Rendez-vous #23 with Kim Shilling Manor
Owner of Moose Jooce Vape Shop in Lake Station (Michigan) Follow her on twitter
First is there anything you would like to add to your self introduction on twitter: "I smoked 35 years...lost my husband to lung cancer..still smoked. Tried vaping on 10/21/2013 and quit overnight! Now I own Vape shops geared towards smokers 40+".
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Rendez-vous #22 with Marie Maurisse
Author of the investigative report The blazing success of Swiss cigarettes in Africa
May I first ask you to introduce yourself by telling us a bit about your personal and professional background and how and why you got interested in the cigarette industry in Switzerland and their sales in Africa?
Rendez-vous #21 with Miroslaw Dworniczak
Thank you, Mirek for accepting this rendez-vous.
May I first ask you to introduce yourself by providing some personal background including when and why you got involved in vaping advocacy (if that's the right term to use).
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Rendez-vous #20 with Alex Clark
Alex is CEO of CASAA
Can you please start by introducing yourself, telling us why and when you started vaping, how your journey evolved and your role in CASAA, the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association?
Alex Clark: My name is Alex Clark and I quit smoking by accident in 2013. After attempting to quit smoking with nicotine gum (which I used as a bridge between cigarettes for three years), I felt defeated and resigned myself to the notion that I would remain a smoker until my likely early death.
As of today, January 2nd, 2019, I have resigned from my position of 'online community manager' with the Foundation for a smoke-Free World.
Why? It's a bit too early for me to explain the mix of internal, external, professional and personal reasons that led me to make such a decision.
In the short term, I plan to try to publish a few more rendez-vous, write about my experience in the tobacco harm reduction universe on my blog mythrjourney and see if some ideas I care about in this field can become reality.
My best wishes to all readers for a happy new year.
Philippe
Rendez-vous #19 with Anonymous
Anonymous is a young friend presently living in New York City who attended the conference organized by NYU on October 19 about E-Cigarettes: the tectonic shift in nicotine and tobacco consumption, opportunity or threat to saving lives?
She has no involvement in this field so I thought interesting to get her perspective and comments.
Rendez-vous #18 with Claude Bamberger
Claude is President of Aiduce (Association Indépendante Des Utilisateurs de Cigarette Électronique) that represents vapers in France and in Belgium.
Rendez-vous #17 with Roberto Sussman.
Roberto is President of ProVapeo Mexico, a consumer association defending in Mexico the right to access "products that provide nicotine without combustion".
Thank you Roberto for accepting our rendez-vous.
Can you please introduce yourself by telling us a bit about yourself and when/how/why you got involved in Pro Vapeo Mexico?
October 1st 2018, Rendez-vous #16 with Joseph Magero
Joseph Magero writes a blog called Tobacco Harm Reduction and he is active on Twitter.
Thank you, Joseph, for accepting our rendez-vous.
May I first ask you to introduce yourself by giving us a brief personal background about your journey in tobacco control and tobacco harm reduction?
Joseph Magero: I am a tobacco harm-reduction advocate based in Kenya. Having been a smoker for over 15 years, I developed an interest in how people get addicted to smoking and how the industry operates. This is how I got introduced to tobacco control by my good friend, the late Dr.Frank Ashall.
August 29, 2018 Rendez-vous #15
with Philippe Poirson.
Philippe Poirson, writes the blog Vapolitique. The blog is written in French, but it can be automatically translated into different languages.
