What do you think about the bill in congress to ban candy/sweet flavored cigars/cigarettes?
It will give the FDA authority to regulate tobacco products. It’s hard to think it has a chance though, with the tobacco industries influence in the government. Also, I only recently heard about this so maybe it was already presented and passed/failed. Excuse my ignorance in that case, i’ll google it after i post this.
well, cigs do cause billions of dollars in health costs, billions that could go into meat plant inspections.
Government again getting into our lives . I feel enough is enough .
Smoking Cigars With Howlinblind:The F.D.A. Tobacco,,drugs and kids part 1
The short answer is maybe. E-Cigarettes are not being marketed as smoking cessation devices by most companies due to the fact that they are not currently approved by the FDA. A lot of people have quit smoking using these devices though. As with anything that has to do with quit smoking the only way for you to quit is to actually try. If you don’t give it an honest shot you will never quit.
Are e-cigarettes expensive?
No. The initial outlay is usually more than what you need to spend for maintenance because you have to buy a starter kit. Once you have that you just have to maintain it. A good way of saving money is refilling your cartridges with e-liquid. It ends up being much cheaper than continually buying cartridges. The parts go bad and each part should last at least two weeks. The whole device and accessories should be considered consumable products.
Adding together what you spend on an e-cigarette and comparing it to actual cigarettes you’ll see there is definitely a big savings.
What about cancer?
A lot of the cancer causing ingredients in cigarettes are caused by combustion. As soon as you burn the tobacco it creates new chemicals which in turn are cancerous. E-cigarettes doesn’t create combustion or fire, it heats up a liquid and creates vapor so you avoid the whole combustion scenario. The creation of vapor by e-cigarettes is affectionately referred to as vaping.
How much are e-cigarettes?
You can buy e-cigarettes at your local mall at the kiosks for about $150 per kit or you can go online to a reputable supplier like http://cigarettereplacer.com and buy kits starting at $25 that are of equal or greater value than the mall kiosks.
What are the ingredients in the e-liquid or vapor juice?
E-liquid mainly consists of propylene glycol (used in food flavorings, toothpaste, fog machines and several other products), glycerine (used in several food and baking products), nicotine (which is a poison), and natural and artificial flavorings (food). The ingredients with exception to the nicotine are all considered safe by the FDA.
Nicotine is a poison?
Yes. Nicotine is used as an insecticide and in pure form is a deadly poison. It is especially dangerous for kids and pets. Of course if you already smoke cigarettes you already have this poison in your body which is why electronic cigarettes are only recommended for smokers. Nicotine is not a known carcinogen but it can aid the growth of cancer cells.
Are e-cigarettes safe?
Good question. The ingredients (except for the nicotine) are regarded as generally safe by the FDA, but there has been no research done on the long term effects of using electronic cigarettes. Some of the short term effects (for those successful in quitting cigarettes completely) are easier breathing, cleaner lungs, more stamina, ability to smell and taste better, and of course you smell better because you don’t have that cigarette smell on your body.
Some of the side effects are dry throat and dry eyes. These effects are usually gone after a few days due to the drying effects of the propylene glycol.
Every year in America, a quarter million people die from smoking tobacco filled traditional cigarettes. Tobacco itself has been scientifically proved to have upwards of 45 carcinogens, which are cancer causing agents. They, the carcinogens, also damage the human DNA.
To add to the aforementioned fact, consider that over 15 billion cigarettes are consumed every single day worldwide. Translated, it basically means that more than two cigarettes are smoked by one human being alive!
One other addition that tobacco manufacturers didn’t say was that the containment of nicotine is exceedingly addictive. They kept mum to maintain their huge profit margins. The scary part about this traditional cigarette is that on top of the quarter million deaths per annum- in America, half of a billion cigarette induced deaths, if not more, in the whole world, will occur this year. Two thirds of this will be from poor countries and half of these two thirds will be under 18 kids!
Nicotine, apart from being addictive, does its major damage in the central nervous system which is the central centre of brain functioning. This eventually shortens the mortality rates of smokers. But, the greatest threat of the traditional cigarettes has always been and will always remain its massive risk of contracting lung cancer Even the introduction of the safer Kent cigarettes with brand new filters didn’t help matters as soon, cases of mesothelioma- a cancer caused after contact with asbestos-was found in the filters.
The only cigarettes made now to desperately decrease cancer is the new electronic cigarettes. Experiences by users of this cigarette say that they now feel contended, healthy and even breathe better and is therefore not an alien concept and experience.
The electronic cigarettes are said to contain two known chemical components. One is nicotine, but in very small quantities. The other is either vegetable oil or propylene glycol. Propylene glycol, however, is the most commonly used of the two.
An examination of propylene glycol reveals that it has always been used as antifreeze agent. And, in fact, is antifreeze that is less toxic. It is also approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and is utilized as a direct food additive.
Approved as personal care product, food, cosmetics and fragrances, the clincher is from many studies that show that it is not sensitive to human skin and not carcinogenic, therefore cannot cause cancer. Nonetheless, electronic cigarettes have not been out rightly, officially permitted as completely healthy.
The cigarette contains a battery and after ‘puffing’ contains water with little nicotine which invisibly evaporate into thin air safely. The little nicotine is to enable a smoker get an emotional feel of pleasure as he smokes.
A particular acrid obscurity that irritates eyes and slightly numbs senses found in the traditional cigarettes is non existent in the electronic cigarettes.
As yet there is still to be found conclusive reports that any electronic cigarette smoker has contracted any form of cancer. Any such reports are even now considered to come from pro tobacco users out to besmirch the name of electronic cigarettes.
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A Pfizer drug shown to help more than one in five smokers stop smoking received federal approval on Thursday, adding another option to the limited pool of effective stop-smoking prescription medicines.
Varenicline is only the second nicotine-free smoking cessation drug to gain FDA approval. Pfizer Inc. plans to market the twice-daily tablet as Chantix stop smoking pill.
Varenicline works in two ways, by cutting the pleasure of smoking and reducing the withdrawal symptoms that lead smokers to light up cigaret again.
Most other stop-smoking pills are various nicotine-replacement therapies, sold by prescription and over the counter in gum, patch, lozenge, nasal spray or inhaler form. In 1997, the FDA approved bupropion, an antidepressant already sold as Wellbutrin but rebranded it as Zyban, an anti-smoking drug.
The approved course of Chantix pill treatment is 12 weeks, a period that can be doubled in patients who successfully stop to increase the likelihood they will remain smoke-free, the Food and Drug Administration said.
Other clinical trials show the drug’s effect is more pronounced in the short-term: 44 percent of patients quit smoking following a 12-week course of treatment with Chantix, compared to the 30 percent of Zyban patients who quit, according to Pfizer. However, smoking cessation experts said the longer-term data are more applicable, given the difficulty of quitting the habit for good.
“It’s not going to be a revolution, it’s going to be a substantial step forward,” Thomas Glynn, director of cancer science and trends at the American Cancer Society, said of varenicline. Glynn added that the greatest value will be for smokers who have tried Zyban or nicotine-replacement therapy but failed to quit.
“My bet is that it will work as well as they do and, from the look of things, a little bit better,” he said.
Varenicline latches on to the same receptors in the brain that nicotine binds to when inhaled in cigarette smoke, an action that leads to the release of dopamine in the pleasure centers of the brain. Taking the drug blocks any inhaled nicotine from reinforcing that effect.
The drug also slows the release of dopamine, which cuts the craving to smoke that occurs when nicotine’s effect wears off, said Pfizer research chemist Jotham Coe, who invented the drug.
“It’s a shield and at the same time, it stabilizes you and prevents you from having the lows, which lead to craving and withdrawal, but at the same time, it shields you from the highs,” said Coe, a former 2 1/2 pack-a-day smoker who quit smoking a first time cold turkey and then a second time with the help of nicotine gum.
One in five American adults, or nearly 45 million people, smoke. An estimated 32 million of those smokers would like to quit, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smoking kills nearly 440,000 Americans a year.
“Tobacco use, particularly cigarette smoking, is the single most preventable cause of death in the United States and is responsible for a growing list of cancers, as well as chronic diseases including those of the lung and heart,” said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the FDA’s Deputy Commissioner for Medical and Scientific Affairs.
Quitting, as any smoker will tell you, isn’t easy. Fewer than one in 20 smokers can do so without help, Schroeder said. With help, whether it’s a drug, counseling or both, the success rate rises at most to roughly one in five, he added.
Both the FDA and European regulators recently shot down attempts by Sanofi-Aventis to gain approval for rimonabant, or Accomplia, as a stop-smoking aid. Both have recommended that the drug, which blocks the same pleasure centers in the body activated when pot smokers get the munchies, be approved for weight loss.
And at least two vaccines are being developed that could block nicotine from ever reaching the brain.
The FDA does not recommend that Chantix be used with other smoking-cessation products. Its most common side effect is nausea.
what website is the best and safest to buy e cigarettes from
There are a lot of good vendors out there. I like to use
litecigusa.net – Shawn’s great
goodprophets.com – Rob
truesmoker.com – JD
all these guys are great to work with. You can read about their services here… http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/
just scroll toward the bottom for the suppliers forums.
There are a lot of other vendors too – depends on what you’re looking for.
In the past fifteen years, the premium-cigar industry found itself in rebound. After decades of competition from cigarettes, the aging of its customer base, and overall consumer trends indicating a decline in smoking in general (we’ll return to this in a moment), many observers figured cigars were done for. Then came 1992. The fourth quarter of that year showed some of the first industry growth in years, and this trend metastasized in coming years. By 1996, the industry was seeing 36 percent first-quarter growth.
But cigars returned at an ironic time. High-profile class-action suits, controversy over Joe Camel, and decreasing general consumer interest in smoking, among other things, led to an increase in smoking bans in public buildings, offices, and, eventually, whole cities. Airports helped lead the trend; among the major travel hubs where you’re no longer welcome to light up are Los Angeles’ LAX and Dallas-Fort Worth.
All of which raises a question – if you’re a smoker going on vacation, what are your options?
Thankfully, the web site SmokingSection has, aggregating information sent in by smoking readers, listed and ranked over fifty major airports by their friendliness to smokers. Their rankings, like those of your high-school English teacher, run from A to E: A for airports where you can smoke by the waiting gate; E for airports where you not only can’t smoke indoors, but the nearest smoker-friendly outside areas require a small trip in themselves (and may be unacceptably far from takeoff gates).
So where should you travel if you want to smoke, not only when you reach your destination but on the way there? Well, the answer seems to be: Texas. The Lone Star State offers the only A-ranked airport out of the dozens surveyed. That’s Dallas Love Field, a smallish airport that receives only flights from major area transport provider Southwest Airlines. Frequently-flying cigar smokers who live in that wildcatter’s capital should feel lucky.
Texas offers us a B airport as well – these are the places where you can’t smoke near the gates, but that do offer smoker-friendly bars, restaurants, and/or lounges nearby. That would be at Lubbock – the same city from which Buddy Holly hailed. (But don’t take that as a bad omen.) Other southern and southwestern states are well-represented among the B airports, which makes sense, given the close links between many of these states and the history of the tobacco industry. Restaurants at New Mexico’s Albuquerque Airport, as well as at airports in Charlotte, North Carolina; Charleston, West Virginia; Phoenix, Arizona; Tucson, Arizona; Norfolk, Virginia; and – appropriately enough – Richmond, Virginia, that famous tobacco town. (Where would American smoking be without Virginia?)
Orange County, California, offers an airport named for John Wayne, and appropriately the tobacco-loving Duke’s namesake airport also offers B-class accommodations. So do the major regional airports in Tampa, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, and New York City (both JFK and LaGuardia), in several large cities in Ohio (Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton), in Fairbanks, Alaska; Moline, Illinois; and Ontario, Canada. Visitors to our nation’s capitol can also light up at a few of Washington, DC’s airport bars, though these are apparently hard to find.
It’s a good thing that the weather in Texas and California is generally fairly clement, because some major airports in both of these states ban all indoor smoking – but outdoor smoking areas are available at a conveniently close distance. The aforementioned Dallas-Fort Worth and LAX both disallow indoor smoking, which accounts for their C rating, but they do invite smoking customers to step outside. The Worcester, Massachusetts airport has a similar arrangement. (Enjoy that brisk Massachusetts air.) These are the C-class airports.
After that it gets dicier. Quite a few major American airports seem to fall into the D or E classes, with smoking accommodations within the airport that require a bit of a hike, or (in the case of the E-class airports) nothing at all but outside areas located far from gates. Many D airports offer those ubiquitous glass lounges where smokers are invited to light up and take a load off; these include Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Las Vegas (McCarran), and Atlanta (Hartfield). Happy hunting!
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‘Electronic Cigarettes – The Smoking Alternative!’ at first, I found the idea of electronic smoking laughable, as would most tobacco users. However , after pulling my husband over to the booth for a look, it only took us a moment to realize that this was a truly revolutionary invention. Shockingly, the price was reasonable, too!
the vendor made it obvious that it was not meant as a smoking conclusion device, only a much safer and less expensive way to smoke. To date, there isn’t any scientific evidence that they are safer, but it did not take a degree in complicated to see that the lack of smoke, tar and a couple of thousand other ingredients – including the 60-70 known cancer agents and poisons found in tobacco – made the flavored nicotine liquid appear tame in contrast. Moreover, the facility to scale back the nicotine levels from high, medium and low to liquid containing no nicotine whatsoever was an appealing way to wean off nicotine altogether.
naturally, as quickly as I got our new devices home, I had to log online to see what I could find out about them.
the first thing I found was a wide range of different devices and liquids available and not all devices are created equal.
‘I feel free of cigarettes for the 1st time in my life,’ declared James Solie, of Hudson, WI. Solie announced his life has changed in so many ways since he has quit smoking. ‘I used to go to bed at night and could smell the smoke on myself, and it wasn’t good. I don’t miss that. I just feel better in each way possible. I breathe better, don’t have that unpleasant congestion in the morning. My throat feels better. My sense of smell, thus taste, is much better.’ Solie added that his wife is cheerful that he has stop smoking, too.
the indisputable fact that personal vaporizer owners are not smoking is tricky for non-smokers and smoke-free recommends to grasp, because vapor looks equivalent in appearance to smoke. Thus many recommends welcomed contemporary reports of the FDA’s suggested ban on certain electronic cigarettes, due to safety concerns, and proposed bans on their use in public spaces in municipalities in the Big Apple, Connecticut and Oregon. Vaporizer owners fear the public has been falsely given to understand that personal vaporizers aren’t any different than tobacco cigarettes.
Electronic cigarettes may save many lives, providing the FDA doesn’t make them illegal. Responsible vaporizer owners are mystified about the reactions to the revolutionary device, and hope that as the public becomes more informed, they’ll be more certainly received.
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