Monthly Archive:: August 2015
22 Aug 2015
Another Local Ordinance Influenced by GASP
Recently, the township of Hillsdale in New Jersey is looking to change their local ordinances to match the existing state laws regarding tobacco sales. Currently, in NJ you have to be 19 years of age to purchase tobacco. For some reason, there was a local ordinance in the town that superseded the state law and
22 Aug 2015
E-Cigarettes 95% Safer Than Smoking – Public Health England Research and Recommendations
A recent study published by Public Health England has started virally circulating the web in the past 24 hours. Many news sites have picked it up (I personally first saw the article tied from a Reuters article). While it has been reposted/shared/mentioned all across social media, I decided to take an in-depth read into the
12 Aug 2015
Cloud Sauce Vape – Cereal Milk Reloaded E-Liquid Review
Cereal Milk Reloaded by Cloud Sauce Vape is another liquid I picked up at Vape Expo NJ. I’ve had it on my table for the past few weeks and decided to finally try it. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t all too excited to try yet another cereal and milk flavor. I’ve been somewhat over them
05 Aug 2015
ScienceDirect – Cigarette/Electronic Cigarette/Air Study
ScienceDirect – Comparison of select analytes in aerosol from e-cigarettes with smoke from conventional cigarettes and with ambient air Disclaimer: The link above is a scientific article describing in detail testing procedures and methods of comparing standard cigarettes, multiple electronic cigarettes, and standard air. Much of the article is outside my higher learning background but
04 Aug 2015
California Extraordinary Session on Health Care (SB140/SB151 Special Session)
California Extraordinary Session on Health Care Notblowingsmoke.org recently posted a wealth of information regarding the followup special session bills that would push forward many of the issues California vapers fought in SB140 and SB151. As many of you may know, SB140 and SB151 were very adamantly fought against and were eventually dropped from the docket. Unfortunately for
04 Aug 2015
ECigarette-Research.org – Dr. Farsalinos and Scientific Data Regarding Levels of Aldehydes in Vapor
E-cigarettes generate high levels of aldehydes only in “dry puff” conditions (irrespective of the power levels) Finally! Some real information and scientific evidence (and by that I mean research that has been done and peer reviewed). When an earlier study done earlier in 2015 by the New England Journal of Medicine showed that there were
04 Aug 2015
Drip Nation Full Eliquid Line Review
When I was at Vape Expo, I had the pleasure of sitting with the Drip Nation crew for a little bit to discuss their liquid line. At the end I was given a bag with their full line, information card, and business cards. Whoever did their marketing/graphic design/and overall vision of how they wanted to
04 Aug 2015
Rockland County NY Needs Your Help!
Right now county legislators are scheduled to hear a bill (specifically item 7 in their agenda) that would define vaping products similarly to tobacco products and ban them from use indoors. While there is an exemption for specific vape shops, this does not provide enough defined difference in the indoor bans and could cause problems
03 Aug 2015
Black And Yellow Eliquid from the Minds of Eric Trotter and Andy Han
I was recently sent a sample of unreleased liquid called Black and Yellow. This eliquid is from the minds of Eric Trotter (The Force Vapor) and Andy Han (The Vape Unit). Black and Yellow should be released in the next few weeks but I’ll happily test out a preproduction version. RBA/Box: Derringer / Snow Wolf