Electronic Cigarette Starter Kit

Quit Smoking With The Electronic Cigarette This New Year

New Year’s Eve is just a day or so away and this is the time that many of us make our New Year’s resolutions. People make all sorts of promises at this time of year. They make plans to save money, eat less, exercise more or spend quality time with their family. If you are a smoker, why not make a resolution that means better health and quite possibly a longer life. It is time to make a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking tobacco.

As many of us know, most New Year’s resolutions get broken or forgotten in a very short time. However, when it comes to quitting smoking, most of us fail because smoking is a highly addictive habit and it is extremely hard to quit. Many

Potpourri of Other Legal and Quasi-Legal Considerations

For the e-cigarette community, legal issues other than those encountered by the cigarette, and to some extent the tobacco industry as a whole, may be relevant to the e-cigarette’s continuing legal encounters.

E-cigarettes and the Aviation Industry

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For the e-cigarette community, the prohibited use of the e-cigarette on commercial airline flights, including non-American airlines, is growing worldwide, especially given the announcement by the FAA that in the spring 2012, e-cigarette use on airlines under its authority will be prohibited.  Even if the e-cigarette community could provide with no exceptions that the vapor produced by the c-cigarette contained nothing other than that which was originally in the atmosphere of a plane before the e-cigarette

Getting a little confused with all the media attention on e cigarettes?

Now that there are so many choices, including huge units shaped like a box and tiny units smaller than a toy cigarette, how can a smoker know what to choose and exactly how to get started?  The choices seem nearly endless, but the most important thing is just to get started. Start to make a change by trying out disposable e cigarettes available locally. Just grab a few and get started vaping.

E cigarettes do not involve combustion…

…so that means they do not create smoke. The tremendous advantage of e cigarettes over tobacco cigarettes is the complete absence of tobacco smoke. There’s no flame and no smoke, there’s only water vapor emitted from e cigarettes, and the same water vapor is emitted from the user’s lungs upon exhalation. No smoke is

For the e-cigarette community, recent legislation may possibly include the e-cigarette.

In the two prior acts, the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965, and the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act passed in 1979, were direct specifically at cigarettes, the e-cigarette industry, and e-cigarettes in particular, and were not included.  The obvious reason this lack of inclusion was that e-cigarettes did not exist, at least for the general public, at those times.

After the 2000 U. S. Supreme Court decision in FDA v. Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp.,  when the Court ruled that the FDA had “overreached” its authority to regulate tobacco products as customarily marketed, stakeholders lobbied for additional tobacco control legislation.

In an attempt to protect the public health, in 2009 Congress passed and President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Control Act (Tobacco Control Act [TCA]).

However, this most recent legislation,

Over and over it can be seen in thousands of forum comments on the web about electronic cigarettes…

..former smokers all over the world agree that their personal use of e cigarettes has reduced or eliminated their need to smoke tobacco cigarettes. They are able to absorb nicotine with style and enjoyment, which beats out the alternative methods such as skin patches, chewing gum or mouth spray.

Regardless of the medical and legal status of electronic cigarettes…

..meaning the fact that they have not been officially declared a “smoking cessation device” for the purposes of a doctor’s prescription, real-life smokers all over the world will tell you that electronic cigarettes have worked as a smoking cessation device in their own lives. Most smokers try out electronic cigarettes for exactly that reason, they want to quit smoking, it’s that simple. Smokers are acutely aware of

While Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) can neither pass nor enforce laws, they can, and have, greatly influenced them.

Using federal grant monies, these entities have done, and published, research which reflected negatively on the effects of cigarettes. While e-cigarettes are technically not cigarettes, to these groups a “cigarette,” including the e-cigarette is bad, immaterial of the actuality. Not only have these organizations provided information to their members, they have publicized their works and advertised their opinions. For the e-cigarette to avoid the fate of the cigarette industry, the e-cigarette manufacturers need to exploit the differences between the e-cigarette and the cigarette.

Another way in which these groups influence the legal system is through extensive lobbying. The e-cigarette industry, while doing lobbying of its own, cannot compete on the same playing field as these groups.  One of the reasons is the proliferation of them.

What Price For Electronic Cigarettes?

More and more smokers are wondering how much they will need to invest to try out an electronic cigarette. The simple answer is – it could be less than $10 USD or it could be more than $200 USD.  If you asked about a pair of running shoes you might hear the same answer, and finding the right choice for you personally all depends on how you’re going to use the product.  Use of an e cigarette can be social, casual and occasional use only. Many e cigarette users keep a few disposable units on hand for going out, the only time they formerly found themselves bumming a cigarette from others at restaurants, clubs and bars. These people did’t formerly have a daily smoking habit; they had an occasional, social habit.

Disposable electronic cigarette models are perfect

In a recent survey on the world’s largest e cig forum there were some very interesting statics compiled from e cigarette users’ responses to a survey

Naturally, one of the reasons tobacco cigarette smokers desire to quit smoking is to save money. Sometimes they achieve their goal immediately by getting started with electronic cigarettes, and sometimes it appears by their own admission, that they get caught up in the excitement of the e cig culture and spend a lot of money experimenting with various products. There are several comments like this one, “I limit myself to what I spent on analogs [tobacco cigarettes] which was $5 a day,” meaning there was no actual cost savings, but that wasn’t the users’ motivation.

The e cig forum posts make it very clear that their primary motivation is

What’s So Bad About Second-hand Tobacco Smoke?

Most people know that second-hand smoke is bad, but why is it bad?  And besides avoiding smoking altogether, what can be done about it? Before looking at the harmful effects, it’s good to consider one solution. Electronic cigarettes are increasing in popularity because they offer an alternative to tobacco smokers. They produce no smoke at all, only water vapor. Electronic cigarette safety has been shown to be much higher than tobacco cigarettes primarily because they produce no toxic smoke. That means the user and everyone around him can avoid the known carcinogens responsible for 3,400 lung cancer deaths and 46,000 heart disease deaths in adult non-smokers in the United States. Those shocking statistics do not include children at all. So, the effects of second-hand smoke are causing great harm to more than 50,000 people annually in

What’s The Secret Inside Electronic Cigarettes?

Some look like tobacco cigarettes and some look like a fountain pens, but all electronic cigarettes have a little secret inside. It’s called an atomizer or a cartomizer, depending on how it works.  An atomizer is the heating element that vaporizes electronic cigarette liquid to create water vapor that looks like smoke, but has no harmful contaminants. The atomizer is basically a simple filament within metal mesh that serves as a wick to draw the liquid in as the electronic cigarette user draws air through the unit. It is positioned in the middle, between the liquid-filled cartridge at the mouth end, and the longer battery portion and the lower end. The atomizer is where all the action is, so it eventually burns out when sediment builds up inside, requiring replacement from time to time depending on