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eBay has announced that E-Cigarettes will be banned from being sold on eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie. Other European eBay sites will ban the sale of E-Smoking devices as well. Electronic Cigarette component parts such as atomisers, liquid refills, vaporisers, batteries, shells and cartridges will be banned from eBay’s site as well. More info on the ban of E-Cigarettes will be released later this month.

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A while ago, KSTP in Minnesota did a nice video report on Electronic Cigarettes and the rise of E-Smoking in their state. They interviewed a local distributor and asked the opinion on the Electronic Cigarette of someone of the American Lung Assocation.

An editor over at Slate has written a nice article on why most people are against the Electronic Cigarette. “Vapor War - Our irrational hostility toward electronic cigarettes” is the title of this article that gives some info on the history of the tobacco cigarette and vaporized nicotine and then goes on telling about the E-Cig. They ask theirselves the question: “Is vaping smoking?” A very hard question to answer indeed since vapor isn’t smoke, but it’s an odorless cloud. Then they continue talking about the articles on the ECigarette in the NYT and WSJ.

Smoking used to be a social thing. Most smokers probably smoked their first cigarette in a pub, somewhere in a restaurant or on the dancefloor. With the ban on public smoking, the social aspect of cigarettes disappeared. Now, thanks to E-Cigarettes, smoking is a social and cosy thing again. Smoking an Electronic Cigarette is just as fun as smoking a regular tobacco cigarette, it’s just much easier, cheaper, healthier and better for the environment. You no longer need to annoy people with your second hand smoke or violate laws to get your smoke after your meal in a public restaurant.

Thank you E-Cigarette for giving me a health nicotine boost when I need it, wherever I want it.

Just Jared caught Leonardo DiCaprio smoking on his bike. He wasn’t just smoking, he was smoking an Electronic Cigarette! Some say Leo wants to quit smoking by smoking thre magical E-Cigarette. He had just gone for some Chinese food with some friends in LA wearing his favorite FAU baseball cap and a fancy E-Ciggy in his mouth.

In this interesting article at OfficialWire, Tiffany Ellis writes about the future of the E-Cigarette. ‘E-Cigarettes will revolutionize the face of tobacco smoking and could pose a threat to the smoking cessation market’, that’s what people claim and it’s definitely possible that E-Cigs will conquer old-fashion tobacco cigarettes some day. Experts of the American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and the American Heart Association have already said that there is currently no proof that the Electronic Cigarette is harmful.

Dr Murray Laugesen of the Health New Zealand foundation is an anti-smoking health practiioner in Australia and New Zealand and claims that his tests have proven that E-Cigarettes are 100 to a 1000 times healthier than classic tobacco cigarettes.

Doctor Joel L. Nitzkin of the Chair of the Tobacco Control Group for the American Association of Public Health Physicians has sent a fax to Senator Lautenburg asking him to consider lifting the ban on electronic cigarettes.

“Alternative nicotine delivery devices, including, but not limited to electronic cigarettes, have no products of combustion and none of the toxins in cigarette tobacco… As best we can tell, on the basis of currently available research data, these products promise a risk of illness and death well under 1% of the risk posed by cigarettes.”

He’s completely right about the much lower health risks of the E-Cigarette compared to the risk of traditional tobacco cigarettes that contain tar, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, nitrosamines and other toxics.

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A journalist from The Independent switched from normal tobacco cigarettes to the new E-Cigarette for 30 days and wrote this cool article about it. In the article she says the E-Cigarette is a nice alternative to normal tobacco cigarettes and could be the perfect way to smoke in restaurants and pubs, but according to the writer it will take a while before avid smokers will try the electronic cigarette.

Times Online has published a new article on nicotine replacement therapies and its effects on the human body. They report that nicotine replacement therapies can cause cancer. Smoking patches, nicotine gum and nicotine inhalers can be more harmful for health than expected.

Electronic Cigarettes are actually a type of nicotine replacement therapy as well. E-Cigarettes are still healthier than normal tobacco cigarettes that contain tar and other toxic stuff, but I’d say the E-Cig is still the healthiest way to stop smoking or to replace tobacco cigarettes. Let’s hope that researches will do some more work on E-Cigarette research in the coming months and years.

If you would like to learn some more on Electronic Cigarettes, then Wikipedia is definitely a good place to learn some general facts about E-Cigarettes. Their E-Cig page offers some great info on the history of the E-Cig, the different types of electronic smoking devices and the contents of E-Cig/E-Cigar cartridges. Visit Wikipedia’s E-Cigarette page now to learn more about the amazing E-Cigarette.