Contest Time! Mountain Oak Vapors - Nothing But The Facts- CONTEST!

[liblue1]

Fact: most states are trying to ban E-cigs

 

[baronjager]

My wife's doctor gave her a njoy king to try to convince her to stop smoking. According to help him most of his colleagues fully support vaping as a way to stop smoking.

 

[whodat2112]

The E-cigarette is a 21st century innovative device which resembles and tastes much like a cigarette expect for its function which differs. The E-cigarette produces water vapor mixed with nicotine to give the user the nicotine hit to satisfy his craving because of his addiction but without all the harmful toxins as in a normal cigarette.

 

[Biggame]

2003: The electronic cigarette is first developed in Beijing, China by Hon Lik, a 52 year old pharmacist, inventor and smoker. He reportedly invents the device after his father, also a heavy smoker, dies of lung cancer. The company Lik worked for, Golden Dragon Holdings, developed the device and changed their name to Ruyan, which means "like smoke."

 

[Biggame]

March 2009: FDA adds electronic cigarettes to Import Alert 66-41 and directs the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to reject the entry of electronic cigarettes into the United States.

 

[whodat2112]

The E-cigarette user can opt from several strengths of nicotine refills for the E-cigarette and continuous smokers can even gradually decrease the nicotine refill strength till they can use the zero nicotine refill. This way e-Cigarettes help smokers quit their smoke.

 

[Biggame]

The first known person on record to have the idea for an electronic smoking device was Herbert A. Gilbert. In 1963, he filed a patent for this type of product, being entirely ahead of his time in more ways than one. He was well aware of the hazards of tobacco.

 

[MikeNice81]

The use of e-Cigarette substantially decreased cigarette consumption without causing significant side effects in smokers not intending to quit (Home - ClinicalTrials.gov webcite number NCT01195597).

BMC Public Health | Full text | Effect of an Electronic Nicotine Delivery Device (e-Cigarette) on Smoking Reduction and Cessation: A Prospective 6-Month Pilot Study

 

[whodat2112]

It's a battery operated cigarette alternative that produces no fire and is safe to use just about anywhere. Airlines, hospitals, and restaurants can now embrace the E-Cigarette as a way to allow customers to safely smoke without the danger of fire or annoying other people nearby.

 

[JoanJ]

The presence of nicotine and its metabolite cotinine in the body fluids of nonsmokers is usually taken as evidence of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied 800 people, both smokers and nonsmokers, all of whom tested positive for urinary cotinine1.

There is considerable evidence that nicotine is present in certain human foods, especially plants from the family Solanaceae (such as potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplant). Castro and Monji,2 Sheen,3 and Davis et al.4 have reported on the nicotine content of foods and drinks. We have been able to confirm some of their findings in our laboratory.

 

[whodat2112]

The E-Cigarettes do not have any of those 4000 poisonous chemicals found in traditional tobacco cigarettes. Further because there is no real combustion, you don't get into the grip of the law , so you end up smoking anywhere, even in places where traditional smoking is not allowed. And yes there is no secondhand smoke so you smoke anywhere without causing any ill effects.

 

[MikeNice81]

Here is a great article that covers a ton of ground and has some good quotes to use as talking points.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/s...but-they-have-some-unlikely-critics.html?_r=0

A Tool to Quit Smoking Has Some Unlikely Critics

But there’s a powerful group working against this innovation — and it’s not Big Tobacco. It’s a coalition of government officials and antismoking groups who have been warning about the dangers of e-cigarettes and trying to ban their sale.

The controversy is part of a long-running philosophical debate about public health policy, but with an odd role reversal. In the past, conservatives have leaned toward “abstinence only” policies for dealing with problems like teenage pregnancy and ...... addiction, while liberals have been open to “harm reduction” strategies like encouraging birth control and dispensing methadone.

When it comes to nicotine, though, the abstinence forces tend to be more liberal, including Democratic officials at the state and national level who have been trying to stop the sale of e-cigarettes and ban their use in smoke-free places. They’ve argued that smokers who want an alternative source of nicotine should use only thoroughly tested products like Nicorette gum and prescription patches — and use them only briefly, as a way to get off nicotine altogether.

 

[whodat2112]

The Electronic Cigarette or better known as the E-Cigarette is a revolutionary micro electronic device which guarantees aiding the smoke quitting process and to prove to be a better alternative for all those who don't plan to quit smoking.

The dangers of tobacco smoking are so overwhelming that it would be foolish to continue with the practice but people are unable to find real alternatives which can help them substitute their addiction or even help them quit it.

 

[MikeNice81]

In 2010 Bullen et al. published the results of a crossover clinical trial in which e-cigarettes containing 0 mg. and 16 mg. of nicotine were compared with a nicotine inhaler and own-brand cigarettes among 40 smokers who had been abstinent overnight [85]. Bullen et al. reported that 16 mg. e-cigarettes and the inhaler produced the same reduction in desire to smoke and other withdrawal symptoms. Both products produced modest elevations in peak blood nicotine (1.3 and 2.1 ng/ml respectively) that were much lower than that produced by cigarettes (13.4 ng/ml). Compared with inhalers, e-cigarettes resulted in significantly less frequent mouth and throat irritation (88% vs. 38%). Bullen et al. concluded that the tested e-cigarettes were "well tolerated, acceptable to most users, rated significantly more pleasant to use than the inhalator, and in the first hour exhibited a pharmacokinetic profile more like the inhalator than a tobacco cigarette, without excess adverse events. These findings suggest potential to help people stop smoking in the same way as a nicotine inhalator."

In 2010 Eissenberg used a controlled puffing regimen and compared two brands of e-cigarettes with own-brand cigarettes, measuring blood nicotine levels, heart rate and craving among 16 smokers abstinent for 12 hours [86]. He concluded that the e-cigarettes "delivered little to no nicotine," and the measured increases in blood nicotine were very similar to those from Bullen et al. In addition, Eissenberg found that e-cigarettes "suppressed craving less effectively," although both brands produced reductions, one of which was significant at a single time point. Later in 2010 the same research group included these results in an expanded trial that included 32 smokers, but the conclusions remained essentially the same [87].

HRJ | Full text | The Scientific Foundation for Tobacco Harm Reduction, 2006-2011

 

[JoanJ]

I have stopped smoking and have not gained weight by transitioning to vaping.

 

[liblue1]

Fact: They want to raise the vape tax(sin tax) According to the Seattle Times...

For politicians, there’s also the insatiable lure of the sin tax. This “vape tax” could raise an estimated $35 million a year by 2018.

Smokers’ new e-cigarette option may get snuffed | Local News | The Seattle Times

 

[JoanJ]

"They are electronic, alternative smoking devices that simulate the sensation of smoking. They do not expose the user, or others close by, to harmful levels of cancer-causing agents and other dangerous chemicals normally associated with traditional tobacco products."

-- Craig Youngblood, president of InLife, an e-cigarette company.

 

[liblue1]

Fact: Every week there is another article/story about e-cigarettes.

 

[Sage-femme]

Sen. Kemp Hannon - Sixth District, New York

Fact: what a tool.

 

[JoanJ]

Most E-cigarettes contain no tobacco products; even the nicotine is synthetic.