Contest Time! Mountain Oak Vapors - Nothing But The Facts- CONTEST!
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March 2008: Turkey’s Health Ministry bans the sale and importation of e-cigarettes. Health Ministry Drugs and Pharmacy Director, Mahmut Tokaç, claims electronic cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes. The vice president of the Foundation Combating Smoking in Turkey, Kıyas Güngör, claims that "nicotine is the most dangerous element among 4,800 poisonous chemicals in cigarettes."
Vegetable Glycerin is an alternative to Propylene Glycol and is sometimes used as the majority base in the e-liquid. Vegetable Glycerin comes from the production of palm or coconut oils and is suitable to be used in sweeteners and in skin care products.
September 2008: The World Health Organization (WHO) proclaims that it does not consider the electronic cigarette to be a legitimate smoking cessation aid and demands that marketers immediately remove from their materials any suggestions that the WHO considers electronic cigarettes safe and effective.
October 2008: In a study funded by Ruyan, Health New Zealand conducts a detailed quantitative analysis and concludes that carcinogens and toxicants are present only below harmful levels. On the basis of the findings, the e-cigarette is rated several orders of magnitude (100 to 1000 times) less dangerous than smoking tobacco cigarettes. The nicotine dose is comparable to that of a medicinal nicotine inhaler. Overall, the product tested was deemed a "safe alternative to smoking."
January 2009: Australia bans the possession and sale of electronic cigarettes which contain nicotine, citing that "every form of nicotine except for replacement therapies and cigarettes are classified as a form of poison."
A fact: One that I dislike very much. 
I performed an admission of a patient last week. I was distraught because I had to get a signature on a no-tobacco usage. I actually read this document that was dated Jan 1, 2014. In the document it stated the use of electronic cigarettes was considered tobacco. Really?
I suppose I will get into trouble because I will let my patients vape if they want to. According to this document they have to go off-site to smoke a cigarette or a ecig aka a vaporizer. Nonsense!
I performed an admission of a patient last week. I was distraught because I had to get a signature on a no-tobacco usage. I actually read this document that was dated Jan 1, 2014. In the document it stated the use of electronic cigarettes was considered tobacco. Really? I suppose I will get into trouble because I will let my patients vape if they want to. According to this document they have to go off-site to smoke a cigarette or a ecig aka a vaporizer. Nonsense!
Variable Voltage let’s you control how many volts your device will produce. Usually with a variable voltage e-cig, you’ll be able to dial in the voltage by a click of a button or sequence.
January 2009: Jordan’s Ministry of Health bans the import of the electronic cigarettes, citing World Health Organization’s health concerns. In a February 2012 review of the ban, Malek Habashneh, director of the ministry’s awareness and communication directorate, claims that "e-cigarettes contain toxic chemicals that cause more health problems than the nicotine in normal cigarettes."
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.
A single coil cartomizer uses only 1 coil. Using 1 coil is the standard to cartomizers.
March 2009: Canada bans the sale, advertising and import of electronic cigarettes. Health Canada advises Canadians not to purchase or use them, claiming they contain a "known irritant" (propylene glycol.)
A fact: One that I dislike very much.
I suppose I will get into trouble because I will let my patients vape if they want to. According to this document they have to go off-site to smoke a cigarette or a ecig aka a vaporizer. Nonsense!
Yes, insurance companies are using electronic cigarettes as justification to raise subscribers rate and refuse/limit coverage. It's a disgrace!
March 2009: Hong Kong Department of Health bans electronic cigarettes. The maximum penalty for possessing or selling e-cigarettes is a HK$100,000 fine and two years' imprisonment. Since smoke-free tobacco is prohibited in Hong Kong, the ban on e-cigarettes continues to leave high-risk cigarettes as the only legal tobacco product available.
Hospitals in Florida are charging employees who vape the same premiums that they charge cigarette smokers for health insurance, an average of $100-200 a month.
March 2009: FDA notifies electronic cigarette company "Smoking Everywhere" that its shipments have been refused entry into the U.S. The FDA maintains that electronic cigarettes "appears to be a combination drug-device product" that requires preapproval, registration and listing with the FDA.
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