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Some Electronic Cigarettes News From Around The Web

Thursday, February 28th, 2013 at 4:14 pm  
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Ok this is a big welcome back after a long way away I want to update you all on the latest happenings in the electronic cigarette world…

Frist something from a few blogs around the web…

 

Logic E-Cigarettes – Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com2/24/13

We were relatively impressed with the Logic E-Cig.

 

E-cigarettes: a safer alternative to smoking? | WPMT FOX43

http://fox43.com2/26/13

Sales of electronic cigarettes are expected to reach $1 billion this year. Though they're increasing in popularity, they're not without controversy.

 

 


Some Electronic Cigarette News!

WEYI – E-cigarette uses no smoke – News – miNBCnews.com

http://www.weyi.com/Feb 23

Sean Maxim, sales representative for Smart Choice E-Cigarette, says "When you inhale it, you get the sensation of smoking without getting all the bad chemicals that you would with regular tobacco cigarettes.". E-cigarette uses no smoke. It's an electronic cigarette.

 

Israel's Health Ministry mulls five-year ban on electronic cigarettes – Haaretz

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HaaretzIsrael's Health Ministry mulls five-year ban on electronic cigarettesHaaretzA professional committee of the Health Ministry has recommended a five-year ban on the manufacture, import and sale of electronic cigarettes in Israel. The Health Mini …

 

 

EverSmoke Electronic Cigarettes – 1st Time User Reactions

Watch as cigarette smokers use the EverSmoke Electronic Cigarette (ecig) for the 1st time as they experience the benefits of the smokeless cigarette. Electric cigarettes have been the latest miracle in helping smokers make better smoking alternatives…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sangerton Leading The Way Against Tobacco Addiction

Friday, June 1st, 2012 at 12:26 pm  
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Sangertown is among the leaders of the world in the struggle against tobacco addiction

Few other malls on this planet have gone this far to protect their customers, employees, neighbors and everybody else from the effects of smoking as has this mall, and it really is something the whole area and the town should be proud of.  The mall’s management is doing a thing like this – an absolute final ban on tobacco and tobacco products throughout the whole property – without regard to their own financial welfare.  They know as well as anybody else does that they will surely lose at least some customers, and possibly quite a few customers, to their own public spirited, morality-based policy of allowing no smoking whatever on the premises, even though they know perfectly well that some folks will stay home who would otherwise have come to their mall that night.  If we saw more public spiritless like this among regular people and shop-owners, we would be much father ahead in this struggle against smoking than we are.

http://d2om8tvz4lgco4.cloudfront.net/archive/x624618656/g12c0000000000000003b8098a280b76da7f5dfa4c73e3c9bcfef4c6f27.jpgWorld No Smoking Day event at Sangertown

A state Department of Health program called Bridges to Prevent Tobacco cleared the air for World No Tobacco Day Thursday.

The group set up a display at Sangertown Square, which recently enacted a property-wide no smoking policy.

“The department of health realizes that protecting people from secondhand smoke saves the state thousands of dollars,” said Sue Casanova, coordinator for the Bridges program.

World No Tobacco Day was started by the World Health Organization to educate area leaders and the public about the tobacco industry.

These programs mentioned here are good, because it always helps to educate people about the evils of smoking.  There can never be too many such programs, because, even though you would think the message had penetrated everybody’s head by now, it does not seem to have done so.  The proff is that people still smoke.  We also need a little coercion, so to speak, of simply not allowing smoking in numerous places that are public.  The fact that anti-smoking is now the prevalent mode is good., because it sets upthe world in an augthoritarian manner that people just have to respect.  This is especially true for preventing children from taking up the habit.

In addition to World No Tobacco Day, Thursday marked the first day of the implementation of the mall’s new no smoking policy.

Earlier this year, Pyramid Management Company, LLC, the company that owns the mall, announced that all of its properties, inside and out, would become 100 percent tobacco free.

“We strongly believe that this policy will not only support our employees and guests who are sensitive to secondhand smoke, but those who are trying to quit as well,” said Alison Ryan Cahalan, marketing director of Sangertown Square. “It’s inclusive of the entire property inside, outside, all entry points, all hallways, sidewalks, parking lots, construction areas. It applies to our property as a whole.” Read more about Sangerton Tobacco Addition Law…

I hope the example that Sangertown is setting has inspired you as much as it has impressed me.  What do you think?  Do you agree with me as about making it illegal to smoke in certain public areas?  My instinct tells me it is right, because some people need that, but I realize others have good reason to differ.  Please let me know – maybe you will convince me!

Smoke Free Country?

Thursday, May 24th, 2012 at 11:21 pm  
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We have tried all the weapons we can think of or invent to get people away from cigarettes, but yet people stil smoke.  One of the most potent is undeniably taxation.  As has been said, the power to tax is the power to destroy; we are now using taxation for exactly that purpose: the destruction of the tobacoo industry.  Most countries tax cigarettes very heavily, but New Zealand has gone much farhter than anywhere else, and it seems to be inclined to go farther still, as this interesting article demonstrates.

A smoke-free country? New Zealand taxes aim for it

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — There are smoke-free bars, smoke-free parks, even smoke-free college campuses. But a smoke-free country?
New Zealand’s government on Thursday squeezed smokers more than ever by announcing a 40 percent hike in tobacco taxes over the next four years. Prices here are already among the highest in the world, and by 2016 they will top 20 New Zealand dollars ($15) a pack on average. Officials hope higher taxes and new restrictions will bring the nation of 4.4 million closer to a recent pledge to snuff out the habit entirely by 2025. Other countries have lauded the idea of trying to wean their populace off tobacco, but few, if any, have been willing to put a date on it.

Health officials here are so serious they recently considered hiking the cost of a pack of cigarettes to 100 New Zealand dollars ($75). Although that idea was dismissed, another measure, which will force retailers to hide cigarettes below the counter rather than putting them on display, will come into effect in July.

Smoking rates among New Zealand adults have fallen from about 30 percent in 1986 to about 20 percent today. Cigarette sales have fallen more sharply, suggesting that even people who haven’t quit cut back as prices rose. People who are still smoking aren’t happy about where prices are going.

For some people who are genuniely addicted and cannot stop, the tax burden can become truly onerous.  IT can damage their finances enormously, to the point even at which they might contemplate committing crimes in order to finance their habits.  This does raise a moral question that puzzles even me, a diehard antismoker if there ever was one: to what extent does the government have the right, much less the obligation to intervene in its citizens’ liveseven if it is for their own good?

Chris Hobman said the cost is “horrendous” and could drive some low-income people to commit crimes to support their habit. He said the government needs to provide more support and alternatives to smokers if it’s serious about making them quit.
Wellington resident Hayley Mauriohooho, who has smoked for about 20 years, said that although it would be good if more people quit, higher taxes won’t stop her.

“It’s quite ridiculous for the government to be concentrating on that,” she said. “They have bigger things to worry about.”
New Zealand’s Cancer Society reacted to Thursday’s announcement by sending out a press release titled “Thumbs Up!”
Michael Calhoun, a spokesman for the anti-smoking lobby group ASH, said the fact that a higher percentage of low-income people smoke will mean the tax increases will force many to cut back or quit entirely because they simply won’t be able to afford their habit.

The New Zealand branch of cigarette company British American Tobacco says the tax increases will force consumers to turn to the black market.

“Consumer demand is far better served by legitimate companies than by the illegal operators that will surely grow as the government makes it increasingly difficult for people to buy their product of choice,” wrote Susan Jones, head of corporate and regulatory affairs, in an email.

So far, New Zealand officials have seen few cases of illegal tobacco sales.

The South Pacific nation’s smoking statistics are similar to those in other developed countries. According to a 2011 study by the World Health Organization, about 20 percent of adult New Zealanders smoke. That compares to about 16 percent of adults in the U.S., 17 percent in Australia, 23 percent in China and 27 percent in France.

New Zealand already charges more than 70 percent tax on cigarettes, compared to 41 percent on average for China, 45 percent on average for the U.S., 64 percent for Australia and 80 percent for France. Read more about a smoke free country..

So think it over and let me know how you feel about this.  I am not being coy hee; I am genuinely puzzled about whether or not the government should view its place as in the lives of all its own citizens – even when it really is right, and that folks should not smoke.

Children Addicted Smoking!

Thursday, May 24th, 2012 at 11:13 pm  
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The time has come, and for a long time already, for us to fight back against companies that sell cigarettes, and especially to children.

A major weapon in our war of liberation from cigarettes is “lawfare”, which means that we must sue the enemy at every opportunity,  This weapon is now extending itself to use in countries like Indonesia.  China, VietNam, Thailand, and other Far Eastern countries have higher percentages of smokers than do we, and it is therefore urgent and useful for us to attack there as well.  This is now happening.

Child addicts at heart of Indonesia anti-smoking suit

KARAWANG GIRANG, Indonesia (Reuters) – Anti-tobacco advocates in Indonesia plan to file a class action lawsuit this month using cases of child addicts in the hope of forcing tougher regulations on a society where one in three people smokes.

It is a rare attempt of its kind to constrain a tobacco industry which looks to the world’s fourth most populous country and its growing appetite for cigarettes to replace dwindling sales elsewhere.

The suit against tobacco companies and the Indonesian government argues that feeble regulation has left children dangerously exposed to the risks of smoking.

“There are … kids who have fallen victim to the impact of cigarette companies and smoking. They are addicted. In the context of people’s rights, the society has been disadvantaged by the tobacco industry,” head of the National Commission for Child Protection, Arist Merdeka Sirait, said.

Indonesia is something of a paradise for both smokers and tobacco companies, with the world’s fifth largest population of smokers. It is a widely tolerated habit and one which even in this relatively poor archipelago most can afford to feed.

And it is getting more popular as the economy grows.

Sometimes I get mad, and reading this article was one of those times!  In fact it made me VERY mad to read about this little child, an addict of smoking since the age of FOUR.  If you read about his health, about his black teeth, anbout how his freiends see him as a broken down child who is unable to play ball anymore, while the Indonesian fat cats in their ofices at the cigarette compaies are enoying all the money they make off kids like this one – how can you become anything BUT mad? It is not every day that you see something as ugly as this bit of exploiting a child for money is.

ADDICTION TRANCE

Ilham Hadi has become something of a poster child for the anti-smoking campaign.

He began smoking aged four when his mother Nenah said she gave him 3,000 rupiah ($0.32) to buy snacks at school. He bought a cigarette instead.

The addiction has since blackened his teeth, damaged his skin and, his friends say, made the now nine-year old a useless soccer player and slow, wheezy runner.

“He sometimes bangs on the window at 4 a.m. in the morning to buy a cigarette,” said Iin Indriyani, who runs a tiny store from the front room of her home around 100 yards (meters) up a winding path from the two-room house where Hadi’s family lives.

“Whenever he wants a cigarette he looks like he is in a trance,” she told Reuters, saying that he sometimes hit her and her daughters to demand cigarettes.

Hadi smokes two packs a day, adding to the financial stress on his parents given that his father earns only $5-6 per day as a laborer and part-time motor bike taxi driver.

“If there is no money left at home, nothing to sell anymore, he would go to the grocery shop, get money by helping park cars and come back home with cigarettes, sometimes a pack, sometimes two and expensive brands too,” said his father Umar.

His habit has also brought the family unwanted celebrity as media crews troop to their house on a hillside beside a rice paddy in the village of Karawang Girang around 40 miles south of the capital.

The child protection commission paid for Hadi to be treated in March and he quit, but last week he ran away from home – not for the first time – in search of cigarettes and has not been seen since.

His case has triggered a debate among the village’s 344 residents about smoking and an attempt by the head of the village to make Karawang Girang a smoke-free zone, said Husein, a local government health worker. Read more about children addicted to smoking.

My reaction to this story was in my guts; the kid’s reaction was in his lungs.  Where was yours, reader?  We all have to get tough and sometimes pretty emotional about these topics, and I would like a little support and knowing whether or not I stand aone on this subject.

New Stop Smoking Drug

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 at 8:17 pm  
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Special Drug Tricks Your Brain Out Of Liking Tobacco

Here is an article I read just this morning, and it really made my morning and set me up for a happy day.  I hope it will have the same effect on you – it really should, because it is a good article, and we both deserve a little happiness in life, especially during the morning.  Some folks just do it right; this doctor Hogan is one of them.  How many people, doctors or otherwise, can wake up in the morning and say, I saved lives today?  There are probably few folks on this planet who have done as much for humanity as has this doctor Hogan.  We must all be inspired and glad to read of such a man, a truly holy brother to his brothers in the human race.

49,000 people free from tobacco, thanks to him

A legal drug that tricks the brain into letting it attack the body offends Dr. Patrick Hogan III. It offends the Tacoma doctor so much that he’s volunteered the last 20 years, dragging its victims back from addiction.

He got his thank-you note last weekend. It came complete with scrollwork, the state seal and a fancy typeface.

Gov. Chris Gregoire proclaimed May 19 Franciscan Health System Freedom from Tobacco Day. Gregoire cited the 49,000-some people who have gone through the four-week class and stuck with the support group Hogan founded in 1992. These thousands are, without exception, happy they got the help to quit.

We should be, too. They have saved us millions in health costs we’d otherwise help pay through our insurance premiums and taxes.

Hogan shares the honor with colleagues and volunteers at St. Joseph Medical Center, St. Anthony, St. Francis and St. Clare hospitals. Franciscan takes smoking cessation seriously, so much so that last year it adopted a policy requiring all new employees to have a tobacco-free lifestyle.

Forty thousand graduates of this program!  That’s forty thousand lives lengthened, forty thousand more men and women who will live into old age now, and be with their grandchildren.  The articlecorrectly points out that the health of these forty-thousand folks will save society and the country enormous sums of money, which can then be spent on education and on enriching the lives of others.  How must Doctor Hogan feel, knowing he has done so much for humanity?

“Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of disease and death in our country,” Hogan said last week at the office where he practices neurology.

Neurology, by the way, is not one of the fields in which docs fight the damage smoking does to the body. But a neurologist is the right person to explain to smokers how they’ve been suckered by the tobacco industry.

“Nicotine binds with the brain, which releases dopamine, which makes you feel really good,” he said. “Initially, you get the buzz from dopamine.”

That buzz is addictive, he said – addictive, short-lived and stingy. “After a while, you’re not getting the dopamine. You’re getting the discomfort of withdrawal. You have a very powerful urge to get that return of the dopamine level.”

Steve and Diana Anderson had smoked for 27 years when Steve’s brother bugged them to see what the Hogan’s Freedom from Tobacco Support Group at St. Joseph Hospital was all about.

“We went for a month or a month and a half before we set our quit date,” Steve Anderson said.

As with manyof the best preachers and the greatest teachers, they had been there themselves, and they worked their system on themselves.  He and his wife, his God-given helpmeet, worked on their problem together.  How’s that for setting an example, both for their own children and for the community, and indeed for the whole world.  They understood the suffering that it could cause to quit, but they undertook that suffering voluntarily and for themselves.

They founded Freedom From Tobacco and saw real results from their work.

Thanks to them, if there were a cake with 20 candles, there are many thousands of people in Pierce County with enough breath to blow them out.

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Enjoy Life With Your Electronic Cigarette

Friday, April 27th, 2012 at 1:39 am  
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If you are a smoker, you have probably heard many of the reasons you should quit. You are certainly aware of the health risks from smoking tobacco. You may already be feeling some the effects of smoking including shortness of breath, high blood pressure and a host of other aliments. Your body, home and clothing smell like an ashtray and the only person who wants kiss you is another smoker or your mom.

You have probably tried to quit smoking so many times that you have lost count. Every time you light a cigarette, you are aware of how bad it is for you, yet you continue to smoke. You are at the point where smoking has become a unique form of gambling. You are betting that you will defy the odds and live a long, healthy life despite all the risks you are taking by continuing to smoke.

tobacco chemicalsMedical research has shown that what makes smoking so dangerous is the burning of the tobacco. When tobacco is burned, it releases more than 4000 chemicals, of which 69 are known to cause cancer. Cigarette manufacturers are allowed by the United States Government to add another 599 chemicals to a cigarette. Some of these chemicals are designed to speed the uptake of nicotine to your brain, which increases the level of your addiction. Other chemicals are used to enhance the flavor or to control the burn rate of your cigarette. The end result is that you are inhaling a chemical cocktail that is endangering your very existence.

Before you give up hope and start planning for your funeral, you should know that there is help available. There is a marvelous new product on the market that doctors and scientists are calling the most effective device ever invented to help smokers give up tobacco. Smokers are achieving an unprecedented rate of success by using the Electronic Cigarette to quit smoking.

The Electronic Cigarette consists of a two part tube that looks like a real cigarette

The larger section corresponds to the part of the cigarette that contains the tobacco. This section encloses a tiny battery and a heating element. The second part of the electronic cigarette corresponds to the filter of a cigarette and holds the replaceable nicotine cartridge. Each cartridge is equal to one pack of tobacco cigarettes.

When a smoker uses an electronic cigarette, they inhale just like they would a tobacco cigarette.

The heating element vaporizes a small amount of the nicotine solution to simulate the smoke of a real cigarette. The device mimics the entire process of smoking and enables the user to give up tobacco in a safe and effective manner. You get the nicotine your body craves and since you don’t burn any tobacco, you avoid the carcinogens and toxins of tobacco cigarettes.

The nicotine cartridge comes in a wide range of strengths, which allows you to slowly reduce the amount of nicotine you are getting with your Electronic Cigarette.

By simply changing to a milder strength of nicotine cartridge every few weeks, you can wean yourself off of nicotine completely. You can even continue to enjoy your Electronic Cigarette with a nicotine free cartridge, if you wish to continue to use the device after you are no longer consuming nicotine.

There is another major benefit to the Electronic Cigarette

With more and more cities banning smoking in public places, you can still use your Electronic Cigarette when you are out in the world.  As summer rapidly approaches, you can enjoy your Electronic Cigarette at the beach or when you go for a stroll in the park. You won’t have to suffer through hours of misery, waiting anxiously for the day to end, so you can go home and smoke. You won’t have to walk a mile from the beach to the parking area and sit in a hot car with the windows rolled up, just to have a cigarette. With the Electronic Cigarette, you can fully enjoy you family outings in peace this summer.

The time to quit smoking is now

You have nothing to lose and a lifetime of improved health to gain. With the Electronic Cigarette, you can quit smoking tobacco without the suffering and discomfort many of us have experienced previously. Give your loved ones the biggest gift you can ever give them and quit smoking, so they can enjoy your company for years to come. Give yourself a future without tobacco by using the Electronic Cigarette to kick the tobacco habit.

Doing Away With Obamas Anti Smoking Youth Law

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012 at 2:06 pm  
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Getting rid of the Obama youth anti smoking law

This really is a crazy ruling and should actually be seen as more of a wake up call with the new trade agreements undoing the important health policies. A ridiculous example is banning the sale of flavoured tobaccos (next thing theyll be banning electronic cigarettes as well! Oh wait they are trying to arent they!).

Even though this law was designed to stop teen smoking, or from wanting to smoke but banning the sale of flavoured tobacco and doing away with the you anti smoking law is the right way to do it.

Here is an article that discusses in detail this case please have a read and go to the main site to read the rest of it!

WTO Orders U.S. to Dump Landmark Obama Youth Anti-Smoking Law

A landmark U.S. health policy already was being struck down even as protestors surrounded the Supreme Court over the attack on President Obama’s healthcare law. Behind closed doors in Geneva, a World Trade Organization (WTO) tribunal issued a final ruling ordering the U.S. to dump a landmark 2009 youth anti-smoking law.

The Obama administration’s key health care achievement slammed by the WTO was the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.). The ruling, issued Wednesday, was on the final U.S. appeal which means that now the U.S. has 60 days to begin to implement the WTO’s orders or face trade sanctions.

This outrageous WTO ruling should be a wake up call. Increasingly “trade” agreements are being used to undo important domestic consumer, environmental and health policies. Instead, the Obama administration has intensified its efforts to expand these very rules in a massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “free trade” agreement.

The WTO’s ruling against banning the sale of flavored cigarettes isn’t the only example of its attack on consumer protection and health laws. The U.S. has filed WTO appeals on two other U.S. consumer laws — U.S. country-of-origin meat labels and the U.S. dolphin-safe tuna label — both were slammed by lower WTO tribunals in the past six months. Yup, in short order we could see the WTO hating on Flipper, feeding us mystery meat and getting our kids addicted to smoking.

The challenged tobacco control U.S. law was designed to reduce teen smoking by banning “starter flavorings,” since tobacco firms had begun marketing flavors like cola, chocolate, strawberry and clove. The 2009 law forced U.S. firms to cease sales of these products, whether imported or domestically produced.

Wednesday, the WTO sided with Indonesia, who claimed that the U.S. ban of their imported clove-favored cigarettes should not be allowed. A key reason was that the U.S. had not banned all flavored-cigarettes (namely menthols). Thus, they argued, the policy unfairly hit Indonesia. However, data showing that teens are more likely than adults to smoke cloves (while menthol smokers include vast numbers of adults) was dismissed. Read more about Landmark Obama Youth Anti-Smoking Law…

Please comment and let us know your thoughts and what you feel should be the best way to get this taken care of in the best way possible.

Indianapolis Smoking Ban To Include Electronic Cigarettes

Thursday, April 5th, 2012 at 12:00 am  
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Electronic Cigarettes Seem To Be Gaining Momentum As A Stop Smoking Solution

It makes sense that the electronic cigarette could be used an a stop smoking device, after all it delivers the nicotine in exactly the same way as a normal cigarette – just without the harmful toxins. In my opinion this device should really be made available through the health system as a truly viable alternaive to the current nicotine replacement therapies that are available on the market today from big pharmas.

NRT – or Nictone Replacement Therapy is when you replace the usual way of deliveing nicotine into the body but without any of the associated health risks that can come from smoking “real cigarettes” which contain tar and toxins – in the tradtional way. The smokeless alternative is exactly that, smokeless, it produces a vapor mist from water in which the “atomizer” injects and converts the nicotine liquid into a harmless water vapor.

Here is an interesting article I found about the electronic cigarette being introduced into a smoking ban – I think its absolutely ridiculous!

Electronic cigarettes could be included in latest Indianapolis smoking ban

Electronic cigarettes could be included in latest Indianapolis smoking ban: wishtv.com

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Electronic cigarettes have been toted by supporters as an alternative to the conventional cigarette, but without the health risk.

Now, those e-cigarettes could be part of the latest version of the city-wide smoking ban in Indianapolis .

The latest proposal discussed Tuesday night bans the use of both conventional cigarettes and e-cigarettes inside bars and bowling alleys. Private clubs would be allowed to make their own decisions.

Some council members at a committee meeting asked to have the e-cigarette language removed, saying the nicotine inside electronic cigarettes only hurts those who use it.

The products turn nicotine and other chemicals in cigarettes into a vapor that’s inhaled by the user.

Some former cigarette smokers came to defend electronic cigarettes….More at Electronic cigarettes could be included in latest Indianapolis smoking ban

I think the article covers some very interesting points but I really dont think the smokeless cigarette or electronic cigarette should be included in any type of smoking ban, its not being smoked, theres no flame or anything harmful, so why the inclusion in the smoking ban? What do think? Please comment below and let me know your thoughts as well.

Kids Want Worry and Smoke Free Lives

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 at 12:00 am  
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Kids To Parents: Stop Smoking Already!

In this case the childeren definitely know best! Good for the kids trying to make sure their parent stop smoking so they get to live a worry and stress free life of not worrying about their parent not beng around. Its a very scary thought that children are taking into account the problems of tobacco and fighting for their parent to kick the habit! Good on the kids i say!

 

Children Want Smoke-Free, Worry-free Lives And Parents To Quit Smoking

By Rosemary Byfield
Epoch Times Staff Created: April 2, 2012 Last Updated: April 2, 2012
A man smokes a cigarette by children

A report by UK doctors has found that second-hand smoke causes over 20,000 cases of chest infections in children every year. (Laurent Fievet/AFP/Getty Images)

“Mummy and Daddy please stop smoking”, is a wish nearly all children have and they are willing to make considerable sacrifices to help their parents quit, a recent government survey shows.

The survey, commissioned by the Department of Health on children’s attitudes to smoking, found that 98 per cent of children with a smoking parent want them to give up and almost three-quarters are worried about their parents dying as a result of tobacco use.

More than half of the 1,000 8- to 13-year-olds surveyed would be prepared to give up pocket money, seven out of 10 would promise to do their homework every night and go to bed on time, and one-third would even give up Christmas presents.

The youngsters also revealed that they want to live in a smoke-free environment, with about 80 per cent opposed to parents smoking in front of them at home and in the car.

The survey gives backing to an NHS television and radio advertising campaign launched at the weekend to highlight the dangers of second-hand smoke exposure to children….More at Children Want Smoke-Free, Worry-free Lives

The children always come first and its important that if you do smoke not to let the children anywhere near your smoke as even the smallest amount of second hand smoke can harm a child.

What do you think?

How Do E Cigarettes Work?

Sunday, March 4th, 2012 at 4:34 pm  
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E cigarettes consist of three basic parts, sometimes having the appearance of only two parts because two functions are combined into one.

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Basically, e cigarettes operate with a battery which provides power for a tiny vaporizing unit called an atomizer, which heats up liquid containing nicotine and flavoring in a base agent. The liquid is stored in a cartridge, also called a cartomizer when it is built into the atomizer. The word “cartomizer” is a combination of “cartridge” and “atomizer,” which makes it easy to remember. So, e cigarettes are referred to as 3-piece or 2-piece, but all e cigarettes contain the three functional parts just described.  E cigarettes work when the battery activates the atomizer, which vaporizes the e liquid, which produces vapor that is drawn into the user’s mouth and inhaled into the lungs like tobacco smoke. It’s a simple process, really, but there’s a lot to learn about it because e cigarettes provide so many different options.

Components of E Cigarettes – Batteries

E cigarettes all require a battery in order to operate. Naturally, there are many different types of batteries available for e cigarettes, depending on the style, model and manufacturer of each particular unit. Disposable e cigarettes have small batteries, with just enough power to vaporize the e liquid provided. Disposable e cigarettes are not designed to be rechargeable or refillable, so the batteries they contain cannot be reused.

However, rechargeable electronic cigarettes are available with a variety of different types of batteries. Some batteries can be recharged 200 times, some 500 times, and some as many as 2000 times. Obviously, e cigarettes with better batteries will cost more. Normal AA and AAA used in other types of electronic equipment will not work in e cigarettes, partially because of battery size, but also because of voltage. Those household batteries are only 1.5 volts and most e cigarettes require 3.7 volts at a minimum. Furthermore, manufacturers of e cigarettes specify the use of Li-Ion rechargeable batteries or LiMn rechargeable batteries for best performance. Mini e cigarettes that look tobacco cigarettes often come with an LED light at the tip, giving the appearance of burning tobacco. Lights on the tips of e cigarettes are programmed to blink when battery power is running low, which gives the user a heads-up to recharge, a handy feature on the mini models of e cigarettes.

Components of E Cigarettes – Atomizers

Most e cigarettes come equipped with standard resistance atomizers in order to strike a balance between vapor production and atomizer life. Low resistance atomizers will produce more vapor at the expense of atomizer life, since higher heat production wears out the tiny unit faster.  Vapers who make a hobby of experimenting with different e cigarettes and even modifying e cigarettes for personal use eventually discover which type of atomizer they prefer.

Many former smokers are only interested in obtaining their nicotine fix with pleasure and style, so they don’t get really excited about exploring all the various options available in different models of e cigarettes.

One item of interest to all vapers, however, is how e liquid contributes to the life of atomizers. E liquids containing artificial sweeteners have a tendency to wear out atomizers much faster than those without sweeteners. Adding sweeteners to the typical propylene glycol base has been compared to putting sugar in the gas tank of a car. Not good… And at the very least, atomizers in frequently used e cigarettes will need cleaning more often to compensate.

Alcohol is recommended for cleaning atomizers, with ethyl alcohol preferred over isopropyl alcohol, although either one will do the job. The user drips alcohol into the atomizer while holding it over the sink to contain the dripping as the alcohol runs through the atomizer. Immediately thereafter, the user places a couple drops of e liquid directly into the atomizer, connects it to the battery unit and activates it, allowing any remaining alcohol to burn off.

E cigarettes should have the atomizer cleaned or replaced after approximately 3 to 5 mils of liquid have passed through the atomizer. In lieu of measurement, it’s relatively easy to know when it’s time to clean or replace because taste and vapor production quality suffer. In other words, it’s obvious.

Components of E Cigarettes – E Liquids

There are two main bases for the e liquid contained in e cigarettes. Cartridges and cartomizers can be purchased pre-filled, or the user can refill their own at home. Propylene glycol (PG) is a petroleum based liquid, and vegetable glycerin (VG) is manufactured from vegetable oil, usually palm or coconut oils. PG has a naturally bitter taste requiring flavorings as a cover-up, but VG has a naturally sweet taste and can be enjoyed without any additives. VG has a much thicker viscosity and so it requires another liquid, usually water, to reduce it. Remember, e cigarettes have no characteristic flavor of their own. Liquid tobacco or menthol flavoring is added, while many others flavors can be substituted instead of those two if e cigarettes are not being used to imitate the flavor of tobacco smoking.

Actually, many different oils can be vaporized in the atomizer of e cigarettes, but VG based liquids seem to work the best.

Additives are, essentially, impurities in the liquid, and as a result they tend to wear out the atomizer faster than pure oils. Liquid nicotine levels can be adjusted to achieve just the right “throat hit” for each individual.  E cigarettes so many options for flavor and nicotine levels that it generally takes a new user quite a while to find just the right combination. In the event some e liquid is drawn directly into a user’s mouth instead of vapor it’s easily rinsed out with water with no ill effects. E cigarettes contain a liquid consisting of food grade ingredients only, listed as GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) by the FDA.

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