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Thanks for the extra info, Anne. I also prefer my flavours on the subtle side rather than 'blow your head off'! To me that was part of the advantage of regaining the use of my taste buds, I don't need to bludgeon 'em to death to taste things now!!

(And I agree, it something's a bit too strong it is very simple to cut it down a bit)

Reply received - thanks, and yes these WILL be Horizontals if they came from Jason at Vape Escape. Looking promising!

Thanks, Anne - I'm always on the lookout for a good cherry, for reasons that elude me it seems to be a really difficult one to get right in a vape. When it's lovely, it's gorgeous but when it isn't it can be yuk!! Did you go for 'standard' or 'extra' flavour with this one? Think I might have to give these guys a try...

Gumball, don't for one minute think anyone's laughing at you - trust me, we have ALL had the experience of being total newbies and there are so many things about vaping to learn for the first couple of weeks I'd put good money on you being far from the first to hit this apparent 'snag'.

Trouble is, once you get past that first stage when you're working out how things fit together etc it is SOOOOOO easy to overlook mentioning tiny but vital little details like "squeeze the bottle" (gently)! Once you know things like that you'll never think of it again.

If I wore a hat I'd take it off in admiration for Tizerbelle's genius in working out exactly what wasn't happening on this occasion.

As Dave said, removing the cap on a carto can be quite a challenge too - some have nice soft caps which are easy to remove with just your fingernail (if you have them, not everyone does, of course) but some cartos have rigid caps which can be seriously obstinate about removal. Most people discover their own favourite tool for the job - mine are either a fine crochet hook or one of those tiny screwdrivers you can use for adjusting spectacles. The small screwdrivers come in useful for various vape-related tasks in fact (including prising dripper tips off some bottles) so I'd highly recommend keeping one handy.

Another thing worth having easily to hand is kitchen towel or loo roll for protecting work surfaces etc to absorb any liquid that goes astray while you're filling or topping up. You also want to avoid doing this sort of thing on anything like a varnished or polished surface - e-liquid can leave awful marks on them which can make you very unpopular. Likewise standing the bottle when a bit of liquid has gone down the side will leave ugly little rings on some surfaces. Once you know this, you don't do it but I'd guess plenty of us have found out this sort of thing the hard way - I have an unwanted little ring on one arm of the leather armchair I use!!

You're finding some awfully good stuff on this, Tony - thanks. Really nicely balanced article - so very unusual in a tabloid, too!

I did particularly like this bit from the ACSH one,
Quote: ACSH's Dr. Josh Bloom agrees. “The moment I saw that they didn’t run the same experiment using actual cigarettes," he says, "I knew this was pure (and not even especially well done) junk — an agenda-based report clumsily masquerading as science.” Unquote

Sadly, Gordy, the situation with the FDA isn't quite as clear-cut as it should be either. They ARE regarded as a government body but unfortunately they are in fact substantially funded by Big Pharma and as a result nothing like as neutral a party as they should be. I'm sure Jerry would confirm this or you could spend a few weeks in ECF confirming this for yourself if you wish. (That's shorthand for I can't find some good links without spending several weeks looking for 'em myself but I have read plenty of stuff about this - sorry!)

The FDA's 'stance' on e-cigs going back a while is wide open to challenge - they made a huge fanfare of a press release screaming "E-cigs contain carcinogens!!!" about finding miniscule trace amounts of TSNAs (Tobacco Specific Nitrosamines) in a desperately-flawed but now widely-quoted report on the analysis of 17 (yes, that's correct - seventeen) cheap supermini cartridges they tested. And FAILED of course to mention you would find exactly the same quantities of exactly the same TSNAs in FDA-approved nicotine patches and gum.

Paranoid? The question is, are we paranoid enough? Think MHRA... 'nuff said.

It ain't paranioa when they ARE out to get you - which sadly does seem to be the case.

I do broadly agree with Gordy, not everyone is anti-vaping but unfortunately an awful lot of the busybodies who seem to want to control how everyone else behaves mostly ARE.

It's actually quite hard not to get defensive about how much these and the vested interests in Big Tobacco and Big Pharma will negatively slant every report they can influence. They are starting to wake up to how much of a threat vaping is to them. I'm just praying the genie is now far enough out of the bottle that they won't be able to succeed in stuffing it back in there.