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The Electronic Cigarette: Users' Opinions 2008-10-04 15:49:00 We were pleased to get some feedback on the Electronic
cigarette from one of our customers, Rosemary: So far so good, I am trying to stop smoking, I was up to 40-50 cigs a day. With the e-cig, I am down to 20 a day after just 3 days, so i am hopeful it will work, I'll keep you informed.We'd love to know your own thoughts about the electronic cigarette - if you want to share them with us plea Read more:Cigarette
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Tens of Millions of Chinese to Die from Smoking 2008-10-04 15:32:00 15.3 million Chinese
are predicted to die from lung cancer over the next 25 years, with a further 53.3 million Chinese dying from chronic respiratory illness, according to a story in the Lancet, the British Medical Journal. More than half of Chinese men smoke, and the situation is exacerbrated by the use of solid fuels such as wood, xrop residues and coal inside 70% of Chinese homes.Millions of li Read more:Smoking
Electronic Cigarettes in Nursing Homes 2008-10-04 04:00:00 Nursing
homes, as well as airlines, have also picked up on the benefit that the new e-cigarette can offer to their residents, many of whom have smoked all their lives, in early ignorance of the dangers to themselvs and others. However, these good people now find themselves, often fairly immobilised and in some degree of pain, unable to indulge in the comfort that they feel a smoke might gi Read more:Electronic
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Smokers Beaten to Death in Malaysia 2008-10-03 11:04:00 In a bizarre but tragic story reported by Fox News today, a couple have been beaten to death in an attack aimed at getting them to stop smoking. Malaysia
n Mohamed Ibrahim Kader Mydin, whose wife was suffering from asthma and a liver complain, had indeed asked his family to help him kick the habit, but it seemed his relatives took his request rather too literally. A 23 year old relative suggested a Read more:Smokers
A Recurring Smoker 2008-10-03 10:02:00 By Jean RasbridgeFor sixteen years I had not smoked a single cigarette. Then, after a small accident, I had just one, single cigarette - and I was hooked again.The first time had been difficult enough. I had almost given up giving up. Until my young son came home from nursery crying his eyes out.He had just had his first lesson about smoking - and was convinced I was going to die.I tried everythin Read more:Smoker
Banned 2008-10-21 05:02:00 By Jean Rasbridge We have a small business and work from our own premises - some of us smokers, others not. I had given up two years before the dreaded BAN was enforced, so was not affected. However, after the ban we had to put signs in vans, in the kitchen where we all meet for coffee and lunch, and had also totally alienated a guy working for us who was not the easiest person to work with in t Read more:Banned
Smoke Kills Movie 2008-10-20 03:00:00 Another funny one. You need 3 minutes and 37 minutes to watch this one, but is worth it, even if it is a little over the top!Save the world and switch to Electronic Cigarettes! Read more:Kills
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Quitting Smoking: Acupuncture 2008-10-19 04:43:00 The first time I successfully gave up smoking I was tricked into it by a very clever mother!She had read about acupuncture being an effective method of giving up the beastly weed, and made an appointment for both of us to have the treatment. We went to a local small town, up some greasy stairs over a butcher's shop and into a dingy waiting room."You go first" says Mother.... I thought maybe she Read more:Quitting
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Bad News for Social Smokers 2008-10-18 01:36:00 I've got many friends who have the occasional cigarette, or who like a smoke at a party or with a drink, but who do not count themselves as smokers. I, like them, have never thought this would do any major damage.In what is bad news, then, for these social smokers, new research has discovered that even those who smoke less than a pack a week are causing damage to their arteries.The research, which Read more:Bad News
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Smoking Kills Movie! 2008-10-17 03:00:00 Another very funny movie on the dangers of smoking. Short, but wait for the catchline. (Thanks to John for pointing this one out to us!)Note - while we do believe that overall the electronic cigaratte is healther than normal cigarettes, I believe that in this kind of situation it would provide no extra benefit. Read more:Kills
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The Electronic Cigarette and Quitting Smoking! 2008-10-16 03:00:00 Can you quit smoking with the electronic cigarette?Firstly, and before we start giving you reasons to buy it, it would be far better to give up smoking completely than to use the electronic cigarette to stop. This may sound strange from a company that sells the e-cigarette, but at the end of the day, the e-cigaratte is not healthy. It contains nicotine, which is a harmful and addictive substance i Read more:Cigarette
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Smoking Kills Movie- Humour! 2008-10-15 03:00:00 I love this movie - not horrific, not preaching, but very, very funny!Check out the e-cigaratte for a safer way to smoke! Read more:Humour
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Smokers Paradox 2008-10-14 03:00:00 Smokers paradox refers to the benefits that smoking has - a paradox because of the overall harm that smoking has on our health. Before the smokers amongst you get too excited, though, remember that is almost universally accepted that smoking does a lot more harm than good.Heart AttacksAs we all know, smoking increases the risk of having a heart attack. However, one examples of the paradox is that Read more:Paradox
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Smoking & the Brain 2008-10-13 02:11:00 In a fascinating article on nicotine addiction entititled The Brain
's Addiction Centre over on Science Blogs, Ed Yong looks at the realities behind addiction.Smoking
causes 5 times as many deaths as all other non-medical causes put together, and eighty percent of smokers admit they want to give up. Yet despite this it often takes smokers many attempts to stop smoking, while others smoke until they
The E Cig Phenomenon 2008-10-12 01:30:00 The Charlotte Gore blog has a great post entitlled the E-Cig phenomenon. In the post she argues that e-cigarettes are likely to be banned for three reasons: they are against the entranched interests of the tobacco companiesthey will cause a loss of revenue for the government, which makes a fortune from the sin tax on tobaccothey 'send the wrong message' - the goverment wants smoking to be seen as Read more:Phenomenon
Cigarettes have killed more than Hitler! 2008-10-11 03:00:00 A portrait of Hitler
made out of cigarettes by artists in Brazil. The writing reads: Smoking Kills More. Ironically, both use/used Hydrogen Cyanide to aid them in their quest!
Chemicals Contained in Cigarettes 2008-10-10 03:00:00 Ever wondered exactly what chemicals are contained in cigarettes? Here we present you with a selection of our favourite chemicals (well, we don't have room to present you with all 400!) Take a nice long drag on your cigaratte, as you may not be enjoying it quite as much by the end of this post.Arsenic - a common rat poison, and the murder weapon of choice for estranged lovers.Formaldehyde - used t
Smoking Obama 2008-10-09 14:45:00 Barrack Obama
has been heavily attacked over the last the couple of days over his smoking habits.The front runner for the US Presidential race has been an intermittent smoker for years, although at the height of his habit he only smoked a mere 7 or 8 cigarettes a day.At the insistence of his wife he had promised to give up smoking before taking on the Presidential election. We are not privy to the Read more:Smoking
Quitting with the E-cigarette 2008-10-09 03:00:00 Can you quit with the E-cigarette?Obviously there are two answers to this - yes and no - but I am going to go for a third one.But first, a quick digression, so sit back and light up your fag (or inhale your vapour if you have already made the jump to an electronic cigarette).There are essentially two ways in which the electronic cigarette is currently marketed. One is as healthier alternative to s Read more:Quitting
E-Cigarettes on the BBC Website 2008-10-08 07:13:00 The BBC has been running stories on the Electronic Cigarette this morning. You can click through to the BBC or watch the story below: Electronic cigarettes on the rise
Electronic Cigarettes: The Future of Smoking? 2008-10-08 03:00:00 Man started to commuicate with grunts, then words, then cave paintings. Writing evolved, first hammered into rocks or carved into wood, then etched onto papyrus and paper. Monks painstakingly copied bibles, before the hand written word gave way to printed matter. Then communication spread via telegraph, morse code, telephone, fax, radio waves, television and now the internet.Yet we continue to smo Read more:Electronic
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The Electronic Cigarette: A User's Feedback 2008-10-07 06:08:00 This is from Rosemary, who responded to our request for feedback on the electronic cigarette. This is her second email - you can read the first here.I have been smoking for fifty years, until last week I was smoking 40 to 50 a day. I have tried everything to stop, hypnotherapy, which cost a fortune, Zyban, where I had to attend a no smoking clinic for 6 weeks, you name it, I've tried it, all to no Read more:Cigarette
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Depressing News for Smokers 2008-10-07 06:02:00 Under attack on all sides, with a once almost universally acceptable habit making us into social outcasts, the last thing smokers need is more depressing news.Yet that is literally what is coming out of new research into smoking by Australian researchers. The scientists followed a group of several hundred sheilas (why not men, I wonder) for over ten years, and managed not to get done for stalking Read more:Smokers
Tar Video 2008-10-07 03:00:00 Not the nicest of videos - in fact, it is the sort of experiment you might want to watch with your children to persuade them never to take up smoking. (Although I seem to remember watching something similar at school, and though it left an impression half the class still took up smoking.) The E-cigarette, of course, has no tar at all, and while it would be better to give up smoking absolutely, it
Unusual Ways to Give Up Smoking 2008-10-06 02:22:00 Over on Turkish Coffee World Mustafa claims that Turksh coffee helped him to give up smoking. His argument makes sense, actually. As any smoker knows, the urge for a smoker really kicks in after certain situations - for me these include when I am having a drink, looking at a beautiful view, after a ... well, let's leave that one. After a meal is one of these situations, and Mustafa managed to suc Read more:Smoking
Exploding Cigarette 2008-10-05 10:16:00 Who said that suicide by smoking was slow?One man nearly did things a lot of quicker when he managed to blow up himself and the car he was using by lighting a cigarette. Ironically, he had been intending to kill himself. Having driven himself to a beauty spot, he rigged up a canister of gas to the car before having a change of heart. Having decided that life was worth living after all, he came clo Read more:Cigarette
Quitting Smoking with Linux 2008-10-05 02:22:00 The Linux
operating system has helped one woman to quit smoking, according to IT Wire. But it wasn't down to a sophisticated computer cessation programme, but rather to a few games of solitaire.The woman, who is not named in the story, found the programme AisleRiot Solitaire, a package of 82 distinct solitaire games.She got so into the game that after two weeks she realised that she was no longer Read more:Quitting
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Mc Cain smoking 2008-11-14 03:00:00 It is not just Obama who has smoked, as Extreme Mortman has noticed,although it seems that it has been a long long time since Mc Cain last puffed - 43 seconds into this movie.
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