Slick smokeless cigarettes suck (Toronto Star)

[Johnsky]

HealthZone.ca - News & Features - Slick smokeless cigarettes suck

It's hard and slick, tastes icky and keeps slipping out of my mouth.
The electric cigarette will never replace my du Mauriers.
As a sensory and tactile experience – to say nothing of the nicotine kick – these vapour-puff- emitting gizmos will never replace good old rolled tobacco, except maybe among the constituency of want-to-quit smokers who've already gone to the ultra-lite side, which is like sucking on a straw.
There is an aesthetic to smoking that's unfathomable to those who've never had the habit, never known the pleasure of striking match to fragrant weed and inhaling a delicious lungful.

More trash talk from another fundamentalist cigarette smoker... ah well, at least the embedded video on the right shows the e-cigs in a positive light.

... and we all know today's general public would rather watch their news than actually use their brains and read it.


They mention retailers in Toronto have begun stocking these... who are these retailers? I haven't seen them.

Either way, you're saving money by buying online with the prices they're quoting in the video.

[jamie]

More trash talk from another fundamentalist cigarette smoker...

Maybe. But I can appreciate some of her comments and they need to be said and read:

What's not often mentioned is how the antismoking crusade has also been about class warfare – stigmatizing a segment of the population, those who stubbornly persist in their foul pleasure, when we are endlessly reminded of studies showing smokers are less educated and in lower income brackets.

Put bluntly, more poor people smoke.

Now we have some municipalities – such as Hamilton – threatening to ban smoking in public housing. The smoke police don't quite have the nerve yet to come stomping into a private residence to rip that cigarette out of your mouth, not the middle-class-and-up owner or tenant anyway. But welfare recipients are apparently easy targets.

[strayling]

I'm devastated to find out how wrong I am to enjoy vaping more than smoking. Oh, wait, no I'm not.

The author of this piece is as much of a neophobe as the anti-smoking zealots on the other side of the fence. Her taste in music probably sucks too.

[TropicalBob]

OK, so this isn't a cheerleader piece. It's still the best piece of writing yet on what's happening with smokers and e-smokers. This woman is GOOD. And most of what she says is dead-on. She's gone in print with some very interesting observations. The video is, as said, quite favorable to e-smoking.

Her opinion of e-smoking is probably one a majority of present cigarette smokers would share. It would be interesting if every present smoker could be given a free e-smoking starter kit. But ... I bet at least 8 out of 10 of those starter kits would be trashed in a day to a week.

My first impression of e-smoking was just like hers. The vapor tasted like stale air in a cigar-filled room. The thing is hard, awkward, can't be held properly in the teeth, is cold and slick. Nothing like the good old cigarette. And it requires more care than a week-old baby. This is smoking bliss? But if you stick with it long enough, it becomes your reality.

[strayling]

Gotta disagree with you about "smoking bliss" Tropical Bob, but that's ok because no two people's tastes are going to be the same. I agree that this piece was on the whole more good than bad but I wouldn't say that this woman is GOOD except in the sense of being opinionated enough to write opinion pieces. It seems to me that she's decided to like the idea of vaping but dislike the current state of the art simply in order to be a contrarian, and I have little patience for that.

[Vicks Vap-oh-Yeah]

My first impression of e-smoking was just like hers. The vapor tasted like stale air in a cigar-filled room. The thing is hard, awkward, can't be held properly in the teeth, is cold and slick. Nothing like the good old cigarette. And it requires more care than a week-old baby. This is smoking bliss? But if you stick with it long enough, it becomes your reality.

At least she tried it - didn't just bash it out of hand... But my experience differs from yours - While growing up my grandfather smoked a pipe full of very sweet, fragrant tobacco - I fell in love with the vanilla juice, which reminds me of the way the house smelled when he came to visit - and the smoke is slightly sweet in the mouth, whereas regular cigarette smoke was always harsh to me... I loved the vapor since the first (well, ok, 2nd or 3rd) puff.

[HK45]

Sad to say, but eventually, this poster will be grateful to suck on a straw... for oxygen, just as I was until I started e-cigs. :-(. The rapidity of improvement is nothing short of amazing!

[CssReb]

Gotta disagree with you about "smoking bliss" Tropical Bob, but that's ok because no two people's tastes are going to be the same. I agree that this piece was on the whole more good than bad but I wouldn't say that this woman is GOOD except in the sense of being opinionated enough to write opinion pieces. It seems to me that she's decided to like the idea of vaping but dislike the current state of the art simply in order to be a contrarian, and I have little patience for that.

And it requires more care than a week-old baby. This is smoking bliss?

Think it was meant as a sarcastic question

[SilverEagleBW]

"These fakes are like having sex with a blow-up doll."

How does she know this?,,,,,,,,,,,LMAO

[CssReb]

"These fakes are like having sex with a blow-up doll."

How does she know this?,,,,,,,,,,,LMAO

LMAO SilverEagle ^5