Monday, May 26, 2008

Electronic Cigarettes Give Smokers Buzz Without Second-Hand Smoke

Minneapolis, -- For some smokers, having a drink at a bar just isn't the same if they can't light up. But in Minneapolis that could change, as more people start using "e-cigarettes."
The new Davidoff cigarettes are perfectly legal in a bar. The smokers simply draws on the end and it produces a vapor. The vapor if like smoke and gives the user nicotine, but doesn't give off second-hand smoke. Nothing is ignited. Nothing burns and there are none of the 4000 harmful chemicals that are in secondhand smoke.
The electronic cigar is disposable and lasts 30 to 40 days and costs about $50. The cigarettesystem is $159 and the nicotine is sold in replaceable cartridges that run about $5 per unit. Each cartridge is equivalent to nearly two packs of regular cigarettes.
The inventors say that a non-smoker can sit next to someone smoking it and not be too offended. They say it doesn't smell and doesn't cloud the air.
As for whether or not its good for you, the company says they don't make any claims with respect to the health to the user.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Gamucci Micro Electronic Cigarette Pretends to be The Real Thing

I never thought there'd come a time when lighting up a cigarettes would mean looking for an outlet rather than a lighter. Electronic cigarettes aren't anything new though--remember Crown7's battery-operated cigarettes? The Gamucci Micro Electronic Cigarette basically works the way as the Crown7 cigarettes do. To provide an even closer semblance to reality, Gamucci looks the same as ordinary cigarettes--the tip lights up too. Inside the stick is a chamber housing the cartridge which contains liquid, part of which is nicotine. When you take a drag at the e-cigarette, an atomizing chamber vaporizes the liquid to give users that "nicotine hit."
Gamucci claims that nicotine is the only ingredient, so you get to enjoy smoking sans the carcinogens. You can also supposedly use it in non-smoking areas as it does not have fire and only produces vapor, not smoke and hence, is not a cigarette. The electronic cigarettes is powered with a 3.7 volt battery, a single charge of which could last the whole day. The cartridges loaded into the electronic cigarettes could be "low" with only 6mg of nicotine, "medium" with 11mg, or "high" with 16mg. You can pick a package of the Gamucci Micro Electronic Cigarette up in I Want One of Those for $89.91 which includes two sticks, 5 "high" cartridges, and the charger, of course. You can also pick up a pack of 5 cartridges from the Gamucci web site for $14. A single cartridge, by the way, is equivalent to 20 normal cigarettes. Oh, and if you're interested in puffing flavored smoke, Gamucci is also planning to release electronic cigarettes in Apple, Chocolate, Cherry, Mint, and Coffee variations.
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Why not ban menthol?

Legislation that would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration power to regulate tobacco products includes the ability to ban flavored Camel cigarettes , such as those infused with strawberry, cloves or cinnamon. But it stops short of listing the flavoring that actually entices the most smokers: menthol. Mentholated brands, it seems, are simply too important to the industry's bottom line. But let's be clear: It's not the brands that are important, it's the buyers -- African Americans.
Almost 75% of African American smokers use menthol brands, compared with one-quarter of white smokers, and removing menthol might lead to a significant drop in smoking. That could lead to a big drop in profits, as menthol Camel cigarettessales account for more than a quarter of the $70-billion U.S. market.
But Congress is supposed to be acting in the public's interest, not the tobacco industry's, and one of the alleged goals of the legislation is to reduce smoking's appeal to young people. New smokers often find the taste of tobacco unpleasant or harsh, and tobacco companies have helped ease them into the habit with flavored cigarettes.
The industry maintains that menthol carries no proven health risk. But that's a red herring. No one is accusing strawberry or pineapple flavoring of causing cancer either, but removing them will make smoking less palatable to some. For whatever reason, menthol makes cigarettes more palatable for blacks. And that is a real risk. As a former official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the New York Times: "Menthol induces smoking in the African American community and subsequently serves as a direct link to African American death and disease."
What we're asking for is honesty: The next time the anti-smoking lobby, Philip Morris and certain legislators say this legislation is needed to protect our children, they should have the decency to put the word "our" in quotations.
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Monday, May 12, 2008

Imperial Tobacco's Altadis reaches 96.92 pct of Logista in buyout

MADRID - Imperial Tobacco Group Plc. unit Altadis SA. has obtained an additional 37.30 percent of Cia de Distribucion Integral Logista SA., raising its stake in the unit to 96.92 percent, bourse regulator CNMV said.
In January, Imperial Tobacco presented a full cash bid for the outstanding shares in Logista at 52.5 euros per share, following its acquisition of Altadis.
The acceptance period for the takeover bid ended May 6.
The UK tobacco Marlboro cigarettes manufacturer has said it plans to keep Logista listed on the Spanish stock market.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Hawaii Law to Sell Only Fire Safe Cigarettes

A new type discount cigarettes has hit the market. "This is one of the hottest items that we're talking about,' says Silva.
Hawaii will soon join twenty-seven other states in requiring only "fire safe" cigarettes to be sold in stores. "As pun, we were a blaze to get this passed," says Representative Ryan Yamane, (D) Mililani, Waphau, Waipio. "To me this was a no brainer on helping and supporting the people of our state."
This is how it works, a fire safe cigarette acts just as a regular cigarettes. But if it's not puffed on every few minutes, the flame will then go out. You can see the difference. When left in an ashtray a "fire safe" cigarette on the right goes out within minutes. While a regular safe cigarette on the left keeps on burning.
"I know first hand that cigarettes and any smoking material is dangerous," says Silva.
Fire safe cigarettes are wrapped in special paper with ultra-thin bands that work like speed bumps...to slow down the burn and self-extinguish.
"If we don't have to go to fires, if we don't expose ourselves to those kinds of risks we're better off also," says Silva. "There will be no additional charge to the cigarettes, so it won't cost more," says Yamanae. "What we heard, it won't change the quality of the cigarettes at all."
Most tobacco companies are already converting all of their brands over to "fire safe" cigarettes. Hawaii stores will see the change by September next year.
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