Day 24 of not smoking today. My slight sore throat has
passed as has the wheeziness and I now put them down an adjustment period or
leftover ill effects from the real cigarettes and not something permanent. I’m
also sleeping a lot better – the amount of sleep I’m getting stabilizing where
it was before at about 7 hours. Though I did have some cravings during the
first week or so, they have now completely gone. Also my ability to concentrate
is returning and I’m getting back to some work. And again I seriously think
this is it: I’m finished with tobacco cigarettes.
Meanwhile I’ve been discovering more about e-cigs and the
quite ridiculous reaction to them. A number of train companies have banned
them, Wetherspoons has banned them (and will never again receive one penny from
me) etc. And why? Well, the only reason any of these seem to be able to give is
that e-cigs might encourage the chiiildrennn to think smoking is okay. Since
when has that been their business? Our government and the EU want to legislate
them out of existence too. It’s madness. There are people out there who put anti-smoking
ideology before public health. There are people out there so determined to
totally ban cigarettes or anything remotely like them that they are prepared to
let people die to forward that goal. It is estimated that 1.3 million people
are now using e-cigs in Britain and I submit that most of those are erstwhile smokers.
I further submit that the majority of them will be back on ‘real’ cigarettes if
e-cigs are strangled at birth.
Then there is the negative propaganda being spread about
e-cigs. In some e-liquid antifreeze glycol was found, so the idea is propounded
that they all have this in. There are some bad things in them and this is
focused on, and the fact that the same things are found in conventional NRT and
that the quantity is so vanishingly small as to be irrelevant is ignored. Normal
cigarettes are sold everywhere yet something that can get you off them and does
not contain the 20+ carcinogens, the arsenic, carbon monoxide, cyanide or
supposed 4,000 active and potentially nasty chemicals must be controlled,
legislated against, stamped on?
It is an unfortunately reality that many people hide their
dictatorial instincts under the guise of concern for you. Something out-field
like e-cigs comes along and whips away their camouflage to show us what they
really are: autocrats, little tin-pot Hitlers and righteous prigs.
3 comments:
1.3 Million e-cig users. Probably about £5 Million a day in lost revenue. Damn right they'll get rid of them if they can.
Day 12 for me, cravings went after a few days, breaking the habit of having a smoke while doing certain daily rituals was harder. Can't really potter around the garden with a vape in the corner of your mouth.
Had a problem with the thread on the coil in my protank. Lead to a bad leak, bit of swarf in the breather ring. Anyway, my £7 spare from ebay was a godsend. Am still using it now the leak is sorted. If they are going to try any ban, I think I'll grab a couple more and a few bottles of juice.
Of course they want them ban, who loses big tobacco (Less smokers), Big Pharma (less smoking replacement) and the government (tax), surprised they haven't moved sooner to try and ban them.
I'd like to say i'm just being paranoid, but lately it turns out paranoid aint so paranoid.
Bascule, the Vapestick is fairly light so you could clench one of them between the teeth. New cartomizers are only 80p and there's a You Tube vid about how to refill them. And yes, with that protank stuff you have to be a bit careful with the threads.
Bsport, me too. I used to think that no, they can't be that stupid, ideological, selfish etc. But people are.
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