I think any smoking ban policy determine the rise of black market on certain product.
RIMP - 14 years ago
I quit smoking after 37 years, in 6 wks with an e-cig. Go to ecigaretteforum.com and find all the info you need. I can breathe again, and feel so much better. The FDA gets money from big tobacco and the e-cig cuts into big tobacco's profits, see a connection?
allergygal - 14 years ago
I heard electronic cigarettes are to blame for global warming, swine flu, the high cost of health care, and former smokers living happier, healthier lives. BAN THEM!!!
Chasm - 14 years ago
My smoking went from 2 packs per day to 1 pack per week, in the time it took to open the package, load some nicotine solution and take the first drag on my e-Cig. It has remained at that level (1 pk/wk) for 4 weeks now. That is about a 95% reduction in my exposure to all the crap in tobacco smoke, except for the nicotine.
My cough is gone and I can breath without hearing my lungs whistle for the first time in a decade (I'm 62 and started smoking when I was 18). I suspect that my heart rate and blood pressure are both lower, but haven't been to a doctor yet to get them checked. I think my sense of smell/taste are improving.
I sleep better and feel better when I'm awake.
I realized long ago that the smoking damage was finally catching up and starting to show, but couldn't quit. Cold turkey was misery, as was the nicotine patch (3 or 4 at a time), gum (also 2 or 3 pieces at a time, chewing & sucking till my jaw ached). Zyban sorta worked, but I still couldn't get below 1 pack a day, and eventually I got fed up with it, too. I decided to pass on hypnotism, acupuncture, laser therapy (no idea what that entails, but it sounds bogus), and most recently, Chantix.
My wife is quite happy. We can ride in the same vehicle without me having to hold my e-Cig out the window. We can sit in the same room watching tv with me vaping (NOT "smoking" - it's vaping not smoking - please know & understand the difference) and she will comment on how she can't believe I'm putting out such a cloud and she can't smell it - it doesn't stink!! And it doesn't hang in the air like tobacco smoke either, it dissipates very quickly even with the windows closed.
Please understand - the e-cig has an enormous potential for harm reduction. It separates the addictive but otherwise surprisingly innocuous and NON-carcinogenic nicotine from the truly obnoxious and harmful constituents of tobacco smoke.
So, NO! - the Electronic Cigarette should not be banned under *any* no-smoking law, be it local, state or federal. IT'S NOT SMOKING! It would be UNETHICAL to deny smokers (hell, non-smokers too, for that matter) the benefits of the electronic cigarette.
Jerry - 14 years ago
Good Lord......NO! I have been a smoker for 40 years +. I haven't had a cigarette for 6 weeks.
My chest is now clear. My sinuses are clearing up. I can breathe again. My complexion looks healthy.
Those who want to ban this new vaping device are as ignorant as those of us who started smoking at a young age. Welcome aboard the train of ignorance.
SDurbin - 14 years ago
Banned? for what reason? I don't use them (I don't smoke either), but from what I've read about them, they don't contain tobacco and the "smoke" (vapor) they produce doesn't contain the carcinogens that cigarettes do. WHy on earth ban something that doesn't bother anyone? Or is it more that some people would just like to feel they have the power to force other people to behave the way they want them to! Get a life people. Quit trying to manipulate others!
F. Carr: You will be delighted to learn that there is no odor. The user of an electronic cigarette inhales a vapor, most of which is absorbed by his or her body. What the user exhales is only visible for a second or two -- just like the vapor that you exhale when you are outside in the cold. These amazing devices have helped hundreds of thousands of people become ex-smokers. There is no reason why they should be forced to go outside with the smokers and breathe in second-hand smoke.
Steve - 15 years ago
I purchased one from an internet site and it was so popular that I bought a few extras for friends. With the price of cigarette so high I am hoping that I can just reduce my habit by 1/3 saving me a considerable amount each month. But I have been reading they are considering banning them. I sincerely hope not. I have been smoking for 30 years and sometimes I don't even recharge the battery so it won't light up as a few establishments have asked me not to use them, and I respect that. More education still needs to be provided...I refer them to google electronic cigarettes and decide for themselves. I certainly hope that I can still use mine next year.
jody - 15 years ago
F.Carr, if I wanted to ban public "odors" the world be in for a whirrld of hurt. Lets ditch all the ladies that peel paint with their fu fumes. And the homeless or blue collar workers that run in the grocery on their way home from work, stinking to high hell.
unfricken believable. No wonder our nation is full of wolves in the henhouse pilfering our country. I'm a former new englander and I just can't believe in this day and age, you ppl are still all about "me, me and more ME".
Definitely better off to be elsewhere in the country now lol.
jody - 15 years ago
To the person that said they hope it's banned because the lady looks stupid, WTH?!!
I suppose you'd like to see public nose pickers or those new englanders that dress in the past outlawed too?
Spit on the sidewalk, end up in the slammer?
Grow a pair... jeez
F. Carr - 15 years ago
This is the first I have heard of e-cigarettes. I could care less if anyone smokes, however, if this smells up the air around me, then I am against it being allowed in public buildings. Even if it is not harmful, why should non-smokers be subjected to the stinky scent of a cigarette. In the past I can remember walking into a donut shop and my long hair would stink. Have you smokers ever had people move away from you because you smell bad? Like I said, if it is odorless then by all means smoke, if it smells the air around me, then I will pull out a perfume bottle and spray around the smoke, I don't think a smoker would like someone spraying themselves while they are trying to eat a meal, drink a cup of coffee etc.
T. Hennessey - 15 years ago
I think the world has to find another target to point at all of the time! Enough harrassment of smokers! Smokers are blamed for everything these days. They are the most highly taxed of all vices that the population have. When are people going to start hitting the BOOZE? That causes more misery to the victims of Drunk Drivers, than a cigarette ever does. Oh, I forgot! Then that would affect the good ole boys (POLITIICAN) at their social gatherings. What was I thinking. The money that was given to the states initially from raising taxes on cigarettes toward research didn't go there, and now taxes on them are going up all over again because politicians are trying to take care of the hole (DEFICITS) they dug for state residents. What next? Your FIRST BORN!!!!!!
I think any smoking ban policy determine the rise of black market on certain product.
I quit smoking after 37 years, in 6 wks with an e-cig. Go to ecigaretteforum.com and find all the info you need. I can breathe again, and feel so much better. The FDA gets money from big tobacco and the e-cig cuts into big tobacco's profits, see a connection?
I heard electronic cigarettes are to blame for global warming, swine flu, the high cost of health care, and former smokers living happier, healthier lives. BAN THEM!!!
My smoking went from 2 packs per day to 1 pack per week, in the time it took to open the package, load some nicotine solution and take the first drag on my e-Cig. It has remained at that level (1 pk/wk) for 4 weeks now. That is about a 95% reduction in my exposure to all the crap in tobacco smoke, except for the nicotine.
My cough is gone and I can breath without hearing my lungs whistle for the first time in a decade (I'm 62 and started smoking when I was 18). I suspect that my heart rate and blood pressure are both lower, but haven't been to a doctor yet to get them checked. I think my sense of smell/taste are improving.
I sleep better and feel better when I'm awake.
I realized long ago that the smoking damage was finally catching up and starting to show, but couldn't quit. Cold turkey was misery, as was the nicotine patch (3 or 4 at a time), gum (also 2 or 3 pieces at a time, chewing & sucking till my jaw ached). Zyban sorta worked, but I still couldn't get below 1 pack a day, and eventually I got fed up with it, too. I decided to pass on hypnotism, acupuncture, laser therapy (no idea what that entails, but it sounds bogus), and most recently, Chantix.
My wife is quite happy. We can ride in the same vehicle without me having to hold my e-Cig out the window. We can sit in the same room watching tv with me vaping (NOT "smoking" - it's vaping not smoking - please know & understand the difference) and she will comment on how she can't believe I'm putting out such a cloud and she can't smell it - it doesn't stink!! And it doesn't hang in the air like tobacco smoke either, it dissipates very quickly even with the windows closed.
Please understand - the e-cig has an enormous potential for harm reduction. It separates the addictive but otherwise surprisingly innocuous and NON-carcinogenic nicotine from the truly obnoxious and harmful constituents of tobacco smoke.
So, NO! - the Electronic Cigarette should not be banned under *any* no-smoking law, be it local, state or federal. IT'S NOT SMOKING! It would be UNETHICAL to deny smokers (hell, non-smokers too, for that matter) the benefits of the electronic cigarette.
Good Lord......NO! I have been a smoker for 40 years +. I haven't had a cigarette for 6 weeks.
My chest is now clear. My sinuses are clearing up. I can breathe again. My complexion looks healthy.
Those who want to ban this new vaping device are as ignorant as those of us who started smoking at a young age. Welcome aboard the train of ignorance.
Banned? for what reason? I don't use them (I don't smoke either), but from what I've read about them, they don't contain tobacco and the "smoke" (vapor) they produce doesn't contain the carcinogens that cigarettes do. WHy on earth ban something that doesn't bother anyone? Or is it more that some people would just like to feel they have the power to force other people to behave the way they want them to! Get a life people. Quit trying to manipulate others!
F. Carr: You will be delighted to learn that there is no odor. The user of an electronic cigarette inhales a vapor, most of which is absorbed by his or her body. What the user exhales is only visible for a second or two -- just like the vapor that you exhale when you are outside in the cold. These amazing devices have helped hundreds of thousands of people become ex-smokers. There is no reason why they should be forced to go outside with the smokers and breathe in second-hand smoke.
I purchased one from an internet site and it was so popular that I bought a few extras for friends. With the price of cigarette so high I am hoping that I can just reduce my habit by 1/3 saving me a considerable amount each month. But I have been reading they are considering banning them. I sincerely hope not. I have been smoking for 30 years and sometimes I don't even recharge the battery so it won't light up as a few establishments have asked me not to use them, and I respect that. More education still needs to be provided...I refer them to google electronic cigarettes and decide for themselves. I certainly hope that I can still use mine next year.
F.Carr, if I wanted to ban public "odors" the world be in for a whirrld of hurt. Lets ditch all the ladies that peel paint with their fu fumes. And the homeless or blue collar workers that run in the grocery on their way home from work, stinking to high hell.
unfricken believable. No wonder our nation is full of wolves in the henhouse pilfering our country. I'm a former new englander and I just can't believe in this day and age, you ppl are still all about "me, me and more ME".
Definitely better off to be elsewhere in the country now lol.
To the person that said they hope it's banned because the lady looks stupid, WTH?!!
I suppose you'd like to see public nose pickers or those new englanders that dress in the past outlawed too?
Spit on the sidewalk, end up in the slammer?
Grow a pair... jeez
This is the first I have heard of e-cigarettes. I could care less if anyone smokes, however, if this smells up the air around me, then I am against it being allowed in public buildings. Even if it is not harmful, why should non-smokers be subjected to the stinky scent of a cigarette. In the past I can remember walking into a donut shop and my long hair would stink. Have you smokers ever had people move away from you because you smell bad? Like I said, if it is odorless then by all means smoke, if it smells the air around me, then I will pull out a perfume bottle and spray around the smoke, I don't think a smoker would like someone spraying themselves while they are trying to eat a meal, drink a cup of coffee etc.
I think the world has to find another target to point at all of the time! Enough harrassment of smokers! Smokers are blamed for everything these days. They are the most highly taxed of all vices that the population have. When are people going to start hitting the BOOZE? That causes more misery to the victims of Drunk Drivers, than a cigarette ever does. Oh, I forgot! Then that would affect the good ole boys (POLITIICAN) at their social gatherings. What was I thinking. The money that was given to the states initially from raising taxes on cigarettes toward research didn't go there, and now taxes on them are going up all over again because politicians are trying to take care of the hole (DEFICITS) they dug for state residents. What next? Your FIRST BORN!!!!!!