Art By Lisabelle
Fine Art Paintings and Portraits


 

WE DON'T VAPE TO BE COOL!

 

 

About the WHO shhhh........COP7 FCTC
 

A BILLION LIVES the movie and much more...
 

 

REGULATOR WATCH

Brent Stafford interview with Aaron Biebert (A Billion Lives)

Senator Ron Johnson
Challenging FDA Vaping Regulations (part five)
 

 

NICOPURE VS. FDA  Right 
To Be Smoke Free
#rtbsmokefree

 

2016 Royal College of Physicians - UK


THE VAPE ADVOCATE
May 27, 2015

Published on May 27, 2015

Here is my message to the current political situation in regards to vaping and vapers. If we don't stand up now and vote and get off of our butts we won't be able to vape at an affordable rate and it will force a lot of your favorite brick and mortars out business. Pushing us to go back to analogue cigarettes. I don't care who you align yourselves with just align yourselves with someone. If its NAVB awesome if its CASAA or SAFTA awesome. Find your local lobbying group and get in on the fight to keep our rights as vapers. Be respectful in all responses to all of our political leaders. We get more respect with respect and we keep our rights by voting and standing up for our vaping rights!

CREDITS.
Artist:Luis Bermudes 
Beat by: Ear 2 tha Beat 
Video done by: Minds under craze 

 

 

 

Truth About Vaping - Episode 1 - "Why They Hate Us"

 

Myself, one of billions who has smoked since their early teens 43 years total, E-cigarettes have been my MIRACULOUS EXIT door from the resulting ravages of my respiratory health from, smoking, which was continuously pouring smoke into my lungs.  My desire on publishing this blog is to express in every possible way, why quitting smoking by using Electronic Cigarettes, that for 10 years have been an afforadable, accessible and available this MIRACULOUS technology did help me 100% to accomplish quitting smoking and remaining SMOKE free, now for the better part of six years.
There is one mysterious problem...however, it seems that in order to understand all the hullabaloo against my being able to continue making this healthFUL choice is like baby Moses on the raft of Euphrates River, endless negative news from sponsored corporate media on a global scale, this riddle has multiple answers that I hope to cover with the help of the arguments for and importance of Electronic Cigarettes. There are so many voices who have organized to disseminate factual information, while unfortunately the public remains hard of hearing filled up with propaganda spinning, from the lying screaming media, that takes it's careless attacks that are creating ill health for smokers, a real harm promoting approach, by aiming towards distracting the public from the real debilitating health issues that half of all smokers, eventually do suffer, i.e., COPD & EMPHYSEMA! Global Pharmaceutical Corps., underwrite powerful campaigns that is how the major news media is sponsored, go figure? Agendas cloaked in much disgusting disguise while they feel so entitled to rape the endless well spring of money via unfair and burdensome taxation, which goes to fuel their orwellian Prohibition tactics, that may sway some minds that only receive their information from Pharmaceutical sponsored CNN, ABC & PBS et al.,  TV!


TOBACCO CONTROL ORGS. SO-CALLED PUBLIC HEALTH ORGS. who are they? ( Michael McFadden sheds light on it here.) (Dr. Carl Phillips here), (Clive Bates here) (Brad Rodu here) (Robert Innes' Brainy Furball here) Anti nicotine tobacco zealots, (Stanton Glantz here) [ANTZ] with their harmonious money ties to big tyrannical government oligarchs cronies! Yet again it's pharmaceutical funding the greediest profiteers, who are now showing themselves to be anything but humanitarian in any true regards to anything related to real PUBLIC HEALTH, instead these elitists W.H.O. FDA, CDC, FTC and the list continues, all the so-called Health Related Charitable Orgs., who are gorging while forging Junk Science mainly a result of their addiction to money.  Their bribing and bribed limitless funding that smokers mainly contribute to even when it is costing them their health and lives!  With constant negative castigation of smokers,  keeping a BIG THUMB over their captured and enslaved taxed contributors, the consumers that smoke. Using time tested and overly forceful tactics.  While sorely and grossly negligent, purposefully ignoring the factual science in favor of Electronic Cigarettes [MY MIRACULOUS EXIT DOOR FROM MY SMOKING RELATED, DOOMED HEALTH], [OH YEAH, I WISH TO ASSERT, I AM A FINE ARTIST... ONE OF SO MANY THAT SMOKED OR SMOKE THAT HAVE DIED OR WILL DIE DUE TO OUR ENJOYMENT OF THIS ACTIVITY, SMOKING] ANTZ who say there just isn't enough of known about E-Cigarettes in their back pockets and purses, instead they hope to capture the profits by provoking fears in the non-smoking and smoking public, regarding the most vulnerable... our (children's lives).  Using a false morality play, to hide their true intensions, ...  Turning consumers into their enslaved cash cows, their beloved financial solvency depends upon smokers, smoking and now even US ex-smokers who are referred to as vapers, those of us that actually have improved our health and have QUIT SMOKING! while they are fighting against the rights of all individuals liberties, the real PUBLIC'S HEALTH, the freedom of choice whether anyone should desire to smoke or become SMOKE-FREE via what has worked for 30 Million smokers across this world, who they refer to as "Anecdotes", to those that wish to block the only consumer driven marketed exit for smokers Electronic Cigarettes!

 

 

Gutfeld: California Ads Trashing E-Cigs 'Demonize With Flimsy Lies'

 

Vapers by Amanda Plunkett.

Check out this Awesome Video on Vaping by Amanda Plunkett.Please Follow us at facebook.com/vapeaboutitCheck out her page at https://vimeo.com/amandaplunkett#notblowingsmoke #vaping #vapor #vapeon

Posted by Vape About It on Thursday, April 23, 2015

 

#BUTTOUT

A message for Public Health and your unholy partners in deception, big tobacco corporations. 


 

It dawned on me just last night.. Hon Lik basically re-invented e-cigs with newer technology that made them less expensive and long lasting and shortly thereafter, we, the ever growing community of Vapers discovered them. Not big tobacco, not big Pharma, and certainly not the CDC, ALA, AHA or ACS. We embraced E-cigs because WE saw the potential in them to get ourselves off tobacco cigarettes, and NOT because of anything any of the aforementioned groups did. Over a short period of time we ran with the technology and spawned it into an incredibly satisfying experience. Those public health groups did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about it or FOR US. They only turned their noses up at us, that is until they realized that their income sources began to dwindle because tobacco sales had began to shrink. Relatively overnight, E-cigarette use had risen on an exponential curve and there are indications that it will only continue to gain momentum.


 

Fast forward to now. The coordinated efforts to demonize E-cigs and lies has begun because some government agencies and some big corporations are about to get put out to pasture by the very people that they suck their living off of. And now that they are finally paying attention, the simple fact is that along with tobacco cigarettes, these so called health groups are quickly becoming obsolete as well. 


 

Here is a news flash CDC and Public Health, We don't need you and we don't need your lies. We know how to read data, we know right from wrong and we know how to spot a lie. Tobacco cigarettes are obsolete and so are you. The horses have escaped and you can't get them back. Regardless of what you do or what lies you tell, E-cigarettes are here to stay and tobacco cigarettes are all but going away. It must really suck to know that you have failed at your task. WE DID IT WITHOUT YOU and rightly so.


 

There ARE men and women of integrity within the research and medical professions that are passionate about helping smokers quit tobacco cigarettes and not passionate about big pharma pay-outs. They do not believe in status quo nor ideology. They have done the simple research, they have collected the data and poured over it. The results are in and guess what? WE'VE found an alternative to smoking cigarettes that works, and YOU DIDN'T! Now it's time for you to BUTT OUT!


 

The real shame in ALL this is the fact that you will continue to pursue your big tobacco pay-outs because you are a slave to the money and smokers be damned. You will continue to demonize E-cigarettes, continue to try and classify them as tobacco, continue to seek taxes and restrictions and continue to lie.  


 

It is mind shaking to think that the ONE MONUMENTAL BREAKTHROUGH for Public Health to embrace and endorse that will HELP millions of cigarette smokers quit killing themselves was HANDED to you on a silver plate FOR FREE and you threw it away for money and ideology. How can you sleep at night?

 

 

 

 

 

 

#notblowingsmoke


 

 


TOBACCO HARM REDUCTION ASSOCIATION - March 2015
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Political Tossing and Turning of E-Cigarette
Usage in regards to the
Availability, Affordability and Freedom to choose a sa
fer cigarette alternative.

 

 

Here is a Group we are fighting for all of our lives!

Casaa.org
 

The Vaping Militia


ECF Electronic Cigarette Forum
 

EVUN European Vapers United Network

 

Medical Organizations supporting Vaping and Electronic cigarettes
 

Group of professionals who support this statement: (SEE BELOW THE GOOD DOCTORS AND PROFESSIONALS,  THEN FURTHER BELOW, THE POLITICIANS IN THE U.K. THAT OPPOSE THEM AND WHO CONTRIBUTES TO THEIR CAMPAIGNS)

  • PROFESSOR GERRY STIMSON

Public Health

London-UK

  • JACQUES LE HOUEZEC

PhD, Consultant in Public Health & Tobacco dependence

Rennes, France

  • PROFESSOR RICCARDO POLOSA

Respiratory Diseases, Tobacco Control, Public Health

Catania, Italy

  • KONSTANTINOS FARSALINOS

Cardiology, Research Director

Athens, Greece

  • CARMEN ESCRIG

PhD in Biology

Madrid-Spain

  • PHILIPPE PRESLES

Tabacologue

Paris, France

  • LOUISE ROSS

Smoking Cessation

Leicester, United Kingdom

  • PROFESSOR LINDA BAULD

Smoking Cessation

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  • DAVID SWEANOR

Public Health Law

Ottawa, Canada

  • KARL ERIK LUND

Research Director

Oslo, Norway

  • SALLY SATEL

Psychiatry And Addiction Md

Washington D.C.,  USA

  • BERND MAYER

Pharmacology

Graz, Austria

  • FRANK BAEYENS

Professor Of Psychology

Leuven, Belgium

  • RUSSEL NEWCOMBE

Drugs Research

Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • MURRAY LAUGESEN

Public Health

Christchurch New Zealand, New Zealand

  • ANDRZEJ SOBCZAK

Toxicology

Sosnowiec, Poland

  • GARRETT MCGOVERN

Addiction Treatment

Dublin, Ireland

  • DR COLIN MENDELSOHN

Tobacco Treatment Specialist

Sydney, Australia

  • DR MAREWA GLOVER

Smoking Cessation

Auckland, New Zealand

  • BRAD RODU

Oral Pathology

Louisville, Kentucky USA

  • GUILLERMO GONZALEZ

Psiquiatra

Madrid, Spain

  • TANIA CARRILLO MALAGON

Family Doctor

Córdoba, Spain

  • CARLOS GUTIERREZ RODRIGUEZ

Intensive Medicine

Málaga, Spain

  • BRIAN CARTER

Clinical Psychology

Houston, Texas, USA

  • BOB BOND

Mental Health

Milnthorpe, United Kingdom

  • DR DAVID UPTON

Psychology

Falmouth, United Kingdom

  • HECTOR GONZALEZ

Public Health

Mexico Df, Mexico

  • MARTIN JUNEAU

Cardiology

Montreal, Canada

  • UMBERTO TIRELLI

Oncology

Aviano,  Italy

  • MIGUEL NAVAJO GALLEGO

Family and Community Medicine

Salamanca, Spain

  • FELIPE HERNANDEZ ZABALLOS

Medicina Familiar

Salamanca, Spain

  • ARTURO MATILLA GARCIA

Hematologist

Madrid, Spain

  • JORGE MENDEZ

D.U.E.

Badalona, Barcelona, Spain

  • ATTILA DANKO

Family Medicine

Ballarat, Australia

  • ROY TAYLOR

Otolaryngology

Melbourne, Australia

  • DIMITRI PALM

Nurse

Riihimäki, Finland

  • CHRISTINE KREIDER

Rn/Oncology

Bethlehem, PA, USA

  • JORDI FOLCH FERRER

Diplomado Universitario En Enfermería

Terrassa, Spain

  • ROBERT TOWNSEND

Physiotherapist

Peterborough, Uk,United Kingdom

  • BONNIE BUTZ

Registered Dental Hygienist

Bath, PA, Usa

  • CHRISTINE BURNS

Registered Dental Hygienist

Havertown, PA, USA

  • PAULINA OLLIKKA

Dr Of Occupational Health

Espoo, Finland

  • JULIO GRAFULLA GARRIDO

Diplomado Universitario En Enfermería

Hellin, Albacete, Spain

  • SARA MORENO RIVERA

Doctor en Biología

Madrid, Spain

  • TERESA PODEROSO GARCÍA

Doctor en Biología

Madrid, Spain

  • MIGUEL ANGEL MANTILLA GONZÁLEZ

Medicina General, Familiar y Comunitaria

Pontevedra, Spain

  • JORGE GASTEAZORO

Chemistry

Juriquilla, Mexico

  • ANA MARÍA ROMERO TAMARIT

Aux. Enfermeria

Castellón, Spain

  • ANDERS KJELLBERG

Anaesthesia And Intensive Care Medicine

Stockholm, Sweden

  • ISRAEL ESPADA APARICIO

Enfermero

Madrid, Spain

  • ROSA MARÍA CASTRO

Enfermería

Córdoba, Spain

  • DANNY WALPOLE

Molecular Biology

Cape Town, South Africa

  • THEO DUMOULIN

Psychologist

Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands

  • AMADA FERNÁNDEZ MARCO

Bióloga

Huelva, Spain

  • BLANCA DIES LÓPEZ-AYLLÓN

Doctor en Biomedicina

Madrid, Spain

  • STEPHEN BUSS

Chemistry / Psychology

Bordon, United Kingdom

  • JOAQUIN RODRIGUEZ RIQUEL

Dentista

Huelva, Spain

  • DANIEL COBOS GUILLOT

SCCU

Málaga, Spain

  • MICHELL RODRIGUEZ

Médico Cirujano

Nueva Italia De Ruiz,  Mexico

  • SUE WILSON

Epidemiology

Birmingham, United Kingdom

  • JOAN CASEY

Care Assistant

Cork, Ireland

  • PEDRO SÁNCHEZ TERSA

Enfermería

Lleida,  Spain

  • SILVANO RICCI

Fisioterapista

Conegliano, Italy

  • FULVIO FABIO MAFFIA

Infermiere

Cassano Allo Ionio,  Italy

  • ALESSANDRO CANTONI

Psichiatria

Parma, Italy

  • PAOLO BOSIO

Ophthalmology

Torino, Italy

  • SIN CONSENTIMIENTO DE PUBLICACIÓN

Practical nurse, mental health and substances

Kuusankoski, Finland

  • PASQUALE CRISTIANO

Dottore

Salerno,  Italy

  • ROBERTO BELLOMO

Medico

Bari, Italy

  • HEATHER DELONG

Licensed Practical Nurse

Pictou, Canada

  • ERWIN CARRIERE

Orthopedic Surgeon

Savona, Italy

  • DIEGO CHIANESE

Psichiatria

Segrate, Italy

  • FRANCESCO PAOLO GIUFFRÈ

Medico

Napoli,  Italy

  • MARCO SCARAZZINI

Dottore

Trento, Italy

  • JAMES REID

Mental Health

Perth, Australia

  • ALESSANDRO RAPELLINO

Radiologia

Torino, Italy

  • ANGELIKA SCHÖN

Nurse

Berlin, Germany

  • WITHOUT CONSENT OF PUBLICATION

Dermatologia E Venereologia

Avellino, Italy

  • MAURIZIO CANZI BLANC

Odontoiatria

Cantù, Italy

  • MAURIZIO CALDERARA

Odontoiatria

Gallarate, Italy

  • KELLIE FORBES MS

Registered Nurse Bscn

Westlock, Alberta, Canada

  • EWA HUEBNER

Computer Sciences

Sydney, Australia

  • LASSE ANTTONEN

Computer Sciences

Turku, Finland

  • VÉRONIQUE DEISS

Infirmière En Santé Au Travail

Strasbourg, France

  • WITHOUT CONSENT OF PUBLICATION

Infirmière

Saint Hilaire de Riez, France

  • KGOSI LETLAPE

Ophthalmologist

Johannesburg, South Africa

  • BARTSCH PIERRE

Pneumology

Liège, Belgium

  • HENRIK VESTERGAARD

MD

Hvidovre, Denmark

  • FABIO FILA

Health & Safety

Verona, Italy

  • ROSARIA DE SIO

Dottore

Salerno, Italy

  • PIERREZ BENJAMINE

Orthophoniste

Paris, France

  • SUE SKILLICORN

Social Worker

Cardiff, United Kingdom

  • HAROLD GRIFFEN WEEKS

Pre-Med

Tampa, FL USA

  • MIKE HOLMES

MD

York, United Kingdom

  • ELLE GALLAGHER

Social Worker

Toronto, Canada

  • CHRISTIAN KIESLINGER

Operador R-x

Vancouver, Canada

  • GIORGIO ROMAGNA

General Practitioner

Catania, Italy

  • JAULIN CHRISTIAN

Biologist

Rennes, France

  • MAXIMILIANO TOSCANO

Doctor

Verona, Italy

  • MORIN CATHERINE

Nurse

Pontivy, France

  • SIN CONSENTIMIENTO DE PUBLICACIÓN

Análisis Clínicos BIR

Madrid, Spain

  • LORI SOSTOCK

Family Medicine, Palliative & Hospice Medicine

Sonora, CA, USA

  • HANS TESSEMAKER

Family Medicine

Wanroij, Netherlands

  • ISABEL AROCA DEL AMOR

Enfermera Del Trabajo

Murcia, Spain

  • SUSANA DE JUAN SÁNCHEZ

D.U.E

Palma Mallorca, Spain

  • ROBERT BOWNE

Emergency Medicine

Las Vegas, NV, Usa

  • J. CONROY

Emergency Medicine

Charlotte, NC, Usa

  • PIOTR MÜLDNER-NIECKOWSKI

MD PhD

Podkowa Lesna, Poland

  • ROBERTO AMURY

Medicina Familiar

DF, México

  • LORENA GÓMEZ GUERRERO

Psiquiatra

Santiago de Compostela-España

  • CRISTINA BORTOT

Biology

Torino, Italia

  • WIESŁAW MROTEK

Paediatrics

Bydgoszcz, Poland

  • PAIRAUD CHARLY

Laboratoire De Recherche

Bordeaux, France

  • ROBERTO STOPPINI

Odontotecnico

Genova, Italy

  • FRANCISCO JOSÉ MALDONADO MARTÍNEZ

Sexologo

Almería, Spain

  • HECTOR JAVIER GUTIÉRREZ URIBE

Psicología

Tepic, Nayarit, México, Mexico

  • KNIESBURGES STEFAN

Gynakologist

Ratingen, Germany

  • JON CLAPTON

Gp

East Devonport, Australia

  • PEDRO DÍAZ CARPIO

Licenciado En Biología Y Licenciado En Bioquímica

Pozoblanco, Spain

  • HELI KAARTINEN

Bachelor Of Social Services

Vantaa, Finland

  • ANITA VAN DER GRIFT

Surgeon Assistent

Rotterdam, Netherlands

  • OSCAR BRIONES IZQUIERDO

Enfermero

Huelva, Spain

  • WITHOUT CONSENT OF PUBLICATION

Tecnico En Farmacia

Coruña, Spain

  • PEKKA HALONEN

Radiographer

Siuntio, Finland

  • CARLOS CHAVEZ ANDRADE

Medicina Familiar

Valencia, Spain

  • MARGARITHA TIEHUIS

Bienestar Infantil

El Campello, Spain

  • MAŁGORZATA MAKSYMOWICZ

Psychologist

Warszawa,  Poland

  • ADOLFO COLOMBO

Nephrologist

Legnano (Mi), Italy

  • WATERMAN FRED

Specialist

Ermelo, Netherlands

  •  KATARZYNA WIERZBOWSKA

Pielęgniarka (Enfermera)

Olsztyn/Polska, Poland

  •  RAISA VIITALA

 Substance Abuse Welfare Nurse

Kirkkonummi, Finland

  •  ALEX WODAK AM

Alcohol And Drugs

Sydney, Australia

  • JACEK TURCZYN

Biotechnology

Przeworsk, Poland

  •  CHRISTOPHER LALONDE

Professor Of Psychology

Victoria, BC, Canada

UK POLITICIANS THAT OPPOSE THE USE AND FREE MARKET FOR E-CIGARETTES...
 

No wonder e cigs are taking such a battering from politicians. (Not the purpose of the original news article) Look at the following list of prominent politicians a see the degree to which they have vested interest in the pharmaceutical industry. Little wonder they do not want to see a reduction in the number of people falling ill through cigarette smoking. It is not just sales of NRT to stop smoking, it is the treatments and drugs for cancer, COPD and a myriad of other money making illnesses ... And this is just the UK...

1. David Cameron – Prime Minister
Handed a peerage to nursing and care home tycoon Dolar Popat, who has given the Tories more than £200,000 in donations.
2. Andrew Lansley - Former Health Secretary & architect of privatisation
Received a £21,000 donation in Nov 2009 from John Nash, the former chairman of Care UK.
3. Harriet Baldwin – Tory whip
Former executive at JP Morgan, a major player in private healthcare.
4. Greg Barker – former Energy Minister
Held shares in Quester VCT 5 plc ,a venture capital firm with multiple investments in healthcare companies.
5. Henry Bellingham
Former director of Lansdowne Advisory Ltd, which has shares in private healthcare company Circle.
6. Jake Berry
Has registered interests in legal firm Squire Patton Boggs, which workd with multiple NHS trusts on PFI and PPP programs.
7. Graham Brady
Former advisor to PA Consulting, a management consultancy company which has worked with the NHS’s new Clinical Commissioning Groups.
8. Simon Burns – former Health Minister
Attended an oncology conference paid for by Aventis Pharma - a five-day trip to the US funded by a leading drug firm.
9. Nick de Bois
Was the majority shareholder in Rapier Design Group, an events management company heavily involved with the private medical and pharmaceutical industries.
10. Steve Brine
Received almost £15,000 in donations from James Lupton, the chairman of investment bankers, Greenhill Europe which has a global network of corporate relationships in the healthcare sector.
11. Aidan Burley
Received six bottles of wine from Hitachi consultants for a speech in 2011. Hitachi Consulting UK built an online ‘portal’ for NHS commissioners to help them monitor performance.
12. Damian Collins
Spent almost a decade working for marketing agency M&C Saatchi, whose clients include PPP healthcare, AXA insurance, Astrazeneca, Pfizer and Merck
13. David Davis – former shadow home secretary
Received a payment of £4,250 for a six-hour speaking engagement for private health insurance company Aviva.
14. Jonathan Djanogly
Received £1,900 from Huntleigh Healthcare Ltd, which manufactures medical and orthopaedic equipment and instruments.
15. Richard Drax
Received £14,000 in a series of donations from Derek Luckhurst, chief executive and owner of care home group Agincare.
16. Iain Duncan-Smith – Work and Pensions Secretary
Has shares in hygiene technology company Byotrol plc, which sells products to the NHS.
17. Philip Dunne
Was a non-executive director for investment firm Baronsmead VCT 4 plc, which had multiple investments in private healthcare companies.
18. Michael Fallon – Defence Secretary
Former director of Attendo AB, - a Swedish private health company.
19. Mark Field
Was a board advisor to Ellwood and Atfield; a recruitment firm which recruit for NHS positions and private healthcare.
20. Liam Fox – former Defence Secretary
Received £5,000 from investment company IPGL Ltd, who purchased healthcare pharma company Cyprotex.
21. George Freeman
Has shares in Hill House Assets Ltd, formally private health firm 4D Biomedical Ltd.
22. Mike Freer
Provided marketing advice to Care Matters, a financial planning company for care homes.
23. Richard Fuller
Worked for L.E.K consulting, which has six ‘partners’ in European healthcare.
24. Richard Graham
Received £3,000 from asset manager Crispin Odey, a major investor in Circle.
25. William Hague – Leader of the Commons
Received a £20,000 donation from MMC Ventures, which parts owns The Practice plc which runs 60 GP surgeries.
26. Philip Hammond – Foreign Secretary
Beneficiary of a trust which owns a controlling interest in healthcare and nursing home developer Castlemead Ltd.
27. Mark Harper
Received £5,000 from asset manager Crispin Odey, a major investor in Circle.
28. Nick Herbert
Received £15,000 in donations from Caroline Nash, wife of former Care UK chairman John Nash.
29. Jeremy Hunt – Health Secretary
Received £32,920 from hedge fund baron Andrew Law, a major investor in healthcare firms.
30. Margot James
Had a key role at marketing giant WPP Group, which had a long list of healthcare clients.
31. Sajid Javid – Culture Secretary
Received £11,000 from Moundsley Healthcare Ltd last year.
32. Jo Johnson – Downing Street policy adviser
Received £6,000 from asset manager Crispin Odey, a major investor in Circle.
33. Kwarsi Kwateng
Worked as an analyst for for Crispin Odey’s hedge fund Odey Asset Management.
34. Mark Lancaster
Former adviser to property venture capital firm Company Palmer Capital Partners Ltd, a funder of Danescroft Commercial Developments, which has worked in the healthcare sector.
35. Dr Phillip Lee
Has worked as a freelance or Medical Solutions Ltd, which provided medical cover for events.
36. Oliver Letwin – former shadow chancellor
Was a non-executive director of N.M. Rothschild Corporate Finance Ltd, which invests heavily in healthcare.
37. Peter Lilley
Non-Executive director of management software firm Idox plc, which provides services to the NHS Health Libraries Group and NHS Education for Scotland.
38. Tim Loughton
Received £350 for training sessions with Cumberlege Connections, a political networking firm that works “extensively” with the pharmaceutical industry.
39. Mary Macleod
Was a senior executive at Andersen Consulting/Accenture, which has profited from big PFI deals.
40. Francis Maude – Cabinet Office Secretary
Was a director of PR firm Huntsworth plc, which was part of lobbying group Healthcare Communications Association.
41. Maria Miller – former Culture Secretary
Former director of Grey’s Advertising Ltd, an advertising and brand company which worked extensively with clients in the healthcare sector.
42. Andrew Mitchell – former International Development Secretary
Was a strategy adviser to global management firm Accenture, which has worked extensively with private healthcare companies and the NHS.
43. Penny Mordaunt – Communities Minister
Worked for lobbying firm Hanover, where she had a range of healthcare clients.
44. Brooks Newmark – former Charities Minister
Partner in the Allele Fund, which invests in healthcare startups.
45. Jesse Norman
Received £5,000 from asset manager Crispin Odey, a major investor in Circle.
46. Stephen O’Brien
Received payments totalling £40,000 from Julian Schild, whose family made £184million in 2006 by selling hospital bed-makers Huntleigh Technology.
47. George Osborne - Chancellor
Received donation through Conservative Campaign Headquarters from Julian Schild – see above.
48. Priti Patel – Treasury Minister
Worked for lobbying firm Weber Shandwick, which does PR for big healthcare and pharmaceutical firms.
49. John Redwood – former Cabinet Minister
Advised the private equity company which runs Pharmacy2u, the UK’s largest dedicated internet and mail order pharmacy.
50. Jacob Rees-Mogg
Partner of Somerset Capital Management LLP, which has healthcare investor Redwood Emerging Markets Dividend Income Fund as a client.
51. Sir Malcolm Rifkind – former Foreign Secretary
Chairman of advisory board at L.E.K. Consulting LLP, which helps private healthcare firms identify “new business development” and “opportunities with the Government”.
52. Amber Rudd – Energy Minister
Received £3,000 from hedge fund baron Andrew Law, a major investor in healthcare firms.
53. David Ruffley
Received £10,000 in donations from Caroline Nash, wife of former Care UK chairman John Nash.
54. Mark Simmonds – former Foreign Minister
Was paid £50,000 a year as a “strategic adviser” to Circle Health.
55. Chris Skidmore
Received £3,500 for speeches to STAC Consultancy, which specialises in the launch of pharmaceutical products.
56. Julian Smith
Received a £2,500 donation from Principle Healthcare Ltd in September 2014.
57. Nicholas Soames
Received £2,000 from asset manager Crispin Odey, a major investor in Circle.
58. John Stanley
Consultant on financial services to FIL Investment Management Ltd, which invests in healthcare.
59. Andrew Tyrie - select committee chairman
Attended the Ryder Cup as Secretary of the Parliamentary Golf Society, with travel and accommodation paid for by U.S. healthcare services company Humana Europe.
60. Robin Walker:
His office received a £2,000 donation from Redwood Care Homes, which owns multiple care homes.
61. David Willetts – former Universities Minister
Has shares in Sensortec, a company that owns Vantix which was working on a contract for a new product to detect MRSI.
62. Rob Wilson
Had registered shares in Vital Imaging, a private screening company.
63. Tim Yeo
Also attended the 2008 Ryder Cup, courtesy of Humana Europe.
64. Nadhim Zahawi
Non-executive director of recruitment company SThree, which specialises in the Ppharmaceutical and biotechnology sector
65. Menzies Campbell – former leader
Non-executive director of Scottish American Investment Company plc, which took over one of the care homes when Southern Cross collapsed.
66. Vince Cable – Business Secretary
Received a donation of £2,000 from Chartwell Care Services, which is 100% owned by Chartwell Health & Care PLC. It also owns Chartwell Private Hospitals plc, which provide day case surgery to NHS patients.
67. Nick Clegg – Deputy Prime Minister
Received a donation to his constituency office for £5,000 from Alpha Medical Consultancy.
68. Simon Hughes – Justice Minister
Received £60,000 donation to his constituency party from the founder of Alpha Hospitals, a private hospital firm.
69. Robert Smith
Has shares in pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline.
70. Jo Swinson – Business Minister
Received a donation of £2,000 September 2013 from private optician firm, Peter Ivins Eye Care.
Via Daily Mirror News.

 

 

Netherlands
Stelda NL - http://www.stelda.nl/
Stichting Elektrisch Dampen Nederland - Holland's e-cigarette consumer association.

 

Norway

http://www.norsk-dampselskap.no/andhttp://www.facebook.com/groups/norsk.dampselskap/

https://www.facebook.com/norskdampselskap

 

Hungary

www.vaper.hu

 

Germany

German Consumers Association -  www.ig-ed.org

Interessengemeinschaft E-Dampfen

 

France

l’Association Indépendante des Utilisateurs de la Cigarette Électronique (AIDUCE)
http://www.aiduce.fr/

 

Italy

ANaFE

http://www.anafe.it/site/?page_id=102

>>> Vendors!

 

Portugal

ASSOCIAÇÃO DE CONSUMIDORES DE CIGARROS ELECTRÓNICOS
http://ptvaper-assoc.pt  

 

Denmark
DADAFO - http://www.dadafo.dkDansk e-Damper Forening

 

Czech Republic

Vapers Club (very new)
https://www.facebook.com/VapersClub

 

UK

ECCA UK :p
www.eccauk.org

 

Rest of the World

 

USA
 

Casaa.org


Consumer Advocates for Safer Alternatives Association

CASAA - http://www.casaa.org/
The first and still the strongest e-cigarette consumer group, this US association sets the standards. Also covers other smoking alternatives such as Snus.


The Vaping Militia
vapingmilitia.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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