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[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".

[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.

[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

[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

[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.

[northernladuk]

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.

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...

[farout117]

e-cigs anyone tried them?

[Troll]

So it could well become even more of a 'chav thing' than it is already perceived to be.

Prince Harry & Princess Eugene smoke as does Camilla Parker Bowles

don't get more chavy than that

[Mich the Tester]

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.

[d000hg]

Saw this yesterday (as my BATS shares took a pounding), people will always smoke no two ways about it, I don't think those who are already hooked will be put off smoking, and those who take it up will keep doing it anyway.

The govt may shout down smoking as bad, but could it live without the £12bn in revenue it brings in

It may never die out but I think it could easily become a minority thing one day. Already it's fairly rare in the middle classes compared to the working classes, at university I think I knew 2 people who smoked out of 100 in my college.
So it could well become even more of a 'chav thing' than it is already perceived to be.

[SimonMac]

12bn that's a hell of a lot any idea how much they generate from alcohol?

Only £10bn

https://www.uktradeinfo.com/Statisti...bulletins.aspx

[The Spartan]

12bn that's a hell of a lot any idea how much they generate from alcohol?

[SimonMac]

And the savings of early deaths by smokers reducing demands on the NHS

Don't forget the savings on Pensions

[Troll]

The govt may shout down smoking as bad, but could it live without the £12bn in revenue it brings in

And the savings of early deaths by smokers reducing demands on the NHS

[SimonMac]

Saw this yesterday (as my BATS shares took a pounding), people will always smoke no two ways about it, I don't think those who are already hooked will be put off smoking, and those who take it up will keep doing it anyway.

The govt may shout down smoking as bad, but could it live without the £12bn in revenue it brings in