"Britain' ministers finally realise vaping is rapidly killing smoking"

"The government now says vaping with e-cigarettes is such a good thing that we should be prescribing it and smokers should be rushing to take it up. It’s 95 per cent less harmful than smoking, it’s helping people to quit tobacco and there’s no evidence it’s a gateway into smoking: rather the reverse."

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/a-government-u-turn-on-e-cigarettes/

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Another added benefit to vaping is the word sounds so cool. Have you ever vaped? What's did you think?

SF Gate: "Lana Del Rey can’t get through a show without a cigarette"

She tells Complex magazine, “Dude, I have to (smoke on stage). I can’t get through it (the show) … (I have been smoking) since I was 17. It’s crazy. That’s why I try to play mostly outdoor festivals. … Because 45 minutes into the set, when you’ve still got 45 more minutes to go, you need to smoke.”

And then there is this quote from the sultry smoking singer Lana Del Rey...

"I like a hands-on love," she told Complex. "How can I say this without getting into too much trouble? I like a tangible, passionate love. For me, if it isn't physical, I'm not interested." (link)

"Obama lies... about not having smoked in six years"

"President Barack Obama casually lied about his smoking today at the United Nations in a hot mic moment. The news quickly went viral, but few commentators have noted that Obama was flagrantly misstating his smoking history."

One of those commentators was Ann Althouse.

If you want to mock or criticize Obama here, I think the more sophisticated speculation not that he's revealed he's subservient and pusillanimous, but that this is misogyny or male chauvinism. Obama is using his wife — both as a stereotypical woman and as the caricature of her that we see in the media — to make points with another man. Michelle Obama is not there. It's a remark about her behind her back. She's not named, but called "my wife." And she's scary. He's not actually scared, just tapping an old sexist mindset...

Back to the Daily Caller article.

The president said he hasn’t had a cigarette “probably six years,” but according to multiple well documented news reports he was still smoking as of at least late 2009 or early 2010."

Despite his claim to having had a cigarette in six years, Obama had one at least as recently as February 2010, according to Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, who performed a physical and who was quoted in the New York Times on February 28, 2010."

“I’ve said before that as a former smoker I constantly struggle with it.  Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes?  Yes.  Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker?  No,” he said at a press conference in 2009. “I don’t do it in front of my kids,” the president argued.  “I don’t do it in front of my family. And, you know, I would say that I am 95 percent cured.  But there are times where…There are times where I mess up.”

Daily Caller , Althouse