Why Vaping Is 95% Less Harmful Than Smoking (Infographic)

This morning, I was contacted by Steve Barrett of purplebox vapours in Ireland, who shared with me the following amazingly informative infographic. I’d like to share it with you this morning, but first, a word from Steve: E-cigs are ninety-five percent less harmful than smoking, according to a recent landmark review by a government body. ·        

All’s Stupid At The Western Front

  It’s easy to get disheartened, if you’re a vaper who reads the news. There’s so much out there to be down about, with business press outlets and pop culture magazines attacking vaping with little or no real information on which to base their attacks.      But what’s most troublesome — more than the misinformation or outright disinformation that’s being

All About The Benjamins: Is Tobacco Tax Income Too Important For Politicians To Lose?

    The electronic cigarette industry seems to attract more than its fair share of critics and there are conspiracy theories as to why some politicians seem determined to crush the sector. Ultimately politicians around the world have an obligation to protect the health of the population but there is a growing suspicion that an undue reliance on tobacco tax

Who Called Off The Dogs Of War On Vaping? Nobody, That’s Who

  Disclaimer: I used to write for Spinfuel eMagazine. I did not leave under the smoothest of terms. Never the less, and with that said, this response is not in any way intended as an attack on that publication, its staffers, its sponsors, or anyone else. I’ve been following the narrative coming out of the FDA, CASAA, and various vaping media figures such as Phil

FDA “Deeming Regulations” And You

    So the FDA has handed down its “Deeming Regulations”, and the thing is, they don’t seem all that bad. You can’t sell to minors (not that anybody was.) You have to list a nicotine content warning and an ingredients list (not that anybody wasn’t.) They’re “not” banning anything, including tasty vape flavors — except, here’s the problem: Every.

The Precautionary Principle and Castle’s Wager • Spinfuel Magazine

The Precautionary Principle and Castle’s Wager • Spinfuel Magazine: “” (Via Spinfuel.)

“Nicotine Isn’t The Most Addictive Drug In Cigarettes ‹ Newsweek Pakistan”; Or, Gee, Ya Don’t Say!

Nicotine Isn’t The Most Addictive Drug In Cigarettes ‹ Newsweek Pakistan: (Via Newsweek Pakistan.) Just as important as it is to me to expose faulty, biased propaganda disguised as journalism, it’s also important to me to highlight investigative journalism that sheds light on truth. You might wonder how it’s possible to tell the difference; after all, just as is true

10 things e-cigarettes won’t tell you – 10 things – MarketWatch

Note: I’m going to end up fucking swearing a lot and abusing the bold and italics. I do that not to “shout” at you, but because I have a tendency to post the way I would imagine the text would be spoken if narrated out loud. And some of this stuff really demands that kind of inflective emphasis. (Edit: I

Are We The Enemy?

I’ve given this a lot of thought. I’ve talked about it with others in other places. Edward Snowden betrayed the National Security Agency, and for that he’s being called a traitor. Let’s take a second and review what that means. The closest that applies to what Snowden has done is found in Oran’s Law Dictionary (1983) in which it is

When they come callin’, demandin’ that you kneel…

You tell ’em to “Pogue Mahon!” The only man — or woman — that’s got any sway over you, is you. Only message on this, ever. But you remember it. YOU own you. Nobody else does. Nobody else, EVER.