These articles and blogs are certainly sufficient for me personally for a day

I used to get such funny comments on my blog before I went and stupidly linked my blog to Google+. I can't decide if it was a good thing or not. People who used to comment, now don't because they have to have a Google+ account to do so. It's really a blackmail system by Google which they first introduced in a very confusing way on YouTube. I think now I have gone and done it, there's no way back, except to move to WordPress. I'm toying with that idea.

I have become part of the Google blackmail system. And the silly comments still come anyway.

Yesterday I got this.

p#####  #######t shared your blog post on Google+

These articles and blogs are certainly sufficient for me personally for a day.
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Now, it's seemingly innocuous, but I have hooted with laughter at the implications!  I ABSOLUTELY AGREE!

These articles and blogs are certainly sufficient for me personally for a day.

Is Vaping going wrong or is it going right?

I began to think about my blog for 2 January 2014 when someone commented on it.
Hon Lik - we deserve more in 2014 and I hope it will be a good year

I was disappointed in Hon Lik's opinion on the electronic cigarette he himself invented. I felt he was in the pocket of Big Pharma - and maybe he is.  Mr Lik's invention is now in generations 2,3 and 4, unrecognisable from the first electronic cigarettes that hardly emitted any vapour at all. They are not the same thing. Now we have Personal Vapourisers. And smokers are moving over to them in droves. We, at last, have technology that really works and fills the big hole in our hearts that occurred when, as vapers, we stopped smoking burning tobacco.

Is vaping going wrong or is it going right?

I think it's going right. The shear numbers are good! Over two million of us in the UK. More and more vendors offer an ego type battery and tank as a starter kit- that's good in my eyes - let's leave Mr Lik's cigalikes behind. But even they have improved.

So we are getting numbers on our side. If smokers saw vaping as an option they themselves should have, even if vaping simply was a poke-in-the-eye to the face of the smoking ban - that's good too isn't it? In a way, smokers are softening up to vapers as they see the boot fall on us too. I don't think it's delighted spite. I think it is the comradie of a despised group together. They told us so, and so it is.

But I think the vaping situation is going right as the "experts" and anti-smoking brigade are trollied out in the media. They are making such arses of themselves, that no logical person could possibly believe what they are saying. This morning's BBC report is a good example of better coverage than we have previously seen. Less puerile. It was quite uplifting in fact. No cigalikes were shown. And the guy trollied out at the end - the expert, no less, Dr Peter MCKereth - shot himself in the foot by implying that banning vaping would make us smoke. On re watching him to write this blog, even he wasn't so bad. What a nice way to start the week.

So I think Vaping is going right in the UK at the moment -  or is it my rose tinted spectacles?

Here it is. Let me make your day!

FDA Regulation against vaping - seriously - How To Submit?

If you follow my blog, you know it is seldom measured or diplomatic. It is my personal vent. I have very good health and sleep well at night because I can let rip here. It's my therapy.

But, despite all the ranting that I have done in the past, hoping to generate the same passion in others, it is now time to be deadly serious.

In our efforts to thwart short sighted legislation we must take time to be polite, yet honest. We need to contemplate, cogitate and respond correctly. This is no time for throwing insults like I do, or calling the Tobacco Control in all its forms "zombie anti-tobacco cult people" or any other sneering terms, no matter how delicious it feels.Those are just vague swipes at the general enemy. Now is the time to aim precisely.

We CAN do something.  In the USA, you have the option of contacting the FDA. Don't hurry. There is time to be polite and measured.

Currently, the best post on what to do in the USA is this one I have read from DimiSphere (quoted below) - But we could also use these ideas in the UK on our own politicians, yes? and why can't we also write to the FDA? Their final decision will affect the world ultimately.

FDA Regulations, what can we do NOW!

Quote - 

" Submit your comments to the FDA

The above URL will take you to the place where you can submit YOUR comments! Some information you may be able to share includes:

A personal and concise story about how the E-Cigarette products that have been introduced into the market in the past 4 years (my bold) have helped keep you away from using traditional tobacco products.

Express that while flavors may be appealing to youths, they are also much preferred to the nasty taste of tobacco cigarettes. These flavors and the variety of options available are paramount to the success of E-Cigarettes as an alternative choice for adult smokers.  Explain any and all health benefits you have seen since this change in your life style!

There are many many more things that can be said, I encourage you to be true and honest to your own personal experience. Please encourage friends & family members to submit their comments as well!

While these talking points are a great way for vapers to voice the effectiveness of these new products, nothing is more beneficial than scientific data! While submitting your comments, the FDA allows for you to upload an attachment. Here are a few examples of those studies!

http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/10/12/7272 (Downloadable PDF of the Impact of Flavour Variability)

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/08958... (Downloadable PDF - Toxicology study on vapor proves electronic cigarettes are much better than tobacco)

http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/4/4356(Downloadable PDF - Switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes has significant health benefits, according to a survey of more than 19,000 users)

http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140226/srep04133/...(Downloadable PDF - Nicotine Abosprtion from Electronic Cigarette use between "First generation" (pre 2007) and Third Generation Devices)

http://publichealth.drexel.edu/~/media/Files/publi...(Downloadable PDF - Chemicals generally found in E-Cigarettes pose no health concerns)

http://ecigarettereviewed.com/wp-content/uploads/2...(Downloadable PDF - Dangers of over-regulating E-Cigarettes)

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/14/18/abstr...(Downloadable PDF - No Concern for Bystanders of Second Hand Vapor)

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458...(Downloadable PDF - Effect of E-Cigarettes on smoking reduction and cessation)

http://goo.gl/LhEDoK(Downloadable PDF - Study that found of more than 2000 former smokers in this survey, 96% reported that the e-cigarette helped them to stop smoking)" end quote


Doing something makes the head rest comfortably on your pillow at night. Do not let what is happening in the vaping world affect your health. Your personal health comes first. We are watching the procession of History. PEOPLE make History. And WE ARE THOSE PEOPLE.

Stay cool. Vape on. Spread the word. And do not trample on on the shoulders of smokers to achieve your goal. We are all in this together.

Namaste

EU and FDA say nyah nyah ny nyah na - smokers and vapers unite please

If you are familiar with EU regulations on e cigs  -  see the clearest explanation on Clive Bates blog here, and the fact that the World Health Organisation wish to classify all nicotine containing products as "Tobacco" Products, yesterday's FDA proposal published in the morning (in UK), is no surprise.

Whereas if you live in the USA, you have some power over the FDA, the citizens of the EU, have virtually none. 

Some of the worst clangers I can see on the FDA proposals which are so mind bogglingly repetitive don't bother to read them - but perhaps read Michael Siegel HERE, are the fact that the "science" they used to formulate their decisions, was antediluvian and cringingly ignorant, and that all products introduced onto the market since February 2007 will have to apply for licensing (from the FDA of course). Well, anyway, those are the two aspects that struck me. 2007!!! FFS! And the science seemed from then too!

Both the EU the FDA have made sure that the winners will be the three best friends, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and the Regulatory Industries, who will be able to afford (or reap) the costs of regulation on their future products, secure in the knowledge that innovation by the small man will be securely stifled while they prosper.

And there they are with their thumbs in their ears, fingers waving, shouting nyah nyah ny nyah na to all the smokers and vapers in the world. 

Whether you are a smoker or a vaper, this concerns both vapers and smokers. Taking nicotine the electronic way is an option that we should both be entitled to. Everyone should work together. I am very keen on that, being myself an angry smoker who vapes only because I prefer it. I don't expect every smoker who tries it to prefer vaping to smoking. But the very best personal vapourisers, the ones that really please, are the NEW ones. The EU regulations and the FDA proposed regulations are another screw in the Tobacco Control Torture regime for global citizens, as it is the NEW and INNOVATIVE that will be suffocated i.e the really good stuff, that works

So I ask myself,  which corporations will be advanced by the new regulations? And the answer, to me at least, seams to be, The Corporations of Money and Greed - Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, Big Anti Tobacco, Government Regulatory Bodies, and the rapacious European Union.

What can we do?

We can write in and comment on the FDA proposals for 75 days from now (Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov  Follow the instructions for submitting comments.)
and
Citizens of the USA can write to their congressman/woman telling their own stories.

In the UK, you could vote for UKIP in the May EU Elections so that we can frighten our government into listening to its people.
and
You could sign EFVI - The European Free Vaping Initiative whether you are smoker, vaper or simply friend or relative.

Everything that is happening to smokers and vapers, is going to affect to us BOTH.

As an angry smoker, I feel furious that the sods who made my life so miserable as a smoker are doing it all over again. Within me, the angry smoker and the angry vaper are united!

Ashtrays for smokers

This link below is about ashtrays on campus - a "new" idea!

Charley Guptill: Ashtrays a simple solution to addressing cigarette litter

Quote - 

"Sarna said in an email that ashtrays were not in the “spirit” of the tobacco-free policy. By this logic, ashtrays signal an acceptance of smoking. But ashtrays are not necessarily an endorsement of tobacco use; rather, they serve as both an acknowledgment that it happens and a way to contain and limit the effects of litter."

When "smokefree" became the in thing here in the UK, ashtrays, sandboxes and bins with a butt tops, simply disappeared as if smokers had too! Filthy disgusting smokers out on the streets, strutting their butts simply dropped them on the ground.

I had a running row with the station master of our nearest station to clean it up outside the entrance where every ashtray of any variety had been removed. It is a well kept station belonging to Virgin Trains in the North West. The station master assured me the litter outside the entrance was caused by the smokers and I said it was caused by him having removed any kind of ashtray to give the smokers a place to throw their cigarette ends. He said it wasn't the policy of Virgin Trains to provide anything for smokers.

The most offensive situation I found myself in many years back when every building had some sort of smoking room, was to have to attend a training day where the venue's smoking room was the disused mens' urinal at the back of the building. I can't describe the awfulness of it.

I also can't describe the assault I felt personally by the smokefree blitzkrieg that changed the world from free to chained.

I am  an angry and offended smoker, even though I don't smoke. How I was treated as a smoker has been the one great sleight of my life. I will never get over it. It is the power that steams my energy to defend vaping. It is the energy that fuels me still to hate Tobacco Control, Public Health, the European Tobacco Control Directive, the World Health Organisation and all the little people who promote smokefree in any way. They have totally abused society.

I am one of the older generation to whom no consideration was given. The older generation who actually USED ashtrays. I can totally understand why younger smokers just chuck their cigarette butts onto the ground on any university campus, or even in the street. They have never seen a proper ashtray and have, for their whole lives, been consigned to smoke in the most despised places.

Anti smoking and vaping zombie cult followers awaken

Dr Farselino's Study has made an IMPRESSION!

"Complete substitution of smoking was reported by 81.0% of participants (former smokers) while current smokers had reduced smoking consumption from 20 to 4 cigarettes per day."

and

" Side effects were reported by more than half of the participants (59.8%), with the most common being sore/dry mouth and throat; side effects were mild and in most cases were subsequently resolved (partially or completely). Participants experienced significant benefits in physical status and improvements in pre-existing disease conditions (including respiratory disease such as asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease)."

The study has been noticed by The American Council on Science and Health.

A large online survey shows that users of e-cigarettes are smokers trying to quit — and they are succeeding!

Quote -

"ACSH’s Dr. Gil Ross had this comment: “This is another brick in what I am certain will soon be a very large wall of data supporting what I have believed obvious for a while: e-cigarettes will provide a major improvement for addicted adult (and teen) smokers seeking an escape from smoking’s grip. The components of e-cigs are insufficiently toxic to render harm unto anyone, ex-smoker, bystander, whoever, while supplying the chemical and behavioral input to allow smokers to quit with more ease than the highly ineffective, FDA-approved products. These data echo what I’ve seen on ACSH’s website for helping smokers find the facts about e-cigs, now ‘liked’ by over 33,000 contributors with stories of how they finally quit. By this year’s end, those ‘public health experts’ who continue to rail against e-cigs and issue dire warnings to smokers not to try them, will seem foolish at best and vilely corrupt at worst. The problem then will be to revoke all the inane bans and restrictions thrown up ‘in the interest of public health’ or ‘to protect our children.’ Protect our cigarette tax receipts is the more honest basis for these, as someday will be known.”"


ACSH’s Dr. Gil Ross has made a POSITIVE comment (insightful too)! In fact The American Council on Science and Health don't look as if they harbor zombie anti vaping cult followers but they might have zombie anti smoking cult followers on board.

What can I say? Zombie anti smoking/vaping cult followers all over the world release yourselves from your shriveled existence. There has been a stake to your hearts! Over NINETEEN THOUSAND consumers have spoken to a scientist to produce a real life peer reviewed study. Now is the time to set yourselves free from the dogma and creed you regurgitate. Enlightenment is upon you. Awaken!

Vapers and smokers, do you know about screwing?

Vapers and smokers, do you know about screwing?

No, I don't mean being screwed by the profitable employment of the anti tobacco cult zombie people who get their livelihood in Public Health, in advisory groups, in lobby groups, in quango's, in The World Health Organisation, and in corporations, all of them wanting to control and tax us.

Electronic cigarettes are the consumer product that smokers are adopting to keep their lives pleasant, healthy and un-threatened by endemic smoking bans. They are wonderful. They are wonderful any way we use them. Whether we prefer them to smoking, as I do, whether we use them to quit, whether we use them to vape where smoking is banned, can any bad word be said against them?

Well yes - if you are a one of the anti tobacco cult zombie people who have been so habitually against smoking, and who now can't think straight. They are churning out mis-inormation and frightening the people, just like they did with smoking. They are biting off their noses to spite their faces. How stupid are they? The one technology that could reduce smoking significantly is being trashed!

So, it's not that kind of screwing I'm talking about.

This is what I'm talking about. I didn't know it myself but if you screw your tank/cartomiser/atomiser on your Personal Vapouriser or electronic cigarette too tightly on the battery, you wreck the pins (don't know if you'd call it a pin) that sends the electricity from the battery to the tank/cartomiser/atomiser. Furthermore, some air flows cannot work properly on a tight connection. Putting the tank/cartomiser/atomiser onto the battery should be done with the lightest touch and not screwed down tight. Don't strangle the flow of electricity. I have actually been loosening my tanks on my batteries - it really does give a better vape!

I learned that by listening to Dave Dorn on The Haze Hour, last night!  See from 24:45 min in. But the whole show is entertaining and worth watching - it only begins 13min in......