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If you’re from the United States or probably any Western country, you will know how quickly our culture can go from one extreme position to the next on just about any issue. Around 25-30 years ago, nicotine went somewhat suddenly from being a socially acceptable vice that could be done in nearly...

So lung cancer runs in this guy’s family and he’s going BACK to smoking? And he’s more worried about being addicted to vaping than smoking? What the hell, man?!

Why haven’t they banned menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars/cigarillos, sugary energy drinks, fruity alcohol? The list goes on and on. I thought that progressive politicians cared about marginalized groups in society. Apparently, vapers aren’t worthy of such special treatment. In Chicago, we...

President Clinton did the same thing with actual tobacco products in 1998, and almost immediately every state complied. It’s basically the only constitutional method for the federal government to assert control over these types of states’ rights issues (and it works). I am very concerned about...

Southern California makes my home city of Chicago look like Alabama.

I’ve drawn two conclusions from this news: 1) Big Tobacco is so threatened by vaping that they’re willing to sacrifice their 18- to 20-year-old customers if e-cigarette companies must do the same. 2) Big Tobacco and Kentucky Tobacco farmers did not donate enough money to Mitch McConnell’s...

Just found this today when I was visiting a friend in a city that I couldn’t recall allowed vaping indoors (unfortunately it didn’t): State Vape Laws

I was visiting my Chicago suburban hometown last weekend. It’s one of the few decent-sized towns in the area that doesn’t restrict indoor vaping to any capacity. We were out at a family-friendly bar/restaurant, and I noticed something pretty remarkable: the occasional stench of people returning...

People underestimate the influence of California. Besides its obviously large population, it was the first state to ban smoking in restaurants in 1995 and in bars in 1998. Within 10 years, more than half the other states had done the same. Not extremely relevant, but it’s just an example of how...

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/29/health/ecigarette-cigarette-risks-study/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-03-30T05:45:02&utm_source=fbCNN&utm_medium=social&r=http://m.facebook.com I’m just gonna leave this right here. A positive perception is key in order to avoid any more indoor...

The alcohol and beverage lobby has essentially picked up where the tobacco lobby left off 20 years ago. The growth in craft beer and micro-breweries, for one, has made drinking as normalized as smoking used to be. Think about where smoking was once allowed and where drinking is allowed now...

Most states do not have comprehensive indoor vaping bans, leaving municipalities (in most cases) to regulate their usage inside public places. Chicago, for example, has banned it indoors since January 2014 (almost a year after I stopped vaping). Several of the “collar” towns and many other...

I’ve always found it bizarre when people accuse Big Tobacco of propagating anti-vaping messages. First of all, most of the companies have entered the vaping business to some degree. Second, they already lost (big time) with the 1998 settlement. Several years before vaping became popular, not...

The problem is that the same people promoting the health effects of marijuana are demonizing e-cigarettes.

Progressives like to rotate the issues they manufacture outrage about. One day it’s the guns, the next day it’s vapor. I read an article recently about a town near where I grew up that had passed an ordinance banning vaping inside public places. One councilwoman called them a “nuisance”. That’s...

My question is: where the hell is the FDA’s plan to ban caffeine products? I was in junior high when the energy drink craze took off, and many of my classmates drank them socially. Not only do they have a lot more caffeine than most coffee products, but they have more sugar than almost any other...

What happened to C. Everett Koop? The surgeon general who warned against the dangers of things that are actually harmful like, I don’t know, tobacco cigarettes.

Carnival had always been pretty respectful of smokers and non-smokers alike. When I took a cruise back in 2007, their rules were the basically the same as today (except that vaping wasn’t around then): the casino, night clubs, and half the pool deck allowed smoking. Everywhere else was...

I didn’t really mind their anti-tobacco smoking commercials despite being somewhat over-the-top, but now they’re running an anti-vaping campaign. They’re claiming erroneously that e-cigarettes contain as much nicotine as 20 tobacco cigarettes and that vaping makes you 4 times likely to start...

I’m not sure if I should’ve posted in the “New Members” forum. I’m more of a “returning member”. I originally joined ECF in early 2012 when I first started vaping. At the time, I was living in Indiana and usually purchased the “cig-a-like” devices from gas stations and liquor stores (menthol-...