Showing posts with label e-cigarettes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label e-cigarettes. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Electronic Shisha – Who Question About Its Safety as a Better Alternative?


Electronic shisha pens have emerged as a popular trend globally, especially among the youth. These are also known as electronic hookah, electronic shisha sticks, or e-hookah, and are widely available in major cities on the globe. One of the key reasons behind exceptional popularity of e-shisha pens is that they are a safe alternative. As claimed by manufacturers, e-hookahs cause fewer health risks than the traditional ones. However, are they really 
safe?

What’s Inside E-Shisha Pens?

Often, the contents are discussed to determine if it is safe to smoke than the traditional ones. Typically, the primary ingredients are water, propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, and fruit flavouring, particularly herbs. Both vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol are non-toxic in nature, and it is safe to consume, though not much is known about to what extent these substances can be safe. Despite the fact a fewer of the population have reported to experience muscle aches and throat ache after smoking e-shisha pens, the side effects are considered rare and primarily due to being allergic to propylene glycol. Most users have reported no harmful side effects of smoking e-shisha.

How It Works?

An e-shisha pen is typically a battery-operated device, and operates in a similar way as e-cigarettes. It comprises of an atomizer, which heats up the e-liquid, transforming it into vapours that can be inhaled. Hence, you are actually inhaling e-liquid vapours than harmful chemicals such as nicotine in cigarettes, which pose serious threat to health. The electronic devices are available in reusable or disposable form, in a variety of flavours to choose from.

Is it Harmful?

Most e-shisha pens don’t comprise of any toxic compounds, such as arsenic, lead, carbon monoxide or cancer-causing chemicals that are typically found in traditional shisha. Since, traditional hookah contains toxic compounds, smokers are at a great risk of health hazards such as heart diseases, cancer, and other respiratory diseases to name a few. Besides, when someone smokes traditional pipe, people around them inhale toxic fumes. Thus, the smoker is also contributing to other people’s risk of having serious diseases by inhaling harmful chemicals.

E-shisha on the other hand does not produce smoke, since it is a vapour form of e-liquid that is inhaled. Therefore, there is no risk of passive smoking nor there is any nasty smell that can cause irritation to people around you. Generally, e-shisha pens do not contain toxic chemicals and hence, you are at lesser risk of acquiring smoking-related diseases. Check the ingredients of your electronic pipe, before you buy to make sure that it does not comprises of harmful chemicals.



Despite of the fact that inhaling water vapour is considered safer than inhaling harmful chemicals in traditional hookah, it is important to understand that these are comparatively new products and are yet to be tested safe. Nevertheless, the electronic shisha pens deem to be much safer and pose lesser threats to health than smoking traditional hookah.                    


Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Have You Celebrated World Vaping Day?

Turn up the music and party hard!! It’s Happy World Vaping Day!! If you are a hard core vaper, one who supports the cause for e-cigarettes, this is the day every vaper should celebrate since it’s the second annual holiday for all vapers who smoke electronic cigarettes. World Vaping Day is recognized to commemorate and celebrate every little success in the arena of electronic cigarettes, right from your personal accomplishments to undeterred growth of the industry. So, being a proponent of e-cigarettes, how did you celebrate this special holiday? No idea? Here are some fantastic ideas to sizzle up things and make your next World Vaping Day more enjoyable and fun. 


Host a Gala Vaping Party

How about throwing a grand party and inviting all your friends and relatives, of course, with their e-cigs? Even they would love the concept, participating in the party for added exuberance and fun. Make sure that you create an ‘e-cig’ theme for the party, providing opportunity to the guests to make it more unique and memorable. Talk about your favorite electronic cigarette flavors and batteries, share vaping stories, play games!! Break all boundaries and be innovative to make the party most successful and joyous.

Dance through Music

There’s nothing like turning up your favorite music in full volume and breaking out into a wonderful dance moves. You can invite your friends or family members to make a top or two with you. It will further invigorate the charm of your celebration. Dance your heart out till you drop, and then relax, vaping on your favorite e-cigarette. Instantly, you will feel invigorated and refreshed to turn up to the music again. After all, what harm is it going to do!! Happy Vaping!!

Experiment Something Cooking

By this time, your vaper’s tongue has perhaps faded away, and you can relish on your favorite delicacies, cooked right at home on the World Vaping Day. Take out time from your busy schedule and cook yourself something unique and delicious. You can also experiment preparing something that you have never done before. Relish each and every bite of your favorite food, cooked by you…What a wonderful way to celebrate the World Vaping Day…your freedom from traditional cigarettes!!

Dine at Your Favorite Restaurant

Form a group of e-cigarette vapers and move out for a fantastic dining experience at your favorite restaurant. Ask whether you can use the e-cigarette at the table, and then celebrate each and every moment on your favorite delicacy and e-cigarette flavor. This way, you can also educate others and spread awareness for electronic cigarettes publicly.   

Spread Awareness

While this may not be a typical scenario for fun and enjoyment, you can celebrate the day by spreading awareness for e-cigarettes. Make a group and conduct workshops and teaching programs on the benefits of electronic cigarettes.

Have a unique ideas to celebrate World Vaping Day? Share your thoughts with us.      

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Empirical Evidences and Testimonials on E-Cigarettes

In the era of digitalization, consumers globally have been empowered with the platform to express their opinions and ideas, sharing real life experiences and incidents. This provides a very valuable insight into the world of electronic cigarettes. The reviews and empirical evidences for e-cigs have been overwhelming, and this is quite prominent from the behavior exhibited by e-cigarettes proponents on the Internet. Considering umpteen positive reviews and testimonials from happy customers, the analysts can indeed prepare a report that demonstrates the credibility and benefits of e-cigs on modern human lives today.

Unfortunately, lack of quality information and conclusive research studies on electronic cigarettes have left the world wondering whether e-cigs are good or bad. However, leaving aside the scientific studies, why not consider the empirical evidences and customer testimonials flooding the Internet that gives a vivid picture of how well e-cigarettes are doing in the market. And as a smart buyer, you should rely on your communication and observation, which can never be wrong.

If you browse the Internet – emails, blogs, social media, forums, and communication platforms – everywhere you will find hundreds of thousands of satisfied consumers personally boasting the benefits of electronic cigarettes. Can it all be wrong and invalid – scam?? Earlier this day, breaking news quite made the cigarette industry go topsy-turvy. The news claimed a 3-year old boy has suffered first and second degree burns after his mother’s e-cigarette exploded in the car while charging. The news necessarily questioned the credibility of “White Rhino” electronic cigarettes, stating that growing use of e-cigs has also increased the number of accidents due to explosion or other factors.

While opponents of electronic cigarettes can celebrate on this tragic news, how many of you will delve deep into the root of such accident? Manufacturers of e-cigs and Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association have always been giving statutory warnings that lithium-ion batteries can ‘get hot, explode or ignite and cause serious injury.’ At the same time, they also put forward the causes for the battery to get too hot. Electronic cigarette batteries can explode when a wrong type of charger is used, placed in direct sunlight, or if it left in the USB port for long and gets overcharged.

According to the reports presented by TVECA, more than 3.5 million Americans puff electronic cigarettes, with or without knowing its benefits. And the number cannot lie, right? If you are an e-cigarette proponent, you can also spread the awareness for e-cigs, contributing in the movement and sharing you experiences and opinions to the world. And of course, Internet is the best way to do it right and wide!! Educate the skeptical people with logic and facts, dispelling out their invalid points. Make sure that you are confident of what you are saying. 

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…