Smoking was banned in public places such as bars and cafes back in 2004 in Ireland yet it isn’t uncommon to see people lighting up outside schools, outside public buildings and in queues/at bus stops. Senator (Fine Gael) Martin Conway wants this to change.When it comes to smoking much research has been produced which definitively proves that passive smoking, i.e. non-smokers inhaling cigarette smoke from nearby smokers, can be just as harmful as… Read more
19th Feb 2018
The 2018 Winter Olympics are in full swing and hitting the media hard. A lesser known yet no less fun event was held recently in Lynchburg, Tennessee which is being referred to by many as the Cloud Chasing Olympics.The evening was held at Dapper Dan’s Vapor Things and was overseen by none other than the Cloud Competition Sports League. The CCSL has been created to produce and adjudicate the rules of competitive vaping. So there you are, vaping is… Read more
15th Feb 2018
Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, has recognised that his constituency has a higher number of adult smokers than the England average and is making plans to cut smoking rates once and for all.Mayor Burnham’s plans are to cut smoking rates by a least a third over the next three years. This is an ambitious plan however the downward trend of smoking and the positive effect of a series of public health campaigns, not least the Go Smoke Free legi… Read more
9th Feb 2018
The Jurby Prison on the Isle of Man have spearheaded a vaping-related pilot scheme which has seen inmates switch tobacco cigarettes for e cigarettes. The scheme has been hailed an unprecedented success.The Jurby Prison governor, Bob McColm has announced that the e cig pilot scheme has indeed been a major success. The smoking problem within the prison has been solved and McColm believes that as a result of the trial “We have better behaviour… Read more
