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Why Vape Expos Are The Backbone of The #VapeCommunity

By Rune Wolves | November 26 2018

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, the #vapecommunity if you’re on Twitter or Instagram – is a very real thing. And it is super cool too.

Personally, I have been to vape expos in England, the US, and also even Ukraine.

The environment at these events is just great. Everyone can always walk away with a new favorite flavor and even new friends.

People compare their interests whether it be building your own coils or working with certain companies.

In Ukraine, I got to meet people from all over the globe and even hung out with people from an American company in the evening.

Me & The Guys From Riot Squad

You get to meet so many new people attending vape expos and this is great for everything from networking to just extending your friend-circle.

The expos usually are run over 3 days giving people chance to come down for a day to look around and try new things or even make a weekend out of it and just hang out with people at stands and try new things.

The main ones to attend in the UK are The Vapor Expo in Birmingham and VapeJam in London.

I’ve been to both and both have such great atmospheres with music, DJs, activities, live performances and more.

It’s more than just juices and mods.

Cloud competitions are also great for a social event too – and there’s always a few going on at big vape expos.

They’re great to watch and easy to get involved with. I’ve watched a bunch and learned more than a thing or two about building and coil placement at them.

Some vape expos in the US include things like guest speakers and food and drinks events in the evenings. If you’re in the industry, these are great to attend, as you can make loads of connections.

The Rise of CBD at Vape Expos

CBD is the next BIG growth product inside the vape market. During the past 18 months, I’ve seen more and more CBD companies at the vape expos I attend.

I don’t think CBD would have enjoyed the success it has without vaping.

Check Out VapeBeat’s Review of Hot Juice’s CBD Vape Juice Range

Nowadays, you can get CBD anywhere – from edibles to vapable oil, as well as sprays and drippers – and the health benefits of using it are well established.

The idea of being able to vape CBD inside E Juice that tastes just like normal E Juice is brilliant.

Brands like Hot Juice, a company that makes GMO-free and 100% Kosher products, is definitely one of my favorites.

US Vape Expos

Like everything in the US, things are bigger – and, yes, this goes double for its vape expos!

The US is larger, and for this reason, there are A LOT more vape expos over there than in the UK.

In fact, you could probably travel indefinitely in America going from one vape expo to another, zig-zagging your way across the country.

Vape expos are designed to showcase new brands and products. And while the entire point of them is business-oriented, they really are much more than just another trade show.

They’re community-driven events; people fly all over the world to attend vape expos – and not just business people, either!

Vape Expo: Lots of Lights, Mods, And E Juices – Plus Loads of Cool People!

I have friends that travel to the US and elsewhere to check out the latest vaping trends and companies. They love it. You see the world, make some friends, and vape a lot of excellent E Juice!

And they wouldn’t do this if vape expos were just another boring trade show.

My advice? If you’ve never been to a vape expo do yourself a favor and attend the next one in your area.

I guarantee you’ll have an absolute blast, find loads of new E Juice brands, and likely get yourself an entire backpack full of free vape products.

Why’s that? Simple: vape companies love giving away gear to people at expos – and, best of all, you don’t even need to be a VIP.

Nope, just rock up, have a chat, and you’ll walk away with something – be it a pod mod or a bottle of E Juice.

The Vape Community – A Great Place To Be…

I’ve been going to vape expos for years. Sometimes with work, sometimes just for fun. But there is always one constant: I always meet new people and I always have a great time.

And this is because the people at these events – be they visitors or businesses – are all just super lovely. They don’t mind chatting and they’ll happily help you with anything you need to know about.

Not once have I been to a vape expo where I’ve regretted going.

Taking A Selfie At VapeJam (London)

Even with a hangover the size of Texas, you still manage to have lots of fun and try lots of new things.

I’ve made friends for life at vape expos, as well as great business connections, and I will continue to go to these expos in the UK and US from here on out for this express reason.

But mostly because they’re just great fun.

That’s the real reason to go: great times with good people (plus A LOT of freebies thrown in for good measure)!

What’s not to love about that!?

Rune Wolves

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Kids As Clickbait: Tobacco Control & Its Unethical War on Vaping

By Marewa Glover | November 14 2018

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 men and women who fought and nursed and labored and survived will soon have all passed on.

Four generations have been born since then.

Many of whom have only known peacetime.

One of the first anti-smoking advertisements in New Zealand was printed in 1945.

You’d think Governments recovering from participating in WWII would have had more important things to do.

The End of One War & The Start of Another…

Perhaps it was an effort to signal a return to normal life?

Certainly, Government campaigns trying to direct our behaviors have become normal over the succeeding 73 years since that first ad.

America’s Long History of Being Completely Mental About Everything Goes Way Back…

We are bombarded with anti-fat, anti-alcohol, anti-sugar, sitting-is-the-new-smoking messages everywhere we go.

Thankfully, TV viewing has been transformed and we can now mute the ads, fast forward through them or abandon broadcast television altogether and just watch Netflix.

Anti-Smoking Campaigners Arrive On The Scene

Anti-smoking campaigning really took off after the publication of the US Surgeon General’s report in 1964.

The report presented convincing scientific evidence that smoking kills.

This was BIG news and coverage of the launch of the report appeared in newspapers and on people’s new black and white television sets around the world.

It’s hard to pinpoint the genesis of tobacco control as a sector, but this event was probably it.

The US Surgeon General, Dr. Luther Terry, dropped a bomb on smoking and with it began a new world war.

The World Conference on Tobacco Control

The term “war” should never be used lightly, but it was the language used by the tobacco control community who rallied and began the World Conference on Tobacco OR Health in 1967.

Held every four, and later three, years ever since, these meetings have been key for sharing war stories, tactical moves and for anointing heroes and revving up the troops.

Rarely, arguments broke out.

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I remember one, the purpose of which was to exile a prominent member for traitorously working with a tobacco company in some way.

Using the language of war, in a time still shadowed by WWII, was very effective for whipping up panic, fear and of course funding.

This war mentality encouraged the now embedded us versus them, good versus evil paradigm that frames the tobacco industry as the enemy, smokers as hapless victims and public health as the saviours.

Media Fatigue Lead To More Dramatic Rhetoric

A huge problem arose for public health crusaders, however, when the media got sick of us bleating the same boring message on and on, decade after decade.

We call this media fatigue.

They wouldn’t cover our events or print our press releases unless there was something new, controversial or shocking in it.

Tobacco Free Kids Using Kids As Clickbait

All public health campaigns, about alcohol, fat, safe sex or smoking were being undermined by this.

To get airtime, we had to up the ante.

We had to stage dramatic protests. We had to create a fight.

We had to exaggerate the implications of our research, or at least let the media do that for us.

Breaking The Law To Change The Law

In the early 1980s, Dr. Arthur Chesterfield-Evans, a medical doctor and politician in Australia pioneered a new strategy for getting media attention when he graffitied billboards advertising cigarettes.

His BUGA-UP efforts involved him breaking the law to change the tag-lines on smoking ads to something more truthful.

This won him notoriety, and as he said: “It formed the extreme pole of anti-tobacco action, and so made all legal activities moderate by comparison.”

Tobacco Control Groups Using Kids Is Just… Awful

Skip forward 20 years and colleagues in New Zealand were using school kids to populate a street rally against smoking.

Another smoke-free advocate got school students to lie in body bags outside a tobacco factory.

Even with school children involved these stunts drew a disappointing amount of media attention.

The New Reefer Madness

As the years have marched on, tobacco control has become increasingly extreme, saying shocking things about people who smoke, pushing prices up to painful levels, demanding prohibition – anything the media will think is hard-hitting enough to report on.

Children are the ultimate click-bait for public health. Click to Tweet

Everything is a threat to the children these days. Just twist your message into a threat to the children and anyone who has had kids will have their protect-the-children instinct activated, and wallets will open.

To be fair, children have been exploited by marketers, the media and lobbyists forever.

It’s standard business practice, why shouldn’t public health do it too?

Has Tobacco Control Has Gone Too Far In Its War on Vaping?

No one in tobacco control thinks of the damage that might be done to the poster child de jour.

It’s probably time some guidelines were put in place to prohibit the use of children as mouthpieces for bizarre codswallop some wacko adults believe.

The case in point is a video from last week (6 Nov 18) showing a young girl reading out a list of totally fictional dangers of vaping, including that “vaping can lead to poor decisions such as going homeless, dropping out of school, child abuse…

Child abuse!? Whoa!

The video has gone viral.

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The girl has been made a laughing stock.

It’s uncomfortable to watch it, to see a child so obviously being exploited.

Dr. Carrie Wade, Director of Harm Reduction Policy at R Street Institute made some good points when she called for us to not retweet or spread the video even further.

As she said, it’s not the girl’s fault, it’s her parents and the organization (Children4Change) that deserve the anger and disgust we feel at what they’re making those kids do for them.

As Carrie said, “videos last forever.”

How is that girl going to feel when she’s older and can comprehend what her parents made her do, the reaction she sparked, and the negative consequences for smokers and vapers?

Extremism Has Taken Over Public Health

This incident is an exemplar of the extremism that has taken over public health.

Anything goes no matter how absurd, no matter the lack of evidence (e.g. taxing sugar, banning vaping, minimum pricing on alcohol).

Hurting a few to save the many, that’s the mantra of public health today.

The children they exploit are just collateral damage in a war that’s gone way beyond preventing injury and disease.

Marewa Glover

Marewa is Director of the Centre of Research Excellence: Indigenous Sovereignty & Smoking, based in New Zealand. She is an internationally recognized expert in tobacco harm reduction and in June 2018, she received the Outstanding Advocate Award from the International Network of Nicotine Consumer Organisations (INNCO) at the Global Forum on Nicotine in Warsaw. She was subsequently appointed as an INNCO scientific advisor and is an associate member of the New Nicotine Alliance UK. Until recently Marewa was a Professor of Public Health at Massey University, New Zealand and Chair of End Smoking NZ. In 2017, she was a Finalist in the annual Women of Influence Awards. Marewa has focused on reducing tobacco smoking harm for over 25 years and in that time has led and collaborated on many studies resulting in over 100 scientific publications to date

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Why Traditional “Quit Smoking Methods” Have Consistently FAILED

By Marewa Glover | November 05 2018

The chairs in the lobby of the hospital stop smoking clinic aren’t made for comfort.

The dull pink concrete walls are stuck with graphic pictures of the 101 ways smoking can kill you.

Blood spurts from a dissected brain. A blackened foot has been eaten away by gangrene. A tiny infant stuck with tubes struggles for life in an incubator.

This is supposed to be motivating?

You turn to fill out the questionnaire of 100 personal questions of dubious relevance.

Traditional “Quit Smoking” Methods

A middle-aged woman beckons you into a private room. She reminds you of one of your school teachers.

With a smile and a soft voice she asks more questions about your smoking history, the number of cigarettes per day, triggers, reasons for quitting.

Contradicting her caring tone, there’s a holier-than-thou air about her. You start to feel scratched as she picks at your habit like she’s pulling gravel from an open wound.

If you’d just take her advice, suck this, chew that, stick a patch on, dump your friends, stop going out, get a hobby, focus on what you’ll gain from quitting.

Not having to meet a cessation coach is the only gain that comes to mind after 20 minutes of listening to her.

You leave feeling weaker, supported but disappointed at yourself for having got into this position of needing help – “addicted”.

The first thing you want to do is have a smoke, which just proves her perspective of you, how weak you are.

The Big Pharma Solution For Killing Cigarettes Is Not Working

Luckily there’s a chemist at the exit to get the nicotine gum she prescribed.

They ask more questions but eventually hand over eight weeks supply and you walk out feeling like you’re wearing only a hospital gown that’s gaping open at the back.

You glance back to see if people are staring at you.

At home, you chuck your first chewed piece of gum in the bin and immediately light up. It’s a relief to be out of view.

Of course, not every encounter with a cessation service is so stark, unnecessarily invasive and condescending.

Some counselors know what it’s like, they’ve been through it themselves.

They understand smoking’s not all bad. But still, they’ve been trained the same way – told it’s just a matter of replacing some of the nicotine with a homoeopathically tiny dose of nicotine and supplementing with willpower.

New Methods For Quitting Smoking

Almost 10 years ago I began trialing new models for supporting quitting.

What if we could make stopping smoking fun?
What if we offered prizes for quitting?
What if stop smoking products were brought to your workplace by an Amway-style salesperson?
We even proposed the old vacuum cleaner door-to-door sales model.

Could shop assistants, like the ones who work in high fashion stores, be as effective as nurses at encouraging people to try a quit aid? Imagine selling quitting the same way you’d sell shoes or a mobile phone?

A decade later, rewarding smoking abstinence with retail vouchers has been used a lot, especially with pregnant women.

Quit & Win competitions have been tried in various guises with good results.

Stop smoking services moved out of the hospitals and into community-based offices.

But the retail model, displaying a range of product on a stall or in a shop, that didn’t really happen until vaping took off.

Enter Vape Shops (And The Beginning of A New Dawn)

The first vape vendors worked out of their homes and garages. Then they expanded and sold product out of their vans, or they set up stalls at markets or expos. When sales took off they were able to leave their day jobs and open ‘bricks and mortar’ stores.

Vape shops are very different from what I had earlier envisaged. Firstly, they didn’t peddle nicotine gums, patches, and sprays.

They sell box mods, coils, vape tanks, and e-liquids.

Perhaps the most crucial difference is that the retail staff are not your average shop assistant. Many have no sales or retail experience at all.

Most vape shops were opened and are staffed by people who used to smoke and they stopped smoking by switching to vaping.

These people are peers, real-life been there done that folk who want to help others switch to vaping.

Neither have these people been trained as stop smoking counselors.

This is important because most of the smoking cessation training is based on out of date disproven psychological theories about how to get people to change.

Vape Experts vs. Stop Smoking Counselors

Most training in how to help people stop smoking takes a medical approach that sees the smoker as sick and in need of treatment.

The cessation worker, by contrast, is healthy and therefore superior. This shifts the power in the relationship. The counselor is the authoritative one – the savior and the smoker is, remember, weak and unable to control themselves.

It is not true that everyone who smokes needs counseling or coaching to help them stop smoking.

Millions of people, without cessation support, have switched to vaping or Snus or a heated tobacco product.

Millions!!

Before these products were widely available, millions of people weaned themselves off smoking or went cold turkey, on their own.

Vape stores, and the new Apple-like iQos, Glo and PloomTech stores, are proof that a retail approach to quitting is effective if the products are attractive, satisfying and reliable.

The quit products of old would never have lasted this long without substantial Government assistance, such as contracts to purchase a guaranteed amount, subsidizing the end-user price and providing free patches in prisons and hospitals.

Additionally, Government’s demanded health professionals promote and prescribe the products. The companies could also advertise and make health claims (something vape vendors are prohibited from doing).

It’s not just the shiny spacious interior, the shiny-faced sales staff, the free latte and lounge setting where you can try the different e-liquids or heat sticks, that’s supporting the exodus away from smoking.

Why Vaping is More Successful Than Traditional Quit Smoking Methods

What really helps is that these environments don’t put you down. You, the consumer, stay in control.

If you’re not treated with respect, if the staff doesn’t listen to you, you go somewhere else and there is now a choice.

Some of the old guard tobacco controllers who accept vape shops should be retained, want retail staff to be trained to impose cessation ‘support’ on every customer.

This would be a mistake.

Training to understand how nicotine works in the body to improve advice on what level mg first-timers should buy would be useful.

Trying to turn vapers into counselors… Nooo!

This would be like waking up to a pink concrete colored world, uncomfortable chairs and a middle-aged matron with a clipboard behind every door.

Marewa Glover

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Vape Advocacy News: All The Latest News From The Front Lines

By Drake Equation | October 05 2018

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All the best vape advocacy from around the web.

This weekly feature will showcase all the latest research and headlines from around the globe.

The idea? To give you access to all the latest research on vaping and harm-reduction.

The war on vaping is positively raging right now.

In the US, things are looking pretty bad. The FDA is going after vaping big time, treating it worse than actual cigarettes.

This blog is designed to champion all the latest advocacy news, studies, and thoughts from researchers in the field of vaping and tobacco harm reduction circles.

We’ll be updating it each week with new stories, research papers, studies, and insight from some of the biggest names in research, media, and advocacy.

So, please, pour yourself a cold one, load up your vape tank, and chow down on some of the latest stories and news in the world of vaping advocacy.

Vape Advocacy Headlines From Around The Web

October 5, 2018

10 “Pro-Vaping” Studies The FDA Doesn’t Want You To See – VapeBeat – 10 landmark studies that conclude vaping is not only 95% safer than smoking, but also our best tool in riding the world of smoking within a couple of generations.
E-cigarettes around 95% less harmful than tobacco estimates landmark review – Public Health England – a landmark study on the longterm effects of vaping; the report concludes that vaping is around 95% safer than smoking. Public Health England advises UK government to back vaping as a key tool in lowering smokers numbers.
The FDA’s Teen E-Cigarette-Addiction Epidemic Doesn’t Add Up – Rodu Tobacco Truth – An analytic look at the FDA’s numbers and why they don’t add up. The term “epidemic” has been thrown around a lot recently, but a closer look at the actual data shows that is complete junk science.
Why it would be crazy to ban e-cigarettes – The Telegraph – An op-ed piece on the craziness of banning ecigs when they have been so successful in lowering smoking rates in the UK.
NHS hospitals should sell e-cigarettes, says Government agency – The Independent – UK government agency says it would be a good idea for the NHS to start selling ecigs in its hospitals in order to get more people off of cigarettes.
Headlines saying ‘vaping might cause cancer’ are wildly misleading – Cancer Research UK – Nicotine, by itself, does not cause cancer. An overview of the current misunderstanding of nicotine in health and scientific circles.
Doctors should state clearly that vaping is a much lower risk than smoking – The BMJ – Call for doctors to start waking up to the facts: vaping is 95% safer than smoking.
Vaping saves lives. It’d be madness to ban it – The Guardian – An op-ed on why it’d be mad to ban vaping when it actually saves lives and will save the NHD billions in the coming years.

Got a news tip? Send us a link, and we’ll add it to the next round-up!

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“Nicotine Is NOT A Carcinogen” – Public Health England

By Drake Equation | September 29 2018

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 the other, this freedom is decades away. In one guns are legal, and in the other possession of a weapon will get you serious jail time.

And yet, the country with the most stringent laws on EVERYTHING, the UK, is now a shining light of progressiveness with respect to vaping regulations, while the US is on the verge of banning online sales!?

The UK is Now 100% Pro-Vaping

Misinformation About Nicotine is RIFE

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The UK, and its health-facing institutions, like Public Health England and the Royal College of Physicians, have long been supporters of vaping, as a means to get people off of cigarettes, and today this momentum continues.

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable illness and premature death in England. In 2016 alone, there were around 78,000 deaths attributable to smoking, representing 16% of all deaths across the UK – Public Health England.

PHE also confirmed (please take note, California) that “Nicotine Is NOT A Carcinogen”. Furthermore, it claimed that misinformation about nicotine is “rife amongst smokers and health professionals”, and that people believe it causes most of the harm of smoking.

Public Health England Champions Vape Shops

The FDA has issued a law that prohibits vape shop owners from claiming ecigs are better for you than traditional cigarettes, despite evidence that 100% backs these claims.

Meanwhile, in the UK, Public Health England is telling vape shop owners to “engage actively with smokers who want to use an e-cigarette to help them quit.”

It added: “More can be done to combine the popular quitting method with the most effective quitting aid, to maximize the number of smokers quitting successfully.”

“Ecigs ARE 95% Safer Than Cigarettes” – RCGP, BMA and Cancer Research UK

Again, the 95% safer point is made. By RCGP, BMA and Cancer Research UK. All agree that while vaping isn’t 100% safe and that you’re better off doing neither smoking or vaping, ecigs are infinitely preferable to smoking.

“Based on an assessment of the available international peer-reviewed evidence, PHE and the RCGP estimate the risk reduction to be at least 95%. In 2018 so far, 3 major US reports (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, American Cancer Society and the US Annual Review of Public Health) have found that e-cigarettes are substantially less harmful than smoking.”

Vaping Helped 50% of UK’s Smokers Quit

The FDA maintains that vaping is a gateway drug to cigarettes, a false argument that has been used time and time again in the States.

I’ve lost count of the number of times this has been debunked.

Smoking Rates At RECORD Lows

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But I am happy to be on debunking duties once again: 50% of the UK’s smokers have now quit their deadly habit, thank to vaping – 50%!

Vaping Beats Nicotine Gum and Patches

I’ve used gum and patches in the past to little effect; the gum tastes disgusting and the patches make me nauseous and, bizarrely, sleepwalk as well.

Vaping has been shown to kill smoking in its tracks, and the reason it works is simple: you get the same sensation, just without 95% of the health risks, a fact the FDA needs to acknowledge before it is too late.

Case in point: “there is growing evidence that e-cigarettes are helping many thousands of smokers in England to quit. The available evidence from research trials suggests that their effectiveness is broadly similar to prescribed stop smoking medicines and better than NRT products if these are used without any professional support.”

Public Health England added: “E-cigarettes are particularly effective when combined with expert help from a local stop smoking service. “In 2017 to 2018, around two-thirds of smokers who got this support stopped smoking successfully.”

UK Government Supports Vaping

Following on from PHE’s guidance, the UK has now implemented a variety of tools for smokers to utilise on the journey away from cigarettes.

Pharmacies will be trained with knowledge of ecigs and the British Medical Association and the Royal College of General Practitioners even produced a video that details WHY you should quit smoking with vaping (see below).

Bottomline? The US needs to wake up and follow the measures being taken by the UK.

Public health is of vast importance and recognising a tool for curing one of the biggest afflictions on modern society is or huge importance. The net effects are enormous, saving billions in health care, and it is now time the FDA woke up to this fact.

It’s not just pro-vaping bloggers supporting vaping now, it’s the UK government, the Royal College of General Practitioners, Public Health England, the British Medical Association, AND Cancer Research UK.

Time to wake up, America… before it’s too late.

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FDA Logic: Save Kids, But Screw Tax-Paying Adults? (#FacePalm)

By Drake Equation | September 28 2018

The FDA is going bats**t crazy about vaping right now, talking about banning flavored E Juice and, more recently, a wholesale – country-wide – ban of ALL online sales for vape products.

This kind of talk, which is hopefully just posturing, is concerning for many reasons.

But, for me, the most nefarious aspect of ALL this is the power the FDA is allowed to wield over free-market economics and your lifestyle choices.

We live in a democracy. We have freedoms as individuals, and yet the FDA exists outside this, sending down its decrees from an Ivory Tower like its the 15th century and they’re bloody Pope.

This is not right. In fact, it’s downright alarming.

The current plans by the FDA for vaping are outdated, regressive, and seem hellbent on repeating the mistakes of the past – Prohibition, The Way on Drugs, etc.

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Draconian isn’t even a good enough word to describe what’s happening right now.

I only hope sense will prevail, and the FDA takes the approach of Canada and the UK, which view vaping as a key took in killing smoking.

The FDA’s current approach not only makes it look like Big Brother incarnate, but it is also totally unprecedented and completely unconstitutional.

The FDA is BIG BROTHER – And They Don’t Even Hide It…

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What right do THEY have to tell tax-paying adults what they can and can’t do with their bodies, money, and lifestyle?

The answer? None – they have zero right.

Big government only ends in tyranny, and the more they control what you do the more they’ll take from you.

In the UK e-cigarettes are tightly regulated for safety and quality. They aren’t completely risk free, but they carry a small fraction of the risk of cigarettes. E-cigarettes don’t produce tar or carbon monoxide, two of the most harmful elements in tobacco smoke. The liquid and vapour contain some potentially harmful chemicals also found in cigarette smoke but at much lower levels.
Public Health England’s 2015 independent evidence review found that, based on the available evidence, vaping is around 95% less harmful than smoking. The Royal College of Physicians came to a similar conclusion in its 2016 report – NHS
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And it doesn’t matter if they’re doing it for “kids” or because of an “alien invasion”, letting the feds run your life is the end of the road for a free society.

If a product is legal, which vape products are, the job of the FDA is to make the case against them, based on evidence, and let the people decide for themselves.

This is how free market economics works.

And before you go assuming that I’m advocating drugs and cocaine and everything else in between, I am not – I’m talking specifically about a technology in this context that has helped millions of people kick a deadly habit into check.

Vaping Beats ALL Other Nicotine Cessation Tools (Especially Champix)

Millions of people of quit smoking because of vaping. Three, four, five packs a day habits disappeared overnight. And it happened without any help or encouragement from the feds or the FDA.

Big Pharma has tried and failed to solve the “smoking issue”, investing billions in products that simply aren’t as effective as vaping.

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And now, because of some bunk science about kids vaping, the FDA wants to curtail ALL of this progress?

No other product has EVER done this.

Not nicotine patches, not nicotine gum, and certainly not that god-awful Champix substance, which has been linked to some horrible things, including suicide, of all things!

On Thursday in Brisbane magistrates court, coroner John Hutton found that a commonly prescribed drug named Champix – manufactured by Pfizer and sold internationally under the name Chantix – contributed to the death of a 22-year-old Brisbane man, Timothy John, who died by suicide soon after he began taking a medication that he had hoped would cut his smoking habit from eight cigarettes a day down to zero – The Guardian.

Carpet bans on products is a slippery slope, once they get one thing banned the contagion spreads and before you know it the country has descended into something that resembles East Germany circa 1970.

But the key points here are this:

Vaping is 95% safer than smoking.
The vaping industry has created jobs and billions in taxable revenue.
Vaping is ILLEGAL for minors
Vaping has helped MILLIONS quit decades-long smoking habits

A ban on Internet sales of vape products would undo ALL the hard work done by thousands of retailers, manufacturers, and advocates over the past 10 years.

And it’d do it in a heartbeat, overnight.

Why? Simple: it would disseminate the industry in the US, millions and millions of dollars would be lost, businesses would close, hundreds of thousands of jobs lost.

And for what?

Because a few kids have tried vaping? Last time I checked, millions of kids had tried alcohol and smoked cigarettes.

Billions throughout history, in fact.

I was a kid once, I did both.

I just wish vaping had been around then, so I would never have tried a cigarette in the first place.

What Is The FDA’s “REAL” Agenda With Vaping Regulation?

But the darker undertones of this “push” by the FDA are way more concerning than mere bans or its pontificating about caring about the publics’ health. It smacks of an agenda, hidden yet extremely palpable.

It also smacks of corporatism, a thing favored by the Nazis in Germany during the 1940s, whereby the state worked in cahoots with its buddies (Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, in this context) to crush technologies/ideas/principles it could not control (or get a sizeable piece of).

The pharmaceutical industry has leveraged public policy to its benefit, prohibiting the federal government from discounts on drug prices through bulk purchases while using the tax code to develop Patient Assistance Foundations to claim charitable contributions as well as justifying moving income overseas to reduce tax liability. Consumers and taxpayers are left covering the costs of Big Pharma’s corporatism. Regulatory reforms are proposed to make drug companies more socially responsible – Ethical Human Psychology And Psychiatry

Whatever happens, as a vaper and an advocate, you need to do your bit to stop this undemocratic, unelected, Maoist organization from killing off of the only technology that has ever made smoking redundant and less prevalent in society.

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