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6 days ago

Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, said that e-cigarettes have undergone drastic changes in recent years. "Prior to technological advancements made around 2013, e-cigarette devices were difficult to use and only effective for the most dedicated of would-be quitters," he said.
Devices used years earlier "bear no resemblance to current technology," he said, "so using ancient data is not particularly helpful to understanding whether vaping products can help smokers quit today."

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2 weeks ago

The move is part of a wider policy to make the sites entirely “smoke-free” with cigarette shelters turned into vaping areas.

The ban on smoking is policed by security guards and CCTV cameras, while vaping outside is allowed, as long as it is away from doorways.

Public Health England has said all trusts should go smoke-free, but a third are yet to set a date.
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2 weeks ago

The good news & the bad news...

GOOD
Public Health England’s chief executive, Duncan Selbie, called the data “really positive news”, while the agency’s tobacco control chief Martin Dockrell said, “Vaping remains the most popular way to quit and already this year several major studies have said it is twice as effective as nicotine replacement therapy.”

Now the grim reality from Vermont...

BAD, VERY BAD
"Democratic Party state representative George Till, chose a particularly destructive way to go about it. An additional sales tax is reasonably survivable for businesses that can absorb the loss of sales, because no tax has to be paid until products have actually been sold (and the tax collected from the consumer). However, Vermont is collecting a wholesale tax, which shops have to pay before they sell their stock; for many small businesses, effectively doubling the cost of their stock is just too much to cope with; when Pennsylvania introduced a 40% wholesale tax in 2016, over 500 vape shops went out of business."

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2 weeks ago

The pharma wolf is deadlier than ever and it's right there in front of you ... wanting your money, your health, your life, with little or no remorse.

"... it’s the pharmaceutical industry that has managed to insert themselves into every facet of this epidemic, keeping the machine running, and making a profit regardless of whether people who smoke live or die. They influence the science that says vaping is bad and garner support from trusted non-profits so that no one questions the tainted science. They corrupt the legislative process in order to cripple their competition and increase their own sales thereby stoking their profits which fund this strategy in an on-going, self-perpetuating cycle."
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2 weeks ago

The researchers followed 188,167 Australians from the Sax Institute's 45 and Up study (8 per cent smokers and 36 per cent past smokers) for a median of seven years, monitoring them for 36 types of CVD. They also analysed hospitalisation and mortality data.

The study is the first of its kind to trace the destructive trail of smoking through the entire cardiovascular system. #ecigarettes #THR #vapingaustralia the vapers ... See MoreSee Less