Australia Hates Fags

[Platypus]

e-cigs anyone tried them?

No but .....

If only smoking were 'safe' .... If I fall off the wagon, I'll try e-cigs, I can't go back to tobacco.

[farout117]

No but .....

If only smoking were 'safe' .... If I fall off the wagon, I'll try e-cigs, I can't go back to tobacco.

I'm going to give them a try, surely cannot be more harmful than ciggs

[The Spartan]

A mate of mine stopped recently and he keeps those nasty pictures of smoking symptoms in his wallet to look at them each time he feels tempted to have a ciggy; I suppose in that sense the pictures could work. If they help those people who want to stop then I suppose they can't be such a bad thing.

Thing is once they're done with Tobacco it'll alcohol next, they've been thinking for a while about introducing a minimum price for a unit of alcohol. I don't drink so it wouldn't affect me but it seems ludicrous if people want to drink let same for smoking as long as it doesn't effect me. How many injuries on a saturday have occurred from drinking yet they're not yet taking that approach with it

[Paddy]

I thought when fat people had pictures of other fat people in their wallets it was to remind them of the horrors of eating too much... then I found out it is normally a pic of the wife and kids...

I carry pictures of blind people in my wallet to remind myself to stop wanking.

[BobTheCrate]

e-cigs anyone tried them?

Oh yes. I really like them but make sure you get a good one. Most of the e-cigs in the newsagents are absolute crap - so if you try those, don't assume all e-cigs are the same, they're not.

I ended up with Green Smoke and now refill the cartridges with e-liquid. Loads of different flavours to choose from. My favourite so far, the Caramel one ... nom nom nom.

A 30ml bottle costs me just over £12 and is good for a month's worth of enjoyable vapouring.

What I don't understand is why the big brand tobacco brands aren't going into it in a big way. Imagine, the likes of Philip Morris, JPS, B&H etc etc could get their brand names back on the TV screens, billboards, newspapers and magazines. What are they paying their marketing people to do for goodness sakes.

I wrote to Imperial Tobaccos and Philip Morris to ask them precisely this. The standard of their replies, "We don't currently sell electronic cigarettes but thank you for writing to us". I felt like replying, "I know that you muppets ... I was asking why not".