http://www.vapefest.com/ - to be held at the Hyatt Regency O’hare( also in Richmond) and running from 30th of March until the 1st of April. This is a ticketed event ($20 per person, per day) or $30 for the weekend if you book online.
UPDATE!!!
Entry fee for Chicago Vapefest™ is $10 per day at the event (Saturday and Sunday)
or
$10 for all weekend entry and 5 free raffle tickets if paid in advance online
$10 for all weekend at the door and with a badge/pass from any other vaping event.
18 and over and you must have ID to get in! - via http://www.vapefest.com/
Many of your favorite vendor will be making an appearance at both (…check sites for more details).
…both events happen the next weekend after World Vaping Day (22nd of March) a day when vapers across the world will be meeting up locally to share their passion.
This is a great little e-cig. Trog who designed them has really made something special here. It’s a great entry product for anyone who is looking to make the switch from traditional smoking. It’s also seen favour within the community as a whole as a perfect gift for a friend or for themselves.
Remember “disc-10″ at the checkout, will get you 10% off the purchase price.
In the above image I’ve added an eGo to 510 adapter to the set up (…not included) doing this has allowed use of the eGo cone cover. I think it adds a little something extra, and gives the cartomizer just that little extra protection against “pocket abuse”.
I see the future of the SD Keyring to be big within the off-line sector. Why?…because it’s different, and it looks nothing like a cigarette. I’m willing to bet if Menkind who already stock the Gamucci in their brick and mortar stores had this along side a fair few customers would be attracted to the SD Keyring’s design and form factor, add to that the price point is in line with the disposable (single use) we already see on the market but with the added advantage of being rechargable.
To welcome in the new year I have given myself a new years resolution; this being a concerted effort to educate and inform, both myself and those who read what I write about here. Over the coming months…and time permitting I will be covering topics that cover a wider net of interest than that of Vaping; albeit the 2011 and my election to position of Chair within ECCA has been the motivation.
I have no plan or order to what I will be writing about but I do know that there are certain topics I wish to cover ( I am also open to constructive suggestions).
Backstory:
I never planned to quit smoking, far from it, but when I discovered vaping, It just made sense to me. Continued use of nicotine in a delivery system that resembles what I’m used to. like Dave Dorn told me in conversation in a piece I have not yet made public (which I will be in the not too distant future) “…it’s all of the Joy’s and none of the Death”.
The Tobacco Wars is an excellent series, albeit one-sided in favour of the anti-smoking camp. I make no claims to ownership of this and did not up load it myself, as such it may be taken down at any time but until then, watch, enjoy but most importantly, learn.
Other topic that I wish to cover in subsequent post include:
EU Law (As it pertains to the continued acceptance or lack thereof of vaping and the electronic cigarette as recognised form of nicotine delivery)
Patent Law (Just what can you patent, and how it should be enforced within the electronic cigarette industry, licencing etc…)
Liable and Slander (Becoming more and more important in this the age of the Internet, being that if you blog or post on a bulletin/forum board you can be held accountable)
The Mantis is 100% made in the USA. Machined form high quality Delrin. Includes a one million click rate button. The Mantis will hold RCR123, 17670 or 18650 protected batteries. – source siam mods
I find it great news for the UK that “The Scot” as he’s known on UKV has started to offer The mantis. The form factor of the mod compliments well alongside The Cube. Being that it is capable of housing an 18650 shows that it may offer an alternative to the “Silver Bullet” ( A classic and popular model within the community).
This is what Grimm Green had to say on the device:
One day of national vaping awareness across the globe. When I smoked I almost found no smoking days almost insulting. Yet another day then the government and society would look down on me as a leper. The idea behind vaping awareness will not be this. It’s going to be about inclusion, not exclusion. Recently I’ve been wooed over to the libertarian way of political thinking. Let the people choose. Now in the UK no smoking day falls on the 14th of March and it is heavily backed by the big pharma companies as well as other notable businesses. Yes it’s going to be an up hill struggle but I think we have to build on the positive press that the vaping world has recently enjoyed of late. We cannot be seen to rest on our laurels. In certain areas of the world little victories have been won, but the big battle is not over.
I genuinely believe in humanity to do the right thing, if given all the facts.
I don’t think Big Tobacco see’s vaping as a threat, it will simply see it as another revenue stream. In this economic climate I firmly believe that those in power should view the idea of recreational nicotine use as a good thing for economic growth. I don’t want to drill out the tired old rhetoric of vaping being safer on a magnitude unimaginable when up against the choice of combustion, there’s just no argument here. Even the anti-smoking lobby agree an in-fact publicise that it is indeed the burning of the tobacco leaf that release’s all the “bad” stuff.
Nicotine is not the enemy an indeed has been proven to have certain effects that are beneficial.
Vaping however should not be seen as a way to quit smoking, rather a way to continue the experience in a less hazardous form. Nicotine is no more harmful than caffeine period!!
Tell a man something and he’ll know that thing. He won’t know if it’s true or not, he’ll just know that thing you told him. Blind knowledge is useless, but teach a man to reason and he’ll think for a lifetime.
This is not propaganda, Vaping day will give the populations of the world a chance to hear and weigh the information for themselves.
TED Live was held in Edinburgh in Scotland this Year. One of the many great people to lecture was Ben Goldacre. Ben, as well as being a qualified Doctor is the author of ”Bad Science“.
Goldacre’s book Bad Science was published by Fourth Estate in September 2008.[4] The book contains extended and revised versions of many of his Guardian columns. It has been positively reviewed by the BMJ[34] and Daily Telegraph[35] and has reached the Top 10 bestseller list for Amazon Books. In an interview in 2008, Goldacre stated that “one of the central themes of my book [Bad Science] is that there are no real differences between the $600 billion pharmaceutical industry and the $50 billion food supplement pill industry”.[36] - wikipedia
I would urge anyone interested in medicine and especially how the use of statistics and the withholding of statistics can skew the view of a medical product as to its effectiveness, or lack there of, to have a read of the book.
What has this got to do with “vaping” and the electronic cigarette?
…on face value nothing really, but, if you scratch past the surface you find that you can read a lot of What Ben has to say into the current situation and circumstances that the electronic cigarette is faced with regarding the “alledged” behind the scenes back-handing between the policy makers and Big Pharma.
I found this gem via forest (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco). As I’ve stated time and again I am a vaper that still enjoys the odd nicotine fix via the traditional method of burning tobacco, yes I know it’s not good for me. Yes it may very well lead to an early death.
A side note on the whole early death issue:
What do we mean by an early death? do we mean that smokers on average tend to exit this mortal coil, no later than 12 noon. (“No don’t be ridiculous Sam” – that’s just stupid.)
It means that I may or indeed may not have a shorter lifespan than I would possibly have expected had I never smoked. This as a statement of fact is all well and good but remember the words of the great Bill Hicks.
“Non Smokers die every day…sleep tight.”
We as humans are born to die, death is just one of those interesting facts of existence that we can perhaps hold off through exercise and proper diet but it WILL get us all in the end.
Part of the reason I blog and wax lyrical on the subject of vaping and to a certain extent evangelize the past time is not that I’m on a mission to convert, or attribute some great health benefit that can be gained by making the switch to using an electronic cigarette. It is simply that I want to see a stop to the demonization of nicotine. At the doses in question when talking about the e liquid that we use in our personal vaporizers of choice, even by the standards in place used by both the FDA and indeed the MHRA and WHO are considered and sanctioned safe by law.
My personal crusade is to see a normalisation of nicotine use occur.
Back when electronic cigarettes started to be available in the UK, one of first places you were able to buy them from was EBAY. With the FDA’s new ruling that Electronic Cigarette’s are to be classified as a Tobacco Product (…and taxed as such). This left many suppliers without a place to sell their products that received a substantial “cyber” equivalent of “footfall”…and as ebay is an american company this ruling also affected users and vendors in Britain.
So this is a little history of how the name came about…but what of the site itself.
Who is it for?
Why would you use it?
Not so much for vendors as for the public at large, As well as Stopping vendors from selling electronic cigarette products it also put an end to Joe Public being able to sell them too.
You know how it is, The next new shiny mod or comes out and you want it so bad that you decide to sell one of the devices that you don’t use as often, that way you can off set atleast a little of the expense of the new purchase, be less out of pocket and avoid the angry stares coming your way from your better half.
…but wait
You can’t use Ebay, they don’t let you anymore. You could use one of the members classifieds on the many electronic cigarette forum’s, but many find the Private Messaging and constant checking to see if your post has attracted a nimble quite time consuming.
Also you are not restricted to only selling electronic cigarettes, you can put almost anything up for auction on ecigbay.
I have also posted this as a response to a post on UKV. This is a somewhat extended version of that same prose.
Nicotine is a strange thing. We use it because it gives us pleasure. Is that pleasure psychosomatic, not sure, perhaps. A lot of us enjoy Alcohol and Caffeine but we would say that we were addicted. I can go days weeks even without dropping a touch of the stuff. But nicotine, not sure if I could say the same. I’m a dual user so I know that the effect is not the same, but, It is more than an adequate substitute. There have been times between pay days etc… that buying a pack of fags was just financially not an option. Luckily with the use of e liquid and my PV of choice, I suffered nothing you would describe as withdrawal symptoms, so they do work in that purpose for me at least. We are all different and we all sit in a different point on the addiction scale.
Are e-cigs for non smokers only? No.
If you had already stopped smoking permanently prior to hearing about electronic cigarettes, you have no need for the device.
I see it as a mechanism for those who can’t quit of do not want or need to yet.
It depends on your perspective of the issue. If you see you nicotine habit as an uncomfortable monkey on your back then, you have to come to a decision as to whether and how you are going to go about the process of monkey removal.
I myself don’t mind the monkey, it is still a comfort to me. Perhaps there will come a time when The monkey starts causing me pain from the sheer weight of carrying him around all the time. When he gets me breathless.
I am lucky in some respect that my monkey is a cross-breed species.
That’s enough of the monkey analogy, (who do I think I am? Richard Dawkins)
I vape and still smoke (admittedly I tend to partake in the former more frequently than the latter)
I have that option, the smoker who has not been introduced to the electronic cigarette does not know of this ingenious loophole we have of ”Quitting without Quitting”
This is why I support Rusty’s work at Cam Vip and am an active member of ECCA
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