“Smokeless Smokes” :New York Magazine Article

With cigarette taxes up and smoking in bars, restaurants, and parks now banned, a subculture has grown up around “e-cigarette” nicotine-delivery devices.

HOW THEY WORK
1. A steel cartridge (found where the filter would be on a regular cigarette) is filled with propylene glycol (commonly used in fog machines), water, flavoring, and varying amounts of nicotine. (It ranges from none at all to around the same amount found in a typical cigarette.) Spent cartridges can be replaced or refilled with a dropper.

2. An atomizer vaporizes the nicotine solution when the “smoker” inhales or presses a button on the side of the device.

3. The battery—the back end of the e-cigarette—is recharged with a USB port.

4. On some models, an LED light activates with each “puff,” for verisimilitude.


THE COST

$4,562: Pack-a-day habit for a year of regular cigarettes.

$636: A year of comparable nicotine intake with e-cigarettes.


THE LINGO

Vaping: The act of inhaling from an e-cigarette.

Analogs: E-cigarette smokers’ label for old fashioned Marlboros and Camels. Used with a palpable air of condescension.


GETTING THE FIX

10ish minutes to finish one e-cigarette dose.
3ish minutes to finish a standard cigarette.


LOCATIONS WHERE ONE CAN LEGALLY SMOKE E-CIGARETTES

• Bars
• Restaurants
• Mayor Bloomberg’s office


DO THEY TAKE YOU TO FLAVOR COUNTRY?

Somewhat. E-cigarettes don’t capture the flavor of tobacco exactly—probably a good thing, given that elements of burning tobacco cause cancer—but they do re-create the burn and “throat hit” of regular cigarette smoke. (They can also be had in more novel flavors, including cigar, coffee, apple pie, eggnog, “Liquorice,” and waffle.)


POPULARITY

Posts on the E-Cigarette Forum Website:
2008: 30,000
2011: 4,2000,000


BUT ARE THEY BAD FOR YOU? 

E-cigarettes haven’t been the subject of long-term studies and are not yet regulated by the FDA. But a Journal of Public Health Policy examination of their ingredients concluded that they were likely “much safer than tobacco cigarettes,” and comparable to “conventional nicotine replacement products” like patches.

Electronic cigarettes attracting ‘smokers’

RICHMOND — Galen Kipe has not smoked a cigarette in more than three months.
He could not kick his habit of 17 years with nicotine patches or gum. He finally put away his Marlboro menthols for good by swapping them for electronic cigarettes, which look like the real thing and give him his nicotine fix but do not contain tobacco.

“It’s the closest thing to what I was doing before,’’ Kipe, 34, a steelworker from Asheboro, N.C., said. “I’m still getting the nicotine, but I don’t feel like I’m getting any kind of bad side effects. It can’t be any worse than actual cigarettes.’’

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Ryanair will allow ecigarettes on their planes

Ryanair isn't the first carrier to allow "smokeless"cigarettes on their planes. These devices mimic the sensation of puffing, I'm told by a user, with a water vapor that is released. What makes the announcement distinctly "Ryanair" is that the devices are now being sold on its flights.

You can buy a pack of ten of these smokeless wonders for €6. To purchase the equivalent of a pack of cigs, you're looking at $17.

So, it really is just another way for Ryanair to squeeze a few extra bucks out of each passenger, but at least the airline isn't taking something away (like your seat or your pissing privileges.

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