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“The United States Centres for Disease Control (CDC) is “concealing and suppressing information” according to leading harm reduction expert Professor Michael Siegel. The consequence, he contends, is that potential harms are being “overhyped … in order to deceive the public”. “The number one cause of severe, vaping-related health damage to youths is not electronic cigarettes,” says Siegel. “although you would not know that from reading the CDC’s literature on youth vaping.””

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We CDC You

“The Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health has decided that warning people about vaping during Canada’s National Non-Smoking Week is just the thing to help reduce tobacco related disease. While saying “smoking continues to pose a significant risk”, the council is keen that smokers only quit using traditional approaches that failed to work for millions until the advent of electronic cigarettes. Instead, the council recommends Canada bans “all flavoured vaping products”, regulates “a minimum set of flavours to support smokers” and places a limit on “the nicotine content in vaping products, including pods, to a maximum of 20mg/ml”. It also wants to limit the performance of mods and regulate power delivery and the use of nicotine salts. It wants to see punitive sin taxes applied to vaping products, limit use to over-21s, and carry out enhanced “surveillance and reporting of vaping product use”.”

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Canada Docs Hate Vaping

“The Aspen City Council gave its support to replace the city’s smoking ordinance during a work session Monday night. An updated law would include e-cigarettes and vaping among the public-smoking restrictions related to other tobacco products in the city’s regulations. Jannette Whitcomb, senior environmental health specialist for the city, will be presenting the actual repeal-and-replace language in a future council meeting. She will also be researching how the potential introduction of marijuana smoking lounges to the city would be affected by the indoor smoking and vaping ban.”

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Aspen council looks to crack down on vaping

“While youth vaping rates have increased in recent years, most middle and high school students don’t vape or smoke and very few vape or smoke daily, finds a study led by researchers at NYU School of Global Public Health. The study, published this month in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, finds that over 80 percent of youth do not use any tobacco and over 86 percent don’t vape–and among the minority who do vape, most are not regular users. In addition, the study reveals that most youth who are vaping are also current or former smokers. “The faster drop in smoking suggests vaping is helping displace youth use of much more deadly smoking–a net harm reduction benefit to the population as a whole,” said David Abrams, a professor of social and behavioral sciences at NYU School of Global Public Health and a study coauthor. The researchers also found that while youth vaping increased from 2017 to 2018, the increase was driven by infrequent e-cigarette use rather than regular use: in 2018, while 13.8 percent of students had vaped in the 30 days, more than half of them vaped five days or fewer.”

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Most young people do not vape, and even fewer vape regularly

“Anti-tobacco campaigners try ever so hard to be hip. No one tries harder than the Truth Initiative. They employ outdated internet memes, puppets mimicking the Breakfast Club, and zombies harassing innocent store clerks. Their actors can be awkward and theatrical, their messages ham-handed and overwrought. Badly designed ads can indeed have such a rebound effect. Manufacturing a cool image to stop teens from smoking is one thing; broadcasting half-truths to stop them vaping is another. Sadly, the teen vaping rate is rising. But the teen smoking rate is still falling—faster than ever, in fact—and it’s a good, even if not ideal, thing if teens switch from the one vice to the other. “No one knows the long-term effects of Juuling,” warns one ad. True enough, but those long-term effects, whatever they are, will almost certainly be better than the long-term effects of smoking. The Royal College of Physicians has found, for instance, that “the hazard to health arising from long-term vapour inhalation from e‑cigarettes” is “unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco.”

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Teen Vaping Is Bad. So Are Many Ad Campaigns Against Teen Vaping.

“According to doctors Konstantinos Poulas, George Lagoumintzis and Konstantinos Farsalinos, a new study published in the journal Toxics provides important insight into the recent lung intoxication epidemic referred to as “e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury” (EVALI). The trio say the study presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of products used by EVALI patients.”

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Nic Vaping Doesn’t Cause EVALI

“The use of nicotine-based e-cigarettes has been cautiously recommended as a potential second-line aid for people who want to quit smoking. In an updated guide on supporting smokers to stop, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) also said prescribing options for nicotine replacement therapies should be widened. Chairman of the expert advisory group behind the guide Nicholas Zwar said the recommendation that e-cigarettes could help people quit smoking came with many caveats. “The [therapies] that have been tested and been through therapeutic approval would be the first choice, but if you have someone who has not succeeded in quitting using those methods and they are interested in nicotine vaping, there is some evidence of benefit and they could be considered,” he said.”

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GPs cautiously recommend e-cigarettes to help smokers give up

This is a decent performing cell that will give you more vaping time than the 4200mAh-4300mAh 26650’s if you are at around 10A/30W or lower. This cell might have a 20A rating (about 60W) but at power levels over 30W or so this cell’s higher internal resistance leads to greater voltage sag. That means less vaping time before the voltage drops too low.

For example, this cell delivered an average of 834 two-second puffs at 30W compared to the (roughly) 770 puffs delivered by the cells that wrap the 4200mAh YDL 26650D. But at 60W this Vapcell only delivered 210 puffs versus the over 300 puffs delivered by the YDL-based cells like the Golisi, Aspire, and Vapcell 26650’s.

Note: This performance comparison does NOT include the poor performing, and preposterously overrated, Efest 35A/50A 4200mAh 26650.

The capacity for the two Vapcells I tested was 4961mAh and 4998mAh at 1000mA (0.2C) down to 2.5V. This is good consistency for a China manufactured cell but these cells did not meet their 5000mAh rating. I am rating this cell at 4900mAh.

Yes, the one cell tested at so close to 5000mAh that it essentially met its rating, but the other did not. I feel any capacity rating should be a guaranteed minimum, not a “typical” or “nominal” rating. A cell rated at 5000mAh should deliver, on average, at least 5100mAh so that any cells that are not quite up to the capacity of the others in that batch can still meet their 5000mAh rating.

Two cells were purchased for testing by me.

Ratings graphic: https://imgur.com/a/By4qapU

Full Test report: https://bit.ly/2tOq8GY

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These tests only note the ESTIMATED ratings for these batteries at the time I tested them. Any battery that is not a genuine Samsung, Sony, Murata, LG, Panasonic, Molicel, or Sanyo can change at any time! This is one of the hazards of using “rewrapped” batteries or batteries from other manufacturers so carefully research any battery you are considering using before purchasing.

Misusing or mishandling lithium-ion batteries can pose a SERIOUS RISK of personal injury or property damage. They are not meant to be used outside of a protected battery pack. Never exceed the battery’s continuous current rating and keep the plastic wrap and top insulating ring in perfect condition.

Any rating in my ratings tables can change at any time as different grade cells appear on the market, we get swamped with fakes, or new information becomes available to me. Please, never assume that the ratings in the tables are permanent and will never change! Always download the latest version before considering any cell purchase.

To see how other cells have tested check out this link: https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/blog-entry/list-of-battery-tests.7436/

“Last year, state legislators punted on a statewide ban on flavored tobacco sales after facing pressure from the tobacco industry. Now, state Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) is back with his proposed statewide flavor ban, which may have more momentum this year. Hill’s bill would ban retail sales of flavored products related to electronic cigarettes, e-hookahs and e-pipes, including menthol flavor. Newsom has also called for a new tax on e-cigarette products — $2 for each 40 milligrams of nicotine, on top of already existing tobacco taxes on e-cigarettes. The tax would have to be approved by the legislature as part of the budget process and could face heavy industry opposition.”

BILL TARLING – Example of what the proposed $2/40mg could mean — if you have a 30ml e-liquid with 20mg/ml [such as common for nic salts], that could cost you an additional $30 just in new tax alone per 30ml bottle of e-liquid. [(20×30)/40 x $2]… then you also have to add on current tobacco taxes already charged

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California Governor Proposes Bold Plan