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Cheers for these, always good to see more evidence. It's important to disseminate it.

Great thanks, I'll check them out then.

So I take it, that it came with one of those re-install partition things and that's got corrupted somehow? Didn't it prompt you to make some restore disks at some point?

It annoys me that they don't give people windows disks anymore, it's stupid. If it's under warranty? win 8 machines are still reasonably new I think, I'd complain to the vendor and/or Toshiba and insist they send you out a disk for free. They'll try to say that you must pay for this disk, do not accept that. The software was sold to you when you brought the machine, they have failed to provide you with a reliable method to maintain that software on your machine.

As suggested if you can get a version of win 8, then use your existing serial.

Good luck with it. I think they're a really good business idea, the potential market is still mostly untapped. The only fear is regulation of course, but that's should be some time away and you can still adapt.

Had a quick listen, well done on the e-cig defense! Unusually the presenter seemed a little sympathetic too.

I was a hardcore smoker for 17 years 20-50 a day depending, before vaping I'd been trying to give up for about 10 years. I'd tried everything and made lots of effort. I'd got off the fags for a few months here and there about 8 months was the best with Champix. Vaping was a bit of a revelation to me really, I'm very happy. I gave up smoking with vaping within a month and it's never really bothered me. I was never a happy smoker, I hate it, not smokers of course but the cigarette addiction and how it affected my life. One day I'll probably give up vaping too but I'm in no rush.

I don't see any evidence anecdotal or scientific, of children being influenced to smoke by vaping and I don't think it's a sound argument to promote restriction of vaping. Quite the opposite I think it should be encourage to smokers, along with more research into all aspects of it.
However I do share some of Scooby's concerns and think we should be aware of it as a possibility and if it ever did become a problem action should be taken to limit it. Whilst this is only my personal opinion from my own experience I don't want to see young people become nicotine addicts at all. I don't want to see smoking normalised in any way as I have such a negative opinion of it, though I don't think vaping does this really.

It's also important to realise that vaping isn't the solution for everybody, I know a couple of people who didn't take to it. This may have been different if we had smaller devices or it was less unusual. There may always be some who don't take to it. I hope other better stop smoking methods can be found for these people because the current non-vaping offerings are mediocre.

Yeah I wasn't that impressed with it either. I read it in the Spanish press a week or so back and didn't have to look far to see it debunked, from an article someone posted on here I think.

A few Spanish vapers have left comments under the El Mundo piece, disputing it and linking to a counter article.

@zero All the original El Mundo article says is that he was admitted with a cough and difficulties breathing and that he'd smoked for ten years, nothing more than that, unless I missed something.