Smoldering E-cigs

Smoldering E-Cigs

By: Tiffany Davis

Flavor Vapor Media Specialist

                This week was the big Golden Globes were announced and this morning when I woke up it was all that was smeared on the TV but, one thing I never thought I would see is that e-cigs and Golden Globes were now intertwined. Talk about the two things I never thought about together. This follows just yesterdays (01/15/2014) announcement my Chicago that the city would ban them in the same areas as traditional cigarettes.

            This might just be the last straw for lawmakers unfortunately. I feel as if the impending pressure on the FDA to regulate e-cigs overnight just tripled. With four senators writing letters to the broadcasting company for what was supposed to be a harmless skit. The senators see e-cigs as a “slippery slope” to transition from vaping to traditional cigarettes. I don’t feel like this is true. I don’t think I’ve ever met ANYONE thus far that wasn’t a smoker of traditional cigarettes before trying e-cigs and went back to traditional cigarettes. Most people I talk to transition from traditional cigarettes to vaping and sometimes even quit everything but, keep their vape close by for stressful times.

            I can see the senators side for the sake of children that seeing their favorite actors and actresses vaping on national tv but, isn’t it a heck of a lot better that a cigarette or a big cigar? This blog seems to be rolling almost every issue I have ever wrote about in one snug bundle but, with all my research I still have not found recent research that proves e-cigs are dangerous. My humble opinion is all e-juice should be USA made and made in a lab just to insure quality and so that we know what we are putting in our bodys isn’t something a china man scraped off the floor and put in a bottle. So, in the sense of e-juice I would like to see regulations just of the e-juice for quality and safety. (Flavor Vapors e-juice is all made in USA and made in a lab)

            The best comment made from the whole segment on CBS This Morning was:

SFATA

“We understand and share the senators concerns……and sensitive to imagery that glamorizes smoking; however, vaporizing units like e-cigs are not tobacco products.”

-Phil Daman

Smoke Free Alternatives Trade Association President

External links:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/golden-globes-sexy-portrayal-of-e-cigarettes-makes-lawmakers-smolder/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-votes-to-ban-e-cigarettes/