The Electronic Future of Smoking

I smoked for 6 years and used e-cigs to quit. It took about two and a half months using high, then med, then low nicotene levels. I still have one around with fluid that contains no nicoteine just in case I get an urge. It worked for me and I have recommended e-cigs to many others who are trying them and having a varying degree of success. I will be pretty upset if they ban or over regulate these. Currently it is cheaper to quit using e-cigs, but the FDA will likely tax it until its no longer cost effective. I dont understand why they would want to keep people from a valid choice of quitting.

It is refreshing to see an airline take this approach. For many smokers, sitting through a flight not doing anything can be a cause for smoking (at least trigger the urge).
The electronic cigarette can defiantly solve the issue here and if some folks can quit tobacco using electronic cigarettes, so be it!

I picked mine up from Eko Cigs.

Saying these are aimed at kids is B.S. People like various flavors period.

To give that ignorant opinion is unbelievable for a source supposedly dedicated to science and facts.

I quit tobacco by using these, and did 3 months of research before I bought one.

Can't stand the taste or smell of an analogue cigarette now.

The nicotine must be extracted from tobacco so yes there will be some ingredients found in the liquids that are also found in tobacco.

It looks like you did no research at all, and simply quoted the FDA's crap.

If you did you'd know that the two companies who manufactured the liquids found to contain Diethylene glycol, were from China, and were found to have used farm grade Propylene glycol

It's china and we know about their standards for these things already.

This led to the contamination. They have said to have tightened up controls and now only are supposed have switched to using vegetable glycerin, and have eliminated Propylene glycol entirely.
Old stock is still being sold of course and who knows what rules some of their companies will abide by.

Any doubts in the new PG free liquids from China? , then buy it from a US manufacturer.

As far as tobacco companies being behind some FDA's opinions.. well if you don't know the history of the FDA then do some reading: money means everything.

Plus why are tobacco companies doing research on e-cigs while claiming they would prefer smoking just be banned completely?

I find the skepticism here at PopSci, often to be like the young people on that tube site, crying fake over every video they see.

Everyone knows the FDA has never lied or done anything wrong, no one there has ever taken jobs or money offered by big corporations etc., to look the other way to pass a drug or hurry it through without proper testing , or refuse something due to lack of $$...

Anyone should know that the process of combustion produces poisonous things. Vaporizing some nicotine and USP grade glycerin probably made from soy, compared to the thousands of harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke seems preferable to me, and my now clear lungs.

And getting down to zero amount of nicotine is pretty easy too.

Even if my kid was influenced by the ads (which I don't approve of , same with alcohol ads that suddenly were unbanned some time ago) and started using an e-cig, I wouldn't be very concerned.

And if they were aimed at kids , why no mention of the flavors in any ads I've seen in three months or more of researching them before I purchased one?

There far are worse things to do to yourself these days, like actually smoke , drink, drugs, bad foods etc.

The main point being that if you vaporize something reasonably safe,(the FDA has approved nicotine and glycerin both for human consumption) as opposed to inhaling smoke from combustion of nearly anything, you don't have to die, or be someone's sick burden later in life.

Kinda sounds like more fun to me.

If used to quit smoking, great.

If used to reintroduce nicoteen addiction to a growingly post-tobacco world, then, no thanks.

Theres nothing wrong with nicotine, which is about as bad as your daily cup of coffee, its the other hundred or so chemicals found in cigarettes that really affect you and result in dangerous side effects.

...There's plenty wrong with nicotine. Having a short half-life of roughly 2 hours, it's no wonder why it's so addictive. Not to mention just 60mg (a drop) is enough to kill a person.. But lucky for the cigarette smokers, there's only about 9mg within each one, and only 1mg of which you, the smoker, inhale--the other 8mg is burnt out on the side-stream for the population to enjoy.

Anything is toxic in a large enough dose, even water. If these don't smell, and don't pollute, I honestly don't see why you are complaining. Nobody is asking you to use it. Stop being so concerned about things that don't effect you.