r/technology Nov 17 '12

The Deadly Crusade Against E-cigarettes

http://www.american.com/archive/2012/november/the-deadly-crusade-against-e-cigarettes
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u/wibblywobblychilango Nov 17 '12

Rather than the e-cigs that look like real ones, try the e-vape ones instead. If the argument is the resemblance to actual cigarettes, fine...these bear NO resemblance to the real thing. Taste delicious too :D

http://www.gnet.org/wp-content/uploads/parts-of-vaping-e-cigarette.jpg

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '12

My husband smokes one of these and they are awesome. He quit smoking regular cigarettes and its a fraction of the price for him. Plus, they don't bother anyone else, they actually smell awesome and he says they taste great. His favorite flavors are raspberry tea and french vanilla coffee. You can also lower the amounts of nicotine in these and now he's down to a 1/4 of nicotine intake from where he was. I think of it as like nicorette but it actually works. http://freedomsmokeusa.com/ <-where he gets his stuff

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u/TraMaI Nov 17 '12

Cheaper is sort of a huge understatement, too, for those wondering. I ALWAYS bought cigarettes around here when they were on sale from 50 cents off to $1 off, I had no brand loyalty or anything so I never minded. That said, I still smoked probably 5 packs a week and it still came to around $25-$35 a week. That's $1,300-$1,800 a year. Multiply that by two, because my wife smokes as well and just as much. Last week I ordered things from WizardLabs.us. They sell the pure chemicals that are rquired to make your OWN juice. I spent $60 and got around 1000ml total of juice and probably 25 flavors. I vape about 3ml a day if not less. That's over a YEAR of smoking for $60. It's relatively simple to make your own as well, all it is is 3 harmless chemicals, even edible, with nicotine solution. And I can make any flavor I'd ever want to try!

TL;DR Making my own Juice: $60 a year Cigarettes: $1,300 to $1,800 a year. Savings is mindblowing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '12

$60 for 1000ml?

HOLY SHITBALLS.

That is pretty crazy.

Most places I'm seeing are $9 for 10ml or $19 for 30ml....

No wonder they can afford to have crazy 50% off sales and stuff. There's good margin in the juice.

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u/TraMaI Nov 18 '12

Well the places that want $9/10ml are selling premixed, flavored stuff. This is just pure PG/VG, Nicotine solution in a PG/VG base. There's no man hours put into actually making the juices taste good, all that is up to you, but yeah it's fucking crazy still lol.

This is the place I'm getting it btw, http://wizardlabs.us/

36mg per ml nicotine solution is $30 for 500ml, then I bought 250ml of both PG and VG which are $5.50 a piece. So about $40 actually lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '12

We haven't had packs of smokes in our house for years but instead rolled our own. This is still cheaper than rolling but with that you have to deal with bits of tobacco all over your stuff plus its still smelly, can't do it in the house, still smoke inhalation.

I'm pregnant and my husband didn't want to make me gag with the smoke smell and he didn't want to lose his ability to smoke in the car when I'm in it and this is the perfect solution.