Electronic Cigarette & Vapor News

Aspire Launches a High Rate 40A 18650 Battery June 02 2015

Aspire has proven once again that they can aspire to a better world, where things are easier to use, more reliable and last longer. Aspire has recently launched a new product on the market that has broken new ground in the e-cigarette niche. This produce is Aspire’s new 18650 Battery. Battery safety could be the most important thing about low-ohm vaping.  Sub-ohming is almost a non-issue at this point if you’re...

Dry Burning Metal Coils: Is it a good thing? May 28 2015

By Dr. Farsalinos and Pedro Carvalho (material sciences expert) There has been a lot of discussion about my statement during the RY4 radio interview on Friday, May 22 concerning the dry burning of coils. This is a process in which vapers prepare the coil and then apply a lot of power to the bare coil (with no wick or liquid), heating it to the level of glowing red. The main...

Harvard Study Concludes E-Cigarettes Have Helped Smoking Cessation May 28 2015

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 | Michael Siegel   According to a new electronic cigarette survey study reported at the 2015 FAMRI meeting, as many as 18% of current electronic cigarette users are ex-smokers who may have quit smoking completely as a result of their e-cigarette use. Such a finding would represent perhaps the strongest evidence to date that not only are e-cigarettes helping smokers quit, but that the magnitude of...

The Wall Street Journal Covers Cloud Chasing Competitions in Big D April 23 2015

Using e-cigarettes, contestants vie to create the biggest ‘clouds’; sponsors, cash prizes   By :TRIPP MICKLE, The Wall Street Journal, Updated April 22, 2015 4:43 p.m. ET   PLANO, Texas—Just outside the town where Doc Holliday got in a major gunfight, Elijah Seybold and Nathan Waller stood back-to-back in silence. A small crowd gathered nearby as an MC yelled, “One! Two! Three!…Pull!” Then, Mr. Seybold and Mr. Waller pulled out copper-colored,...

U.S. Ad Campaign to Challenge Value of E-Cigarettes in Quitting Smoking March 27 2015

TRIPP MICKLE, The Wall Street Journal, Updated March 26, 2015 12:16 a.m. ET   Paul Frohman smokes an electronic cigarette outside an office building in downtown Los Angeles in January. California health officials declared e-cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products. PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS   The U.S. government for the first time is taking aim at electronic cigarettes in an advertising campaign, challenging their use as...

House Public Health Committee Introduces Several Bills Impeding Consumer Access to Vapor Products March 20 2015

Several bills that would impede consumer access to vapor products are scheduled for a public hearing in the House Public Health Committee on Tuesday, March 23rd at 8:00 AM in the Capitol Extension, 2nd floor, room E.012 (Central Gallery - click here for a map).  We have Identified HB 170, HB 81, HB 970, and HB 2321 as all containing language that would impact consumer access, choice, and awareness of...

World Health Organization Calls for International Ban On E-Cigarettes March 20 2015

THE head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for governments across the world to ban e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes, which some experts consider to be less addictive than tobacco, have been viewed as potential alternatives by some researchers. But speaking at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Abu Dhabi yesterday Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General, WHO, insisted “non-smoking should be the norm”. She also said that e-cigarettes encourage young...

Study Confirms That E-Cigarettes Generate Virtually No Toxins March 06 2015

Levels are about the same as those found in air. Jacob Sullum|Mar. 4, 2015 6:32 pm | www.reason.com Anti-smoking activists and public health officials who question the usefulness of electronic cigarettes in reducing tobacco-related disease often talk as if the content of the aerosol generated by these newfangled contraptions is utterly mysterious. While it may be plausible that the absence of combustion makes e-cigarettes safer than the conventional kind, they...

WSJ Reports E-Cigarette Makers Face Rise of Counterfeit February 21 2015

PHOTO: REUTERSBy PETER EVANS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Feb. 20, 2015 9:09 a.m. ETLONDON—Liberty Flights Ltd., a British maker of electronic cigarettes, is facing a problem more associated with handbags than with nicotine vaporizers: counterfeiting.Imitation versions of the company’s products—which allow users, known as “vapers,” to heat nicotine-laced liquid for a tobacco-free hit—have started appearing in several markets around the world. The cloned e-cigarettes use cheaper materials and are sold at...

Vape 'Em If You Got 'Em: Jails Sell E-Cigarettes to Inmates February 20 2015

CINCINNATI — Feb 17, 2015, 12:30 PM ET By LISA CORNWELL Associated Press   E-cigarettes keep popping up for sale at county jails around the country even as some government officials, schools and health experts urge tighter control over the devices, especially in public buildings. Electronic cigarettes, growing in popularity since their U.S. introduction about a decade ago, are showing up at jails in more than a dozen states, including...

Innokin Releases the MVP 3.0 with 30 Watts of Power and Lots of New Improved Features January 26 2015

SHENZHEN, China, Jan. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The iTaste MVP3.0 is the newest in the line of internationally bestselling iTaste MVP vaporizers and sets the standard for top quality, high capacity, powerful and smart advanced personal vaporizers and E-Cigarette. Designed and upgraded based on feedback from vapers, top reviewers and friends from all over the world, The iTaste MVP3.0 is more powerful with a maximum output of 30 Watts and...

Aspire Atlantis, Kanger Subtank, and Aspire Kits / Batteries on Sale This weekend! (Through January 18th) January 17 2015

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Tobacco Dollars and The Political Elite December 23 2014

Mark Benson, OK Premium Electronic Cigarettes, December 23, 2014 Tobacco dollars and the political elite  There are few industries in history that have shown the growth seen in the vaping sector over the last decade. It is easy to forget that the vaping industry was seen as something of a niche market at the turn-of-the-century yet 2015 is expected to see the turnover of $2 billion in the US electronic cigarette...

The beef against electronic cigarettes is based on false evidence December 05 2014

Jacques Le Houezec,The Daily Star, December 5, 2014 We have long known that people smoke for the nicotine, but die from the smoke. Indeed, the vast majority of cigarette-related diseases and deaths arise from the inhalation of tar particles and toxic gases, including carbon monoxide. Though nicotine replacement therapy has helped smokers quit, the cigarette habit remains pervasive in many countries. The use of nicotine in noncombustible forms such as...

Success rates with nicotine personal vaporizers: a prospective 6-month pilot study of smokers not intending to quit November 10 2014

Electronic cigarettes (e-Cigs) are an attractive long-term alternative nicotine source to conventional cigarettes. Although they may assist smokers to remain abstinent during their quit attempt, studies using first-generation e-Cigs report low success rates.Second-generation devices (personal vaporisers - PVs) may result in much higher quit rates, but their efficacy and safety in smoking cessation and/or reduction in clinical trials is unreported. Method:  We conducted a prospective proof-of-concept study monitoring modifications in smoking...

Vaporin, Inc. Continues to See Increased Sales Growth as the Vaporizer Segment Surpasses E-Cig Sales October 27 2014

October 23, 2014: 08:38 AM ET www.money.cnn.com Vaporin, Inc. (OTCQB: VAPO), a distributor and marketer of vaporizers, tanks, mods (VTM's) and e-liquids products, today announced the Company continues to see a strong increase in sales and revenue as VTM's and the e-liquids industry exceeded electronic cigarette sales for the first time by half a billion dollars. According to Wells Fargo Securities, VTM's now contribute more than $1.5 billion to the...

Democrats Target E-Cigarettes October 15 2014

October 14, 2014 - 11:27 AM By Dan Joseph www.cnsnews.com    It wasn’t supposed to be like this.  Electronic cigarettes were intended to be a healthier alternative to real cigarettes and there was even hope that they could be used as a tool to help people quit smoking. However, despite evidence that e-cigarettes are, in fact, safer than the smoke that is inhaled when a person inhales a tobacco-filled product, this...

Open System Vaporizers Officially Overtake E-Cigs, Top $1 Billion in Sales for the First-Time Ever September 26 2014

MIAMI, FL, Sep 25, 2014 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- VMR Products, a global leader in the electronic cigarette industry and the makers of V2(R), one of the nation's leading brands of electronic cigarette products, today announced that for the first-time, open system vaporizers have exceeded electronic cigarette sales by $500 million. They have also surpassed $1 billion in annual sales across both traditional and digital retail channels. According to Wells...

University of New Orleans Allows Vapor on Campus while Banning Analog Cigarettes September 03 2014

Where E-Cigs Land in Campus Smoking Bans by Brendan Frost In 2013, the Louisiana state legislature passed a resolution that requires public universities in the state to create a smoking prohibition on campus. It's up to the individual universities how to implement this, and the decision has motivated some universities to take a stance on electronic cigarettes as well.   In New Orleans, Tulane, Delgado, Dillard, Southern University at New...

Public Health Officials Should Embrace E-Cigarettes August 22 2014

   It’s time for public health officials to advise smokers that electronic cigarettes are a worthy alternative to smoking that can help them quit the tobacco habit. Most e-cigarettes look like cigarettes. But people who “vape” – use e-cigarettes – are not smoking. They are instead inhaling a water-like vapor that is free of the tar and the sky-high levels of carcinogens that make cigarette smoking so dangerous. Activists who...

E-Cigarettes May Get Advantage for Not Containing Tobacco June 12 2014

By Anna Edney  Jun 11, 2014 11:01 PM CT  -www.bloomberg.com Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Most e-cigarettes deliver nicotine while leaving out the tars, arsenic and other...Read More Electronic cigarettes may be closer to smoking cessation devices than regular smokes and regulators are keeping “an open mind” on their potential health benefit, said the top U.S. official overseeing their use. In comments that may boost the developing $3 billion e-cigarette market, Mitch Zeller,...

Health Experts Defend E-Cigarettes May 30 2014

By: ActiveBeat Author on Thursday, May 29, 2014 @ 9:11 am , www.activebeat.com E-cigarettes, or electronic cigarettes, simulate tobacco smoking by producing a smoke-like vapor. For some, it’s a dangerous idea that could lead kids to become accustomed to the act of smoking. But a team of fifty international health researchers says it’s critical that governing bodies not consider e-cigarettes, which can help people ditch the smoking habit, a tobacco product. The...

Wall Street Journal touts Vaporizers over Cigalikes May 29 2014

'Vaporizers' Are the New Draw in E-Cigarettes Refillable Contraptions Are Cheaper, More Potent Than 'Cigalikes' MIKE ESTERL , wallstreetjournal.com Updated May 29, 2014 5:23 p.m. ET The fastest growth in e-cigarettes comes from devices called 'vaporizers' sold in specialty shops like Popie's Vapor Lounge, in Marlton, N.J. Will Figg for The Wall Street Journal ATLANTA—VapeRite, a specialty store in a strip mall here, represents the latest rage in electronic cigarettes and the...

What you need to know about Vaporizers May 27 2014

BY SEAN COOPER  @SEAN_COOPER  MAY 23RD 2014, AT 12:00:00 PM ET, www.engadget.com Smoking is bad for you. There! We said it right upfront. There's no reasonable line of argument that can lead to any other conclusion: smoking kills lots of people, around 50 percent of its long-term users. But with all that said, people love to smoke. Heck, I smoked for many, many years and I still would if it had a few more vitamins....