Monday, August 26, 2013

Your Responsibilities as Good Vapers

For many committed smokers electronic cigarette is a great alternative that allows them to smoke socially; just like the traditional tobacco cigarettes, but without causing harm to passive smokers, and also without violating the no smoking restrictions. Yes, an e-cigarettes can be enjoyed anywhere, in restaurants, shopping malls, public transport or even on the train, for the vapor they yield is not injurious to the health of people in the vicinity. But still as an electronic cigarette smoker, you are expected to maintain a certain decorum, while smoking in public places or in social gatherings. This will not only bring you more acceptability, but will always help in creating a better image for e-cig users; on the whole.

Here are a few tips that can earn you a respectable position as a vaper, among your non-smoking peers. There is little doubt that e-cigarettes have minimal effect on the bystanders, but still they can make people feel uncomfortable. It is always a good idea to maintain a safe distance, and not intrude in the privacy of others. You should also be careful, while vaping indoors. Though the vaper is not harmful, but still it is not acceptable that you smoke up a room with vapors. As a man/woman who is thoughtful about people around him/her, you should still respect about others’ privacy.
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As you need to maintain a few etiquettes for vaping indoors, there are a few for outdoor vaping too. Outdoor smoking is not a problem, even with traditional cigarettes, provided you take a good look at the number of people around you; before deciding to vape in public. There is a minimum level of respect. Moreover, there are no-smoking zones likes hospitals, educational institutes, and religious places; where you must avoid vaping, because if you do, it will only show a lack of respect on your part.

The vaper yielded by the electronic cigarette has neither has the tobacco smell nor has any side effects of a conventional cigarette smoke, but it can still be uncomfortable for many, especially in the public transport. No doubt the smoke is quickly dissipated, but the crowds still don’t want it, and you should be mindful of this fact, when traveling in a public transport. Even your personal vehicle demands some restriction, as you cannot fill your car with the vapor; only because you can and intrude the privacy of others who are travelling with you.

Following these suggestive etiquettes will certainly establish you as someone aware of the society and its traditions, and earn you more respect from your friends, fellows and colleagues.     

Monday, August 19, 2013

The World of E-Cigarettes Revolutionizes a Step Ahead with Tennessee Jail Selling E-Cigs to Inmates

In a Tennessee county jail, smoking cigarettes are strictly prohibited. It has banned smoking within the jail premises, and this is applicable for every inmate. How much staggering a fact it might be, the county jail in Tennessee now provides an alternative!! For all inmates who need their daily dose of nicotine, the jail is selling disposable electronic cigarettes for only $13.50. While this will add up some extra bucks into the jail, as according to the sheriff of Mason County, this initiative will further spread the word for electronic cigarettes and their health benefits, considers the experts.
                            
According to Sheriff Gammons, Mason County Jail, such a program can drive almost $45 thousand per annum, which is significantly huge as an added income. This is also supposed to pay off for the underpaid staff in the jail. However, from the perspective of e-cigarette proponents, this is an innovative idea to promote the awareness for electronic cigarettes and reduce the health hazards, while catering to the needs of prisoners to smoke. Such an initiative will not only reduce the health hazards caused due to traditional smoking or second-hand smoke, while also providing the inmates with necessary nicotine without which they tend to become more prone to irritation, fatigue, and fights.

However, it is not the typical electronic cigarettes that you will find in the market today. These will be designed particularly for prison environment and will be disposable in nature, which offers roughly 500 puffs. Unlike other varieties, these will be non-rechargeable and prisoners can smoke 500 puffs before they buy another set for $13.50. This will be a new kind of electronic cigarette to be used behind the bars, and customized to meet the needs and preferences of the prisoners. As the jail bans cigarette smoking with the premises, availability of e-cigs is the latest item that is trying to sneak into.

By selling electronic cigarettes in the jail, they will be able to control which prisoner gets his required dose of nicotine and when. Moreover, it can only be used in certain areas of the jail. Inmates can cater to their needs for nicotine fix with e-cigs that come with essential health benefits over traditional cigarette smoking. Not only this creates a healthy environment for other non-smoking inmates, but also reduces the health hazards for smoking prisoners, considerably. This innovative idea is considered to set a benchmark in the industry, invigorating further revolutions across the world, spreading the message for smoking healthy and hazard-free e-cigarettes.   


The initiative taken by the Tennessee county jail has yet further revolutionized the industry, promoting awareness for electronic cigarettes over traditional smoking and its detrimental health hazards. The industry looks forward for such innovations and manufacturers’ initiative in the years to come.   

Monday, August 12, 2013

Competitions Getting Hot Among E Cigarette Companies

With numerous big players offering high-quality e-cigarettes to their respective customers, the competition among them is actually getting hotter these days. Each one is claiming that their brand and inherent products are the best in the industry. They promise enticing flavors, fantastic device make, and increased battery life. Many times, one finds companies suing each other on charges of taking business away.

A recent case involving a well-known e cigarette manufacturer have again shifted the spotlight on this ongoing competition. This South Florida Company was not pleased with the tactics other companies employed to take away customers from them. It alleges that the competitors are using unfair and deceptive trade practices besides trying to gain an upper hand using fraudulent competition.

Based on their allegations the company has sued its competitor and has claimed that the latter has even resorted to piracy and copying to gain an upper hand. Store layouts, color schemes, and logos, everything have been copied to mislead customers and attract their attention. Use of a strikingly similar trade name and marks are enough to confuse the buyers and they are no longer able to differentiate between the two companies.

This has led to decrease in business for the South Florida Company and now they want compensation for their loss through appropriate penalties. There are also allegations of misinformation and slanderous remarks that are meant to undermine the position of the original company.

High quality e cigarette brands are high performance and it is impossible to compare them with the variety one gets from the convenience stores. The latter is disposable, cheap, and skinny, being ideal for those starting out in the electronic cigarette world. Even the power requirement in the cheap varieties is not enough because of the presence of mini batteries inside. Once you keep on using these simulated cigarettes, it is easy to upgrade to better and comparatively expensive varieties.

With both the companies clear about the allegations regarding copying and slanderous promotion, everybody is waiting expectantly for them to reach an agreement. This is bound to happen in the near future. The resolution of the issue is going to pave the way for similar allegations, which is bound to increase in keeping with the escalating competitions.

As more and more people come to realize the associated benefits of electronic cigarettes, manufacturers are looking for innovative ways to attract the attentions. While big companies have large budgets to spare for marketing, smaller players sometimes resort to underhand methods for gaining a similar footing. For the buyers however, increased competition signifies a greater variety and reduced prices.

The case of South Florida Company is not an isolated one. Numerous others sued and won or are planning to proceed against a competitor using legal means. Whatever the outcome is, the e-cig scene remains far from boring!

Monday, August 5, 2013

European Union Votes in Favor of Keeping Tobacco Cigarettes Legal and Getting E-Cigarettes Banned – Is it Fair?

Did you hear the staggering news about electronic cigarettes? Indeed, it is shocking because the European Union voted recently in favor of keeping tobacco cigarettes as legal and banning electronic cigarettes from the market. According to the EU, e-cigarettes are only a medicine and it is important to ban it from being freely sold in the market. On the other hand, EU voted in favor of tobacco cigarettes, authorizing its sale to be legal. Let’s recapitulate what the European Union is up to:

*  Electronic cigarettes, which are considered to save millions of British lives, will be regulated and restricted only as a medicine

*  The technology that essentially complies with medical standards doesn’t yet exist and hence, e-cigarettes should be banned from being freely sold in the market. On the contrary, one of the leading e-cigarette manufacturing company has spent millions of pounds and almost 2 years to comply with medical regulations

*  EU declares if an electronic cigarette can be manufactured that complies with medical standards, it should be disposable with only a single flavor. Manufacturing e-cigs with different flavors will require a separate license for each, which can cost more than millions of pounds and has to be renewed yearly

*  Standard tobacco cigarettes will be considered legal and will continue to be freely sold across the country

What does this signify? Why would EU take such a step where millions of British lives are in stake? It is quite prominent that earning huge revenues from tobacco taxes is more lucrative and meaningful for the Union, be it at the stake of millions of lives that fall prey to harmful tobacco cigarettes every day. According to Professor John Britton, Chairman of Tobacco Advisory Group of Royal College of Physicians, “If all the smokers in Britain stopped smoking cigarettes and started smoking e-cigarettes, we would save 5 million deaths in people who are alive today. It’s a massive potential public health prize.”

Despite of such recommendation and advice from the Union’s own legal committee, which considers the plans to be illegal, the ban towards electronic cigarettes has been initiated, while legalizing tobacco cigarettes. This has called for massive disputes from across Europe, with millions of people protesting against the loss of lives if such ban goes ahead. Moreover, the EU’s legal committee has voted against such legislation stating, “Ban on e-cigs is an unreasonable measure which is liable to be annulled as being contrary to the principle of proportionality and/or the principle of non-discrimination.”


This further signifies that such legislation is nothing but a powerful tool to earn more revenues from sale of tobacco cigarettes and banning electronic cigarettes, which was slowly yet steadily replacing the market for former. Nevertheless, the fight continues…