Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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!
Thursday, August 8, 2013
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…
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