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After a couple of bleak pandemic years that saw most events cancelled, the festival season has firmly reestablished itself, with each passing summer delivering successful events all over the UK.  Since resuming, nothing much has changed. The music is still amazing, the revellers are still having the time of their lives, and the port-a-loos remain …

If you enjoy the occasional vape, you’ve probably experienced a moment when the penny dropped, as a thought suddenly popped into your head. As you enjoy a few puffs on your Watermelon Whammy, a little lightbulb goes off, and you ask yourself, hang on a minute… what chemicals are in vapes, exactly? Surprisingly, it is …

Popcorn lung, also known as the more ominous-sounding bronchiolitis obliterans, is a rare but incredibly serious disease that ravages the lungs to the extent that they are unable to heal. Anyone suffering from this nasty affliction faces a terrible, incurable, painful ordeal bearing symptoms similar to that of COPD.  Victims of popcorn lung can expect …

For many years, High Streets were the backbone of British society, a central point for locals to browse, shop, meet, and eat. They were baked into the British DNA, thriving with community spirit and endearing quirks like buskers, friendly bobbies, and loud fruit and veg vendors.  High Streets gifted us with a fascinating mix of …

With over seven thousand chemicals inhaled in each puff, some of which have joltingly ominous names such as formaldehyde, arsenic, ammonia, and benzene, it is little wonder that tobacco smoking is magnificently bad for you.  That’s without even mentioning the lung-coating tar, whiffy clothes, and teeth so deeply stained that even an emergency dash to …

As a smoker, vaper, or consumer of tobacco alternative products such as vapes, you will have noticed fundamental changes taking place to the vaping and smoking regulations and laws recently. The laws are governed and created toward two distinct categories: consumers and manufacturers or retailers. While the regulations for the latter are now well-established, the …