The Populairty of On-Campus Vaping

Across the world, increasing numbers of people are looking to make the switch from traditional tobacco cigarettes to electronic cigarettes in a bid to lower the antisocial aspects of smoking and to live a better lifestyle. As students around the world look to embark on a new life at college, a growing number are switching to vaping as their chosen form of smoking as they look for the best options for a better alternative on campus. Stricter controls are being implemented on many campuses, but vaping can still provide many with a good option for smoking in areas where traditional cigarettes are not permitted.

For students, the chance to vape can provide many benefits over traditional cigarettes, which can include the chance to inhale less nicotine and to do so in a cleaner way than the use of a traditional cigarette. An e-cigarette uses a cartridge containing liquid nicotine that does not contain the many harmful ingredients that are commonly found in traditional cigarettes and lead to many of the antisocial aspects of smoking. Because an e-cigarette does not need to be smoked to the end of the cartridge the individual smoker can often lower the amount of nicotine they take in during an average day on a college campus.

Life on campus is often busy and filled with fun and a little stress, which leads many students to take up smoking. Finding a cleaner way that does not include the strong smells created by burning the wrapper and ingredients of a cigarette can make it easier for a student to make friends on campus. An e-cigarette emits water vapor, which does not produce a strong odor or cover clothes and the surroundings area with the smells associated with traditional smoking. Vaping is another option for those who are living the busy life of a college student as a few puffs on a vaporizer can satisfy the need for nicotine and be flavored with different options.

Some college campuses still allow students to vape on campus in areas where traditional smoking is forbidden. Following the rules is an important thing to do and vaping in class may not be the correct thing to do on most campuses. As vaping is seen as less controversial than other smoking options the chance to vape in public should not be missed for students at colleges across the country.

Ecigarettes Trigger Big Sales and Lots of Questions

What started out as an online, underground fad is now a billion dollar business. Electronic cigarettes- often called ecigarettes, really aren't cigarettes at all because there's no tobacco, no flame and no smoke. But there are still a lot of questions about where they can be used and whether they pose a health risk.

Esmokeronline store manager Dave Allen says ecigarettes are becoming so popular that his business, which began as an internet site being run out of a bedroom, now has two brick and mortar stores with plans to open a third. Ecigarettes are designed to look like cigarettes, but they’re electronic. When inhaled, they convert a nicotine laced liquid into a vapor that when exhaled looks like smoke. It’s called vaping.

The liquids come in dozens of flavors like watermelon, bubblegum and caramel.  The devices themselves come in all kinds of fashionable and customizable styles. You can choose from neon pinks and greens, goth designs, bling designs or even a wood-toned executive look.  Allen says all those choices bring customers in the door.

“Or you get a lot of people coming in to just ask about how to get started in this whole thing and how it can help them quit smoking,” he says. Cheryl, a customer who declined to give her last name,  says that’s what brought her in. A smoker of 40-years, she says nothing she’s tried has brought her even close to quitting. “Chantix, hypnotism, acupressure…. Let’s think, yeah, been there done that,” she says.

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Districts ban E-Cigarettes from sporting events

NORMAN, Okla. — Some school districts in the state are taking steps to fight the electronic cigarette fad on campus.

Those e-cigarettes use liquid, allowing users to inhale flavored vapor which contains different levels of nicotine. In some cases there is no nicotine in the vapor.

However, some school districts say it’s not so much the device but the example and the nicotine they want to keep off campus. It’s a move Norman schools made this week.

Shelly Hickman, with Norman Public Schools, said, “The board of education approved new policy that treats e-cigarettes just as we treat other tobacco products on our school campuses and that means we don’t want them. They are not allowed.”

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Should I take up e-cigarettes in order to stop smoking?

The medical community is divided on the matter of e-cigarettes, but they can't be as bad for you as the real thing.

Cheryl Cole, Robert Pattinson and Kate Moss have all been seen "vaping". Puffing on e-cigarettes, which produce vapour instead of smoke has been tried by up to 35% of smokers, according to the public health charity Ash (Action on Smoking and Health).

The number of UK users rose from 700,000 last year to 1.3 million this year. Smokers seem to use them on top off their normal cigarette intake, or to help them quit.

But are e–cigarettes much less damaging than the real thing? These battery-operated devices contain a cartridge filled with a liquid solution of nicotine, propylene glycol (used in special effects to create fog) and flavourings that range from traditional tobacco to candy floss. Puffing activates a heating element that vapourises the liquid in the cartridge, producing a mist that is inhaled.

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E-cigarettes raise new questions about smoking

When a friend sitting at my kitchen table pulled out what looked like a cigarette, I was about to direct her to the front porch. But then I realized that what she was blowing was an odorless vapor, not smoke. It was an electronic cigarette.

Electronic cigarettes come in a variety of shapes and models, but most consist of a battery, a heating element, and a liquid that

contains nicotine, propylene glycol and flavorings. The heating element warms and aerosolizes the liquid, turning it into a vapor the user inhales. Smoking an e-cigarette (called “vaping”), gives users a nicotine hit without exposing them, or those around them, to tobacco smoke. The lack of odor is one of the biggest selling points, says Craig Weiss, chief executive of NJoy electronic cigarettes.

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Is ‘Vaping’ Better Than Smoking?

A growing number of smokers are turning to electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) to get their nicotine fix instead of smoking traditional cigarettes. Is "vaping" better than smoking? The e-cigarette industry would like us to believe that it is. But more research needs to be done, and federal regulation is needed.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently does not regulate the manufacture, marketing and sale of e-cigarettes. In New York State, they cannot be sold to minors, but other states are still trying to determine how to deal with this relatively new product. As Mitch Zeller, Director of the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products, has said, "Right now, it's the wild, wild west." Buyer beware.

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