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Posted on: May 16, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: Health Related
It’s amazing how uninformed health professionals are when it comes to e-cigarettes. One recent article by an MD (unnamed to give them a chance to correct/recant), not only repeated old FDA findings of carcinogenic nitrosamines in e-cigarette liquid (but not vapor, and in amounts 14,000 times lower than legal tobacco), but also diethylene glycol which no [...]
Read Full PostNitrosamines and Your Electronic Cigarettes
Posted on: May 10, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: Health Related
Nitrosamines are chemicals found or created by our eating of chocolate or drinking of water. You’ll also find them in e-cigarettes, at levels tens of thousands of times lower than tobacco and cigarette smoke, So ask yourself, when the FDA reported finding these in e-cigarette liquid (not the vapor, mind you), why did everybody go [...]
E-Cigs And The Myth of Second-Hand Vapor
Posted on: April 30, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: eCig News
In a recent Dear Abby column, an office worker wrote worried about the exhaled vapor his co-workers were producing in his environment. Abby, bless her heart, actually responded that the reader had nothing to worry about and even cited the 2009 FDA report on electronic cigarettes in a positive way, for once. Of course the [...]
E-Cigs And The Needs Of The Common Corporation
Posted on: April 17, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: Uncategorized
Government and corporations don’t always look out for us, as the recent oil spills or Hurricane Katrina demonstrated. So why has the FDA recently rescinded labeling requirements for nicotine gums and lozenges and other NRT’s? Now, you can use them longer than 12 weeks, combine different therapies, and even “cheat smoke” the occasional tobacco cigarette. [...]
Jekyll And Hyde E-Cigarette Studies
Posted on: April 4, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: eCig Science
Jekyll & Hyde’s allegory on human nature’s duality can also be found in electronic cigarette science. A recent study about to be picked up by the media paints a scary picture of e-cig vapor. The headlines will scream “Higher Levels of Toxic Metal than Tobacco Smoke” and such. Don’t worry. They’re not referring to vapor [...]
Savor The Flavor Of Chocolate Vapor
Posted on: March 31, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: E-Liquid
In keeping with the spirit of this both holy and candy-coated holiday weekend, smokers should take the opportunity to resurrect their health, breath, taste-buds and possibly even their love-lives, with electronic cigarettes. Speaking of taste-buds, apart from the new lease on life a move to digital, smokeless nicotine can present, vapers can also sample what smokers cannot: [...]
Nicotine Is Not Just in Electronic Cigarettes
Posted on: March 8, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: Health Related
Contrary to popular belief, the nicotine is not harmful to your health – it’s the smoke, the burning tobacco, of cigarettes. In fact, it turns out nicotine is probably beneficial to human health, and it’s been in our diet for … well, forever. Many plants have nicotine in them (which acts as a natural insecticide), [...]
E-Cigarettes and Sex and Quitting or Switching
Posted on: February 28, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: Health Related
Is it vaping or not smoking that makes you enjoy better sex after the big switch? Studies point to neither, but rather the combination. Smoking is known to contribute to erectile dysfunction and loss of sensation in genitals of men & women. Switching to e-cigarettes gradually reduce and counteract this. Remember, it’s not the nicotine; it’s [...]
Electronic Cigarettes And Guns
Posted on: February 18, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: Health Related
Dear Mr. President, Firstly, Happy Presidents Day, and congratulations on your efforts in curbing gun violence. But bring your attention to another scourge creeping across the land, sir: cancers and diseases caused by cigarettes. Each year, 34,000 people die from guns; but over 400,000 die from tobacco. Where are our priorities? There can’t be a [...]
Nicotine Truth and E-Cigarette Lies
Posted on: February 16, 2013 By: mediaguy, Posted In: Health Related
The only reason people think nicotine’s bad is because it’s the most known part of tobacco. Nicotine is not detrimental to your health. It can be toxic, like anything, in large amounts. Toxicity is a question of amount. Chocolate is toxic. But the nicotine in e-cigarettes? About the same as what’s in legal tobacco. What’s [...]
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