VAPE AND BE HAPPY! =)

e-Petition: Proposed Ban on the Use of e-cigarettes in Public Places

https://www.assemblywales.org/en/gethome/e-petitions/Pages/petitiondetail.aspx?PetitionID=657

While FDA considers e-cigarette regulation, states and cities continue to act

http://blog.heart.org/while-fda-considers-e-cigarette-regulation-states-and-cities-continue-to-act/

Big Tobacco Has Officially Lost Its Hold on the E-Cigarette Market

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/big-tobacco-has-officially-lost-its-hold-on-the-e-cigarette-market

Poll: Do you think Vancouver should ban e-cigarettes from everywhere smoking is banned?

http://metronews.ca/news/vancouver/1165323/vancouver-poised-to-ban-e-cigarettes-from-beaches-parks-patios/

Poll: Should e-cigarettes be treated the same at regular cigarettes

Vancouver to vote on e-cigs ban

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2014/09/24/vancouver-to-vote-on-e-cigs-ban

Clive Bates: Falsely exaggerating risks scares people off things – new study finds

http://www.clivebates.com/?p=2418

Clive Bates: The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle applied

http://www.clivebates.com/?p=2426

France decided to ban vaping from public places and marketing

"Interdire le vapotage dans certains lieux publics aura des conséquences graves

http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/plan-national-de-reduction-du-tabagisme-quelles-consequences_1579303.html#FrOY22rKX7VGZgiE.01

The American Heart Association Says Vaping Is Safer Than Smoking

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-american-heart-association-says-vaping-is-safer-than-smoking?trk_source=recommended

The Indefatigable Frog, or Why this won't stop us!

http://theindefatigablefrog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/the-indefatigable-frog-or-why-this-wont.html

Lung Cancer Decreases as Vaping Increases

http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/lung-cancer-decreases-as-vaping-increases/#yh9MhpWJmTo1HdhD.01

FDA Doesn’t Want E-Cigs Marketed as Safer Than Tobacco Cigarettes

http://www.cato.org/blog/fda-doesnt-want-e-cigs-marketed-safer-tobacco-cigarettes

Electronic cigarettes and airway infections? Don’t worry!

http://www.bernd-mayer.com/electronic-cigarettes-airway-infection-dont-worry/

New poll question: Should the use of e-cigarettes in public places be banned?

http://www.yourassembly.org/new-poll-question-smoking-e-cigarettes-public-places-banned/

EVUN: COP-6: European Vapers criticise WHO plans

http://evun.net/?p=217

Tell Young People the Truth: E-Cigarettes and Vaping Flavors Help People Quit Smoking

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-newman/e-cigarettes-quitting-smoking_b_5618621.html

The Way Your Lungs Get Affected by Electronic Cigarettes: Results of Online User’s Survey

http://e-cigaretteuk.org.uk/the-way-your-lungs-get-affected-by-e-cig/

Vaping areas - a good idea?

http://vapingiraffe.blogspot.no/2014/09/vaping-areas-good-idea.html

Study Sheds New Light on Why Batteries Go Bad

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2014-09-14-study-sheds-new-light-why-batteries-go-bad.aspx

Follow-up on how medics doomed public health – case studies

http://antithrlies.com/2014/09/22/follow-up-on-how-medics-doomed-public-health-case-studies/

How the medicalized history of public health damaged its science too, particularly including understanding ecigs (fairly wonkish)

http://antithrlies.com/2014/09/23/how-the-medicalized-history-of-public-health-damaged-its-science-too-particularly-including-understanding-ecigs-fairly-wonkish/

"Social Change UK" and Taxpayer-Funded Lies and Bullying

http://hellnanny.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/social-change-uk-and-taxpayer-funded.html

Study: E-cigarettes ‘do not encourage child smoking’

http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/study-e-cigarettes-%E2%80%98do-not-encourage-child-smoking%E2%80%99#.VBxXRL18cVk.facebook

Poll: Should e-cigarettes be banned or encouraged?

http://www.scotpulse.com/communities/default.aspx?p=p551439012

"By donating to this study, you will have a direct impact on one of the most critical public health questions of our time."

http://www.biscuitsstudy.com/

Aurora Council shoots down ban on e-cigarettes

http://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/4868816-aurora-council-shoots-down-ban-on-e-cigarettes/

Clive Bates: WHO position on ENDS - a critique of the use of science and communication of risk

http://nicotinepolicy.net/clive-bates/2523-who-position-on-ends-a-critique-of-the-use-of-science-and-communication-of-risk

By Dr Farsalinos: A response to our critique of the WHO-commissioned report on e-cigarettes verifies all our concerns mentioned in the critique

http://www.ecigarette-research.com/web/index.php/research/2014/181-who-resp

Alarmed at Increase in Smoking, New York Regulators Resist a Much Safer Alternative

http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/16/alarmed-at-increase-in-smoking-new-york

Clive Bates: Memo to public health grandees: vaping, vapers and you

http://www.clivebates.com/?p=2391

Jamaica’s Health Ministry: E-Cigs Not Banned, But Not Allowed Either

http://www.ecigadvanced.com/blog/jamaicas-health-ministry-e-cigs-not-banned-but-not-allowed-either

New survey finds regular use of electronic cigarettes by children still rare

http://www.ash.org.uk/:new-survey-finds-regular-use-of-electronic-cigarettes-by-children-still-rare

By Dr Farsalinos: Are there any bio-detoxification mechanisms in lungs? YES

http://www.ecigarette-research.com/web/index.php/research/2014/182-lung-detox

World Vaping Day 2014 – September 18th

http://www.world-vaping-day.com/

The Maker of Vuse E-Cigs Is Lobbying to Ban Vaping (Updated)

http://gizmodo.com/the-maker-of-blu-e-cigs-is-lobbying-to-ban-vaping-1633442788

Poll: Should smoking electronic cigarettes indoors be banned?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/electronic-cigarettes-theres-no-smoke-4205462

Study: E-Cigarettes Have No Adverse Effect on Acute Heart Function

http://ecigarettereviewed.com/study-e-cigarettes-have-no-adverse-effect-on-acute-heart-function

Health chief steps down after crude 'e-cig' rant on Twitter: Professor stands aside after online attack on supporter of quitting aide

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754917/Health-chief-steps-crude-e-cig-rant-Twitter-Professor-leaves-post-online-attack-supporter-quitting-aide.html

Is this the world's first medically-approved 'cigarette'?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceuticalsandchemicals/11091408/Is-this-the-worlds-first-medically-approved-cigarette.html#disqus_thread

Interactive World Vaping Map: Quickly Check Where You Can Vape

http://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2014/09/interactive-world-vaping-map.html

E-Cig Propaganda: Deciphering the Madness

http://www.clearette.com/blog/e-cig-propaganda/

Reynolds American wants FDA to ban vapor e-cigs

http://www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/big-tobacco-makers-want-fda-to-ban-vapor-e-cigs/article_77b131f5-540d-5f02-927c-733bac751529.html?TNNoMobile

Some urgent messages from the department of shooting yourself in the foot.

http://www.redheadfullofsteam.com/some-urgent-messages-from-the-department-of-shooting-yourself-in-the-foot/

Diacetyl in Electronic Cigarettes: What you need to know!

http://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2014/09/diacetyl-comparison-eliquid-cigarettes.html

A critique of a WHO-commissioned report and associated article on electronic cigarettes

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.12730/abstract#.VAnQ4XzGuyJ.facebook

Scary substances found in e-liquid... and in everything else we eat, drink or inhale

http://vapingiraffe.blogspot.no/2014/09/scary-substances-found-in-e-liquid-and.html

Tobacco Giant Reynolds Wants To Be A Major Nicotine Gum Company

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/04/reynolds-nicotine-gum_n_5765236.html

R West - Ecig Fact and Faction - Update Sept 9th

http://www.ecigarette-politics.com/blog/r-west-ecig-fact-and-faction-update.html

E-Cigarettes could save thousands of lives, experts say

http://rt.com/uk/185332-e-cigarettes-save-lives/

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST – AUSTRALIAN VAPERS’ ASSOCIATION

http://www.australianvapersassociation.net/

New Study Investigates Emissions of Metals and Toxic Chemicals from E-Cigs and Tobacco Cigs

http://ecigarettereviewed.com/study-emissions-of-metals-and-toxic-chemicals-from-e-cigs-and-tobacco-cigarettes

E-Cigarettes Give Boost to Quitting Smoking

http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/09/06/e-cigarettes-give-boost-to-quitting-smoking/74569.html

COP-6: Twitterbombs and Thunderclaps

14 hours ago

The idea is to get LOUD again. Obviously, we've been quiet for too long already.... that needs to be changed, and the upcoming COP6 event is a wonderful opportunity for us to make our voices heard again once more!

This time, we want the event to be worldwide -- as far as possible given all the different time zones ..... but we can always try, and only in *not trying* lies any defeat!

That said, here's the idea(s):

We will start twitter bombs on the 4 sunday evenings preceding the COP6 ... with the last sunday also being identical with the eve of the conference beginning.

As long as COP-6 has not started yet, we set the time to 21.30h Central European (summer) Time, which is 8.30 pm in the UK, 3:30 pm Eastern Standard Time (NYC, East Coast) and 12:30 (pm) Pacific Standard Time (L.A., Vancouver etc.) ...... I still need to look up the times for Australia and also will try to contact Australian vapers to join us simultaneously .... using twuffer.com/ to get their tweets out at the right time of day.

DURING the COP6 days we obviously have to adjust to Moscow time zone which is 2 hours ahead of CEsT and 3 hours ahead of GMsT. The first day will be Monday, 13th October ... and the last day will be Saturday, 18th October. For these days, we haven't made a final decision yet about the time of day when we want our tweets to appear. Please stay tuned to our Facebook page (link below).

For THESE 5 DAYS we will also prepare some Thunderclaps as a support for our live tweets. (They will still have to be created.) ... And I do hope that you all agree, that we will use our letter(s) to Chan on our website as the backlink ... (For those who don't know or don't remember: A thunderclap can be started for a CAUSE and therefore must be linked to a website which describes the cause. Hopefully, we will get out our second WHO letter within the next few days, so that we can link our Thunderclaps to this most recent letter!)

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About the hashtags to use we are looking for highly original ones ... ones which have not been used before so we hopefully can get into the trends like we did last winter once in a while....

ONE tag is mandatory: #COP6 --- however we also need ppl to watch if and what WHO would use -- maybe they would write it like this ->COP-6 ... and if this is the case, we will OF COURSE use THEIR spelling.

The idea is to get OUR messages smuggled into theirs -- which is even more important than trending!

First Twitter Sunday will be September 21st, last Twitter Sunday is October 12th.

Elva Pote has already created a Facebook page and also started the event pages already (but isn't happy with the contents yet, therefore we haven't started promoting it big style on FB .. but that should start soon). Here's the link to our COP6-TB site: facebook.com/pages/COP6-TB/262722890588314?fref=ts

ANY HELP is WELCOME - be it creative or in logistics/planning!!! So far, Elva Pote and I have been doing the whole job alone....

Department Of Health: E-Cigs Are Not A Tobacco Product

http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/department-of-health-e-cigs-are-not.html

CASAA response to new study that claims ecigs are a gateway to cocaine

http://antithrlies.com/2014/09/03/casaa-response-to-new-study-that-claims-ecigs-are-a-gateway-to-cocaine/

E-Cigarette Summit 2014

http://www.e-cigarette-summit.com/#.VAcyBdc0PKY.facebook

E-Cigarettes rejuvenate tobacco smoker’s lungs: leaked study

http://www.vapemonitor.com/2014/09/03/e-cigarettes-rejuvenate-tobacco-smokers-lungs-leaked-study/

New York State May Pass An E-Liquid Ban That’s Awfully Convenient For Big Tobacco

http://www.inquisitr.com/1304742/new-york-state-may-pass-an-e-liquid-ban-thats-awfully-convenient-for-big-tobacco/

By Dr Farsalinos: Politics over science: unprecedented distortion of evidence by a prestigious medical journal

http://www.ecigarette-research.com/web/index.php/2013-04-07-09-50-07/2014/179-coc

American Vaping Association Responds to R.J. Reynolds’ Attempt To Ban Most E-Cigarettes

http://vaping.info/ava-rj-reynolds-ban-e-cigarettes

It's Not Targeting Kids If WE Do It

http://nblo.gs/ZDSQ2

Why the WHO is wrong about e-cigarettes

http://www.west-info.eu/why-the-who-is-wrong-about-e-cigarettes/

Criticism of WHO FCTC COP#6 (for which I’ll either be sued or go straight to hell)

https://steampoweredhuman.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/criticism-of-who-fctc-cop6-for-which-ill-either-be-sued-or-go-straight-to-hell/

Totally Wicked to challenge Article 20 of the TPD – a vaper’s view

http://saveecigs.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/totally-wicked-to-challenge-article-20-of-the-tpd-a-vapers-view/

Petition: Reconsider your position on the sale and use of electronic cigarettes.

https://www.change.org/p/rona-ambrose-reconsider-your-position-on-the-sale-and-use-of-electronic-cigarettes

The biggest victims of WHO’s anti-harm-reduction efforts are in India

http://antithrlies.com/2014/08/30/the-biggest-victims-of-whos-anti-harm-reduction-efforts-are-in-india/

Japan Tobacco begins court action against liquid maker

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/health-pharma/waterford-based-e-cigarette-company-goes-in-to-liquidation-1.1912285

By Dr Farsalinos: Evaluation of electronic cigarette liquids and aerosol for the presence of selected inhalation toxins

http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/30/ntr.ntu176.short?rss=1

Study: Electronic cigarettes: fact and faction

http://bjgp.org/content/64/626/442.long

A new study verifies the lower risk-potential of e-cigarettes but identifies an avoidable risk

http://www.ecigarette-research.com/web/index.php/research/2014/178-da-ap

Another Left Wing UN Quango Tries to Interfere in Britain

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/01/Another-Left-Wing-UN-Quango-Tries-to-Interfere-in-Britain

Could E-Cigarettes Someday Be Used to Combat Alzheimer's Disease?

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/15/could-e-cigarettes-someday-be-used-to-combat-alzhe.aspx#.U-P5AdgKuCY.email

11 Words That Mean Completely Different Things To Vapers

http://www.ecigarettedirect.co.uk/ashtray-blog/2014/09/the-secret-language-of-vaping.html?awt_l=DLn.E&awt_m=Js2L24QpDE8Eb4