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Electronic Cigarettes in the News 2 January 2015
Happy New Year! In the coming year, may the sun shine on your face, the wind stay at your back and the road rise to meet your every step. We've successfully made it through another year and, despite the best efforts of those who would really rather we dried up and blew away, it seems, the Electronic Cigarette Industry is, not only still alive, but growing by leaps and bounds.As you'll see, from this post-holiday news round-up, the war is not over, and there are battles still to be fought. Like d
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5th Jan 2015
Electronic Cigarettes in the News, 17 December 2014
To me, the single most amazing thing about Electronic Cigarettes is not that they make such a wide variety of flavours available, nor is it that they come in such a wide variety of styles and price ranges. No, the thing that is the most amazing is that something that doesn’t burn with either flame or ember can cause such an unrelenting firestorm, of controversy, across the globe.Reading through this week’s news, it once again becomes obvious that not even the experts can agree. Without
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23rd Dec 2014
Big Tobacco - If You Can’t Beat Them Buy Them
Big Tobacco - If You Can’t Beat Them Buy ThemWe recently reported here on the efforts of Big Tobacco (BT), under the guise of consumer protectionism, to have open tank electronic cigarettes (Mods) banned in the United States. As pointed out in that article, this should not come as a great surprise.With the sale of traditional cigarettes on a slow but steady decline (4%/yr for the last 10 years), traditional tobacco companies had at first thought of their e-cigs as a replacement product. They wer
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22nd Sep 2014
Experiencing the Kanger Aero-Tank V.2
Experiencing the Kanger Aero-Tank V.2I’ve become a bit of a fan of the Kanger clearomisers since Exhale started to introduce them some months ago. Like many vapers I’m always pretty keen to try the newest and latest technology available. Although I have to say, I am still filled with trepidation when it comes to the MOD devices and have yet to pluck up the courage to kit myself out and have a go.But, to be honest I’ve been getting everything I want from 'off the shelf' devices which are so very
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11th Sep 2014
Imagine a smoke-free workplace
Where does your company stand on the subject of vaping
indoors? If you are an employer, do you allow workers to vape at their desks or have you introduced a
new policy where e-cigarettes have been outlawed and you ask staff to vape
outside?Currently there are no laws that enforce a vaping ban
indoors, but some UK businesses have taken the decision to ban workers from using
e-cigarettes at their desks. Have they made the right decision though?There’s a case to be argued in favour of e-c
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10th Sep 2014