Bill G is the world's most active and successful anti-smoking harm campaigner. He is different from the other anti-smokers that you will come across because he wants to reduce the harm to smokers and is prepared to work with them instead of just against them. Almost all other anti-smoking activists want to eliminate both the tobacco companies and smokers, who they see as equally problematic. If all smokers died tomorrow then that would be fine by the tobacco control industry.
There is a difference between anti-smoking and anti-harm campaigners. The latter are much fewer in number, and like Bill, support THR. Anti-smoking activists don't support THR for numerous reasons. Bill is a very good friend to vapers, partly because he is so well-respected at government level, and is widely known as honest and independent. When he supports THR (tobacco harm reduction - ecigs, Snus etc.) then Reps and Senators listen.
He compiles a weekly listing of web resources for those who are fighting unjust regulation / restriction / bans of ecigs, Snus and so on. It is immensely useful to those of us involved in community activism. It is of no use whatsoever to the average vaper as we do the work on your behalf; but if you ever join in the fight to defend your rights, then Bill's THR updates may become of interest. For the core activists in our community, the THRU is invaluable - it probably takes at least 10 hours a week to compile, so it saves the rest of us that workload and it flags up resources we might otherwise have missed.
Vaping activists get the update by email direct from Bill. He is a bit old-fashioned and many of us have been trying to persuade him for years to get a website. On the other hand, it might involve him in legal issues he can do without - so I and others publish it for him.
The E-Cigarette Politics website is my own personal vaping resource centre, where I publish materials for our campaigners that are difficult to find (also for journalists, politicians, pundits, bloggers, medics or anyone else who wants to read materials that are free of the normal tobacco control industry propaganda). I also publish materials that relate to the corruption that drives most anti-ecig obstruction, which hardly anyone else does. I can publish materials there that I cannot here.
So in conclusion Bill's stuff and my website are of no interest to many/most vapers. You'll know if you need it. It's for those who are prepared to fight, instead of lying down and accepting the worthless pittance that some of the most corrupt people on the face of the earth will allow you.
