The Tobacco and Vapes Bill is currently winding its way through Parliament, and has major implications for vapers. While the intention of the bill is to stop under-18s using electronic cigarettes, it could also mean that vaping becomes unpleasant and unattractive for millions of adult vapers.Unfortunately, most coverage of the bill has focused on the smoking elements. So here I’ll be ..read more

From Smok and Vampire Vape to Elf Bar and Lost Mary, the vape industry has produced globally famous names that almost every vaper has heard of. However, there are plenty of fantastic vape juice brands out there that may lack mass recognition but excel when it comes to flavour and quality.From lesser-known hidden gems, to new names set to make ..read more

The new Innokin Trine is out, and with one colleague raving about it, I was keen to test it out - particularly as it features an innovative vape battery feature that makes it quite unique in the world of vape kits.  Batteries aren’t everything though, so I decided to compare it against the Vaporess Xros Pro to see how ..read more

If you’re looking to reduce the cost of vaping while still having access to great flavours AND using your current favourite device, you might want to consider 50/50 shortfills.These larger bottles of nicotine-free e-liquid cost less per ml than regular, premixed e-liquid, and can be used with different types of nicotine so you can customise your vape to your ..read more

In a move welcomed by the tobacco industry, UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced a planned ‘vape levy’. The proposals look to be some of the most severe and complicated in the world, and will (at least) double the cost of vaping for many.In this post, we’ll take a look at what’s planned, what the likely impact will be and what ..read more

95% safer than smoking. That’s what Public Health England told us about vaping in a statement endorsed by numerous institutions and charities, from Lung Cancer Research to the NHS. Yet, buffered by misinformation and negative stories, many people think e-cigarettes are as bad or worse than smoking. To counter misperceptions, and to show that the legitimate vape industry can not ..read more

The much anticipated Vaporesso Xros Pro has just landed, bringing more advanced functionality to the popular Xros series. In fact, it seems to have been brought out as a direct competitor to Oxva’s popular Xlim Pro device. As you’ll see, both these pod kits have their strengths and weaknesses, so we’ve compared them side by side on everything from battery ..read more

The Vaporesso Xros 3 Mini is an impressive little vape, and one I frequently recommend to new vapers - both on the blog and when people ask me for personal advice on which device to use. However, the Oxva Xlim Pro has also won fans at our head office and in our shops, with some preferring it to Xros vape ..read more

While the last few years in the vape industry have been dominated by disposables, 2024 could well be the year of the prefilled pod kit! With some of the world’s biggest disposable brands entering the prefilled pod market in 2023, it’s now Lost Mary’s turn.The Tappo prefilled pod kit offers fans of Lost Mary’s world-famous disposables the chance to ..read more

It seems like only yesterday we were working on a blog post called ‘Vape Pods, A New Way to Vape!’In reality, that was over six years ago, and they are certainly no longer a new way to vape.What has changed over that time has been the development of different types of pod vapes.From a simple, easily defined system that consisted ..read more