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A big thank you to all friends outside the UK who signed the petition! If you're outside the UK and haven't signed, please do sign it, explaining why it concerns you. My reasoning, as I wrote above, is that if just one country resists idiotic restrictions on e-cigarettes, that will help reason...

Please do sign the petition and support Lord Callanan in this. If signing the petition, do be honest about where you're writing from (when I signed it at work today, in the UK, it came up in French for some reason!) and if you're not in the UK, explain why this is important to you as a non-UK...

I facepalmed when I read this news. Even if the tobacco company is liable (of which I'm not sure), the amount is ludicrous. It bears no relation to the actual harm caused (compare payouts for deaths in, say, industrial accidents due to negligence). It's a clear sign of irrational, frustrated...

We need a Darth Vaper to deal with all these ill-informed articles: I Find Your Lack Of Facts... Disturbing..... [force-choke] :tongue:

Yes, I spotted the BBC's careless mis-spelling of his name in the video intro! If you like this scientist's rational approach to e-cigarettes, there's a full speech he gave at the Global Nicotine Forum in Warsaw here...

I often get depressed reading the steaming pile of [CENSORED] the media, and certain individuals who continue to term themselves scientists (contrary to all evidence) are shoving in everyone's faces about e-cigarettes. So here's a happy thread for a change. Prof Peter Hajek's oration at the...

Thank you for posting this link Jake6731! I was familiar with Mayer's name as he's the author of that study suggesting that the lethal dose of nicotine has been wildly under-estimated. (Google "nicotine dose self-experiments" to find it, I can't find the link right now). That blog post is...

Hi In the UK we're soon going to be voting for a new batch of MEPs. (Don't know about the rest of Europe). I've been in contact with my (Scotland) MEPs on the TPD issue, and have just looked back through how they responded. How they actually voted on February 26th - particularly with regard...

OH. MY. ****ING. GOD. Does anyone have a picture of the entire population of planet Earth, gathered in one place, face-palming while uttering the word "......" in unison? Nothing else will do this article justice. The only upside I can see, now, is that if McKee shows his face in any...

Hi all I got thinking a lot while commenting on the UK Guardian story about the latest idiotic pronouncement about vaping - in this case, a proposal for a ban in public places in Wales. Guardian story is Electronic cigarettes may face public ban in Wales | UK news | The Guardian; there's also...

Particular sensible bits from this report: and and We now have eminently-quotable opinions from a major UK medical institution, as ammunition against three very common fallacies: the "medical licensing or nothing" fallacy, the "gateway" fallacy, and the "renormalisation" fallacy. More...

That's unsafe, you could still start a fire by accident. Whenever I finish smoking my e-cig, I throw it in water before walking away. (BTW, why do people say vaping is cheaper than smoking? Isn't working out that way for me...) Thank you!!!! Now, finally, I understand(*) why the EU TPD bans...

Well spotted ANTZ-rhetoric. Did you notice that the BMA's Martin McKee used the same tactic, as quoted in a Guardian article a few weeks back? Exactly the same. Confronted with "e-cigs are not harmful", he moved the goalposts to "renormalisation" and undermining of the smoking ban exactly as...

In other news in this issue of the No-....-Sherlock Weekly: People Who Like Eating Cheese Also Like the Smell of Cheese, page 7 Ford Drivers Less Likely to Read Negative Reviews Of Ford Cars, page 13 Married People Notice Their Partner's Faults Less, page 19 PTSD-affected Combat Veterans...

This is actually a really interesting article. For example, this: is exactly the argument that's being used (or implied) when I and many other people here comment on junk-science stories about vaping. ANTZ spokespeople are clearly abusing the authority of "science" to undermine the public's...

That's a co-incidence.... I'm playing the world's smallest viola. Just two more people and we can celebrate this with the world's smallest string quartet. :laugh: My comment came through this time. It seems to be Disqus's lack of a real name + hometown that the mods don't like.

My comment was moderated. I'm HOPING that this is because I signed in with Disqus, which doesn't allow you to specify your full name and location, and the Herald site demands that. It's not very clever to allow Disqus comments if your rules make it impossible! Anyway, I've tried again using a...

The level of anger in the comments is encouraging. Lots of people saying exactly what I would.

That is extremely relevant to what just happened to us in Europe this week. In case you're not following the story, the EU Parliament voted to approve the TPD which limits liquid strength to 20mg/ml. With no scientific basis whatsoever. (Please do follow the story - these health zealots in...

Grrrrrr! :mad: :mad: That's my local paper! Added a comment. As I'm a new Disqus user, it's still in moderation. At least this article makes it clear (to the alert reader) what opposition to e-cigarettes is all about!