Celebrities Promoting Electronic Cigarettes?

I don't know how well everyone keeps up with the media and the politics (yes politics) in the electronic cigarette community, but there's turmoil this week over the golden globes. Just a few days ago on Wednesday the Golden Globe Awards was on television as it always is, but this time around there was some controversy.

"Senators Fuming over E-Cigarettes at Golden Globes."

And watching these puppets talk reminds me of the 90's with the war on drugs, but these are the new "drugs" from how they manipulate the topic with scary words and the use of "protecting their children" from such a dangerous thing. Now I'm not going to get all political for I haven't done enough research on any of these senators, but precedence shows us that this is used to gain trust by antagonizing the "unknown."

"Marijuana Legalization proposed in New Mexico Senate.."

"Tax it! Maryland Lawmakers try to Legalize Marijuana Again.."

"US-OH Medical Marijuana: Will Ohio be Next to Legalize?"

Back to the Point at Hand..

Well it's kinda obvious we're not so worried about the war on drugs anymore, so who else can we point fingers at and make them look beneath us?

People like you and me who are just trying to kick a deadly habit by switching to electronic cigarette instead of analog cigarettes. This INCLUDES celebrities! Yeah some celebrities are trying to kick the habit as well, let's take Leonardo DiCaprio for an example..

Chain smoking like a chimney, but now we see him at the Golden Globe Awards using an electronic cigarette? More power to him! He's making the switch just like the rest of us...I don't see him advertising for us, or any other electronic cigarette company (though I wish he would) so how is he promoting the electronic cigarette?

Okay, that's fine and dandy but what about the children? The population of electronic cigarettes used by teenagers in high school has doubled since 2012! Alright I'm 23, and I was one of those high school teenagers hiding in the most secretive bathroom in the entire school to smoke a cigarette and ease my mind. I smoked cigarettes at a young age but it's not because I could but it at the store because I obviously couldn't. It was because it was what I was around, and the people I surrounded myself with. Don't blame the electronic cigarette company for your kid picking up a smoking habit, either blame your parenting or their friends and the society that surrounds them. 

With that said, I'm not condoning the sale to minors, at O2 Easy we won't sell them any of our products unless they're 18 and over with a valid drivers license. What I'm saying is it's going to happen whether the electronic cigarette exists or not. So why not the healthier alternative?

You wanna play that game Big Brother?

Well there's the older generation, now let's look at the "Kids,"

This young man is 21-22 so he's shortly out of high school and he's recommending these to anyone. He has a heart murmur and was still smoking "analog" cigarettes, not only that but menthol New Port 100's. So this touches up on what I mentioned before. 

So to summarize everything I just mentioned, it's always the same conclusion. The "big corporations" are misleading and misguiding people with either false or old information so they can keep people on the analog cigarettes. Here's a link to another blog touching up on such thing. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/legislation-news/363710-us-senators-ties-big-pharma-anti-smoking-legislation.html

They really make it seem like we're some drugdealers when we're just trying to help people get off the things that have ruined our lives, our wallets, and above all our health.

Vape On Fellow Vapers!

-Pete @O2 Easy

Medical Doctor Promotes the Use of Electronic Cigarettes

Did a little surfing on Youtube and found this wonderful video of Dr. David Baron explaining the science of the Electronic Cigarette. He touches up on the science of how it works, why it's different from tobacco smoke, how it cannot cause any harm to anyone around you, and why the smoking ban makes no sense for the use of Electronic Cigarettes.

Here's the two part Video:

Hope you enjoyed!

New Study Shows E-Cigarettes are Safe to Bystanders

People standing near someone using an e-cigarette will be exposed to nicotine, but not to other chemicals found in tobacco cigarette smoke, according to a new study. E-cigarettes, or electronic cigarettes, create a nicotine-rich vapor that can be inhaled, or 'vaped.'

Researchers and regulators have questioned whether e-cigarettes are a smoking cessation aid or may lure more young people toward smoking, as well as what effects they have on health."There is ongoing public debate whether e-cigarettes should be allowed or prohibited in public spaces," study co-author Maciej Goniewicz told Reuters Health in an email.

Goniewicz is a cancer researcher in the Department of Health Behavior at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York.

"E-cigarettes contain variable amounts of nicotine and some traces of toxicants. But very little is known to what extent non-users can be exposed to nicotine and other chemicals in situations when they are present in the same room with users of e-cigarettes," Goniewicz said.

He and his colleagues conducted two studies of secondhand exposure to e-cigarette vapors in a laboratory. Their results were published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research. In the first study, the researchers used an electronic smoking machine to generate vapor in an enclosed space. They measured the amount of nicotine as well as carbon monoxide and other potentially harmful gases and particles in the chamber.

The second study included five men who regularly smoked both tobacco cigarettes and e-cigarettes. Each man entered a room and smoked his usual brand of e-cigarette for two five-minute intervals over an hour while the researchers measured air quality. The room was cleaned and ventilated and the experiment was repeated with tobacco cigarettes.

The researchers measured nicotine levels of 2.5 micrograms per cubic meter of air in the first study. Nicotine levels from e-cigarettes in the second study were slightly higher at about 3.3 micrograms per cubic meter. But tobacco cigarette smoking resulted in nicotine levels ten times higher at almost 32 micrograms per cubic meter.

"The exposure to nicotine is lower when compared to exposure from tobacco smoke. And we also know that nicotine is relatively safer when compared to other dangerous toxicants in tobacco smoke," Goniewicz said E-cigarettes also produced some particulate matter, but regular cigarettes produced about seven times more. E-cigarettes didn't change the amount of carbon monoxide or other gases in the air.

"What we found is that non-users of e-cigarettes might be exposed to nicotine but not to many toxicants when they are in close proximity to e-cigarette users," said Goniewicz."It is currently very hard to predict what would be the health impact of such exposure," he added. He said more research is needed to find out how the current findings correspond to "real-life" situations, when many people might be using e-cigarettes in a room with restricted ventilation.

"This is an interesting piece and points in the direction that a number of other studies are pointing, though it begins to expand the evidence on the potential effects to others," Amy Fairchild told Reuters Health in an email.

Fairchild was not involved in the new research, but has studied how e-cigarette use might impact views on regular cigarettes at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York. She said the study suggests e-cigarettes are far safer, both in terms of toxins and nicotine, than tobacco cigarettes when it comes to the health effects on bystanders - although more research is needed to know for sure.

"In locales considering extending smoking bans to e-cigarettes, I think that these data weaken the case for more sweeping bans," Fairchild said. "And so this begins to answer the question about why e-cigarettes are considered better: they reduce risks to both the user and to the bystander when compared to tobacco cigarettes."

Fairfield said the concern about vaping ultimately revolves around whether e-cigarettes are going to change broader patterns of smoking at the population level.

"There are potential harms, including promoting continued smoking of cigarettes and renormalizing cigarette smoking behaviors," Goniewicz said. "Regulatory agencies around the world will need to make a number of regulatory decisions about product safety that could have major effects on public health."

Goniewicz has received funding from a drug company that makes medications to aid smoking cessation. Another study author has received funds from an e-cigarette manufacturer.

Pete @ o2Easy

Original Post Published January 03, 2014 - Reuters - Fox News

What is Steeping?

There's so many flavors of E-Juice  to choose from when using an Electronic Cigarette or E-Hookah if you will, and with so many different flavors comes different ways of created such E-Juice  and certain things you can do to get the most out of your flavor.

To "steep" an E-Juice is to simply store it in a dark, cool area for a given amount of time. In a sense, it's almost for the same reason of letting wine age. People "steep" their E-Juice  to get better flavor and better aroma out of the E-Juice they recently purchased.

For the most part, if you're getting a E-Juice  through O2 Easy then there should be no need to steep your E-Juice . Though it is suggested you let your TOBACCO flavors steep to get the full taste out of it. I good amount of time to let a 12ml bottle to steep is 3-5 days. If you get a larger bottle it can steep for weeks at a time.

Here's a quick video from Shan Burkholder on steeping and DIY juices so you can see the process behind what we sell you: 

Below is an example of the visual difference you get with steeping. The one on the left has been steeped for about a week while the one on the right was not steeped and made fresh.

And that's it for now everyone, I hope this quick guide updated you with the term "steeping" and now if you have a flavor that's not quite what you expected; give this a try and see if the flavor hits the point of expectation you had for it.

As Always, Vape On!

Pete @ o2Easy

ZMax Review

Here at O2 Easy we sell a mod (or battery) called the ZMax by Sigelei.

The ZMax is wonderful for all levels of Vapors in our community. From the newbie working towards more advanced vaping experience, to the already advanced vapors who tweak and fiddle around with everything they touch. To go more in detail lets start by looking at each of the pieces it comes with and I will explain how it can benefit each individual.

This is what you get when you open the box (which has a magnetic flap, I just thought that was neat) and you have this big mod with a screen, charger, and two batteries. The first thing you may notice is, "Okay so there's two batteries that's wonderful but how do they fit?" If you look a little closer there are two different bottoms for the Zmax for each battery to push out it's potential power. But it gets better, and some of you more advanced vapors have probably heard of this before.
The ZMax has something called a telescopic case, and what that means is you can twist up or down to adjust the size of the mod. With doing this you can always switch out which battery you think you may need for whatever situation or day you're having; and always have a backup.

The best thing, and most important feature of the ZMax is the VV/VW, and for you newbies that stands for Variable Voltage, and Variable Wattage. Okay so what does that mean in English? It means you can control how much flavor and how much of a vape cloud you get with your juice. 

I'm sure a lot of you have probably seen or heard of the Twist which is a great mod for VV/VW but this mod goes above and beyond. The twist has a range of 3.2V~4.8V (that's in voltage of 0.2V increments) while the ZMax  goes from 3.0V to 6.0V in 0.1V increments. 

I know it might be a lot to take in if you're new to this but to put it in a simple way to understand, the ZMax  is a very simple device with a huge amount of customization when it comes to how you want your vape to be. On top of that, (this may get the more advanced vapors interested) it also displays your resistance and max voltage of your tank you have on it. So in other words it's an ohm meter and voltage meter on your mod for those who like to re-wick and rebuild the tanks they buy. It's just a simple button push away on the LCD Display menu.

Okay here's the kicker:

Look closely.

Yes you can even charge your phone with your mod. Just screw on the adapter to where your tank would usually go and plug in via USB. Now I'm not quite sure if that's anything with USB ie: a tablet or another Ecig, but considering you can change the wattage and voltage I don't see why that wouldn't be possible. Now is this phone charger really necessary? No, of course not. But if it's already there why not use it?

As always, Vape Hard, Vape Strong, Vape On Everyone!

-Pete @ o2 Easy

Hosted Events and our Rewards Program

At o2Easy we are not just a normal retail store to provide you with the gear and juice you need to vape with, we also host different events throughout the week to build our relationship with out customers.

One the things we ask from you is to just come on in and relax with us, we are a vapor lounge with complimentary WiFi and Coffee, and on top of that we have our 5 Star reward program.

What is the 5 Star Reward Program?

5 Star is the reward program we host to make sure our customers are satisfied with our service, and to give back to the customer for shopping with us, but to also come hang out with us.

So far the reward we offer is a FREE 12ml bottle of Juice when you receive 10 stars.

So how do YOU get these stars?

You receive a star for every $10 purchase, so if you happened to get our Starter Blister Pack, that would give you 3 stars for we charge only $29.95 for each kit. 

But it gets better, as I mentioned about the events that we host, you also get a star for every time you come in and hang out with us.

Okay, that sounds lovely but what are the events you host?

Right now we are currently hosting:

Open Mic Night:

Different musicians and artists come in and play live music or recite spoken word poetry. So if you or a friend of yours can write poetry, play an instrument or is in a band, let us know and we could probably hook you up with a discount if they could come in.

Board Game Night:

We have all the classics, and the older versions so they will be the way you remember them. Our Board Game selection includes : The Game of Life, Clue, Sorry!, Monopoly, Pictionary, Scrabble, Apples to Apples, and Manacala.

Video Game Night: 

We don't have this 100% completely worked out yet, but we're planning on getting all THREE consoles in here, Xbox 360, PS3, and the Wii so our gamer customers can come in and geek out with us.

Stop Smoking Event:

This is usually during the day or afternoon, and we sit down with you and help you quit analog cigarettes. We've all been there, it's hard to stop smoking; so we give you our testimonies and educate you with what Electronic Cigarettes are and how they can benefit your health and well being.

Art Show:

We already have some paintings up in our lounge, but we plan on adding more local artists, sculptures, painters, even graphic designers and showcase their work in a relaxed environment. So if you know any local artists make sure to let us know.

We will be adding different events as things progress considering we're a little over a month old now there's still a lot of ideas that are flowing through our heads but we need YOUR help in what you think would be best for our customers.

o2 Easy - Vaping made Easy

Located at the Intersection of Belcher and Ulmerton in Largo, FL

How to Rebuild the Kanger Pro-Tank

Since we got the Kanger Pro-Tank in our store and online I figured I'd share some knowledge with our customers on how they can recycle and reuse their Kanger Pro-Tank and also is the gateway into modding and making your own pieces for your vaping needs.

Incase you don't know which tank is the Kanger Pro-Tank this is what it looks like..

The reason I use this one as the example is it is the easiest to replace the coil and wick in my experiences so it's a good place to start.

Below is a video by GrimmGreen, which I follow on Youtube and this was the same video I used for a step by step tutorial.

Grimm Green's Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/GrimmGreen?feature=watch