Monday 10 June 2013

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Thursday 2 May 2013

Common Courtesy

One of the reasons why some people consider switching to e-cigarettes is because many cities and states have instituted public smoking bans. In some cases, these bans are so restrictive that it practically feels illegal to light up anywhere at all except in some cramped closet in your home. Since e-cigarettes don’t produce smoke, many people reason that they can use their e-cigarettes wherever they like. In fact, e-smoking is something of a gray area; in many places, e-cigarettes aren’t specifically covered by e-smoking bans. If you live in one of these places, you can theoretically use your e-cigarette in public without worrying about the repercussions. However, there are a few points you may want to consider first.

E-Liquid Ingredients and Safety

Many people switch to e-smoking because they believe that e-cigarettes could be safer than real cigarettes. Although some of the information available seems to suggest that e-cigarettes actually could be safer, it’s not a sure thing. One of the reasons is the sheer variety of flavors used in e-liquids and the fact that few — if any — of those flavors have been tested for safety when inhaled.

For example, it was found not too long ago that some e-liquids contained diacetyl. Diacetyl is accepted as a safe substance to consume — it’s the substance that allows low-fat microwave popcorn to taste buttery. However, when inhaled in large quantities it can lead to irreversible lung damage. Most e-liquid makers have taken steps to make sure their products contain no diacetyl, but it serves as an example of why you should always obtain as much information as possible about what your e-liquid contains.

In addition, some e-liquids contain extracts of real tobacco. You may see the term “tobacco absolute” used in conjunction with these types of e-liquids. Tobacco absolute is a pure, thick extract that tastes bitter and ashy. It can add greatly to the complexity and depth of an e-liquid. It is unknown whether the use of a real tobacco extract makes an e-liquid more dangerous to use.

E-liquid Beginners Guide

So, you're a newbie and you want to get started vaping but you don't know how. So let's take a look at a few different questions that are most common amongst those new to the world of E-cigarettes.

PG versus VG
There are basically two different fluids you can use to dilute full strength nicotine juice. These are PG (propylene glycol) as well as VG (vegetable glycerin). One of the most common questions asked is. Which one should you use, and which is safer to inhale?

Both VG and PG are used in a variety of foods that you consume on a daily basis, and are deemed quite safe. However, in some small cases, people have experienced allergic reactions to propylene glycol, the most common is skin rash. However this is not a big deal and there is nothing a little bit of skin moisturizer cannot solve.

So which is better, VG or PG? The answer is? neither. you will need both in most cases, to get the best of both worlds. Some prefer vaping VG-only and some 100% PG-only liquids, but I honestly think a combination works best. Here is the reason why.

Advantages of PG
PG liquid tends to give you a better throat hit and a lot more flavor. VG on the other hand, allows your atomizer to produce a lot more vapor. Now, VG is a thicker and more sticky fluid, and although most people do not show signs of allergy with VG, there are minority groups who complain about having phlegm buildup in their throats. The more VG juice you use, the less of a throat hit you're going to get. That's the general idea.

As mentioned before, this can be overcome with a higher nicotine strength juice as well as a higher voltage e-cigarette or a low resistance atomizer.

Most people really get into vaping and mixing their own E juices tend to use a mix of both PG and VG in particular ratios, such as 70% PG/30% VG. This is the optimum ratio for most each uses as it provides a nice throw hit, good flavor as well as tons of vapor production. I personally preferred the 50/50 mix. I find that going with 30% VG reduces the flavor of my e-juices considerably. But don't forget, you can also offset this with a low resistance atomizer (or atty) to increase the amount of flavor.

Buying Pre-made E-Juices
Lots of places sell juices these days and more and more juice retailers are sprouting up every couple of months or so. This is good for us ex-smokers because that means we have more varieties of e-juice to choose from. More competition in the market equals cheaper e-liquids for us consumers.

Although of the renown retailers of e-liquid are based in the USA, and China, there are also some very good companies in Canada as well as the UK .

Expect to pay about USD $15 for a bottle of 30 ml pre-made juice, and add a little on top of that for shipping costs. A lot of these sellers will ship internationally depending on which country you reside in. Some have given up on international shipping due to the customs issues in various countries where the sale of electronic cigarettes are banned.

Mixing Your Own
Once you get the hang of things, you'll probably want to start experimenting and having fun with mixing your own flavors as well as nicotine levels. What flavors and nicotine combinations you use will depend on your personal tastes, so there isn't really a recipe for this.

To get started with this, what you will want to do is to buy some unflavored nicotine juice from an online retailer (preferably 100 mg), along with some flavor doublers and mix them to create your personal favorite e-liquid.

Unflavored Nicotine & E-Cig Bans
Just a quick note about this. Some countries like Australia and Japan have banned the sale of nicotine juice within the country, while other countries like Singapore and Thailand have banned the sale of e-cigarettes altogether.

In Australia for instance, all e-juice retailers only sell zero level nicotine juices. You can buy zero nicotine flavored juices, as well as e-cig devices or PV's (personal vaporizers) as we call them, but you won't be able to get your hands on any nicotine within the country. So you will have to import your juices in from overseas.

Quitting Smoking
Speaking from personal experience and talking to people in the vaping community,  electronic cigarettes do help you quit smoking analogue cigarettes very easily in fact. Some people like myself just enjoy smoking a lot so we don't want to actually stop smoking, we just want to keep up the habit without the having any side-effects to our health.

If you're thinking of using e-cigs as a nicotine replacement therapy, then start with a nicotine juice strength to suit your needs, then lower the milligrams as times goes on to ween yourself off it altogether.

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Electronic cigarettes - miracle or menace?

Electronic cigarettes - miracle or menace?

The number of people using e-cigarettes in the UK is expected to reach a million this year but while some believe the electronic alternative to tobacco could help save hundreds of thousands of lives others think they normalise what looks like smoking and may be unsafe.
Anyone walking into a busy pub in Manchester may well be confronted with a rather shocking sight.
At one table it looks like a group of friends are smoking, but there is no smell in the air and no ashtrays on the table. What they are using are e-cigarettes.
One of the women, Steph, says the e-cigarette has helped her to stop smoking.
"I've tried patches and inhalators," she says. "They're a lot better because you feel like you're having a cigarette."
"They're a great idea," says another woman, Lisa. "You've got the health benefits from it and it does taste like a cigarette."

The e-cigarette comes in two parts. 

In one end there is liquid nicotine, in the other a rechargeable battery and an atomiser. When the user sucks, the liquid nicotine is vaporised and absorbed through the mouth. What looks like smoke is largely water vapour.
Because there is no tobacco in e-cigarettes, there is no tar and it is the tar in ordinary cigarettes that kills.

Safety concerns

The e-cigarette market is growing fast. A survey by the charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) suggests 700,000 people in the UK were using e-cigarettes last year.
The charity estimates that number will reach a million in 2013 and some medical experts see huge potential benefits.

"Nicotine itself is not a particularly hazardous drug," says Professor John Britton, who leads the tobacco advisory group for the Royal College of Physicians.
"It's something on a par with the effects you get from caffeine.
"If all the smokers in Britain stopped smoking cigarettes and started smoking e-cigarettes we would save 5 million deaths in people who are alive today. It's a massive potential public health prize."
There are however concerns about the safety and regulation of e-cigarettes.
They can legally be sold to children. There are few restrictions on advertising. Critics say some of the adverts glamorise something that looks like smoking.
Unlike patches and gum, e-cigarettes are not regulated like medicines. It means there are no rules for example about the purity of the nicotine in them.

Regulation call
 
So are e-cigarettes safe?
"The simple answer is we don't know," says Dr Vivienne Nathanson from the British Medical Association (BMA).
"It's going to take some time before we do know because we need to see them in use and study very carefully what the effects of e-cigarettes are."
The BMA is just one of the bodies to respond to a consultation on e-cigarettes by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The agency is deciding whether the e-cigarettes should be licensed as a medicine and more tightly regulated. The BMA thinks they should.


"I would either take them off the shelves or I would very heavily regulate them so that we know the contents of each e-cigarette were very fixed," says Dr Nathanson.
E-cigarettes are currently classed as a general consumer product and regulated by trading standards. It means they cannot contain hazardous chemicals, for example, and that the battery in them must meet EU standards.
The trade association for e-cigarettes, the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association, says they make no medicinal claims for their product. It is sold merely as an alternative to ordinary cigarettes.
Attempts to classify e-cigarettes as a medicinal product have been made in Holland and Germany but the industry successfully overturned the decisions in court.

Workplace etiquette
 
One UK based distributor, called VIP, says over stringent regulation could see them go out of business. Nonetheless Andy Whitmore, the company's marketing director, said it would "welcome regulation that ensures the product can't be sold to anyone under the age of 18".
There are many other questions. For example, should using e-cigarettes be allowed in a public place? At the offices of UK Fast - an internet storage company - employees can use them at their desk.

"It's a tricky one," says the company's chief executive officer, Lawrence Jones.
"It does look like smoking but could you stop someone from chewing a pencil or biting their nails? I don't think there's any difference between going for a caffeine break and having a nicotine break."
Other companies have banned it. But in theory electronic cigarettes can be used anywhere - on planes, trains, in hospitals.
The BMA is worried that the more people start using e-cigarettes the more it will normalise something that looks like smoking. They have called for the ban on smoking in public places to be extended to e-cigarettes.
A decision on whether the regulation of electronic cigarettes should be tightened will be made in a few weeks.



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Other E-Liquid News

According to Cancer Research UK, "For a smoker, the health hazards of continuing to smoke greatly outweigh any potential risks of using nicotine replacement therapy".
A recent Greek study found that e-cigarettes are no threat to the heart. Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in Athens told the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology that "Electronic cigarettes are not a healthy habit but they are a safer alternative to tobacco cigarettes. ... Considering the extreme hazards associated with cigarette smoking, currently available data suggest that electronic cigarettes are far less harmful and substituting tobacco with electronic cigarettes may be beneficial to health."

Farsalinos and his team examined the heart function of 20 young smokers before and after smoking one tobacco cigarette against that of 22 e-cigarette users before and after using the device for seven minutes. While the tobacco smokers suffered significant heart dysfunction, including raised blood pressure and heart rate, those using e-cigarettes had only a slight elevation in blood pressure.

 The Greek clinical study was the first in the world to look at the cardiac effects of e-cigarettes. Another small study, also in Greece, reported earlier in 2012 the devices had little impact on lung function.

A report from a UK Government advisory unit favoured the adoption of "smokeless nicotine cigarettes" over the traditional "quit or die" approach, believing this would save more lives.
While electronic cigarettes may deliver nicotine to the user in a manner similar to that of a nicotine inhaler, no electronic cigarette has yet been approved as a medicinal nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) product or subjected to the necessary clinical testing for such approval. Doubts have even been raised as to whether electronic cigarettes actually deliver any substantial amount of nicotine.

Research carried out at the University of East London on the effects of using an electronic cigarette to reduce cravings in regular tobacco smokers showed that there was no significant reported difference between smokers who inhaled vapour containing nicotine and those who inhaled a placebo vapour containing no nicotine. The report concluded that although electronic cigarettes can be effective in reducing nicotine-related withdrawal symptoms, the nicotine content does not appear to be of central importance, and other smoking related cues (such as taste or vapour resembling smoke) may account for the reduction in discomfort associated with tobacco abstinence in the short term.


Though some manufacturers have marketed electronic cigarettes as an alternative to smoking cigarettes, the World Health Organization has stated they know of no evidence confirming these claims.

In an online survey from November 2009 among 303 smokers, it was found that e-cigarette substitution for tobacco cigarettes resulted in reduced perceived health problems when compared to smoking conventional cigarettes (less cough, improved ability to exercise, improved sense of taste and smell).

Trace amounts of 'volatile organic compounds', namely formaldehyde, as well as traces of ketones, mercury and tetramethylpyrazine, have been found in electronic cigarette vapour, but the quantities are significantly smaller than the quantities found in tobacco smoke and do not pose a significant health risk.

 

Tuesday 30 April 2013

Liquid Tobacco e-liquid in popular strengths and sizes. Liquid Tobacco e-juice and smoke juice.

Tobacco E Liquid Flavour, is a flavouring for e liquids. This tobacco e-liquid is an RY4 tobacco, it is a smooth and mellow tobacco taste, with subtle caramel and vanilla notes. It is a quality food grade flavour, made to the highest standards in the USA. This e liquid flavour is high quality FDA approved and contains only pure flavourings and propylene glycol. It is water soluble, so should not clog up the atomiser on your e cigarette.

This is tobacco flavour that resembles 555 and RY4 tobacco e liquid flavour. It is a pretty strong, so only small quantities required. It has been described to have a pleasant sweet tobacco aroma, with some hint of nutty and caramel notes. 

One of our newest range of popular tobacco e-liquid and we hope that you enjoy!
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