News From Around The Vape World
Top tales from the world of vape.
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by Dave Cross
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Fleet Owner magazine is reporting that truckers are being encouraged to switch from tobacco to vape products in order to add 5-10 years onto their lives. They quote one successful truck driver: “Many smokers have tried to quit and want to quit and probably feel the effects of smoking in terms of shortness of breath and that kind of thing. For a lot of people e-cigarettes have worked, and if you can switch completely to e-cigarettes, you’re definitely much better off health-wise than if you keep on smoking cigarettes.”
1-2-3-4, I spy a vape war
A battle of words has has broken out between two storeowners in Queens, New York. City Vape is suing Vape Kingz, claiming that the latter has been “waging a continuous campaign to interfere" with business. Spiro Dogaris, the owner of City Vape, claims his competitor has placed charges on his company credit card by impersonating him and placing a huge bogus order. He also maintains that Vape Kingz has bribed his suppliers into dishing up confidential details, and run around pulling down his adverts.
Dogaris is seeking at least $5,000 in damages but his competitor denies doing anything wrong. “I didn’t order anything," Daniel Fagadar said. “He screwed me over, he's trying to get money.”
Free week in Japan
Piala Inc, a Japanese marketing company, is offering its staff an extra free week’s holiday if they manage to quit smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes. This sounds an ideal opportunity to take up vaping as so many can now attest to it helping them quit. This is all part of the big push to make Tokyo a smoke-free city for the 2020 Olympic Games.
Arguments are weak in Turkey
The Turkey Telegraph reports a Mr Yilmaz stating that it is the aim of all ecig vendors to target young people. “Electronic cigarettes are a product of tobacco industry,” he fibbed. “The increase in use of electronic cigarettes in young people forming main target audience of tobacco industry.” He went on to claim that vaping is full of “chemical substances” that damages lungs.
To back this up, they published another article citing a Dr. Cevdet Erdör. In this piece, this Erdör states that vaping is “more dangerous” than smoking because it causes "deeper and more difficult to treat tumour cases”. Turks are encouraged to snitch on vapers and anybody selling vape kits to the tobacco tip hotline.
Unhappy Dad
Lastly, a father is taking his son’s school to court. The lad was found with an ecig on school grounds and the school, in a spectacular overreaction, banned his son from playing in the American football team. For an entire season!
“A.J. was playing basketball at the school and a vape pen, you know, one of those electronic cigarettes, I guess, fell out of his pocket, one of the coaches came up. They asked him, ‘Is this yours?’ He admitted it.””
The Dad’s lawyer pointed out: “The students last year and for many years before, if they had a tobacco-related violation or a vape violation, they were suspended for usually one game.”
Unusually for America, the father is not seeking money, he simply wants his son to be able to play again.
Dave Cross
Journalist at POTVDave is a freelance writer; with articles on music, motorbikes, football, pop-science, vaping and tobacco harm reduction in Sounds, Melody Maker, UBG, AWoL, Bike, When Saturday Comes, Vape News Magazine, and syndicated across the Johnston Press group. He was published in an anthology of “Greatest Football Writing”, but still believes this was a mistake. Dave contributes sketches to comedy shows and used to co-host a radio sketch show. He’s worked with numerous start-ups to develop content for their websites.
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