The Newent Vape Shop

26/06/2022

SHOP CLOSED

15/06/2020

APOLOGIES

DUE TO MY OWN SERIOUS HEALTH ISSUES I AM UNABLE TO OPEN THE SHOP UNDER THE CURRENT COVID-19 CIRCUMSTANCES.

HOWEVER, I HOPE TO BE ABLE TO OPEN SOON.

26/03/2020

Well, The Newent V**e Shop had to close by order of Boris, but I'm well aware that a lot of my customers will struggle to find good quality v**e juice. I have stocks, so if you need any please message me (on my MAL VANGO profile) and we can arrange a socially distanced transaction to keep you safe and va**ng.

I'm not sure how long my wholesalers will be able to resupply me, so it's a case of how long stocks last. I have limited quantities of 0% and 3% ni****ne and reasonable quantities of 6% and 12%. Please don't ask for a list of what I have, as it's far too long. I will NOT be putting up prices to profit from the virus situation.

20/12/2019

To the lady who came into the Mancave this morning and purchased some military lego: your debit card went through twice. If you would like to come back in I will happily refund you the second transaction.

05/11/2019

IDEAL FOR EVENING RUNNERS.
The nights are drawing in, especially after the clock change, and it's getting dark befor 5 pm. The Mancave in Shambles Village has a range of headlamps (both battery powered and USB rechargable) to help keep you SAFE at night. Why not pop in for a look and a chat about which one might be right for you?

05/11/2019

03/11/2019

Over the past six months I have been sent dozens and dozens of samples of great v**e juices from well established companies. Time to make some room ... and time for you to grab a bargain (or several).

ALL these bottles are TPD (To***co Products Directive) compliant - in other words SAFE.

01/11/2019

04/10/2019

'HALF AS MANY BRITONS' V**E AS SMOKE

By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News
24 September 2019

The number of people va**ng in the UK has reached 3.6 million - about half the number of smokers - figures from Action on Smoking and Health suggest.

The data indicates most v**ers are former smokers, with the main reason for using e-ci******es being to give up to***co.
The findings come as the US continues to investigate a spate of serious lung injuries linked to va**ng.

India, meanwhile, says it will ban e-ci******es as they pose a health risk.

E-ci******es allow users to inhale ni****ne in vapour rather than breathing in smoke.

The anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health has been monitoring trends in their use since 2012. Its latest report suggests va**ng helped an extra 70,000 people quit smoking in 2017.

It says the number of v**ers in the UK has gone from 700,000 in 2012 to 3.6 million in 2019 - and of these:

• 54% have given up smoking
• 40% both smoke and v**e
• 6% have never smoked

"It's important that all v**ers stop smoking completely, as otherwise they are still exposing themselves to the serious risks of disease and disability caused by smoking," says Prof Ann McNeill, who compiled a review of e-ci******es for Public Health England.

She adds: "Va**ng isn't risk free - but it's much less risky than smoking, which kills nearly 100,000 people a year in the UK."

The figures come amid a backlash against e-ci******es.

The US Centers for Disease Control is investigating a mysterious outbreak of lung injuries linked to va**ng, in which eight people have died and more than 500 have become ill.
Most, but not all, have reported "cannabis va**ng", in which the vapour contains THC (the psychoactive component in cannabis).

There was a similar case in the UK last year, reported in the British Medical Journal , in which a woman developed lipoid pneumonia and the only explanation doctors could come up with was va**ng.

The CDC recommends people "consider refraining from using e-cigarette or va**ng products".

The situation in the US has led to President Donald Trump announcing a ban on flavoured e-ci******es and the supermarket giant Walmart stopping selling them entirely.
Meanwhile, India has announced a ban including three-year jail terms for offenders.

The stance from health bodies in the UK has remained that va**ng is 95% safer than smoking.

Deborah Arnott, the chief executive of ASH, said: "V**ers should not be scared back to smoking by the news of va**ng illness in the US. Nor should smokers stick to smoking rather than switch to va**ng.

"IT IS ESSENTIAL, HOWEVER, TO ONLY USE LEGAL V**ES BOUGHT FROM REPUTABLE SUPPLIERS IN THE UK AND NOT SOURCE ILLICIT UNREGULATED PRODUCTS OVER THE INTERNET."

The number of v**ers reaches 3.6 million in the UK, as the health consequences come under international scrutiny.

04/10/2019

In the United States:

CDC FINALLY ADMITS THAT BLACK MARKET THC V**E CARTS ARE A MAJOR CULPRIT IN RESPIRATORY DISEASE OUTBREAK

September 29, 2019
Posted by Michael Siegel

The CDC has finally admitted that black market THC v**e carts are a major culprit in the respiratory disease outbreak that has affected 805 people and resulted in 13 deaths. Instead of continuing to emphasize that "no single product" is linked to all the cases, the CDC clearly stated yesterday that "THC is the most prominent link across patients" and the agency changed its warning to specifically mention THC: "While this investigation is ongoing, CDC recommends that persons consider refraining from using e-cigarette, or va**ng, products, particularly those containing THC."

Because of the CDC's long overdue acknowledgment of the primary role of illicit THC v**e carts, newspaper headlines are finally telling the story like it should be told. For example, the headline of an article in the Regina Leader-Post reads: "CDC recommends against using v**es with THC due to lung illnesses." An article by NASDAQ is entitled: "U.S. CDC recommends against using v**es with ma*****na ingredient." And the headline of a New York Times article reads: "Dank V**es, TKO and Other THC Va**ng Brands Are Linked to Illnesses, C.D.C. Says."

These are the kinds of clear, specific messages that we should have seen in newspapers two months ago.

In an emergency MMWR publication, the CDC reported that of cases in which there was information on the products used, 84% of patients admitted to va**ng THC. But in contrast to previous publications, instead of immediately undermining this important finding by emphasizing that "no single product" can be linked to all the cases, the CDC instead emphasized that there are multiple reasons why many patients might not report using THC even if they did: "patients might not always know what substances they use or might be hesitant to reveal use of substances that are not legal in their state."

In a separate article covering patients from Illinois and Wisconsin, the CDC revealed that: "Use of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)-containing e-cigarette products, the majority of which were prefilled cartridges obtained from informal sources, was reported by 87% of patients during the 3 months preceding illness." Importantly, CDC finally admitted that: "the predominant use of prefilled THC-containing cartridges among patients with lung injury associated with e-cigarette use suggests that they play an important role."

The CDC also reported that: "In Wisconsin, eight patients initially denied using THC-containing products in interviews, but five (63%) were later found to have used THC through review of medical charts, reinterview, or cross-referencing with friends who were also interviewed as patients."

Finally, the CDC finally provided very specific information about the black market THC v**e carts that were used: "Although no single brand name was reported by all patients, a prefilled THC cartridge sold under the brand name Dank V**es was reported by 57 (66%) patients. In Wisconsin, two groups of friends (two patients in one group and three in the second group) who became ill after using THC-containing cartridges specifically reported sharing Dank V**es cartridges. Dank V**es was the only e-cigarette product reported by one of the patients."

The Rest of the Story

I checked my blog and Twitter feed to determine when I first issued an explicit warning for people to avoid va**ng black market THC v**e cartridges. I issued such a warning on my blog on August 25th and on Twitter the same day. On August 28th, I tweeted the following: "The CDC isn't warning the public, so I'll do it myself: PLEASE do not v**e THC oils that were purchased from any unlicensed seller. And spread the word to youth who might be at risk. Hiding the truth is not an effective public health strategy."

It took five weeks (35 days) after my warning before the CDC finally announced the major role of THC v**e carts in the outbreak. During those 35 days, how many young people continued to use THC v**e carts who might have stopped if the CDC had announced this connection 35 days earlier? How many people developed respiratory illness because of this failure?

Now that it is clear that the outbreak is not being caused by store-bought electronic ci******es, but by THC va**ng cartridges and perhaps other counterfeit black market products, it is critical that the five states which have banned e-ci******es or flavored e-ci******es (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Michigan, New York, and Washington) rescind these bans and focus on limiting the illegal distribution of THC va**ng products.

The CDC has finally admitted that black market THC v**e carts are a major culprit in the respiratory disease outbreak that has affected 805 ...

04/10/2019

REVEALED: THE COST OF SMOKING ON ENGLAND’S SOCIAL CARE SYSTEM

IntelligenceStudies by Sarah Clarke on October 1, 2019

Smokers develop a need for social care a decade earlier than those who have never smoked, a new report has found.

Analysis by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) showed that the average age that smokers develop a need for social care is 62, compared to 72 in people who have never smoked in their lives.

The report, ‘Social care costs: Going up in smoke’, also found that the cost of smoking-related social care to local authorities is £720 million a year, while the cost of smoking-related social care to individuals who pay for their own care is £160 million a year.

Last year, smoking killed 78,000 people in England alone, according to NHS Digital. But the costs of smoking don’t stop there – for every person killed by smoking, at least 30 people live with a serious smoking-related illness.

Currently, 670,000 people over the age of 50 have care needs as a result of smoking and though 55% of these adults receive the support they need, 45% (300,000) have unmet care needs, ASH said in its report.

Informal carers, who help with tasks at no cost, provide care for more than half (345,000) of those affected. This would cost an additional £10.6 billion if it were provided by paid carers.
The report findings are based on multi-wave analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) by Landman Economics for ASH. Of the respondents aged over 50, one in four (23.5%) current smokers need help with at least one of six activities of daily living, compared to never smokers, who were almost half as likely (12.1%) to need help.

Ciaran Osborne, Director of Policy at ASH said: “Disease and disability caused by smoking leads people to need social care a whole decade sooner than if they had never smoked. Not only is this severely detrimental to their quality of life, it also puts avoidable strains on England’s creaking social care system. Local authorities should support smokers in their communities to make an annual quit attempt as stopping smoking will help them maintain their quality of life as they age.”

A new report by Action on Smoking and Health reveals the cost of smoking-related social care to local authorities and individuals.

04/10/2019

BANNING VA**NG WOULD BE THE LAST NAIL IN THE SMOKER’S COFFIN

Va**ng is the alternative to killing ourselves slowly with ci******es

Unlike in the US, all e-cigarette products in the UK are tightly regulated, according to To***co Control at Public Health England © Reuters

Michael Martin September 30 2019

I bought my first packet of ci******es when I was 14 years old. My friend Pete and I biked 15 miles through the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains to a “smoke-shop” on a local reservation in upstate New York because they didn’t ask for proof of age. We bought a carton of Lucky Strike unfiltereds and took them to an abandoned bridge over a muddy river, where we lit up. I felt both dizzy and confused at first. After a few puffs, a strange yet wonderful rush swept through me. By the time we left that bridge, I was enamoured.

My love affair with ci******es began on that day 22 years ago, and I have been trying to quit ever since. My dentist’s solution was to golf more. My friend Melissa recommended yoga. I suppose they were both good ideas, but neither could understand how difficult quitting was. You see, ci******es and I have a history. I bummed a Parliament off Tara after she gave me my first kiss, a stolen Winston accompanied my first beer and a Marlboro Red was waiting to congratulate me on a bustling Chicago street moments after I acquired my first job that paid more than the minimum wage.

I loved ci******es to death, but they were killing me. Countless times I tried to outright quit. But there was no romance in my morning or evening strolls. I tried ni****ne gum and mints; nasal s***f; even a fruity ni****ne-based throat spray. Nothing worked, until two years ago when, outside a bar, I tried a friend’s v**e pen.

The transition was almost seamless. I went from smoking 10 ci******es a day to zero. I can taste my food now, I can swim further, and am a slightly more endurable date. Va**ng changed a lot for me, but now I fear my saviour will be taken away.

For every action in America, there is an overreaction. Medical authorities have linked hundreds of lung illnesses and 12 confirmed deaths directly to va**ng. So now the US Food and Drug Administration is looking at banning flavoured e-ci******es and Walmart has said it will stop selling va**ng equipment of any kind.

As goes the US, so goes the world. India, a nation of more than 266m to***co users, just made va**ng illegal. Trying to save your life from carcinogenic ci******es in this country could soon cost you three years in jail. Other countries will follow suit.

On the tail of these bans and public denunciations of va**ng, I began to wonder why all of the va**ng-related illness reports seem to be in the US. I have seen plumes of v**e smoke rising from Parisian café terraces and office workers in London’s Square Mile, leaning into glass buildings while sucking on e-ci******es. Why aren’t they getting sick?

Martin Dockrell, head of To***co Control at Public Health England, argues that government oversight is the answer. “Unlike in the US, all e-cigarette products in the UK are tightly regulated for quality and safety by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency,” he said last month.

In the US, public health officials have not identified a particular chemical or brand as the source of the illnesses. But they do note that 77 per cent of sufferers reported using THC-containing products and only 16 per cent said they exclusively used ni****ne.

Light touch regulation is a problem. The US is flooded with black market and oil-tainted va**ng products. The issue has been furthered muddied by the widespread availability of flavoured v**e pens, and fears about the rapid uptake of va**ng among under-18s.

Instead of sorting out the problem, authorities are demonising the va**ng industry as a whole, and few people have the courage to speak out in favour of this healthier alternative to ci******es. Those who do are muted, seen by society as degenerates handing out cotton-candy flavoured v**e pens to children.

Parents now see the very existence of va**ng products as a threat to their children. If they were truly this worried about child welfare, San Francisco parents who pushed for a va**ng ban would take a look at their glasses of Chardonnay. An estimated 4,300 Americans under the age of 21 die from causes related to underage drinking every year.

Those numbers pale in comparison to the 480,000 people in the US alone who will die from smoking this year. For people like me, va**ng is the only viable alternative to killing ourselves slowly with ci******es, and it is being thoughtlessly shut down.

Va**ng is the alternative to killing ourselves slowly with ci******es