Category: News

Dr Farsilanos (full disclosure, does get some funding from e-cig industry donations, but is nevertheless highly regarded as a scientist in the field) and his team, have just had a research paper published showing that key toxins and carcinogens in tobacco

Although our customers have never expressed any interest in this product, we are still interested in what it will do for the image and health impacts of electronic vaping devices. Up until now, vaping has been about nicotine – not increasing

New research shows benefits to asthmatic smokers and their lung function after 1 year of switching to e-cigs: “Every one of the objective and subjective measures of asthma status evaluated in the study showed statistically significant improvement 1 year after patients

In the search for treatments to prevent deterioration of the brain in aging and alzheimers, hopefully to delay or prevent cognitive loss, researchers have looked at chemical changes in the brain that they may block in order to protect this vital

Some good news from Canada. MP’s there have recommended in a rare all-party concensus that bans on e-cigarettes are not a valid option and vaping could help further reduce smoking rates. The report was described as ‘much better than expected’ by

Dr Derek Yach was at the forefront of the global movement against tobacco use. Now he has declared that anti-ecig attitudes amongst lobbyists and government agencies is a threat to public health, that they supply virtually no evidence of their claims

The latest research on conventional e-cigs has been published, in the wake of the highly misleading formaldehyde scare, and it tested not only all the toxins looked at before and found to be almost absent from e-cig vapour but also the

In a very predictable move, EU bureaucrats have re-actively proposed a way to achieve tax ‘parity’ between conventional tobacco and e-cigarettes, most likely on e-liquids. The increased levy they propose would mean adding something like 57% value-added tax to products. The

The point of an e-cig is not, firstly, to get people hooked on nicotine. It was invented for a simple purpose, and that was to create a low temperature vaporiser that could deliver nicotine much more safely to people who were

Myth 1 – e-cigarettes produce formaldehyde at dangerous levels. The truth is crucially different. Only certain e-cigarettes MAY produce formaldehyde and under certain conditions. Most will not. Myth 2 – the formaldehyde seen exclusively in exceptional circumstances represents a cancer risk