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9 Ways the Surgeon General Puts the Anti-Vaping Narrative Before the Facts

Yesterday, the Surgeon General released his first report on e-cigarettes, and it comes to completely different conclusions to the Royal College of Physicians' report from earlier this year. Why? Because he puts anti-vaping talking points ahead of the facts.

Research

Formaldehyde in E-Cigarettes: The Facts Without the Fearmongering

After the release of a new study looking at formaldehyde in e-cig vapor, the media has gone into a predictable frenzy of fearmongering. But what does the evidence really say?

Lifestyle

Battle of the Boxes 2: Nine E-Juice Subscription Services Compared

With so many e-liquid companies vying for your custom, e-juice subscription services help you navigate the options and find your new all day vape. If you’re looking to sign up for an e-liquid subscription service, however, the decision is getting progressively more difficult to make, so which is right for your needs? Here’s an updated run-down of the different e-juice subscription services.

Guides

How to Build an RDA Coil: A Beginner’s Guide

With vaping, better performance generally comes with increased complexity, and nowhere is this more obvious than with rebuildable atomizers....

Guides

Is High VG E-Juice Right for You? Here Are 6 Things to Consider

Back in the cigalike days of e-cigarettes, high VG e-juice was basically unheard of. The most popular mix in...

Guides

How to Extend the Life of Your Atomizer Heads

If your brand new atomizer head is only lasting you a few days – rather than the 1 to 2 weeks you can ordinarily get out of one – you'll end up spending loads of money on vaping. So what's the problem? Can it be fixed? Here’s a brief guide to getting the most out of your atomizer heads.

Guides

9 Ways to Improve Vapor Production from Your E-Cig

There are tons of ways to improve your vapor production, and although there are certain types of e-cig and atomizer that are better-suited to it, there are many things you can do to improve the vapor production with whatever device you have now. Here are 9 of them.

Guides

What is Temperature Control Vaping?

These days you’ll barely ever see a mod released which doesn’t offer temperature control. But what is TC vaping? How does it work? Why would you want to use it? What coils can you use with it? Here’s everything you need to know.

Research

The One-Puff “Gateway Effect:” Three Studies, One Fatal Error

A new study has led to some predictable, tiresome claims that e-cigarettes are a gateway to smoking, but it commits a laughable error also found in two other recent gateway studies: focusing on students who’ve taken a single puff of an e-cigarette rather than anything approaching regular use.

Guides

The Basics of Vaping: An Introduction to VV/VW Mods

Although eGo-style or cigalike devices are generally preferred by those first getting started with vaping, it usually doesn’t take...

Guides

The Basics of Vaping: The Smokers’ Guide to Vaping Technique

The core appeal of vaping is that it’s very, very similar to smoking. To switch, pretty much all you have to do is vape when you would have smoked and try to resist any cravings. However, it’s really a little more complicated than that. So here’s a brief guide for smokers new to vaping who are looking to get the most they can out of it.

Research

The CDC’s Misguided, Dangerous and Dishonest War on Vaping

While in the UK, the Royal College of Physicians and Public Health England wholeheartedly endorse vaping and actively refute many of the absurd claims made in opposition of e-cigs, the CDC’s prohibitionist, alarmist mindset continues unabated.

Guides

The Basics of Vaping: Clearomizers and Tanks – Changing Coils and Filling Up

Two of the most common tasks you’ll have to do as a vaper is filling up a tank or clearomizer and replacing a spent coil for a new one. Thankfully for new vapers, these are both really easy to accomplish, regardless of the type of tank or clearomizer you have. Here's how to do it.

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The Basics of Vaping – Types of E-Cig Atomizers and Vape Tanks

The atomizer is what turns your e-juice into delicious, inhalable vapor, but like everything else when it comes to vaping, there are tons of options on the market, and to a beginner, it can seem very overwhelming. Should you get a sub-ohm tank or a basic clearomizer? What are RBAs, RTAs and RDAs? Does it really make a difference what atomizer you use?

Research

Monstering: Why Nicotine Replacement Therapies Are a Threat to Public Health

Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) isn’t as benign as Big Pharma wants you to believe. They may have suckered politicians, doctors and scientists into supporting their trade in an addictive drug, but with my powers of cherry-picking, misrepresentation and lies of omission, I can reveal the truth: NRT is a serious threat to public health.

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Minimum Effort, Maximum Impact: The Anti-Vaping Junk Science of Rebecca Williams

If you want a constant stream of junk science on a topic, one thing you’ll need is some researchers willing to crank out a shoddy paper in support of your cause, ideally without putting too much work into it. And the University of North Carolina's Rebecca Williams has mastered the art.

Lifestyle

6 Misleading Pro-Vaping Arguments We Should Stop Using

We’ve spent plenty of time tackling anti-vaping myths since the site got started, but it isn’t just those opposed to vaping that often spout mistruths or plain misleading statements. In fact, there are quite a few pro-vaping myths that we should stop repeating if we want to be taken seriously.

Guides

The Basics of Vaping: Choosing PG/VG Ratios and Nicotine Levels

How do you find the right PG/VG ratio for your needs? How much nicotine do you need to ensure you’ll find vaping satisfying? Here’s everything you need to know.

Guides

The Basics of Vaping – What are E-Cigarettes and How Do They Work?

We're starting a new series on the basics of vaping, so this post looks at simplest questions you might have - what are e-cigarettes? How do they work? What are the different types of e-cig?

Lifestyle

5 Normal Things People Totally Freak Out Over When Vaping is Involved

There are many examples of unavoidably normal things being used to criticize vaping specifically. In everyday life, the potential problems relating to them are roundly ignored, but when you toss e-cigarettes into the equation, all of a sudden they’re a cause for panic and outrage. Here are five examples