Author Archives: Victor Vitale

Indoor vaping ban to include some smoke shops

Indoor vaping ban to include some smoke shops

So wait…. no vaping in a vape shop? Just makes no sense. I hope Mayor Soglin is considering a no-burger-eating policy for McDonald’s to make sure everyone stays healthy. Seven stores specializing in e-cigarettes have opened in Madison, including Infinite Vapor, above. Mayor Paul Soglin and nine City Council members are proposing to add the […]

New Study Shows E-Cigarettes are Less Addictive Than Cigarettes

New Study Shows E-Cigarettes are Less Addictive Than Cigarettes

No surprise from us! There are so many different chemicals in traditional cigarettes, it can only be expected that some of them would also be addictive and therefore make cigarettes more addictive than vaping. E-cigs reduce nicotine addiction. One of the most annoying criticisms of vapers is: “you’re still addicted!” Firstly, it seems like scraping […]

Study: Second-Generation E-Cigs Effective for Smokers Not Intending to Quit

Study: Second-Generation E-Cigs Effective for Smokers Not Intending to Quit

Some more data coming out showing potential effectiveness for vaping as a smoking secession tool. E-cigs improve quit smoking rates. If there was a pill you could give smokers not intending to quit, with only very minor side effects (that fade with time anyway), which would lead to two-thirds of them either quitting smoking or […]

New Clinical Trial Shows E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit and Reduce Cravings

New Clinical Trial Shows E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit and Reduce Cravings

Some good data here showing ways that vaping can help reduce cravings for cigarettes. E-cigarettes do help you quit smoking. Even if you aren’t satisfied with the multitude of anecdotal evidence available online, population-based and clinical studies confirm that vapers do successfully quit smoking quite often, despite widespread claims that “e-cigs haven’t been proven effective […]

New Survey Finds Reduced Youth Smoking as E-Cigs Rise in Popularity

New Survey Finds Reduced Youth Smoking as E-Cigs Rise in Popularity

Always nice to see some data that contradicts wild predictions of doom and gloom from the prohibitionist crowd. Youth e-cig use rising One of the most common arguments against e-cigarettes is that they’ll tempt non-smoking youths into trying nicotine, and those youths will eventually move onto combusted tobacco. This is also a hypothesis that’s been […]

Golden’s smoking, vaping ban one of many passed in 2014

Golden's smoking, vaping ban one of many passed in 2014

I don’t know about all of you, but a ban on vaping outdoors seems a little bit excessive to me. Posted:   01/01/2015 12:01:00 AM MST Gabby Livengood, 19, takes a smoke break along Washington Avenue and 13th Street in Golden in June. A smoking ban takes effect Thursday. (Andy Cross, Denver Post file) Smokers […]