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Ross Hamilton

Ross Hamilton
Ross Hamilton
Writer

Ross is a professional copywriter with over 7 years experience, who specializes in a number of fields, including expertise in the vaping sector.

Ross is a regular contributor to the vaping.com platform and writes comprehensive pieces for our Blog.

  1. Ban Francisco: Reaction to the San Francisco Flavour Ban

    Ban Francisco: Reaction to the San Francisco Flavour Ban

    This week, San Francisco voted to uphold a ban on flavoured vape juice and other flavoured tobacco products.

    The public ballot could lead to more vape restrictions applied across the United States.

    Almost 70% voted in favour of ‘Proposition E’ after the city’s Board of Supervisors first approved a flavour ban last year.

    The ban includes all flavoured e-liquids, menthol cigarettes and flavoured cigars. It has been labelled one of the strictest local regulations anywhere in the western world.

    Several anti-tobacco interest groups and health bodies supported the flavour ban, claiming that bright packaging may encourage kids to start using tobacco.

    Vaping advocates opposed the ban, pointing out that vaping is safer than smoking and claiming that limiting access to e-cigarettes could dissuade adult smokers from trying to quit.

    There is also

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  2. Can Vaping Cause Headaches?

    Can Vaping Cause Headaches?

    This year, Public Health England reaffirmed their 2015 claim that e-cigarettes were at least 95% safer than combustible cigarettes.

    The 2018 review came a few weeks after the US National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine concluded that, on the available evidence, “e-cigarettes are likely to be far less harmful than combustible tobacco cigarettes.”

    They both agree that, as an alternative to smoking, vaping has the power to significantly improve health outcomes.

    But this doesn’t mean that vaping is perfect. More than half (55%) of e-cigarette users have experienced at least one side effect while vaping.

    While they are generally not as serious as the side effects of using tobacco, they can be uncomfortable.

    One reported

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  3. Senators Introduce Bill to Ban Flavours

    Senators Introduce Bill to Ban Flavours

    Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin has teamed up with Senator Lisa Mirkowski, a Republican, to launch a new offensive on e-liquid flavours.

    On Monday, Illinois Democrat Durbin announced plans for a bipartisan bill to restrict ‘child-friendly’ flavourings.

    Arguing that e-cigarettes were part of a Big Tobacco ploy to get a new generation of kids hooked on nicotine, Durbin’s bill would require manufacturers to prove that flavourings aren’t harmful, don’t tempt kids into using nicotine and help adults quit.

    Manufacturers would have to one year to provide such evidence to the FDA.

    “We have made great progress in convincing kids not to start smoking cigarettes. They know that cigarettes kill and that, nowadays, it’s hard to find someplace where smoking cigarettes is even allowed,” Durbin

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  4. Should vaping be allowed at work?

    Should vaping be allowed at work?

    Vapers that use e-cigarettes at work have the potential to be healthier, happier and more productive. So should employers encourage them by allowing vaping in the workplace?

    Or should vapers be more mindful of their colleagues?

    As vaping gets more popular, the potential for conflict between vapers and non-vapers increases. This problem is made worse by the fact there is no set of universal written or unwritten rules around vaping etiquette.

    The law

    Many states have enacted state-wide smoking bans and the majority of employers have their own rules about smoking tobacco cigarettes in the workplace. But most of these rules don’t include vaping.

    The law on vaping is different. About a dozen states, including New York and California, have implemented vape bans in workplaces and other public places.

    In other states, certain localities have passed their own rules about vaping. But many employers are still free to decide whether to allow

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  5. Stop Smoking Without Putting on Weight

    Stop Smoking Without Putting on Weight

    Quitting tobacco is hard. It’s even tougher to quit without piling on the pounds.

    Research from the UK and France indicates that smokers put on around 10 pounds in the first 12 months after they quit, with most of the weight gain coming in the first three months.

    Exercise, dieting and stop-smoking treatments can all help you control your weight gain throughout your quitting journey.

    Here is our guide to giving up tobacco cigarettes without putting on weight.

    Why Do Quitters Put on Weight?

    Ditching tobacco is a healthy lifestyle choice. After 24 hours, carbon monoxide is eliminated from your body and your lungs start to clear out mucus and other nasty stuff caused by smoking.

    After two days your sense of smell starts to improve and after

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  6. FDA Flavour Ban Site Spammed with 255,000 Fake Comments

    FDA Flavour Ban Site Spammed with 255,000 Fake Comments

    Anti-vaping spammers posted more than a quarter of a million comments on the FDA’s public flavour ban consultation in one weekend last month.

    It is reported that the online public forum was flooded with 255,000 fake comments in a single weekend, with almost every spam comment asking the FDA to ban e-liquid flavours.

    FDA sources described these fraudulent comments as “extraordinary” and “unprecedented”, according to Regulator Watch.

    Internet bots entered the quarter million comments between June 8 and June 11, before the FDA finally located the source of the comments and blocked four IP addresses used by the spammers.

    Most of the comments were posted without a first or last name and used similar anti-vaping comments including ‘I am a concerned

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  7. Nicotine Patch Inventor Questions FDA’s Youth Vaping Strategy

    Nicotine Patch Inventor Questions FDA’s Youth Vaping Strategy

    “If anything, restricting e-cigarettes may incentivize youth to try combustible cigarettes instead.” 

    The man who invented nicotine patches to help smokers quit has raised serious doubts about the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) strategy to combat youth vaping.

    Last month, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb launched a raft of new enforcement measures as he deplored a new youth vaping ‘epidemic’.

    New measures included a clampdown on shops selling to minors and the possibility that some products - particularly flavoured e-liquids - could be removed from shelves.

    While Dr. Gottlieb acknowledged that e-cigarettes are a helpful smoking alternative for adults, he said that this needed to be balanced against the risk of nicotine addiction in kids.

    “It’s now clear to me, that in closing the on-ramp

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  8. ‘Kid Friendly’ E-liquids Withdrawn From Sale

    ‘Kid Friendly’ E-liquids Withdrawn From Sale

    The makers and distributors of some popular vape juice flavours, including One Mad Hit Juice Box, V’Nilla Cookies & Milk and Unicorn Cakes, have withdrawn products from sale, following warnings from the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

    Last week, the FDA announced that 17 companies had agreed to take products off the market, because they were packaged or advertised as ‘child-friendly' food products like juice boxes and candies.

    “When companies market these products using imagery that misleads a child into thinking they’re things they’ve consumed before, like a juice box or candy, that can create an imminent risk of harm,” said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the agency’s commissioner.

    vaping.com did not stock any of the affected products and our range of vape juice will

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  9. Nicotine Is No Worse than Your Double Latte

    Nicotine Is No Worse than Your Double Latte

    Urging tobacco smokers to switch to safer forms of nicotine, the UK’s Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has claimed that nicotine is ‘no more harmful to health than caffeine’.

    Alarmingly, the organisation found that nine out of ten people still believe that nicotine by itself is harmful.

    In reality, RSPH claims, the chemical is no worse than the caffeine found in you morning cup of Joe.

    Nicotine is harmful in tobacco cigarettes largely because it is combined with other dangerous ingredients including tar, arsenic and carbon monoxide. In these circumstances, the addictive chemical is dangerous because it keeps smokers hooked on dangerous tobacco cigarettes.

    Almost half a million Americans die from tobacco cigarettes each year and the Centres

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  10. 14 Basic Exercises to Help You Ditch Tobacco

    14 Basic Exercises to Help You Ditch Tobacco

    Lots of people use exercise to help them ditch their tobacco habit. Exercise can help in limiting weight gain, reducing hunger and managing your stress levels as you try to leave tobacco for good.

    Research also shows that exercise can be used to combat cigarette cravings. In a study published in the British Journal of Pharmacology, researchers gave three groups of nicotine-addicted mice an exercise wheel for 24, 2 or 0 hours each day.

    The mice who could exercise showed large reductions in the typical chemical symptoms associated with nicotine withdrawal.

    Alexis Bailey, who led the study at St George’s, University of London said: “The evidence suggests that exercise decreases nicotine withdrawal symptoms in humans; however, the mechanisms mediating this effect are unclear.”

    But what kind of exercise should you do? Here are 14 ideas to get you started.

    Walking

    Exercise may seem daunting at first, particularly if you aren’t in great shape.

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  11. 30 of the Most Hilarious Vape Memes Ever Created

    30 of the Most Hilarious Vape Memes Ever Created

    The Best Vape Memes on the Internet

    Vaping has blown up in popularity in recent years. Like anything popular, it’s become the subject of many a meme. Similar to being mocked by a TV show, having memes made about you is truly a sign you’ve made it. Thus, vape memes are, in our opinion, an honour. But which ones are the best?

    Our Top 30 Vape Memes

    There are vape memes for days. In fact, there are too many vape memes to count. We took it upon ourselves to do the absolutely back-breaking work of looking at hundreds and hundreds of memes to find the best the internet has to offer. Without further ado, here are our personal favourites.

     

    1. A Vape Too Far

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  12. Why is the US Ignoring Plain Cigarette Packaging? 

    Why is the US Ignoring Plain Cigarette Packaging? 

    Cigarette branding is powerful stuff. Tobacco companies’ own research shows that half of smokers can’t distinguish one brand of cigarette from another in blind taste tests.

    “For smokers and especially for the decisive group of new, younger smokers, the consumer’s choice is dictated more by psychological image factors than by relatively minor differences in smoking characteristics.”

    That’s according to internal documents drawn up by British American Tobacco.

    Several countries have adopted plain packaging as a way of tackling the appeal of cigarettes. It is still early doors, but studies show that the policy works, especially with young impressionable smokers.

    So as lawmakers introduce strict new regulations to tackle youth vaping, we ask why America has ignored plain cigarette packaging.

    Marlboro Man and ‘Light’ Cigarettes

    Marlboro made millions with their hyper-masculine mascot Marlboro Man. Other companies have tried to play down

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  13. Is Second Hand Vaping Safe? 

    Is Second Hand Vaping Safe? 

    Smoking kills. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention claims that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, accounting for one in every five deaths.

    The deadly habit has prompted dozens of state and city-wide smoking bans indoors in workplaces, bars, restaurants and other public places over the last two-and-a-half decades.

    As well as making smoking a less attractive proposition, these bans also protect non-smoking bystanders.

    Just as drink-drive laws protect innocent road users from dangerous dunk drivers, smoking bans protect other people in the vicinity of a smoker from inhaling their harmful fumes.

    After all, the person sat across from a smoker in a bar or restaurant hasn’t personally assumed any risks - so why should they be exposed to risk by another person?

    As vaping has grown in popularity, some

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  14. EU Countries Ranked by Vaper Friendliness

    EU Countries Ranked by Vaper Friendliness

    A new report, which ranks EU countries by their vaper-friendliness, warns that some EU countries are restricting access to vape products and jeopardising citizens’ health.

    Published by the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Nanny State index tracks 'overbearing lifestyle regulations' on product categories including alcohol, food/soft drinks, tobacco and e-cigarettes.

    Their latest report centres on vaping and ranks European countries based on their approach to harm-reducing nicotine products.

    ‘Nanny state’ interventions

    Christopher Snowdon, the author of the report, lays out the case against e-cigarette regulation right at the start of the report.

    “Nanny state interventions… are invariably promoted on grounds of health and yet it is difficult to see how clamping down on vaping benefits public health,” he says.

    “Paternalistic

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  15. How much nicotine is in a cigarette?

    How much nicotine is in a cigarette?

    Have you ditched tobacco for an electronic alternative? Not sure what nicotine level you need in your vape juice?

    If the answer is yes to both of these questions then this guide is for you.

    Choosing e-juice is confusing, especially if it is your first vape juice.

    Not only do you have to worry about the hundreds of vape juice flavours on offer and the PG/VG ratio, but you also have to choose your nicotine strength.

    Expressed as milligrams per millilitre (mg/ml), getting the right nicotine strength is very important for new vapers.

    One of the main reasons people stop vaping and go back to tobacco cigarettes is because they get nicotine strength wrong.

    If the nicotine strength is too low, vaping can feel hollow and unsatisfying.

    And if the nicotine strength is more than you are used to, then vaping can feel harsh and intense and might actually make you more addicted to nicotine,

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  16. Is Vaping Good or Bad For Your Teeth?

    Is Vaping Good or Bad For Your Teeth?

    Vaping is still quite new and there are still many things that people disagree on. One is whether vaping is good or bad for your teeth.

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  17. 70 Experts Urge WHO to Embrace E-cigarettes

    70 Experts Urge WHO to Embrace E-cigarettes

    More than seventy public health experts and anti-tobacco campaigners have penned a joint letter to the World Health Organization (WHO), urging leaders to take a more measured view of the benefits of vaping.

    The open letter was sent to WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ahead of this week’s conference of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Geneva.

    The 72 signatories, who have no links to the tobacco industry, urged the WHO to “embrace tobacco harm reduction” and adopt a more positive approach to e-cigarettes and other technologies that can help fight smoking-related diseases.

    “In the field of tobacco control and public health, the world has changed significantly since the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was signed in 2003.  It is impossible to ignore or dismiss the rise of Alternative Nicotine Delivery Systems (ANDS),” they write

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  18. Are E-cigarettes Included in the Public Housing Smoking Ban?

    Are E-cigarettes Included in the Public Housing Smoking Ban?

    From 31 July, tobacco smokers won’t be able to light up in or near public housing, but vaping may still be permitted.

    It is thought that e-cigarettes will still be allowed in the majority of public housing communities, however, it will probably be banned in places where legislation restricts the use of e-cigarettes in line with combustible cigarettes.

    In the state of New York, for example, the Smoke-Free Air Act prohibits the use of e-cigarettes in places where smoking is also banned. This includes bars, restaurants, offices, parks and, from the end of this month, public housing.

    Guidance from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says that “electronic or e-cigarettes may

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  19. Six New Vape Stats: 55 Million Vapers by 2021

    Six New Vape Stats: 55 Million Vapers by 2021

    A series of new stats about vaping show that e-cigarettes are getting more popular around the world.

    Euromonitor International statistics, which have been published by the BBC, show that the number of vapers worldwide has increased rapidly, from seven million in 2011 to 35 million in 2016.

    By 2021, the market research group forecasts that 55 million adults will vape across the globe.

    This rapid increase comes as cigarette smoking rates decline.

    The latest statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO) show a steady decrease in the number of smokers globally - falling from 1.14bn in 2000 to 1.1bn today.

    WHO research shows the the fastest decrease in smoking rates has been

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  20. Why You Might Struggle to Buy a New Vape This Month

    Why You Might Struggle to Buy a New Vape This Month

    Friday 16th February signals the start of the Year of the Dog, but Chinese New Year celebrations could bring mass disruption to vaping supply chains.

    Chinese New Year is based on a lunar calendar and it’s very important in Chinese culture – on a par with Thanksgiving and Christmas in the United States.

    Government offices close across China and most factories shut down for up to two weeks.

    Because most mods, tanks and other vape devices are assembled in China it is almost impossible to get anything shipped immediately before and after Chinese New Year.

    SMOK, a leading manufacturer based in Shenzhen, posted this message on its website:

    “As you know, the most valuable holiday in China - Chinese Lunar New Year, is just around the corner.

    “SMOK team will take 12 days off for the Chinese New Year from February 12 - February 23”

    This is typical of Chinese

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