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EFVI Daily Stats - 10/06/2014
Latest Stats. Last 24 Hrs:

Best performing countries...

1) France - 201

2) Spain - 140

3) UK - 127

4) Germany - 79

5) Poland - 28

6) Italy - 18

7) Netherlands - 11

Others <10

Total - 638

A much improved total today! (and i've had to squeeze in 2 extra places too!). This is a surprise, especially for mid-week, but let's face it, from yesterdays total it had to improve really. Hopefully, with dodo boxes now being deployed into other EU countries, and contacts being made with some of the poorer performing ones, this improvement will continue in the right direction. Looking good!

EFVI Latest Stats Last 24 Hours:

Top performing countries...

1) Spain - 124

2) UK - 89

3) France - 57

4) Germany - 57

5) Denmark - 13

6) Poland - 13

Others <10

Total - 394

Well, not a lot to say really apart from it was a terrible day for signature collections yesterday. It must have been one of the worst days since the dodo campaign began. But we have to put that behind us, there should be a rise in the numbers as vendors begin to send in their figures from the end of last month. Onwards and upwards, there are bound to be slumps like this from time to time, but it's the overall picture that counts. We have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and make it a better day today. Because let's not forget, "Vaping saved us, so let's save Vaping!".

A very negative attitude buggritt, the evidence is all around you, all you need to do is look. News coverage turning from full on "Anti" to "Accepting", newspaper articles following the same pattern. Ash coming out with studies that show that vaping does not renormalise smoking, and that evidence of the gateway effect is near non-existent. Dr Farsalinos with his studies into ecigs that show that there is little or no carcinogens in ecig vapour, and that any evidence of passive vaping is pretty much anecdotal. Massive support across europe for EFVI, the figures increasing day by day. I feel from reading a lot of the comments on the main forums, that a lot of people don't follow what's really happening on a daily basis. A lot of what i hear is 'old news', from perhaps a few weeks ago, and that's not your fault. You all have lives to live, you can't be watching the internet 24/7, but trust me when i say that i personally, feel that things have changed significantly over the past few months, for the better.

Sorry, i keep forgetting. Hello to everyone else that's said "Hello" since i said "Hello", errrmmm, HELLO! *waves*

** Is the tide turning? ** With the recent 'swing' towards a more positive slant on Ecigs in the mainstream media, and with all the studies that have been released recently that have proven that vaping is not really smoking's evil twin, is the tide turning in favour of the Electronic Cigarette? Could we be standing on the edge of the new horizon, where vaping becomes an accepted part of everyday life? There are already signs that the latter is occurring all over Europe. More and more vapers are wandering the streets proudly displaying their various devices, and vaping freely with rather less raised eyebrows than there were just a few short months ago. It really does seem that the general public is becoming more accepting of the vaping community. From a vapers perspective, we have merely exchanged a highly dangerous habit for a far less risky one, much like changing from a diet full of fat and sugar, to one full of salads and sugar-free drinks. From the public's point of view, they seem to be beginning to understand what we're trying to achieve. Ultimately, with the reduction in smoking comes a reduction in cigarette butts on the streets, so cleaner footpaths, cleaner dustbins, so a reduction in waste essentially, (less cigarette butts, less cigarette packets etc). So the public are starting to see the advantages of vaping over smoking. So essentially, we are witnessing an evolution, from the harmful tobacco smoking era, to the safer, less fatal Ecig, and surely that has to come sooner rather than later...

** NEWSFLASH **
Total number of EU signatures is about to hit the 100,000 mark! At this present moment, the official figure is 99,993 and rising! With the Dodo boxes having been distributed to other EU countries now, it seems like we're about to see a massive rise in the number of signatures. This is what we've all been waiting for, and hopefully the start of something BIG! Take heart Vapers, this fight is far from over...

AH! That will be why then lol