The Electronic Cigarette industry has been flooded with both legitimate and illegitimate businesses. Many of these new companies have been scamming potential customers into thinking that they will be receiving a ‘free trial’, but customers have to enter their credit card information for this ‘free trial’.
After receiving their credit card statement, they come to find [...]
Alex Fischels appeared to be smoking on a Chicago’s restaurant patio when the waiter shot him a nasty glare.
But the UI senior wasn’t puffing on a cigarette — he was taking a drag of nicotine vapor from an e-cigarette.
“I don’t think he had a clue what it was,” the 21-year-old said. “But he was not [...]
I have been a smoker off and on throughout the course of my life, so I am very familiar with the tobacco cigarette and the deadly consequences of smoking. I have made a few half-hearted attempts to quit utilizing a few of the “approved products” and in all honesty, they just simply did not work [...]
As the debate heats up concerning the use of electronic cigarettes, Electronic
Cigarette Association (ECA) President Matt Salmon today encouraged those
involved in this discussion to carefully and honestly study how these devices
work and recognize that the more than one million adult committed smokers, who
use electronic cigarettes, are seeking an alternative to combustible cigarettes
that contain a multitude [...]
What many e-cigarette users have feared from day one could be in the works: Philip Morris, the biggest maker of tobacco cigarettes in the United States, has been discovered to be in negotiations with Ruyan Group, which manufactured the original e-cigarette starting in 2005. A short news article on Quamnet.com states the seriousness [...]
Prof. Carl V. Phillips, just published in Harm Reduction Journal, shows that for most smokers, immediately switching to a low-risk alternative will lower their risk of dying from their habit more than quitting eventually, even if they use the smoke-free product for the rest of their lives.
November 2, 2009 — Switching to low-risk nicotine products, [...]
First there was smoked tobacco. Then there was smokeless tobacco. Now there’s something in between.
It’s vaporized nicotine, aka “vaping.” It isn’t quite tobacco, and it isn’t quite smoking. Should we ban it, since it’s sort of like smoking? Or should we tolerate it, since it’s different in important respects? Does the war on smoking require [...]
What started as a noble cause with lobbying groups like the American Cancer Society, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and Mother’s Against Drunk Driving, is now morphing into a multi headed monster as they became a victim of their own success. Both have campaigned and succeeded in getting stricter laws on drunk drivers and smoking which [...]
Electronic cigarettes are opening a new front in the tobacco wars as state and local lawmakers try to restrict the product, which may allow users to circumvent smoking bans.
The battery-powered device is made up of a cartridge containing nicotine, flavoring and chemicals. It turns nicotine, which is addictive, into a vapor that is inhaled. Users [...]
Public smoking bans — very common now, even in live and let live Nevada — are usually justified on health grounds.
Children mustn’t be subjected to the dangers of second-hand smoke, the argument goes, and adults who venture into public shouldn’t have to put up with the stench and pollution associated with cigarette smoke. In addition, [...]
