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An Electronic Cigarette Timeline: A History of the Electronic Cigarette Year by Year

Text by Steve Kryworuka The electronic cigarette has in less than a decade become one of the most promising technologies in the field of tobacco harm reduction. From a modest beginning in the mid-2000s, e-cigarette adoption has grown to over 2.5 millio…

How the devastated son of a lung cancer victim dreamed up a device which would save the lives of millions of smokers

Or: The History of the Electronic Cigarette The e-cigarette as we know it may never have existed if a Chinese man had not been struck by the disease all smokers fear. Lung cancer. His devastated son, Hon Lik, was a heavy smoker too, and feeling the e…

Nicotine and hunger: closer than you think

By Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org In the New World, tobacco was both thought of as a panacea for all that could ail you and also as a spiritual conduit. Using it cured you, kept you safe, and could give you visions. And it also helped with wha…

Blowing smoke up your ass: and you thought it was just an adage

By Paul Bergen of tobaccoharmreduction.org This really has nothing to do with vaping at all but it is amusing. Vaping has come in at a time when the ways of using tobacco and/or nicotine don’t exhibit quite the imagination when compared to days o…

Four extreme (and we mean extreme) anti-smoking tactics that STILL failed.

The anti-smoking movement is hoping to stop smoking through policies such as: increased taxes pub and car bans a policy of denormalisation (no really – I’m not making that up!) But despite the protests of smoker’s rights groups, these are nothing compared to what anti-smokers did in the past: Imprisoning smokers The first person to [...]