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What an informative and uplifting post! With your permission, I will copy this to the Pedelec forum where we have a LOT OF VAPERS.

Not only do they get two and a half hours for lunch, they also get 300 Euro per day meal allowance. There is a lavish "works canteen" where they eat for free, complete with wine of course.

If you look on the "Whats on the agenda" page it mentions something like "support for developing safer sources of nicotine" but there are no specific references.

This is so good that I hate to criticise it. Just one small point. Although NRT is a big market, it is only about 1% of the total amount made by Big PHarma out of smoking. The biggest deal is the sale of drugs used to treat smoking related diseases such as COP and cancer. A very well weritten article.

So just to recap. £150 for a kit that comes with one battery, and presumably uses pre-filled carts at an unknown price. [clue, it will not be cheap] A wide choice of flavours, if you regard one as a wide choice. A single choice of nicotine strength, which may, or not, appeal to a very few people for their first week of vaping. And their "Mission Statement" is to make conventional cigarettes obsolete? My Mission Statement is to avoid dealing with any company that has a mission statement. I think they are dreaming.

Has anyone else noticed the use of the phrase "nicotine laced liquid" in so many of these articles? I have looked up "laced" used in this context in the dictionary. Journalists think they know what it means, but they obviously do not. Suppose you bought a drug on the street in the form of a white powder, that I will not name. To increase his profit, the dealer has added a percentage of talcum powder. So the drug can be said to be "laced" with talcum powder.

Another example would be adding a "date rape" drug to an alcoholic drink, so one could say, "her wine was laced with rhohypnol". So why would anyone "lace" an e liquid with nicotine? Not to cut costs, because nicotine is the most expensive ingredient of an e liquid. Not to cause unexpected intoxication, because the user expects, and pays for, the nicotine, which in any case is singularly ineffective as a date rape drug. Journalists should restrict themselves to talking about lacing as something they do to their shoes, if indeed they are capable of that.

I dont think any of us liked this article. As far as I could see, it was all about "cool". I suspect most of us are old enough to see beyond cool. To some of us, it is about prolonging our lives. The writer implies that whilst smoking is cool, vaping is not. So tell me, what is cool about a corpse?