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UK: Keep Calm but Don’t Vape
Before I get to the article from The Guardian I want to address the picture they used. It’s also the one I posted above. Could they try to make that picture look anymore like real smoking? All that there missing is some nicotine stains photoshopped on those fingers. Anyway it seems that in the UK…
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Fear and Vaping at the New York Times
This is exactly how you can tell that journalism is dead. The New York Times is supposed to be held at a much higher standard than most newspapers. They’re supposed to be a bastion of true journalism in a world of tabloids and misinformation. Yet when it comes to vaping this is the kind of…
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Silly Vapers, flavors are for kids
Recently at a Congressional budget hearing concerning the FDA, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley had the following to say about e-cigs and vaping in general… ” Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon said that the makers of e-cigarettes have a tendency to target young people through sweet-flavored vaping devices and strawberry-flavored cigars, in an “insidious strategy to addict…
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Philly mayor signs anti-vaping laws
Yesterday Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia signed anti-vaping legislation that will go into effect on July 1st. As is the norm with these type of laws it was done for all the wrong reasons. The laws will first ban the selling of e-cigs and vaporizers to minors. This is nothing more than what I like to call…
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CDC warns of new vaping risk: stupidity
CDC warns of new risk related to e-cigarettes: The anti-smoking advocates aren’t going to be happy until vaping (still hate that term) and e-cigarettes have the same stigmas as smoking. In my opinion the Centers for Disease Control is really reaching in their new findings. They now say that nicotine poisoning is on the rise…
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San Francisco to regulate vaping for all the wrong reasons
Supervisors propose regulations on electronic cigarettes : The city of San Francisco is getting ready to introduce legislation that would ban the sale of e-cigs and vaporizers except where regular tobacco products are allowed. The same will go for public vaping as well. Can’t smoke there? Can’t vape there as well. Honestly, I really don’t…
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Vaping does not look cool
Whether you want to admit it or not smoking looks cool. A lot of people probably started smoking because it looked cool. Hell, James Dean smoked and a lot of people think he’s the coolest person who ever lived. Now in this day and age of electronic cigarettes and nicotine vaporizers the naysayers are using…
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Trench’s adventures in vaping
As some of you know after 30 years of smoking I was able to finally quit this year by using disposable e-cigs. While some of the ones I used like Blu and Logic were satisfactory for the most part there’s always a gamble you take with the disposables. Depending on where you get them from…
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How to save MySpace as told by Trench
Ok, so I was wrong on my prediction that MySpace would be bought by a foreign corporation. Instead, it’s been bought by an investment group that includes Justin Timberlake. That’s actually even better because I’m going to tell you how Myspace should be saved and Mr. Timberlake is the lynchpin in that plan. However, the…