Over the last year, these devices, which deliver nicotine to their users in the form of vapor instead of smoke, have grown increasingly prominent. In July, the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had concerns about the safety of these products, citing the “detectable levels of known carcinogens and toxic chemicals” it found when testing two popular brands. In September, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have made it illegal to sell electronic cigarettes there. Leo DiCaprio, Tom Petty and everyone’s favorite style icon, Kevin Federline, have all been photographed “vaping” in public.

Unlike other cigarette alternatives, e-cigarettes don’t just retain the nicotine of the original article, but also the prop value. Stick a patch on your arm, and no one’s going to mistake you for Don Draper, even if you spend all day inhaling with rueful circumspection. Stick a piece of gum in your mouth, and no one is going to mistake you for Betty Draper, even if you spend all day exhaling with wan discontent. With an electronic cigarette, you still get to rock all your best smoking moves like an air-guitar champ jamming on his phantom Fender.

Indeed, hands-on engagement isn’t just optional, it’s required—and even people wasting their lives in the pursuit of vice enjoy a little busy work and the responsibility of looking after their paraphernalia. The junkie has his works to fuss with. The chronic knitter has her needles. The vaper has a pleasure stick so complicated it could break in multiple ways.

For all its virtues, however, the e-cigarette is still the tobacco equivalent of a toupee. From across a room, or even from across a medium-sized table if the room is dark enough, it may be fairly convincing. But it’s still silly. That people are currently buying them so readily only proves just how effectively anti-smoking advocates have glamorized cigarettes in recent years.

Back in the days when you could smoke anywhere at any time, cigarettes were no more alluring than stale donuts and bad coffee. Harried, underachieving salesmen puffed on them furiously as they failed to meet their monthly quotas. Sad-sack accountants measured out their grim, monotonous days one butt at a time. Then, cigarettes were banished from the workplace to special outdoor holding pens. Overnight, that transformed them into human doggie biscuits, a reward at break-time, the thing to order one’s day around. When smoking was exiled from bars and restaurants, only the ultra-privileged could get away with smoking in these places, a fact that further transformed a filthy, largely pointless habit into an act of sexy defiance.

Now, New York City wants to follow the leads of San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago and ban smoking in parks. Some condo owners in Belmont, California, aren’t even allowed to smoke in their own homes. In such an environment, the rhetorical power of vaping is obvious. It’s an act of civil disobedience that isn’t actually illegal. You can blow cherry-scented vapor in the face of any self-appointed deputy of the nanny-state who insists you can’t smoke in public because you’re not actually smoking in public. Nor are you jeopardizing their well-being in any significant way. Vaping may just well be the first politically correct form of political incorrectness.

Still, a potential vaping epidemic is not without an enormous upside. As smoking declined, people needed something to do with their hands, and not everyone wanted to be a heroin addict or knit sweaters. Nature abhors a vacuum, however, and to fill the void in our lives, we took to texting and tweeting. Now look where we are. We spell “are you” RU. We apprehend the world in 140-character lifebites. Whatever trace amounts of diethylene glycol may lurk within the cartridges of your favorite e-cigarette, they can’t be any less healthy than spending hours each day trading quips about Balloon Boy with a handful of virtual strangers.

Article by Greg Beato, view original article & comments on Las Vegas Weekly.

901 to 510 Adaptor

The picture above is just to get an idea of what kind of length this would add over a 901 atty.
I wanted the adaptor because my favorite atomizer is the 510 and trog doesn’t sell 510 Screwdrivers… yet?

Review after the break…

Well it doesn’t take away any performance from the screwdriver I’m using it on, but I am enjoying it a whole lot more since I have always preferred the 510 over the 901.

The finish on it is smooth, it would be nice if it was a little shorter but I am not too worried about that.

To sum it up it does what it says on the tin, allows you to use 901 batterys with a 510 atomizer.

I paid £15 for it including delivery, I know alot of people are making their own adaptors but I don’t even have a soldering iron anymore so this was the most convenient way for me.

Well worth the money to have a 510 with a battery that will last my heavy use all day long!

We found out about e-cigarettes when I was browsing Ebuyer.com and found the Health E-Cigarette, it was only £10 so I ordered it to see how it worked. It worked fine except I was disappointed with the amount of vapor, so I began searching on Google to see if there was other models.

I ended up finding the ECF and started reading/watching the reviews of various models. We decided on the Titan 510 and haven’t looked back since.

I must admit I do enjoy not smelling of smoke and my wheezing has stopped at night, plus I don’t have to get wet standing in the rain anymore!

Just thought I would share our success here and for anyone considering giving e-cig’s a try check out the Suppliers page and give it a go!