Hmm to quote ' we cant go from banning e-cigs to promoting them'

How is this different to reversing the ban on alcohol at wilderspool and installing bars on all the terraces?

E-cigarettes may be safer that a tobacco one (much in the same way that getting hit by a car travelling at 30mph is safer than being hit by one travelling at 50mph), but nicotine is still something that I wouldn't want my children to be exposed to. This article make it very clear it's a potent chemical with obvious negative effects on a person's health

Nature Medicine 2001 Jul;7(7):833-9.

Nicotine stimulates angiogenesis and promotes tumor growth and atherosclerosis.
(in leyman's terms stimulates the generation of new blood vessels in the heart and also promotes cancerous cells and hard plaques to form in the heart)

Heeschen C, Jang JJ, Weis M, Pathak A, Kaji S, Hu RS, Tsao PS, Johnson FL, Cooke JP.

[iWe provide anatomic and functional evidence that nicotine induces angiogenesis. We also show that nicotine accelerates the growth of tumor and atheroma in association with increased neovascularization. Nicotine increased endothelial-cell growth and tube formation in vitro, and accelerated fibrovascular growth in vivo. In a mouse model of hind-limb ischemia, nicotine increased capillary and collateral growth, and enhanced tissue perfusion. In mouse models of lung cancer and atherosclerosis, we found that nicotine enhanced lesion growth in association with an increase in lesion vascularity. These effects of nicotine were mediated through nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at nicotine concentrations that are pathophysiologically relevant. The endothelial production of nitric oxide, prostacyclin and vascular endothelial growth factor might have a role in these effects.[/i


From a family orientated club selling a family game as entertainment, taking money from a company that sells a product with potentially serious negative effects on health is in my opinion a poorly thought out move. Allowing a stand to be named after the company stinks to high heaven.

Yet you'd probably buy them a happy meal with a smile on your face.

Nope. Twins that are now nearly 8 and never been to a McD , Burgerking or anywhere else like it. Why, when you have no idea who I am, would you try to demean my serious post about not wanting my children to be exposed to a deadly chemical is beyond understanding. Fool.

lighten up and buy them a big mac.....

and a true vape ciggy while you're at it

start supporting your club FFS

Hey if some of you want to accelerate your cancer risk go right ahead. Just don't 'vape' in my vicinity.

you cant stop us

Just because the club say it is okay it doesn't mean it will be with the non smokers.

I think you should all be prodded into a corner and cordoned off with barbed wire and maybe some landmines.

Have you spoken to Barbara about this?

Thing is, ask someone to stop and they'll just say no as they aren't break a rule. 'Tough' is the word. It's only a minority of saddos who are blowing it into something bigger than it is who cares.

Maybe that's what our bright yellow away shirt is for? To see the players through the dense smog created by the e-cigs. FFS, people are making out like fiddlers ferry cooling towers are billowing smoke directly into the ground.

I agree you should start to reconsider your position here. One thing you shouldn't consider anytime soon IMO is finding your way out of Leeds, what with your conga 'threats' and improper flashbacks, what is all that about, have you vaped on something inappropriate? Anyway you seem like a real handful.

I'm going to throw my opinion behind the lobby that this is a bad thing or at least a backwards step. Sure it's not illegal but as a club we are judged by the company we keep. Emirates is one thing an e-cig vaping company is another and not in a good way as far as I'm concerned, hence the need for all the rhetoric about 'health benefits' when it's purely about the pound notes.

Does ecig "smoke" dissipate quite quickly?