behind vaping is a huge boost to UK electronic cigarettes and has been broadly welcomed by the industry. With 2...
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eCigarettes Help EveryoneeCigarettes Help Everyone
Electronic cigarettes help smokers who want to escape from tobacco, but a new study shows they also help smokers who had not previous intention of quitting. In an interesting interview,...
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Vaping Can Save Money for the NHSVaping Can Save Money for the NHS
Cancer Research UK and Action on Smoking and Health have written to Jeremy Hunt MP, telling him that ending smoking would save the NHS billions of pounds. Both of the...
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The Importance of Flavoured VapesThe Importance of Flavoured Vapes
Flavoured ecig products are frequently attacked by those opposed to all forms of vaping but the evidence from research is that flavours play a key role in vaping working. A...
