We may not have invented the e-cigarette \u2014 the first recorded patent was filed in the US, and the e-cigarette that we know and love was invented in China. But we invented the modified e-cigarettes, the box mods and mech mods, that have massively improved the vaping experience.<\/p>\n The first mod was made by amateur British inventors<\/a> in a garden shed in Newark-on-Trent \u2014 it simply doesn\u2019t get any more British than that! These innovators shared tips with one another on forums, which created the vaping community and laid a stable foundation for the successful vaping market that we\u2019ve got today.<\/p>\n The UK has the highest rate of taxes on cigarettes in the EU, the taxman nabs about \u00a36.50 for every tenner than you spend on ciggies. This makes e-cigarettes a much cheaper options for those that enjoy nicotine. Euromonitor research says that it\u2019s possible for someone to spend 90% less on e-cigarettes than they would if there were a 15-20 a day smoker. Vape shops are more common in poorer areas \u2014 there are three times as many vape shops in the North West as there are in London.<\/p>\n Those who are in favour of an e-cigarette tax should be paying attention here: Britain\u2019s high cigarette tax, low e-cigarette tax policy is a natural experiment that demonstrates that vapers are price sensitive. If we raise the e-cigarette tax to be in line with the cigarette tax, as has been suggested by some, all the evidence suggests that we will see vapers flooding back to cigarettes. From a public health perspective, that would be a disaster.<\/p>\n It may feel like the British government doesn\u2019t do enough for vapers with the TPD looming, but we\u2019ve got it comparatively good compared to other countries. Vaping is pretty much illegal in Australia, Denmark and certain Canadian states. In the UK, where the government has taken the radical step of asking the scientists about the health risks of vaping, Public Health England found that vaping is likely 95% less harmful than smoking<\/a>. This paved the way for e-cigarettes being made available on the NHS<\/a>, for Stop Smoking Services in the UK to consider using e-cigarettes<\/a>, for the Prime Minister to say that we should be helping smokers who want to quit with every tool at our disposal.<\/p>\n Has the UK\u2019s more lenient approach to vaping had a \u2018gateway effect\u2019 as anti-vaping scaremongers claimed it would? Nope, in fact not only is smoking falling in the UK, but nicotine use is falling too. In other words, UK smokers are using e-cigarettes to quit, and then some are going a step further and quitting e-cigarettes too.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t believe that all e-cigarette users should be aiming to quit nicotine, just as we don\u2019t think that all coffee drinkers should be aiming to give up caffeine, but we believe that those who want quit to should be able to. The latest evidence tells us that just 0.2% of vapers are people who have never used tobacco.<\/p>\n Have you noticed that we like to complain about the weather? The fact that it\u2019s always bloody raining outside makes nipping outside for a fag break that much less appealing. For smokers in the South of France, going out for a smoke break is hardly a drag, but for those enduring a rainy Thursday evening in Stoke…<\/p>\n All of the above explains why Britain is as close to being a vaper\u2019s paradise as we\u2019re likely to see in the real world\u2026 but that paradise is under threat from the EU\u2019s legislative crackdown on e-cigarettes, the TPD.<\/p>\n Euromonitor are not too worried about the vaping market\u2019s prospect however, they think that British innovators will find a way to work around the proposed legislation and make Britain vape again.<\/p>\n Vape Britain sells more e-cigarettes per capita than the US, France, Germany and China. Here\u2019s why: There are more than 1,500 vaping businesses in the UK, selling everything from Vampire Vape e-juice to Kangertech box mods. 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<\/a><\/p>\n1) England is the innovative home of vape<\/b><\/h3>\n
2) Sin taxes make smoking less appealing<\/b><\/h3>\n
3) The UK government (kind of) supports vaping<\/b><\/h3>\n
4) It\u2019s f**king freezing in the UK<\/b><\/h3>\n
Support the British vaping industry! Buy UK made vaping products.<\/i><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"