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