There, said it.

For all these years we’ve had the dangers of tobacco rammed down our throats as if Satan himself created the plant. It takes some doing to appear so evil in the public consciousness that one can only assume the poor piece of vegetation must have hired the same PR team who look after the ghost of Jimmy Saville, Rose West and the reputation of estate agents the world over.

When the iPhone was launched in 2007 I watched television reports covering queues stretching around the outside of Apple stores and shook my head. Not only did this product seem to be as gimmicky as the bells in a boy-band Christmas single but also the willingness of people to act like sheep to hold one baffled me.

In 2007 a phone was a damn phone – albeit with the brilliant ability to play music and take picture that made the world look as though it was covered in cellophane and steam.

There have been a number of articles recently purporting to help you find what subset of vaping you fall into. You may well have found that all of them have glaring omissions due to the fact that they are trying to sell you something and don’t want to upset you. It’s Friday – we’re going to put that right. Here begins Part 1 of a seventeen part collectors series.

At great personal cost, this week I’ve looked into the world of celebrity vapers. People love celebrities don’t they, there are shelves of magazines all about celebrities doing things like standing about or moving – I’ve seen them in shops when I’ve been buying my meths. Yeh, people love celebrities.

Do you sometimes make lists? As a frequenter of forums and groups since the introduction of the 1200-baud dial-up I’ve contributed to one or two in my time. People may moan about how unkind the Internet can be these days but I remember when Flame Wars were the kind of thing to reduce butch men to tears.

Admittedly, the most butch you could be in those days was to have 20/20 vision what with it being a haven for geeks. It was a time when phreakers found a whole new outlet for their talents, their blue boxes and H/P culture was born. I still remember my excitement when I bought my first 28K modem – “How could computers get better than this, especially the floppy disk?” I asked myself.

I’m beginning to wonder if 2014 was designated as the International Year Of Corruption by the same anonymous group of people who decide when National Left-handedness Day, Month of the Moth and other such events should fall.

Following on from my ‘accident’ with my Macbook I faced the prospect of transferring over a wedge of data. Fortunately I kept all of my important stuff on one hard drive tucked away for just such a crisis, my music sat on a second.

Deck the halls with wicks and kanthal, now that’s what I call a Stealthvapemass Vol.1…

With less than a month to go it’s time to start preparing for the biggest vapers event in the UK. Being the kind-hearted souls we are we thought we’d turn our thoughts to what prep work you need to focus on, especially if this is your first time. With the growth in vaping over the last year this is obviously going to be more popular than ever – bigger venue, a whole weekend – it’s like Xmas without the family arguments, poor films and having to suffer your relations.