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So here’s a turn-up for the books. Just like alcohol retailers joyously taking to the concept of informing us all that we should drink responsibly, tobacco companies are now trying to convince us that they have our best health interests at heart! Call me cynical, but with an estimated 100,000 deaths a year in the UK linked to smoking, according to ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), and vaping reported as being the fastest growing and most effective way of helping their customers to break their toxic habit, I’m not at all surprised that big tobacco are trying to find new ways to curb the e-cigarette market.

We love e-cigarettes – of course we do or we wouldn’t be selling them, selecting only the best mods and e-liquid flavours for our online and in-store customers and helping some of the 4 million plus vapers in the UK to get access to the finest quality vaping products and accessories. But, according to current affairs magazine Spiked, the situation in the US seems infinitely more hazardous for their electronic cigarette market than it is over here.

OK, so the youth of today may consider themselves to be streetwise and savvy, looking down their collective noses at the person using such words that are so…like…last Tuesday. But the government, numerous respected studies, the major political parties and various smoking charities assure us that young people’s decisions are still being influenced, and manipulated, by trends created by targeted marketing that make smoking look ‘cool’ (there you go, another word to show my age). How do you feel about that?

Life can sometimes be hard for critics of e-cigarettes. Just as quickly as they invent new ways to discredit vaping, they see their myths evaporate into thin air. One thing I do agree with, however, is that more research on e-cigarettes is needed. Every bit of new information gives us an opportunity to learn more about the long-term effects of electronic cigarettes, and allay doubts smokers may have about quitting. It will also no doubt further disprove many of the arguments used against e-cigarettes.

It seems like it’s every other day that new evidence arrives of vaping’s ability to help smokers kick their habit. Just last month, a Belgian study saw people reduce the number of cigarettes they smoke by an astounding 60%. Now, Cancer Research UK reports of a comprehensive study by The Cochrane Collaboration, a not-for-profit organisation focusing on medical research, which found that e-cigarettes helped smokers quit or cut down on smoking.

One of the arguments that those determined to fight against e-cigarettes often use to scaremonger the general public is that its popularity could lead to more people taking up smoking. Well, that argument’s just had a whole load of holes blown through it by, of all organisations, the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Camel cigarette maker Reynolds America Incorporated (RAI) has taken the decisive, though quite frankly baffling, step of banning smoking in their offices in a move toward a ‘smoke-free workplace’. I don’t know about you, but that makes about as much sense as Facebook blaming a fall in productivity on the overuse of social media in their offices or Land Rover providing each of its employees with a Toyota Prius to save on fuel costs! It seems crazy that such an established organisation after having fended off years of attacks on its products for health and life related issues, should so publicly imply that maybe, just maybe, everyone was right all along.

We've all known for a while now that smoking indoors around children and non-smoking family members isn't exactly beneficial to their health, to say the least. But according to new research published by the British Medical Journal's Tobacco Control Journal, living with smokers could be just as bad for your health as living in the heart of a heavily-polluted city.

Fabulous news for all vapers and those who wish to quit smoking – the Committees of Advertising Practice (CAP) has ruled that from 10 November this year, TV adverts displaying electronic cigarettes can be shown in the UK – finally!

France’s Health Minister Marisol Touraine has announced a raft of proposals to reduce smoking in the country. These measures are aimed specifically at younger smokers and would-be smokers, as they are currently the most rapidly growing group in the country’s 13 million smokers. And with around 73,000 premature deaths a year from smoking in France, it is not surprising at all that their government has decided that enough is enough – but could they be going too far? Could they in fact be missing the opportunity to lead the way in Europe in turning their smokers into quitters?