Thank you Vapers

This blog is about vaping -  happy clapping celebrating vaping and defending vaping from persecution too.

Here are some statistics on my blog.

This is my 101st post. My 100th post "Do vapers know this?" had a lot of reads. But the one of all time was "Incandescent - shame on you Facebook!"

The USA reads my blog more than anywhere else.

United States	1886
United Kingdom	991
Russia	220
Canada	123
Germany	82
Australia	43
Poland	30
China	27
Philippines	17
Brazil	13

Thank you all those who have read my posts!

I have 13 followers - thank you lovely followers!

I follow 27 other people's blogs. There are many more I'd like to follow but I already have information overload. These 27 are people who are working daily to spread the word on the Internet that NO! things as they are, are NOT all right. They are using their right to free speech. The ones who are regular, chiseling away at those things they see as injustices, have my great admiration. It takes focus and discipline to do that. Thank you for wielding, on my behalf, my right to free speech.

You say it so well!

Do vapers know this?

On Sunday a Swiss plebiscite voted AGAINST a smoking ban as we have it in the UK/USA. They OVERWHELMINGLY voted AGAINST it. This is the first country, that I know of where the people/citizens have been asked about their attitude to smoking.

It doesn't matter if you are a vaper who dispises smoking because you have overcome it - or a vaper that considers themselves a smoker that vapes, this is an astonishing event! Whatever happens to smokers, will happen to us, because in the minds of Anti smokers, vaping IS smoking.

Two things come to mind that vapers should know.

The first is - if we now despise smokers (we are better because we vape) - we are in bed with our own enemy who demonises smokers and smoking and has twisted our minds to feel that.

The second is - if you have seen nothing about the "against-the-ban" vote in Switzerland in the press, it's because our enemy is not reporting any good news for smokers. This is proof that nearly everything we know about smoking has to be suspect.

I am WAITING for an article in the press, or a report in the news. Please let me know if you find one!

One small step? Or a Giant leap?

The result of the Swiss vote today seems really sane to me - I am pleased for once. The UK Government should take note. When Cameron came to power, I remember a reassessing of the smoking ban was promised. What happened?  Well, like many other promises and my vote in the future, it all went to pot.

It would be nice to live in a democracy instead of a lobbyocracy. 

Surely our politicians realise who manipulates them?  And how corrupt a lobbyocracy is? And how, to be a politician in a lobbyocracy you have to be specially adept at NOT getting yourself hoodwinked by sockpuppets?

Review the smoking ban like you promised!

Knife sharpening for anti-Vapers

I sometimes network links I find to anti-tobacco research - but I can't see all the studies because you either have to pay - or join up!

Recently, I see there are tons of "papers" being published. I suppose Tobacco Control are gearing up for their big conference in November....

Here are some links I can't follow....

Menthol Cigarettes and Mortality: Keeping Focus on the Public Health Standard

AC Villanti, GA Giovino, DM Burns, DB Abrams - Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2012

... exposure among individual users are only one line of evidence in the context of the public health
mandate of considering the population level harms versus benefits of banning ... Published by Oxford
University Press on behalf of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. ...

The Relative Risk to Health From Snus and Cigarettes: Response to Grimsrud et al.'s Commentary on “Perceptions of the Relative Harmfulness of Snus Among …

I Lund, J Scheffels - Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2012

... From a harm-reduction perspective, replacing cigarettes with less harmful nicotine products can
in some instances be encouraged. ... does not also arise from smoking and that a substitution of
smokeless tobacco (ST) for cigarettes would have the following public health benefits: ...

Impact of Smoking Exposure Change on Infant Birth Weight Among a Cohort of Women in a Prenatal Smoking Cessation Study

R Benjamin-Garner, A Stotts - Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2012

... However, there is limited information on the benefits of smoking reduction ... As a primary metabolite
of nicotine, cotinine serves as a direct measure of smoking consumption and has been used
in studies assessing the impact of smoking on fetal growth restriction (Lambers & Clark ...

Converging Research Needs Across Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Articles: Making Research Relevant to Global Tobacco Control Practice and Policy

SJ Leischow, O Ayo-Yusuf, CL Backinger - Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2012

... Nicotine & Tobacco Research . (2012). Harris JK,; Provan KG,; Johnson KJ,; Leischow SJ. (2012).
Drawbacks and benefits associated with inter- organizational collaboration along the
discovery–development– delivery continuum: A cancer research network case study ...


Remember:-

If it's about Tobacco - its about US! 

Dog whistle, my foot!

I was walking home from the town yesterday, with my dog lead in my right hand and my PV in my semi paralysed left hand as I am wont to do. My left hand "clutches" well, no trouble holding anything in it - nothing will ever fall out! So I carry my PV there - it hides the annoying stroke position and people think I am carrying something instead of walking "funny". I met someone I hadn't seen for over a year.

He greeted me and then exclaimed "What a wonderful dog whistle!" indicating my PV . I was really taken back and it seemed soooo amusing!

He got an excellent lesson on vaping.

Dog whistle, my foot!

No Sheeple people vapers please!

 If you are a vaper, and you want to do something useful for future generations, (and yourself), you could sign this petition....

Petition to the Government

Or, you could keep yourself on the ball with how persecution of your habit might pan out. We have ample examples of how it was done by Anti-smokers - so KNOWING is essential to halting the attack on us. I like Frank Davis's Black Lung post... For me this was extra special, because a nursing friend - a theatre sister, told me she had never seen one in ordinary smokers.

Then, follow those who are promoting our cause! Spread their blogs on social media sites. The only way we can actually expose how society is manipulated to believe things that fanatics WANT us to believe, is by exposing their machinations. Here is an exposure from today - Tippex! 

And here's another.

Become knowledgeable about Anti Tobacco ruses. Don't think smoking has got nothing to do with us - it has everything to do with us!

We must not become sheeple people!

My costs per month of vaping

I have just spent hours working out what I have spent monthly in a year of vaping.

I spend, on average £46.77 per month. (about $76)

If I smoked as I used to, I would be spending £51.28 (about $83.29)

I used to roll my own cigarettes.

I vape using Egos, tanks and with interesting bits a bobs and I mix my own e-liquid as a rule. So my vaping is no more expensive than my smoking was.

HOWEVER! If I modded and bought all sorts of experimental stuff and wadges of e-liquid, it would be more expensive than rolling my own baccy analogs.

BUT! If I vaped plain little electronic cigarettes with cartomisers instead of becoming a hobby vapourist, it would be much cheaper than rolling my own I think.

And all the above, is cheaper than buying packets of commercial cigarettes like some people I know who spend £200 ($324.87) per month on smoking. Wow!