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Science, like your average Sith Lord, deals in absolutes. Something is either completely safe or it isn’t – rarely is there any middle ground. Vaping – or eCigs – are Enemy Nº 1 at present, as more and more restrictions or, in some cases, hello, Canada, outright bans are implemented. The reason behind this is…

The IQOS by Phillip Morris has now officially FDA approved – here’s everything you need to know about the IQOS and HEETS, the tobacco sticks that you run inside them…  What is The IQOS?  The IQOS is not a vape. It’s a new type of device; one that is called a heat-not-burn nicotine delivery system.…

You heard it here first: vaping has been shown to be a better NRT than nicotine gum and/or patches Ask anyone that vapes, and they’ll tell you the same: vape devices – like vape pens, vape mods, and pod vapes – are far better at keeping them away from cigarettes than traditional NRT products like nicotine gum…

With a potential e-liquid import ban on the horizon, Australian vapers are changing the way they use nicotine. Have you started planning for the import ban?

It is easy to forget that the PMTA doesn’t only cover vaping products, but also flavored tobacco products. So far, the majority of PMTA submissions have been from tobacco companies and cigar companies in particular. Only last week have we started seeing vape companies submitting their forms for PMTA approval. Possible FDA Delay In a…

Flavor bans have been a sweeping issue in the United States. Whether it is the ominous FDA rules, or the individual state rules. Here is a current list of State rules for vaping as of July 2020. This past year has been very tough for anyone in the vape industry. Before we saw any of…

Colorado’s Tax Bill is attempting to raise taxes on all tobacco products this Fall. Vaping could see the highest tax hike of any state if this becomes law. Fastest Taxing In The West Colorado voters will have a new proposition on the table this fall for voting. The bill sets aside up to 300 million…

UPDATE: The bill passed unanimously. The USPS will no longer be able to ship vaping products after July, 2020. Back in November 2019, The Senate proposed a bill under the name of S-1253. This would bill ensures a total United States Postal Service Vape Mail ban. Here is everything you need to know, including how to…

Update 6/26/2020 – Aussie PM Cancels Nicotine Import Ban! Just a few hours ago, the news came through that the Nicotine Import Ban has been put on hold for at least 6 months. Greg Hunt’s (Minister of Health) original campaign would have banned all importation per the Governor-General for the next year. It would have…

The deadline for the PMTA is quickly approaching in the United States. The date originally set for May 11th, 2020 has been pushed back to September due to the COVID pandemic. While this is good news, it doesn’t change the fact that the date continues to loom over all of our heads. You can easily…

Ask around, most people think flavors are the #1 cause of the teen vaping epidemic that started in 2017-2019. But as new data confirms, it actually had very little to do with flavors… How do you make a teenager want something? Simple: tell them they can’t have it. Do this and your average teenager will…

The only thing standing between you and a healthier alternative to smoking is the federal government – and that is crazy. Wanna buy a gun? No problem. Want to get high and buy some weed? We got you covered. How about fast-food and GMO products? Of course. Guns? What caliber you want!? In America, you can…

The results from the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Use Survey are in, and they are extremely alarming for those of us in the vaping industry. Among high school students, a shocking 27.5 percent report regular e-cigarette use. A further 10.5 percent of middle school students report regular vaping. That’s a total of 5 million underaged…

How does vaping affect your heart and circulation compared to smoking? A new study highlights one of the #1 key benefits of switching to vaping… In light of everything that is happening in America right now, you could be forgiven for thinking that vaping is no better than mainlining heroin into your eyeballs. But as…

One of our closest allies and good friends, Paul Freeman, owner of Freeman Vape Juice is setting up a dedicated advocacy group to save vaping – and we need your support In the US, vaping hangs in the balance. Trump is on the verge of banning flavors, JUUL is being sued out of existence (no bad…

The White House needs to hear from adult vapers and anyone who loves a vaper! A flavor ban won’t protect our children, but it will kill their parents. We need to  Light Up The Switchboard At The White House! Ph: 202-456-1111 (Comment Line) or 202-456-1414 (Switchboard) Trump Will Ban Flavored E Juice THIS WEEK… Lately, the vaping…

Can you improve as a runner even if you’re vaping regularly? In my anecdotal experience, you can – and this is one of the key differences between smoking and vaping… As you get older or have kids, you start to get more conscious about your health. Back in my 20s, I smoked and drank like…

Does vaping cause your lungs to collapse? If you read the Daily Mail, you’re probably convinced it does – but is there more to it? Let’s investigate… First, however, we have to start from the genesis of this story. A few weeks back, a guy posted on social media that vaping his JUUL had caused one…

The FDA has now released its PTMA guidance and, as expected, it does nothing more than play into the hands of Big Tobacco… The FDA’s PTMA guidance is now official, following pressure from federal courts to tackle the “issue” of teen vaping. With the PTMA now in place, vape manufacturers now have 10 months to…

Law makers and bureaucrats are in the business of peddling lies, and when it comes to vaping they’ve got it all wrong – and the science is there to prove it… Back in the day, circa 1940s onwards, Big Tobacco decided that in order to market cigarettes to the masses, it needed to make them look…

The San Francisco vape ban (and that’s a TOTAL vape ban, by the way) is looking ever more likely, proving once again that nut-job virtue signallers cannot be trusted when it comes to public health… Get ready. The San Francisco vape ban is starting to take shape. And this isn’t a small ban either. No.…

Vermont just banned the sale of vape products in the state. Why? Made up teen vaping stats. And if that wasn’t enough, the state is still happy to take pay-outs from Big Tobacco. Which begs the question: is the Vermont vape ban ACTUALLY about money, after all?  Vermont has made the sale of vape products…

Is the FDA finally on the side of public health? Or it is just looking at ways to ensure it keeps the steady flow of tobacco tax/settlement money flowing into the government’s coffers? Is this the REAL reason why it just approved Phillip Morris’ IQOS tobacco vaporizer pen? The FDA has just approved the first…

The FDA would have you believe there is a teen vaping epidemic sweeping the nation. But if you look behind the scenes of what’s going on in the halls of power, things begin to look rather sinister… Most people are aware that the US government makes A LOT of money from people smoking cigarettes. Whether…

Take vaping and ecigs out of the equation and all you are left with is rising US smoking rates and more death. It’s really that simple, so why is the FDA hellbent on killing vaping in the US? If somebody invented a way to get every single adult smoker off of cigarettes more or less…

The US is on the verge of instigating a country-wide ban on flavored E Juice and this, like prohibition before it, will create more problems than it solves… Whenever you read the news or listen to podcasts on societal issues and policy, do you ever get the impression that the US government loves crime? Like…

Is vaping dangerous? In a word: no – it is 95% safer than smoking, according to Public Health England. But if you’re a smoker, that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the benefits of vaping… Top 8 Benefits of Vaping vs. Smoking & NRT 1) No Long Term Adverse Effects The #1…

With the “Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act”, Democrats want to kill the American vaping industry for good… A man, in a position of power, and a track record of investing his money in Big Tobacco wants to rid America of vaping. He says he’s doing it for the kids but that’s not really true. If…

Extremism has taken over public health and tobacco control groups. The exploitation of children to push agendas is completely unethical and has to stop. The War on Vaping just got a lot uglier. It’s TIME someone spoke up for the kids – because their parents seemingly won’t! World War II (1939-45) was so long ago…

The insidious culture of smoke shaming that has developed over the past three decades has now reached fever pitch, losing sight of its actual goals. We need a new way to deal with smoking, and shaming current smokers into submission is NOT it… The tiler is going in and out of the house. I’m working…

It’s TIME the FDA woke up to the facts. Nicotine Is NOT A Carcinogen, says Public Health England. And the UK is now 100% Pro-Vaping as it aims to kill smoking within a generation A tale of two countries, similar but different. In one, you can legally buy weed but in others, this freedom is…

If you’ve been vaping for any amount of time, you might have wondered whether or not second hand vapor is dangerous, hazardous, or bad for those around you. If you’re using an RDA or a sub ohm tank, filling a room with fog doesn’t take long at all. But what about the people breathing in…

Seth Rogan has always been a pot advocate. But now he’s putting his money where his mouth is with following the launch of his brand new cannabis company, Houseplant Houseplant is Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg’s brand new cannabis company. It’s based (and will operate solely) in Canada, where cannabis has now been made legal.…

Everybody has phones, right? Most people in the US have iPhones or Android phones. Why don’t we use them to stop this apparent teen vaping epidemic then!?  In the last few weeks, there has been an absolute avalanche of news about underage vapers in the USA. So much so that we’re now looking at side-wide bans…

Lawmakers are attempting to instigate a state-wide ban on flavored E Juice in California. If passed, Senate Bills 38 and 39, could spell the end of the vaping industry in the US as we know it… Two bills could be all it takes to destroy the vaping industry in America. The state of California has…

Instead of championing ecigs and acknowledging the work they have done reducing the number of smokers in the US, the federal government and its “corporate” friends in Big Pharma and Big Tobacco want to destroy it through lies, misleading research, and paid-for stooges… Imagine a world where no one smoked. Just think about that for…

The REAL reason behind the FDA’s War on Vaping Exposed… It’s not about health, it’s about money and profits… Scott Gottlieb has announced he is leaving the FDA, after just two years in the position. According to Gottlieb, the reason he is leaving is that he wants to spend more time with his family – Connecticut…

When Vape YouTubers Do More For Public Health Than The FDA, You Know Something’s Up… 20 years ago, information moved at a snail’s pace. If you wanted to learn about something you needed books and a library. But doing research this way took time. A lot of time. And only those so inclined to do…

A new, peer-reviewed clinical study, published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, has shown that there are no negative health issues associated with long term vaping. The study, which followed vapers over a two year period, found that none of the participants exhibited ANY negative health issues from regularly using vape devices. The study was comprised…

If you’re thinking about setting up and/or operating in the vaping niche, think again! Getting set-up with official vape payment processing – you know, so you can accept credit cards and such – is literally impossible… I say, impossible, but it’s not entirely undoable – you just have to have A LOT of persistence and know…

Anyone who has looked into vaping or read up on ecig adoption during the past several years or so knows about this study. You know, the one that claimed vape devices produce Formaldehyde? Yeah, the one that ALL your non-vaper buddies like to mention every time they see you! This report, which aimed to scare the…

Vaping vs Alcohol – which is ACTUALLY worse? Let’s look at the facts, the madness, and the hypocrisy of the FDA… Thanks to the FDA, vaping is now considered to be a tobacco product. This means it is treated exactly the same as tobacco, despite the fact it does not contain ANY tobacco whatsoever. By this…

CASAA is a grassroots movement that is solely designed to protect vapers’ rights and the industry at large. The main goal? Ensure that harm reduction products, like vapes, are readily available to those that want and need them. And we now need them more than ever… In the cesspool that is top-level government in the…

More and more rock stars, actors and musicians are switching from smoking to vaping. If wanna find out ALL the Rock Stars & Musicians That Vape read on… Cigarettes and roll n’ roll kinda go hand in hand. And for the longest time, smoking – despite the health issues it creates – was about as rock…

$100 BILLION – this is the amount of money that has been lost by the world’s top tobacco companies thanks to vaping. But do not think it’s over – Big Tobacco will fight back in the only way it knows how… $100 BILLION is a lot of money. It’s an obscene amount of money, to be frank.…

In the US, the FDA is waging war on the vaping industry, backed up, as always by its good buddies in Big Pharma. And it is playing on current smokers fears associated with the dangers of vaping – but are they legit fears? You even have professors in the US actively telling people on Twitter that…

The dangers of vaping have been a topic of discussion for, well… as long as I can remember. So why the hell would a supposed scientist, a ***professor*** no less, take to Twitter and tell people that they’re better off SMOKING than vaping? Simple: because he is a LIAR… The dangers of vaping have been…

Vape expos aren’t something most people would think to attend. But if you vape, you really should! The vaping industry is unique. Yes, it’s a business but it is so much more than this as well. It is a community, populated by real people that actually like (and help) one another. The “vape community” – or,…

Vapor – the stuff that makes vaping, vaping! What is it? A quick and easy to follow explanation of vapor and vaping (and why it’s NOT the same as smoking) Whenever we talk about vaping, it’s easy to get bogged down in chatter about tanks, mods, builds, and different styles of vaping. But most people,…

What are the long-term effects of vaping? Is nicotine REALLY toxic? Will second-hand vapor cause cancer? Is vaping safer than smoking? A look at 10 pro-vaping studies the FDA really doesn’t want you to see… With all the negative press vaping is getting, and the constant claims that there is “no evidence” concerning the overall…

 So-called studies first claimed that e-cigarettes were carcinogenic — meaning they can cause cancer. As another sensationalist vaping news story concludes that vaping can strengthen bacteria such as MRSA, we ask: how much of this is fact? The e-cigarette industry began modestly; a niche group of people using vaping to improve their health and wean…

16 Studies EVERY Vaper Needs To Read RIGHT Now Think the FDA cares about your health? Think again – the current war on vaping will do WAY more harm than good The mainstream media — well, most of it anyway — has done its absolute best to support, push and propagandise the FDA’s draconian deeming regulations…

If you listened to EVERYTHING the mainstream media said about vaping you’d think they were the worse thing to happen to humanity since Kim Kardashian. But here’s the thing: vaping isn’t a killer and, despite what A LOT of people say, it is the best thing to happen to smokers since, well… EVER. In fact,…