e-cigarette News

Timeline for Quitting Smoking

April 5, 2012

This time line shows the benefits you get from quitting smoking. Some are immediate! Time line for Quitting Smoking Inside of twenty minutes, improvements start off to take place. When you end smoking, within the very first twenty minutes, your blood strain and pulse charge will return to normal. It only requires eight hours for [...]

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Attention Aggie Smokers and Tobacco Users: Vapegeek Has You Covered!

March 23, 2012

As many of us in the Bryan/College Station area have been hearing, beginning September 1, 2012: If you are an employee of the TAMU system (Texas A&M), and you are a tobacco user, you will be charged a $30 per month premium on your health insurance for you and each covered family member that is [...]

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If You Smoke an e-Cig Where There Is a Smoking Ban, Are You In Violation?

January 19, 2012

That’s a hotly debatable topic, but – in Kirksville, MO, the answer is no! (yeah!) “There are a number of things that need to be there in order for it to be considered smoking, it doesn’t need to be all, but there has to be some of the elements,” said Kirksville Police Chief Jim Hughes. [...]

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Update on the Ban of e-Cigarettes on Airliners–and a Survey!

October 20, 2011

Let me start this out by saying – I thought e-cigarettes were already banned on airplanes! That said, last month, the Department of Transportation filed a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the usage of e-cigarettes on domestic and foreign flights.  Here is the public notice: U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that the Department [...]

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Proof Of How Easy It Is To Make The Switch!

October 15, 2011

This article, below, reprinted from the American Council on Science and Health, is regarding an Italian research study that was recently published (read the study PDF) on the effectiveness of the electronic cigarette as compared with smoking cessation products.  My conclusion is:   With e-cigarettes, you don’t have to quit – just Make The Switch!    [...]

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e-Cigarettes Are Now, Officially, Tobacco Products

April 26, 2011

So says the FDA, so it is done. On Monday, our wonderful FDA finally announced its basic plan for how they will handle the e-cigarette – it will be regulated as a tobacco product instead of as a drug and a drug delivery device. If you have kept up with e-cigarette news over the last [...]

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Maybe Charlie Sheen Isn’t THAT Crazy!

April 19, 2011

Charlie Sheen came out on stage at his Toronto show last week with his e-cigarette!  Stiff anti smoking bans in Toronto would have probably caused his show to be immediately shut down had he shown up with his trusty cigarettes.  The management at Massey Hall, which hosted Charlie’s show, said they could be fined up [...]

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CASAA–Call to Action in Macon, GA

April 19, 2011

For all you vaping activists (and we all should be vaping activists!) – The Consumer Advocates For Smoke-Free Alternatives Association (CASAA) has a message seeking help:   Proposed Smoking Ban The Public Safety Committee of the Macon City Council in Georgia recently passed an ordinance that would prohibit smoking in public places, including bars, restaurants, [...]

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Arizona Files Complaint Against Smoke Freely, LLC and Prado e-Cig

March 10, 2011

I have heard so much bunk about this particular company.  It is very important if we want to continue our vaping lifestyle that we get rid of all the scammers out there.  And there are a lot of them.   They are doing nothing but hurting the fight to get e-cigarettes accepted. Anyway, on with the [...]

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Colorado Legislators Considering Age Restrictions on e-Cigarettes

March 8, 2011

This is a good thing: This Colorado bill hopes to restrict e-cigarette sales to those over the age of 18 by expanding the definitions of "tobacco products" to include "any device that is designed to deliver inhaled, ingested, or physically applied doses of nicotine",” i.e., the e-cigarette. Most of the reputable e-cigarette retailers already abide [...]

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