The first National Vaping Day was on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012.
Get ready for 2013!
"Ask not what Vaping can do for you, but what you can do for Vaping."
We can all take part because there is something everyone/anyone can do. Ideas so far range from contacting your local radio station to talk about e-cigarettes, to just going to the local plaza at luchtime, vaping, and handing out cards to people who may be interested.
Do something! We all need to get involved because above all else, right now, we need numbers: lots more people to join the voices raised against commercial vested interests who want to take away our right to vape. Without the huge sums of money they have, all we have is our collective voice. Let’s use it.
Ideas for events and action
- Contact your local radio station and tell them about the Day
Contact your local newspaper and tell them about the Day- Download the A5 flyer we’ll have soon, print it, and hand it out
- Take some flyers to your doctor’s office
- Print the Health Info flyer and take to your doctor’s office
- Print off some of our Drop Cards to had out
- Take some flyers to your local pub
- Take some flyers to your local newspaper office
- Go to the local plaza, vape, and hand out flyers
- Organize a vapemeet at a local pub or diner (get management permission first)
You can see what happened on the day in 2012, next year will be better still!
2012 vapemeets are on our Google Maps page: http://g.co/maps/njr9p
The World Vaping Day Events Page on Facebook will be eclipsed in 2013 – bet on it!
Tell everyone your ideas in the Comments below!!
www.yonkersny.gov says:
Kupując produkty jakie mają egzystować elementy dekoracji naszego domu spośród jednej okolica musimy brać pod spodem uwagę elementy
estetyczne takich produktów, i z drugiej strony nie możemy zapominać,
także o jakości kupowanych produktów. Jakość w znacznym stopniu przekłada się na trwałość,
azaliż czas użytkowania kupowanych za pośrednictwem nas materiałów
wykończeniowych, bądź mebli. Obecnie jesteśmy w stanie wierzyć
Drewniane meble poszczególne meble, które są po mistrzowsku
dopasowane aż do stylistyki jaką zamierzamy zastosować w naszym domu.
Z jednej okolica możemy predestynować
Roly says:
Thanks Gerald. Glad it went well. You can send the picture to:
secretary[AT]eccauk[DOT]org
- rebuild the email address with @ and .org as usual please.
We’ll try and get the pic onto the site. If you can write a paragraph about it that will also help. Thanks.
Gerald Kroeger says:
A bit late with telling about what to do on world vaping day. Although never the less we made the local news in Gibraltar. Gibraltar is a small British territory in the South of Europe attached to Spain. Below a cropped picture from the local newspaper ‘The Chronicle’ if image tags works of course.
We really like to celebrate this day each year! And many thanks for opening the initiative.
Happy vaping,
Gerald Kroeger
Gerald Kroeger says:
Image tags are stripped from comment. Could a moderator contact me if the picture is still wanted. It was a great success here, even got support from our local government.
Julia Schaefer says:
Love that you are getting the word out there! i have been completely analog free since Sept. 2011 and Love the vaping and all the great information ecig. forum has! I got my sister to make the switch, and am giving starter kits to 3 nephews and a sister in law for early bday gifts this weekend! Young guy at work just started so i taught him what others have taught me and gave him some extra juice and cartomizers to try-anything to help someone switch over to ecigs-feel sooo much better since I did, so thanks to all you vapers!
Eric says:
Loving all this coverage of World Vaping Day! We’ve created a stickied thread over in our E-Cigged forum, come discuss ways to promote this great cause with us! http://ecigged.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=515#p968
Jess says:
We will be certainly covering World Vaping Day over at http://www.ecigarettereviews-site.com. Working on a “review” for it as we type! Good work all!
Alvin Mann says:
Loving the support for this vaping event! Cannot express our excitement for Thursday enough over at http://www.review-electronic-cigarattes.net! Great cause!
Katie says:
Hey thanks for getting the word out on this awesome new holiday! We definitely appreciate the acknowledgement over at http://www.bestelectronic-cigarettes.net and will certainly be doing our best to get the word out as well!
-Katie
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Kinta says:
Hi, you can add Croatia to your Countries list.
http://www.vaperclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1335
Sam Munro says:
Sure thing, could perhaps have a page written up for the site in Croatian
Kinta says:
http://www.vaperclub.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1335&p=12123#p12123
or give me mail
thx
Sam Munro says:
Thank for writing the page for Croatia, it is up
JTHOLDM says:
We have a developed a website and would love to be a participant in world vapor day. Please check us out. the website contains information and products and services. We are a V2 affiliate. and would love to have you join us.
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Sam Munro says:
I have added, both Sweden and Philippines to the Countries page, but still awaiting content in those languages for the site.
ernest medina says:
Thank you! Sam Munro for including philippines in the list of countries on the website
Vega says:
Next 7th Mars 2012 a petition for Freedom of choice for vapers will be presented to the European Commission. We need your signature.
http://www.petitiononline.com/fr33dom/petition.html
John says:
Thrilled for World Vaping Day! Let’s all spread the word about e-cigarettes and its benefits every way we can.
Sam Munro says:
Maybe Janty and other companies could have a “World Vaping Day” special running through March.
AYAZ SATTAR says:
lets do it. we are with you..
Pinoy says:
http://pinoyvapersforum.org/ Philippines Vapers Forum
Sam Munro says:
magsulat ka ng papel sa atin sa pilipino
Sam Munro says:
http://translate.google.com/ – will help
Sam Munro says:
I’ve tried to register on your forum to help the Philippines get their page written but with little success.
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Aljaeck says:
Vapers from Philippines wants to be part of this.
Roly says:
Pinoy Vapers – PLEASE WRITE A PAGE FOR US IN TAGALOG.
Thank you.
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Pamela Hillerström says:
Sweden wants in!
Roly says:
Good – please write a page for Sweden:
———–
National Vaping Day – SE
[stuff you write or translate from another national page]
Contacts
———–
All in Swedish please.
Sam Munro says:
Is there an ecig forum for speakers of Swedish that could help get a page together. perhaps on ECF
Vega says:
Please add Spain to this event and also our vapers forum http://ecigforo.com
Thanks!! All together can get that a lot of people change smoke for vape
Roly says:
Spain: please write a page for this site in your language. Thank you.
Vega says:
Thanks, I’ve already done and sent to Sam Munro by e-mail.
Thank you for your help!!
Sam Munro says:
could you get together a page for Spain that we can add to the country pages that would be great
Sam Munro says:
I’d really like to see a lot more events popping up on the google map, Across the States, Canada, and international too.
Roly says:
Pinoy Vapers: please get in touch by email – write a page for us in Tagalog.
Thank you.
DARKFiB3R says:
The link in the PDF pointing to the medical infograph is no longer working. The correct link is now…
http://www.casaa.org/files/CASAA%20Medical%20infograph%285%29.pdf
Roly says:
Seems to work OK.
DARKFiB3R says:
only links to http://www.casaa.org/files/CASAA%20Medical%20infograph for me, which gives me “The page cannot be found”
DARKFiB3R says:
Works if you copy and paste it, but then there’s not much point in it being a hyperlink if you have to do that
Alix says:
I live in the middle of Britain in a small area called Alston Moor. It’s at the top of Cumbria on the border with Northumberland and County Durham. It is the highest market town in England and is considered to be a place of outstanding natural beauty. It also has a lot of pubs!! And places to stay.
I have already started organising a UK Vaping Day event. Have approached one of my local pubs and cafe – Alston House and they have agreed to host the event for the day. I am also going to approach all the other pubs to put up signs to say “Vaping here” (I personally have vaped in most of them) I have also approached my local council to see how they might help. Attracting tourist is always uppermost in their minds!!
I’ll post more as I get it underway. I have contact with all our local and county media and also might be possibly able to get some publicity from the BBC. I also am contacting suppliers to have samples for people to see/play with!!
If anyone would be prepared to help me advertise the event on the Internet I would really appreciate it. Or could people point me in the direction of realtime and virtual marketing info, like banners for pubs and website, information about ecigs I could print up on boards etc etc In the meantime……. I’ll just keep going!!
Sam Munro says:
Cumbria added
tKm says:
The Philippine vaping community would like to take part in this! Vape on!
http://www.pinoyvapersforum.com
Anthony says:
I sent an email, but hadn’t gotten a response yet. I’m setting up a New Orleans meet. I went to the google page, but I could not see how to add the event.
The event will be at Finn McCool’s Irish Pub, 3701 Banks St. New Orleans, LA I think we’re looking at 7pm to start. I’ll give more info here as well as ECF as everything is ironed out.
Sam Munro says:
cool, I’ll add this one too
Sam Munro says:
Finn McCool’s that’s fantastic, great to hear, I remember with Gordon Ramsay.
Spike Babaian says:
Would like our events to be included… Posted on homepage at http://www.VapersClub.com
World Vaping Day March 22nd, 2012
All are welcome… we will meet at Silver Spurs (our NYC location – at 771 Broadway (Broadway and 9th St) in NYC at 7pm and we will walk from bar to bar to hand out informational flyers and cards to smokers. We can end the night at Silver Spurs with a snack or at a bar with a drink to celebrate vaping with the rest of the world!
Sam Munro says:
I’ll get on to that ASAP
paul says:
we at ecig4life are a new site and now do market days at bilston west midland the market as become very busy over the last few weeks and getting more popular week by week struggling to keep up stock we do the days on mon and thrs so ideal for world vaping day so we have been letting people know and are going to put up some ads on the stall and telling customers to bring a friend to try vaping
We have already had some local Wolverhampton express and star paper intrest as they done a report on markets on how things are going and when the local rag was there we was having a very busy day so that got us some column space in the paper
We are hoping to get a shop before to long dedicated to ecigs and liquids
so we will spreading the word on world vaping day for sure
Ho just to let you know we have got hoodies what we wear on the stall they have our logo and web site on the front and you will never guess what’s on the back (ecigs….no whiffs…..no butts !!)and we had them for a fair bit now so great minds think alike lol
Keep up the great work.
Thanks (www.ecig4life.co.uk)
Wendy M says:
Apologies, another pedant here – will try to make time to proofread the rest of the site & email about any typos located later on!
Meantime I do have some concern regarding the assertion (mentioned several times) that e-cigs produce a “water-based mist” as I’d always understood this was NOT the case. Surely the vapour primarily consists of PG (or PG/VG/PEG) vapour with water being VERY much a minor constituent, if any at all?
As a result I’ve always advised anyone interested to avoid any online seller websites claiming “it’s only water vapour – like you get from a kettle” or similar as they either don’t know what they are selling or are being deliberately misleading; ie cowboys.
Aside from that one issue I’m seriously impressed by the clear, brief overview of vaping provided by pretty much the entire site – great effort people – so wonder if there are any plans to keep it available beyond “the day” itself? It’s an info resource I’d be delighted to point people at in future who just aren’t interested in spending hours, days, months etc trawling forums or vendor sites to research or inform themselves about the basics prior to giving vaping a try.
Look forward to seeing the A5 flyer “soon” and intend to print & distribute plenty – better get some more printer ink!!
Roly says:
@Wendy – *Water-based mist*
Yes, this is an interesting subject – and not as simple as it seems. In fact there is no full analysis of e-cig vapour extant, at least as far as I could find. I did go into this in detail in order to try and find some sort of answer to these questions, and the result is here:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/technical-research/149160-analysis-electronic-cigarette-vapor.html
- There are no full analyses available.
- Some show an ingredient list adding up to almost 100% but with no water listed, which since it must be present means we can discard such analyses as worthless.
- Some show strange levels of materials that are unlikely to have been present in the original sample, and are probably lab-introduced (such as large amounts of ethanol, probably from dilution for GC-MS testing; or phenols from internal meltdown due to inverted operation).
As a result of this I had to combine elements from various tests. What I came up with is that about two-thirds of the vapour is water, the next main ingredient is flavourings, and PG is typically about 3% of the mix. Since there is no single example in the literature of a 99% or better analysis that also includes the (obviously present) water content, it’s the best I could do.
Therefore, in my judgement, with the currently-available data, it is correct to refer to e-cigarette vapour as, “A water-based mist”, but incorrect to refer to it as, “Only water” or, “A PG mist” or, “A PG-based mist”. Water seems to be the main ingredient, followed by flavourings.
Roly says:
@Wendy – *Site lifetime*
Yes, the website will stay up permanently, and be added to as needed, so that as every year’s event comes round the site will be even better.
We may have to remove or change the dates and relevant text.
Eventually we want 50 countries listed – it will be our first major milestone – and strong consumer associations in each of those countries. It’s the only way we can push back against unjust regulations and even bans, paid for in the main by the pharmaceutical industry in order to protect their income.
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Roly says:
Sam – a CASAA RSS is at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CASAA
…in case we don’t have that one.
Sam Munro says:
Done
Roly says:
Sam – can you do a tute on how to get an event onto the Google Map page, please.
Sam Munro says:
I’ll work on it
Roly says:
Get your Events on to the Google Maps page for World Vaping Day please:
http://g.co/maps/njr9p
Bruce L. says:
Has a Press Release been prepared for distribution in the US? Available for downloading? Would like to provide to newspapers in our area. Thanks.
Sam Munro says:
http://www.world-vaping-day.com/countries/national-vaping-day-usa.html – There is this so far.
Roly says:
CASAA need to provide this. We will have a generic PR up this week. Country-specific ones have to come from that country’s reps – please ask on the CASAA Facebook page, someone might get a wiggle on, then
Aelo says:
Hi. Can you go through this site with a spell-checker. There are a couple of grammatical and typo errors that I have spotted.
This isn’t a criticism. Great work! I just think that the copy should be correct as we want people to take this seriously. If there are typos and bad grammar, then it won’t be taken so seriously by the people who count… Here are a couple I have noticed on the Health page
Swedish Snus are the best proven safe and effective replacement for smoking
Swedish Snus IS the best proven safe and effective replacement for smoking
And
At an individual level, it seems failrly certain some will prove intolerant to some of the ingredients inhaled, and may even
At an individual level, it seems FAIRLY certain some will prove intolerant to some of the ingredients inhaled, and may even
Sorry to be pedantic, but we want people to take us seriously. Typos make it look like it’s not been given the once over properly.
Great work!
A
Roly says:
Much appreciated. I made the changes you suggest.
We do actually need sub-ed help, you are most welcome to email us with these suggestions – please see the front page for the contact email.
Thanks again.
Yudi says:
Sorry for typo.. Lol.. We r both from same group GVM..
Mattsidi says:
For information, our vaper club name is Gengsi Vaper Malaya or GVM, we have almost 233 member….we will try to organize this day…do contact us at gvmalaya@groups.facebook.com or at my email. TQ
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Yudi says:
ty mr matsidi for reply this email..
Roly we both r vaor club… Ty
Sam Munro says:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/gvmalaya/ – found the group, also added a request to join, would be great if together you could do a page for World Vaping Day in Malaysian we can then the list
Yudi says:
Add Malaysia to…thanx…
Yudi says:
Add malaysia also
Mattsidi says:
I support….add Malaysia on the list…
Yudi says:
tq sir
Roly says:
That’s good – please email us and say who will be organising in Malaysia, please. We will need a page for Malaysia like the UK and US ones.
Karel Janda says:
Hi, you can add Czech Republic to your Countries list. Have a great day! Karel Janda, SKYcig CZ
Roly says:
Yeah we should get Jaded (the gfx dude, who pinched it from somewhere else) to take the bottom off the 8. Would look OK then. Or maybe you have to dial 800 to take part.
Kami says:
LOL
Kami says:
I don’t get the logo. The earth sure…the 800??? No clue
Kami says:
I like the New Logo
Greg Jones says:
And there’s plenty of time to prepare and get some of these actions together!
We can start now and make sure people in some parts of the country aren’t banned from vaping on March 22nd by using the links in the post below to tell legislators we strongly condemn treating electronic cigarettes the same as burning, smoking, smelly tobacco:
http://www.ecigbeat.com/e_cigs_in_the_news/electronic_cigarette_calls_to_action/