Enjoy Electronic Cigarettes in the Beautiful Gower

In what is probably the first electronic cigarette friendly tourist accommodation in Wales, a house offering self catering accommodation in Gower specifies that while smoking has to be done outside the house, electronic cigarettes are welcome.

The owner of the house (which just happens to be our managing director) can also supply the electronic cigarette to guests.

The house is also located in the Gower Peninsula, which was the UK's first designated area of natural beauty and offers super walking, golf, birdwatching and water sports.

Check out www.GowerHolidayHome.co.uk for more information.

Note - for a fifty pound discount when booking your accommodation (excluding peak times such as x-mas and New Year) quote "Ashtray blog"when booking.

Fancy a change from regular cigarettes? Check out the electronic cigarette.

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I recommend and encourage people not to waste any time if they are considering an alternative smoking into helping them to quit smoking. Electronic cigarettes has helped me greatly to stop smoking tobacco cigarettes which is extremely harmful to your overall health. With over 4000 chemical compounds created by burning a cigarette with various toxins and carcinogens that is cancer causing. Compared to an electronic cigarette which has no tobacco, 0 carcinogens or toxins that is no risk to your health, it contains 99% water and 1 percent nicotine which can be addicting but not harmful. Please make the right choice for yourself and for others. Think Right & Be Safe!”

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Second comment is also great:

It’s a no brainer when it come to comparing an Electronic
Cigarette Vaping to Tobacco Smoking.Which is a greater risk to your health, you ask ? Over 400,000 thousand people die each year in the US from Tobacco smoking! Not including worldwide… An Electronic Cigarette has been around for 5 years worldwide, you ask how many deaths has there been reported within this 5 years from the use of an electronic cigarettes? My research shows that 0 reports have been made! The facts are in. Please do your research and choose a better alternative thats right for you & for others     I Vape on an Electronic Cigarette.
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In a tale of politics and ignorance Suffolk legislators have been trying to stop smokers from using their electronic cigarettes in public.

Now Professor Michael Siegel has joined other distinguished scientists by writing articles in newspapers in an exposure of the move to ban electronic cigarettes.

The Professor writes: "The question the FDA and the anti-smoking groups are asking is: "Are electronic cigarettes safe?" That is not the right question. The right question is: "Are electronic cigarettes much safer than conventional ones?" The FDA and anti-smoking groups are comparing electronic cigarettes to a solution of spring-fresh Maine mountain stream water. What they need to compare electronic cigarettes to is a Marlboro cigarette"

The article is well worth reading - and also needs digging. If enough people digg articles like this our side of the story will get huge exposure.

The link to the digged article is here: http://digg.com/d311gmO

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It appears that the Long Island Vaping Club may have won a small victory in their battle to keep smoking e-cigarettes in public places.

Until recently, Suffolk County planned to ban the electronic cigarette.

To promote support for the ban they used emotive language, unproven claims and plain lies.

Emotive language: "...a new, high-tech smoking threat has emerged in the form of "electronic cigarettes....These devices combine the appeal of an iPod with that of candy cigarettes."

Unproven claims: "...kids are getting their hands on them." There are no known reports that suggest that kids are getting their hands on them.

The lie : ""After inhaling, the user then blows out the heated vapors producing a "cloud" of undetermined substances that is virtually indistinguishable from traditional smoke."

Source: Legislator Cooper Press Releases

In fact several studies have analysed the contents of the vapor including the FDA sponsored study. All studies have found that the toxin lower was far lower than that of ordinary cigarettes.

Heroic Effort:

The Long Island Vapers Club launched a strong resistance to the bill.

One of their strongest arguments was that the level of nitrosamines (measured at levels of about 9/1,000,000,000 in electronic cigarettes) was around the same as that found in Suffolk County tap water.

Now it appears that the law has been modified.

In an email to E Cigarette Forum user Kristin, Steve Levey, a county executive of Suffolk wrote:

"It may interest you to know that the proposed ban that would prohibit the use of e-cigarettes in public buildings has been modified and is now directed toward the sale and use of electronic cigarettes to and by minors."

And that is a provision few electronic cigarette users have a problem with.

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Updated 22/08: We are in the middle of a battle to save an alternative to the cigarettes that kill millions of people worldwide.

The resistance to the powerful and well-financed campaign against the electronic cigarette is largely taking place on the internet - on blogs, forums and social media sites.

Links are the currency are the web. Without links, our blogs and our evidence in support of the electronic cigarette will never be found.

That's why we are creating a list of quality electronic cigarette/tobacco blogs.

Please contact us or leave a note if we have missed a great blog.

Tobacco Analysis Blog: Professor Michael Siegel tells the real story behind the lies and exagerations of the anti-electronic cigarette industry.

Tobacco Truth Blog: Professor Brad Rodu examines and comments upon "the scientific foundation for tobacco policies and fallacies."

E Cigarette Nationwide: The companion blog to E Cigarette National.

The Guy With the Fedora: This is a new blog but the guy is prolific - 33 video blogs in less than a month!

The Truth: Electronic Cigarettes versus Cigarettes is a very well written hub page on the electronic cigarette which takes a personal perspective. The hub gives a very good summary of the issues and has a good resource section too.

The Electronic Cigarette Tavern: Interesting blog, although the long paragraphs make it a bit hard going.

E-Cig Org: We have mentioned our friends in America - who were instrumental in helping drum up support for our electronic cigarette survey - before, but as one of the top ranking electronic cigarette blogs and a mine of useful information they definitely deserve a second mention!

E Cigarette Forum Blogs: The E Cigarette Forum allows members to blog, and has a page showing off members latest blogs.

Electronic Cigarette News: As the title says - the blog keeps up with the latest electronic cigarette news.

Leaford's E-Smoker Blog: Leaford continues to keep his blog up-to-date with the latest electronic cigarette reviews.

Electronic Cigarette Store Blog: This has what we look for in a blog - going beyond mindless sales to provide interesting content. The electronic cigarette store blog provides summaries of recent news stories (inlcuding some of ours) with links to the full stories.

Vapeatron - this one just about falls into the blog category (it's also a forum.) The site has numerous interesting posts, from one user's experience with cops after they discovered her e-cigarette rig (involving two hours in handcuffs - fortunately she was rescued by a e-smoking copper) to how to clean an atomiser.

E Cig Forever - E Cig Forever is a new site run by a smoker of over thirty years - a smoker who is now trying to make the switch to electronic cigarettes.

Vick's Vapor Blog - Another e-smoker share her anger at the anti-electronic cigarette campaign.

If you have a blog that goes beyond just selling/promoting the electronic cigarette and provides useful information or just entertainment, submit the url in the comments below. We'll check out the link and if we like it we will add to our list.

Also be sure to check out our electronic cigarette directory, our list of smoking blogs and our list of electronic cigarette sites.

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Action on Smoking and Health Claims

ASH.org makes some extreme claims on their website.

1. That 30 minutes of exposure to drifting tobacco smoke can trigger a fatal heart attack. 2. That E Cigarettes pose dangers for both smokers and non-smokers. 3. That third hand smoke can pose serious risks for smokers. 4. That smoker's breath can be harmful to health.

These claims are no joke.

Use of the Claims

They have been used to:

• enforce a system of discrimination against smokers, with smokers (not smoking) being barred from hospital waiting rooms
• as support for separating parents from their children
• to bar smokers from becoming foster parents
• to prevent smokers from seeing their children even when they smoke outside
• as support for arguments for a ban against electronic cigarettes - an alternative to a product which kills over 400,000 Americans and over 100,000 Brits per year

Under the Microscope

With such serious consequences, you would think that there would be equally serious and scientific evidence to back up the data.

Not so, according to the three scientists who examined the claims.

All three are distinguished Professors of Medicine with years of experience in their field.

Click here to see what they have to say about ASH's claims.

Image Used was from Dick Puddleton: Smoker Apartheid Has Arrived

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