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Five Places You’ll Appreciate Having An Electronic Cigarette

Jul 29

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This blog post, unlike Top 10 Places To Use Your Electronic Cigarette will focus more on day to day places where you’ll be glad you have your electronic cigarette. And if you’re a smoker, I’ll bet you can already think of a few places where you wished you could “smoke”…..even if it isn’t actually smoke.

First, remember that electronic cigarettes don’t burn or use any type of combustion. They vaporize a mix of propylene glycol, glycerin, water, flavoring and optional nicotine. This e-liquid vaporizes at a much lower temperature (40 to 65 degrees Celsius according to the FDA testing) than at which combustion takes place. So any smoking bans that refer to burning cigarettes, smoking cigarettes, or emitting smoke do not apply to an electronic cigarette that does burning or produce smoke. However some counties and states are attempting to have electronic cigarettes included in smoking bans.

So, here are 5 places where you will want to have your electronic cigarette:

1. Your car. Remember the good old days when you smoked a pack every 300 miles on a long trip? Remember how your car used to smell? You can vape your electronic cigarette from New York to LA and can still sell your car afterward.
2. Bed. Heavy smokers have a habit of smoking in bed. Get rid of the ashtray on the night stand and put an electronic cigarette charger in it’s place. No more ashes in your sheets.
3. Airports. With long flights and layovers in airports with no place to smoke, make sure you have your electronic cigarette handy. Do it quietly. Airport security will have a lot of questions and you have a flight to catch.
4. Your favorite watering hole. To many smokers, bars and lounges just aren’t the same without a haze floating over head. Although electronic cigarette vapor dissipates very quickly, it will still give any smoker a sense of nostalgia. To be safe, always get permission from the restaurant, bar, hotel, lounge, business owner or manager before indulging.
5. Parties! Have non-smoking friends? Tired of standing outside during a party to inhale your cigarette. Bring your electronic cigarette. Show it to your friends. Most will think it is great that you don’t have to go outside and come back in smelling like an ashtray.

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Health Advocates File Amicus Brief in Electronic Cigarette Lawsuit Against FDA

Jul 28

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A group of non profit organizations and health advocates have filed an amicus brief with the DC Court of Appeals. The group included The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), Smokefree Pennsylvania, Consumer Advocates for Smokefree Alternatives Association (CASAA), National Vapers Club, Midwest Vapers Group and Drs. Michael Siegel and Joel Nitzkin. Read the full amicus brief here.

A second amicus brief was filed by the Washington Legal Foundation. Read the full amicus brief from the Washington Legal Foundation here.

Both briefs argues that absent any specific therapeutic claims, the electronic cigarette should be regulated as a tobacco product, not as a new drug and medical device. The Washington Legal Foundation specifically notes that:

“…if FDA were free to rely on factors other than claims of therapeutic or medical benefit in determining intended use, then FDA would have authority to regulate a vast array of products that in some sense could be said to be intended to affect the structure or a function of the body, such as bullets, catchers’ mitts, exercise equipment,bicycles, firm mattresses, hot tubs, chairs, and sunhats.”

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And The FDA Is Worried About Electronic Cigarettes?

Jul 28

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In a USA Today story on June 7th, 2010 titled CDC: U.S. cigarettes contain more cancer-causing chemicals, CDC researchers announced that “the amount of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) in U.S. brands is about triple that of brands from Australia, Canada or the United Kingdom”.

It seems this should be of more concern to the FDA, who now has regulatory control over tobacco products, than the fact that they found miniscule levels of TSNAs in electronic cigarette liquid (not the vapor). In fact NJoy, who was one of the brands the FDA tested, had their own study commissioned on the electronic cigarette vapor and found that the vapor actually only contain one type of TSNA and this type of TSNA is not known to cause cancer.

So we have three products;

1) Tobacco cigarettes from the USA (the most TNSAs)
2) Tobacco cigarettes from Canada, UK, and Australia (1/3 of the TSNAs in US tobacco, but still at harmful levels)
3) Electronic cigarettes (tiny levels of TSNAs in the liquid, but no proof any cancer cause TSNAs are present in the vapor. How tiny is tiny? The FDA tested e-cigarettes for TSNAs in the parts per billion.)

If you were in charge of the FDA would you be more concerned about the 3x levels of TSNAs in American cigarettes or in the extremely tiny levels of TSNAs in electronic cigarettes? Which do you think pose a greater risk to public health?

Let’s be clear; tobacco cigarettes or any product that you burn and inhale is going to be very bad for you. But the devil is in the dose. How can lowering the level of a toxic substance not be a good idea? Well, Dr. Norman Edelman from the American Lung Association doesn’t think it is a good idea.

“There are two things in the paper that are disturbing to me….first, it seems as if U.S. smokers get more exposure to this deadly carcinogen than smokers in other countries. Second, there is the oblique suggestion that it might be worthwhile to try to reduce the levels of this carcinogen in tobacco smoke. This smacks of suggesting we make cigarettes ‘safer.’ However, there are dozens of carcinogens in cigarette smoke. There is no reason to believe that reducing one will make smoking safer.” – Dr. Norman Edelman from the ALA

Wait….so we shouldn’t reduce the levels of toxic substances in cigarettes because they are dangerous anyways? Cars are dangerous too, so don’t bother putting in seat belts or air bags. Why make anything safer? I agree we need to keep up the public education that inhaling cigarette smoke is in no way safe, but promoting the idea to keep cigarettes as toxic as possible to allow public “health” organizations the ammo to use in the media is absurd. Let me remind you Dr. Edelman that smokers are people. Yes they made at least one poor choice and became addicted to tobacco, but I don’t think that gives them less rights. And if inhaling smoke is your primary concern, then recommend they use an electronic cigarette. They don’t produce any smoke at all.

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