Author: pbusardo
AUTOGRAPHED MY. VON ERL. AND MORE RAFFLE TO BENEFIT THE CONNECTICUT CHAPTER OF SFATA
A few weeks ago in Vegas, David Goerlitz (the former Winston Man) and I put together an impromptu raffle to support the Connecticut chapter of SFATA by signing a My. VON ERL.
(OK, It may have been Shaun’s idea. 🙂 )
This quickly grew with others around the table donating additional items and liquids…
You can buy a raffle ticket, get more information, and find what’s up for grabs HERE.
Then you can come out, hang out, have a vape, and meet me and David for the raffle drawing on Saturday March 11th at Vapor 9:
The drawing will be held at the VON ERL. release party at Vapor 9 in Manchester, CT. There is no obligation to show up at the event, the drawing will be held around 8pm and will be randomized on random.org. We will be hosting a live video to view the drawing on Vapor 9’s Facebook page. There is no limit to the amount of tickets you may buy, each ticket will give you a chance to win. The more you buy the better chance you have!
Hope to see you there!!
THANK YOU CITY VAPE AND VAPORLICIOUS!
THANK YOU to the latest online and brick & mortar shops carrying the B. E-Liquid line!!
Find a complete list of retailers carrying the line as well as the official B. E-Liquid website HERE!
We’ve also added a new STORE LOCATOR to the B. E-Liquid Website!
From Doug
Phil, you and Provari were so instrumental in beginning my journey to kick a 27 year pack to pack and a half a day Marlboro Red habit that I never in a million years imagined I would ever conceive of myself ever quitting. Cigarettes were such a ridiculously large part of my life as I watched it take 1 relative after another while blindly believing it would never happen to me. Blindly believing the heavy chest, coughing fits, and inability to climb a short set of steps without running out of breath. I remember the checkups with the doctor giving me 1 suggestion after another with drugs, patches, gums, lozenges, and inhalers to try for quitting with one failed attempt after another. Finally there is a technology that has worked! I haven’t had a cigarette in 3 years. My wife hasn’t had to nag me about the stink, febreeze my clothes, and constantly worry about what the cigarettes were doing to my health. I watch these commercials to prompt us all to quit smoking while watching my Government try to remove the one thing that has worked to get me off of cigarettes because you and I know they are losing too much tax money and the Big Tobacco lobby is muscling them to think their way.
I have said it before, and I will continue to say it…..keep up the great work! You provide such an important service in your entertaining style of education. Keep using your voice to educate the vendors on their marketing and child proof caps. You have no idea how the strength of your voice has made this world a better place as one smoker at a time puts the cigarettes down and picks up their first device.
Thank you SO much for what you do.
CONGRATS WALTER – THE 2016 END OF YEAR STOCKING WINNER!
Congratulations WALTER!! Quite the loot you have there! Be sure to make some friends and convert some smokers!!
THANK YOU! VAPOR DNA, MOON MOUNTAIN, THE VAPOR BAR & VAPOR 9
THANK YOU to the latest online and brick & mortar shops carrying the B. E-Liquid line!!
Find a complete list of retailers carrying the line as well as the official B. E-Liquid website HERE!
A REPOST FROM FACEBOOK – MORE SAD NEWS – PROVAPE CLOSES IT’S DOORS
I originally posted this on my Facebook February 9th. Now that I’m back home (yes, I was able to travel home to see my family and was not affected by the snow storm) I can do the post more justice here:
More sad news today, and as you can imagine, this is and has been hitting me hard. Yes, this is something I’ve known about but have been unable to share.
Depending on when you started vaping, chances are you had or still have a love affair with Provape. Their products have been enjoyed by many people allowing more people to transition off of or stay off of traditional tobacco cigarettes. They have played a major part in pushing the industry forward.
I have and will continue to call them friends. They will always have my respect in the quality of their products, their professionalism, their focus on safety, and their refusal to play in a realm they felt was detrimental to the industry and vapers in general.
My Visit To ProVape Part 1:
My Visit To ProVape Part 2:
*NOTE: Any use of these videos in part or in their entirety without Phil Busardo’s expressed written consent is strictly prohibited.Thank you for some amazing years, friends, and products.
Do I have nothing but positive things to say about ProVape? No, as with every company I’ve looked at, there are thumbs down, but at this point, I’d rather focus on the positive they’ve provided to the community, and the sad loss of an American company providing American jobs due to the cost and complexity the far over-reaching FDA regulations provide. Were the FDA regulations the only reason for the closure? Perhaps not… and feel free to speculate, but IMHO, this is where our anger needs to be directed and shared.
I wish David, Phill, Dell, and the rest of the Provape family all the best with any and all future endeavors. You will be missed. 🙁
A FIRST LOOK, A FOLLOW-UP, A LOOK AT 3 MORE DNA-75 MODS, THE LAST (NOT A) CONTEST WINNER AND A NEW (NOT A) CONTEST… PHEW!!
A PBusardo Review – 3 More DNA-75 Mods & More!
In this video we’re going to take a first look at the new Aspire Nautilus 2 tank, do a quick follow-up on the Tilemahos Armed, knock 3 more DNA-75 devices off the list…
- THE VIKA BUFFALO 75
- THE KANGER K1 BOX
- THE VOLCANO LAVABOX M
…find out who one the last contest and kick off another one!
The Links:
Aspire
Golden Greek Store
VikaCig Mall
VikaCig
Kanger
VaporDNA
Volcano Ecigs
The Video:
*NOTE: Any use of these videos in part or in their entirety without Phil Busardo’s expressed written consent is strictly prohibited.
The Photos – Vika Buffalo 75:
The Photos – Kanger K1 Box:
The Photos – Volcano Lavabox M:
THANK YOU GIANT VAPES!
Giant Vapes is now carrying the B. E-Liquid line!
Find a complete list of retailers carrying the line as well as the official B. E-Liquid website HERE!
CANCER RESEARCH UK CONFIRMS – E-cigarettes safer than smoking says long-term study
Cancer Research UK-funded scientists found that people who swapped smoking regular cigarettes for e-cigarettes or nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for at least six months, had much lower levels of toxic and cancer causing substances in their body than people who continued to use conventional cigarettes.
Will yet another positive study on harm reduction when it comes to vaping help us here in the US?
Probably not as we all know by now that our lungs are different from those found in the UK.
“This study adds to growing evidence that e-cigarettes are a much safer alternative to tobacco, and suggests the long term effects of these products will be minimal.
“Understanding and communicating the benefits of nicotine replacements, such as e-cigarettes, is an important step towards reducing the number of tobacco-related deaths here in the UK.”
Are you reading FDA? Here, let me point this part out to you again….
“Understanding and communicating the benefits of nicotine replacements, such as e-cigarettes, is an important step towards reducing the number of tobacco-related deaths here in the UK.”
Would love to see that read… “here in the US” as well.
Read the entire article HERE.
CNN TAKES ON DRIPPING
A couple of things about this article coming from one of the most BIASED news medias out there really pissed me off. Here’s one:
Dripping generates higher heating coil temperatures than conventional use of e-cigarettes — and this is a safety concern. “Higher temperatures lead to greater emissions of a class of harmful chemicals known as volatile aldehydes,” including formaldehyde and acrolein, Shihadeh said.
My dearest Alan Shihadeh… you are a clueless fool and your comment is absolutely false. Although we know it’s going on, it’s not the fault and cause of “dripping”. Higher temperatures are not the cause of the method, they are the cause of the user. Lower resistances and higher wattages are what creates higher temperatures, NOT the method of dripping. These higher and dangerous temperatures can be created just as easily by the “other” method of vaping described in this article:
The normal process of vaping relies on an e-cig’s reservoir and wick, both of which automatically feed liquid to the heating coil within the device, minus any effort or intervention on the part of the user.
Have you SEEN some of the tanks out there? Do you even KNOW what they’re capable of?
Of course this…
“Higher temperatures lead to greater emissions of a class of harmful chemicals known as volatile aldehydes,” including formaldehyde and acrolein, Shihadeh said.
Does concern me greatly and you should know that about me by now, but it’s a USELESS COMMENT unless it’s compared to the same output of a cigarette. Harm reduction remember? Not harm elimination!!
Then there’s this beauty…
“Handling liquid so often, there is a greater risk of incidental skin contact,” Shihadeh said. E-cigarette liquids typically contain nicotine, which is absorbed rapidly through human skin.
If enough liquid is spilled, then, a vaper could be exposed to toxic levels of nicotine. Shihadeh also suggested young children might be hurt by spilled liquid. An analysis of calls to the National Poison Data System estimated that more than seven young children accidentally ingest e-liquids left within reach in households each day.
“Handling of liquids so often” Have you seen my reviews? Have you seen the amount of liquid I always have on my fingers? Somehow my fingers are still working fine enough to type this. What are you talking about? DIYing? Higher concentrations of pure nic? Can you be more specific please? Or are you just fear mongering?
Then there’s the “save the children” argument. How about we forget about the word “blame” and use the term “responsible”. Responsible adults should keep e-liquid out of the reach of children. Even with this, we know accidents will happen and I’m not being heartless, but perhaps we should compare this number to the number of children who were poisoned by other toxic chemicals found in households.
But we as an industry are not innocent here. Many in this industry have made those bottles as attractive as possible to kids. Like that comment or not, it’s the truth. Targeted marketing to youth or not, it’s certainly what it looks like and it will be used against us.
According to Krishnan-Sarin, “Emerging data is also showing that e-cigarettes contain many other chemicals like propylene glycol and glycerine, and they also contain a lot of flavor chemicals.
Really? “Emerging data” is telling you there’s propylene glycol, glycerine, and flavorings in e-liquids? Well thank you helpy helperton and NO SHIT! You just named the three primary components of e-liquids all across the globe and ingredients that are listed on most bottles.
Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration identified 134 incidents of e-cigarette batteries overheating, catching fire or exploding in the United States during a seven-year period ending in January 2016.
Would LOVE to know the percentage of the 134 incidents that were due to user error. Would LOVE to know the percentage of the 134 incidents that had NOTHING to do with vaping or vaping devices but were due to improper storage of a battery by a vaper and therefore, in their tiny little minds, became guilty by association. But even here, the industry has to figure a way to reduce this number and take the errors out of the hands of the users.
Christ, it’s only a matter of time before they come down on tricking.
Beyond dripping is another alternative use of e-cigarettes that is of concern to Krishnan-Sarin: smoke tricks. “You can inhale the vapor or the aerosol, and then you blow it out of your mouth or nose, and you create all different kinds of shapes,” she said. “People create dragons and volcanoes and little hearts.” Vape fests and competitions are devoted to smoke tricks, which are becoming enormously popular.
Well shit.
But, I mean, come one… we knew this was going to happen and it was only a matter of time… Didn’t we? Wasn’t it?
Wait till they get a hold of a 300W capable tank and a 360W capable device.
You can read the entire article HERE.
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