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By: Courtney Perkes, The Orange County Register

Tonya Moraffah takes a deep drag on her cigarette, feels the soothing surge of nicotine and explains what extinguished her 30-year, pack-a-day smoking habit.

Every evening, she plugs her battery-operated electronic cigarette into a charger. She no longer carries a lighter or sucks breath mints all day in the office.

“I call myself a non-smoker,” says Moraffah, a 54-year-old executive assistant from Tustin, Calif. “I thank God this came into my life. I’m healthier than I was smoking tobacco. There are other advantages. I don’t want to smell like a cigarette.”

E-cigarettes contain cartridges of nicotine that release an inhalable vapor. There’s no odor or smoke. They’re marketed as a safe alternative to tobacco’s lung-choking tar and cancer-causing carcinogens.

But those claims are disputed by the Food and Drug Administration. In July, the agency warned that the smokeless cigarettes are harmful. A government analysis of the made-in-China product found carcinogens and toxic chemicals. In a pending case, the FDA has been sued over its jurisdiction to regulate the e-cigarettes.

“Because these products have not been submitted to the FDA for evaluation or approval, at this time the agency has no way of knowing, except for the limited testing it has performed, the levels of nicotine or the amounts or kinds of other chemicals that the various brands of these products deliver to the user,” the FDA said.

Safe?

Craig Youngblood, founder of In Life, an Irvine distributor of e-cigarettes, disputes the lab findings and said his products contain ingredients that are safe and non-toxic.

“We’re an alternative to tobacco,” Youngblood says. “We’re not saying we’re going to give you big muscles or you’ll live to 130 … Caffeine and nicotine are not that dissimilar. What’s next? Telling you how many cups of coffee you can have?”

The models vary. Moraffah prefers a device that looks like a fancy ink pen. Another resembles a regular cigarette except the bright end is blue, not the color of a flame. E-cigarettes cost about $100, plus the cost of nicotine cartridges in various strengths. The devices carry a warning label saying they have not been approved by the FDA for smoking cessation and should be kept out of reach of children.

“We don’t want to look like a cigarette,” Youngblood says. “We’re in reality, an anti-cigarette.”

Youngblood talks like he’s on a crusade against cigarettes. He cites forest fire statistics, the pounds of discarded butts littering beaches. Not to mention the federal government’s calculation that more than 430,000 premature deaths each year are caused by tobacco or secondhand smoke.

But that’s where he and many other anti-smoking advocates depart.

Possibly toxic

Dr. Ira Jeffry Strumpf, a pulmonologist who teaches at UCLA and is a spokesman for the American Lung Association, said e-cigarettes have not been independently proven as a safe alternative to tobacco.

“The vapor that you inhale is not without risk,” Strumpf says. “It’s not pure nicotine. It has with it some contaminants. When the FDA looked at 19 of these cartridges, they found half the samples contain impurities that are known to be toxic to humans. At least one cartridge contained diethylene glycol, one of the toxic compounds of antifreeze.”

Strumpf said he’s concerned that e-cigarettes are marketed to people who want to quit smoking but also to those who have never smoked before.

“The fact they present them in the shape of a cigarette, they’re trying to capitalize on the social aspect of smoking and trying to promote the social appeal of smoking.”

Brad Rodu, a tobacco researcher at the University of Kentucky in Louisville, considers e-cigarettes a better alternative for smokers who absolutely can’t break their addiction.

“We can’t say these are perfectly safe, but with everything we know about them we can certainly say they are vastly safer than continuing to light cigarette tobacco on fire and inhaling the 3,000 or 4,000 chemicals that cigarette smokers are doing right now,” Rodu said.

Peter French, 52, has become such a fan of the e-cigarette that he’s started selling them with In Life. He puffs his in restaurants, the bank and even in church. He said he enjoys the novelty and the curious looks and questions.

“This has literally saved my life,” says the Laguna Beach resident, exhaling puffs of vapor that quickly disappear. “My sense of smell is definitely back, taste. I can enjoy things.”

French said he tried quitting smoking with the patch, gum and medication designed to reduce cravings. But he missed the oral satisfaction of a cigarette, which he said e-cigarettes replicate.

“You get the hand to mouth, you get the vapor. Inhaling that vapor is almost exactly the same as what it feels like to smoke,” he says. “We just want the nicotine. We don’t want the other stuff in the tobacco.”

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There is a new alternative to tobacco, it’s called an electronic cigarette. Buying tobacco cigarettes is expensive, in most cases a vast portion of the cost of cigarettes is actually dedicated to tax. In many localities, tobacco taxes can account for as much as half of the cost. For many who are addicted to smoking, this can often mean giving up other essentials.

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Ever since the public became aware about the bad effects of smoking a few decades ago, many people have found quitting the tobacco habit hard. Companies have been innovating and manufacturing smoking cessation devices and products for many years now. From nicotine patches to gum, even a daily pill, nicotine addicts have been using them to quit their habit. In this article you’ll find the green smoke electronic cigarette review.

What is an electronic cigarette?

The green smoke electronic cigarette has been in production for just about three years and is a clever little device aimed at providing smokers with a healthier option. This can also be useful in helping to reduce and indeed quit smoking altogether.

In addition to being healthier than your average cigarettes, and perhaps most importantly of all, is the fact that electronic cigarettes are completely legal. Because a green smoke electronic cigarette does not involve tobacco, you can legally smoke them anywhere that your average cigarettes are banned from use such as bars, restaurants, place of business, even on airplanes. Furthermore, electronic cigarettes allow you to smoke without worry of inflicting harm to others due to nasty second hand smoke.

The great thing about a green smoke electronic cigarette as apposed to say, nicotine patches, is that e-cigarettes produce the same tactile sensation and oral fixation that smokers desire, while satisfying ones tobacco cravings as well. When you take a drag from an electronic cigarette you actually feel your lungs fill with a warm tobacco flavored smoke and when you exhale the smoke billows out of your lungs just like regular smoking, however, as mentioned, that smoke is actually a much healthier water vapor that quickly evaporates and therefore does not offend people in the close vicinity.

While a green smoke electronic cigarette may look, feel and taste much like traditional cigarettes, they function very differently. You see, electronic cigarettes do not actually burn any tobacco, but rather, when you inhale from an e-cigarette, you activate a “flow censor” which releases a water vapor containing nicotine, propylene glycol, and a scent that simulates the flavor of tobacco. All of which simply means that electronic cigarettes allow you to get your nicotine fix while avoiding all of the cancer causing agents found in regular cigarettes such as tar, carcinogens, hundreds of additives, and hydrocarbons.

Green smoke electronic cigarettes have been around for a while in various incarnations. There have been recent advances in the technology as well as ever increasing restrictions against smoking that have propelled the e-cigarette into a new found popularity. If you are interested in a healthier alternative to smoking cigarettes, or if you really just want to have the freedom to smoke whenever and wherever you want, a green smoke electronic cigarette might be the best solution you’ve been looking for.

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Smoking in the park

We’ve come such a long way that in New York City, even many smokers feel guilty about smoking these days — if a walk through City Hall Park on Tuesday was any indication.

But what of the city health commissioner’s proposal on Monday to ban smoking in public parks? In a city where people — tall, short, fat, thin, rich, poor, pregnant, stinky, perfumed — have turned peaceful coexistence in crowded quarters like subways and sidewalks into an art, there was a widespread feeling that public parks should also be a place of tolerance.

Banning smoking in bars, restaurants and workplaces is one thing, people said, but banning cigarettes in parks and on beaches might be going just a step too far — except near children — on the road to a nanny state.

“It’s a real quandary,” said Jared Hayley, 37, a nonsmoker who was reading the paper during a break from teaching English as an adjunct professor at nearby Pace University. “This is a public space. What if somebody is eating a food that the odor is offensive to me?”

Asked about the proposed ban, Almash M. Bux, 53, an electronics technician, who was smoking to calm his nerves before an appointment for Section 8 housing, said, “I think that’s very ridiculous.”

“Where else are people going to go where they can enjoy themselves because it’s free? Except the jail or the park, that’s it,” Mr. Bux said, sitting in the shade of sweet-smelling trees and bushes, a large fountain burbling 10 feet away. “Rich people, they go to the club.”

The city’s health commissioner, Thomas A. Farley, said Monday that he would seek to ban smoking at city parks and beaches. On Tuesday, the proposal seemed to have roused many people’s inner civil libertarian.

Not far from Mr. Bux, eight construction workers, hard hats in hand, sat in a row on several benches, talking. None of them were smoking, but they defended the right of others to do so.

“Pretty soon they’re going to start charging us to breathe the air,” said one of the workers, Emilio Cuomo.

“When I was smoking, they got rid of smoking in bars, and I thought that was great,” Mr. Cuomo said.

“But parks?” a coworker, Sam Mele, said incredulously.

“What — are they talking about having a body-odor ticket?” Mr. Cuomo said. “I think they should do that.”

“Excessive perfume too, it’s a killer,” said Richie Skeans, another of the construction workers. “On a man or a woman.”

Patrick Langworthy, 26, who was sitting on a bench reading an espionage novel during a work break, said he sympathized with the goal of reducing smoking. But he added: “How do you regulate the air around you? Everyone has the freedom to be outside. I don’t understand how you can enforce that.”

Edward Dixon, 61, a marketing manager who does not smoke, said the proposal sounded awfully close to Prohibition, and, he added, look how well that worked. He imagined a future city in which people might be arrested for having nicotine-stained fingers. “Get out of the car!” he barked, enacting the scene.

Still, Mr. Dixon said he thought smoking should be prohibited near children, and some parkgoers suggested that a designated smoking area or benches in parks might be more reasonable than a ban.

In fact, smoking has been prohibited in playgrounds and at a small number of other enclosed outdoor areas, like pools and ice-skating rinks, since 1995, Jessica Scaperotti, a spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said Tuesday. A city law passed in 2002 has banned smoking in virtually all workplaces, including most bars.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg acknowledged on Tuesday that enforcement of a ban in parks might be hard, and suggested a nuanced approach.

“Look, nobody is more of a believer in saving lives and stopping smoking,” the mayor said during an event at Columbia University to promote tourism.

“The real issue is, if you’re sitting in the middle of Sheep Meadow and you’re the only one there, are you doing any damage to anybody other than killing yourself? Probably not.”

But Mr. Bloomberg said that in a crowded park, “yes, you are hurting other people.”

He also cited the “practical aspect” of enforcing such a law, saying that the police and park rangers already “have a lot of things to do.”

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It has been 16 days. I have saved over $80. I feel great.

One of the things I have noticed in the last couple days is that I am smoking the electronic cigarette less than I would be smoking regular smokes. For example I no longer crave a hit first thing in the morning, and today I actually waited till after lunch. This is not something I have been trying to do, it just seems to be working out that way. I have been smoking the e-cig whenever I feel like it, I am just feeling like it less and less often.

I am on my last “high” nicotine cartridge now, and when that is done I will be vaping exclusively the “medium” strength cartridges.

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