Author: pbusardo

For all of you hoping that Aaron Henry fell off the side of the planet with the idea of a re-draw in the future, sorry… no such luck. 🙂

Aaron has come forward to claim his prize and I have validated his email.

Thank you so much for doing the contest. I plan on sharing the gift with family and friends, so you’ll be making a lot of people happy.

Aaron, congratulations to you!! I’ll get this packed up in and in the mail just as soon as I can. I hope you, your family and friends enjoy the contents and use them in good health.

Hi Phil,

Just want to write a little bit about my personal project over the last
few weeks.

Started vaping at the time of the release of iJust2, and over a short
period bought like 80 small bottles of 4mg nic. Went on to Crown.
Changed and charged batteries all the time.

Fascinated by Europe and older video’s on YouTube where people say they
use less that 2ml a day and a tiny eGo battery last them over a day, I
went on to trying to achieve this for myself with GG Tilemahos v2+.

After an adjustment period, I can now finally say that I use 2ml a day
too, and I have never felt better. I wash the car for the fun of it,
scrub floors for a bit of exercise, sleep much better, do not get
nic-sic and so on.

Requires 30mg+ nic in the juice for me, and I have no doubt that doing
2ml of 30mg juice is far superior to 20ml of 3mg juice, health wise.
The worst pushers for clouds are juice sellers naturally, with support
from videos on YouTube, cloud competitions in vape shops and so forth.

Marlboro Light is one of the most nicotine rich cigarettes on the
market. It is possible to extract over 13mg Nicotine from one single
cigarette. Studying cigarettes vs e-liquid is my next project.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905555/table/t3-AHJ-04-028/

Thank you for your latest article on your website. They bring even more
emotional stress release for me.

One tiny bit more.

I feel the only law we need is an airflow restriction for atomizers. Say
something equivalent to 1.5mm round hole. Most vapers would not even
notice this law, but the police would be allowed to confiscate the rig
used by irresponsible cloud chasers in public. It is still more airy
than a cigarette, so no vapers could use this as an excuse to start
cigarettes again.

Without the cloud, the public would not even know what we were
doing.(100%PG)
With small cloud people would be fascinated by what we do, and think of
us as smart people.
With big cloud they hate us for disturbing peace, and for polluting the
air they have to breath in.

By the way, I really believe your juice line will be a huge success! I
am so very happy and excited for you.

With deep respect for what you do, and my very best regards,
Jack

In the final days of 2015, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller released a statement in support of vapor products. This is a significant departure from the public statements of his counterparts in other states. CASAA is encouraging Iowa residents to take this opportunity to voice your support for AG Miller’s positive remarks about vaping. Please include your story about how vapor products have made a difference in your life and share why you are passionate about this issue.

Thank you AG Miller – Send a Message

For residents outside of Iowa, we have provided a prewritten letter you can print out, sign, and send via traditional means. (You are also welcome to copy and paste the text into your own word doc and add your story before printing)

Send a Letter

Mailing Address:

Office of the Attorney General of Iowa

Hoover State Office Building

1305 E. Walnut Street

Des Moines, IA 50319

Also for residents outside of Iowa, please take a moment to share AG Miller’s statement with your attorneys general. Please remember to include your story about how vapor products have made a difference in your life and share why you are passionate about this issue.

Take Action – Send an Email to your AG

Please share this link on social media:

• http://blog.casaa.org/2016/01/help-us-say-thank-you-to-iowa-attorney.html

Thank you,

CASAA Legislative Team

Phil,
I typed up this long message to you on twitter but it would not
send it to you due to the size so I decided to just email you. I really
enjoyed your thoughts/hopes on 2016 that you posted. Us veteran vapers
really need to think more about where we came from and what we can do to
help others quit cigarettes and other tobacco products. I have been
lucky enough to convert several of my closest friends and wife to
vaping. Even though I have gotten several people to make the switch
your blog really made me reflect and understand I can do more. I have
used vaping to quit smoking 3 times now. The first time like you I just
used a simple gas station cigalike and then ended up getting a better
setup from smokeless image and that did the trick. Then I was out
drinking and drunk me decided a smoke sounded wonderful and 1 was all it
took and then next thing you know I was back at it again. The second
time Variable Voltage was just coming into vogue and I brought a VAMO
and it was much easier and quit. I knew what I was doing and the second
time was easy. Again drunk me decided to smoke again and its history
for me once I get nicotine back in my system and boom I am back to
smoking. Now since variable wattage and voltage was around the second
time I quit I knew all about Ohm’s law and resistance this third time.
I guess the point to this rambling of my story is this. I have watched
this industry come from nothing where people were amazed that your ecig
had a cool light on the end to where we are today. If I did not have
this knowledge and understanding of history I would be overwhelmed
walking into it right now. How we were able to quit using the basic
devices we had years ago shows just how serious we were about saving our
lives and quitting smoking. I am amazed at the current level of
equipment we have now but its really a double edged sword. Yea its
awesome for us that know what we are doing but a nightmare for the new
users. I am going to make a promise to you. I am going to do
everything in my power to help any smoker or tobacco user who is
interested in quitting. I am going to make myself and my knowledge
available to anyone who asks for it. I am going to commit to start
advocating for this industry in any way I can.

I just want you to know you mean a lot to a lot of people. For years
you have given countless hours of your time to us. I just want you to
know that I support you and understand exactly what you are hoping for.
Last I want you to know I personally pledge to try to do my part. Have
a wonderful 2016.
Mike

As you may or may not know, I don’t have a lot of faith in online petitions. I have yet to see them do any good.

It’s the harder, more time consuming, and potentially more expensive things that appear to work better. Letters, phone calls, money, and lobbyists.

But to support my friends in Germany, I’ve been asked to share and support a petition and will do just that.

Please help and sign the petition HERE.

English version can be found HERE.

Dear Phil,
Next week it will be 1 year since I quit smoking. I started at age 17 & am 40
now(23 years!). Two years prior to quitting, I had tried Blu e-cigs on & off
after my best friend came to my birthday party with one. They weren’t working
though, and I continued to smoke as many others have(my buddy having the same
problem as well). Then, during the first weekend of Jan. 2015, I watched my first
video of you doing reviews on YouTube. So, I went to the local vape shop &
purchased a Manger Emow kit, as well as some house brand 18mg e-liquid. Within 2
days, I wasn’t smoking anymore. I continued watching your videos, ditched the
Emow tank for a Mini Nautilus & never looked back. Your reviews are the best out
there & if not for you & my friend, I’d still be a smoker. Currently, I enjoy
sub-ohmming, but that wouldn’t have worked to get off those stinky sticks! You’re
right about that in your thoughts for 2016. It’s entirely too much vapor. I
know, I bought one for my brother-in-law & he’s been unsuccessful. Even my wife
quit smoking; that Aspire tank & a battery had disappeared! So, I can’t thank you
enough for how you’ve changed my health for the better. Hopefully, these
politicians who are supposed to be “our” voice will keep their hands off my vape
stuff & the local shop that’s been so helpful & friendly, will be able to keep
their doors open. Have a Happy New Year!

Craig

Looks like a few different movies about the Vaping Revolution are coming our way.  Here’s another that I had the opportunity to be a part of.  It’s called VAPE WAVE…

The movie is close to be completed and will to go to the next Cannes Film Festival.

VapeWaveTeaser VOSTA vimeo from Jan Kounen on Vimeo.

Hi Phil,

Well, it’s time for me to take my hat off to you.

My name is Craig 41yrs and I’m born and bread in the UK, South Yourshire. Thanks to
your extremely informative videos on YouTube I haven’t smoked a cigarette in 6
months.

I started trying to quit smoking about 3 years ago with the e-cig blister packs and
ego style batteries and carto’s but still couldn’t leave the cigarettes alone, I was
getting frustrated with myself and decided to spend a little bit more money and went
for the evod mega kit, really found it to be a much better set up for me but was
still craving the cigarettes, so at the beginning of this year (2015), I turned to
the web for help and understanding of the whole vaping experience. I started to
learn about the juices themselves first and came across the VG/PG ratio, after
looking at the label of the juice I’d been using for so long it was 70PG/30VG (the
worst mix apparently) during this time of research I found your YouTube Channel.
After spending days and days watching your videos I found a better supplier of
e-juice and went for a 50/50 mix, topped off my evod mega tank with it and Bingo, 2
days later the 19 cigarettes that was in the kitchen draw went in the bin, not
looked back since.

Continuing to view your review videos I decided to step up my game again and went
out and bought an iStick 50watt and paired it with a Kanger Sub Tank Mini using a
30PG/70VG E-Liquid, I continue to use it to this day, maybe looking to upgrade yet
again in the New Year.

I just wanted to let you know that… YOU do make a difference and you are helping a
lot of people around the world Quit those nasty little sticks we call Cigarettes.

Hats off to you Buddy and Thank You for making those fantastic, informative videos

Good Luck for the New Year!

Sincerely,
Craig

I still believe that Dimitris’ decision to end the SmokeFree Radio Program is a huge loss to the industry, but I wanted him to communicate some of the things he’s been working on behind the scenes. Here is a little update from him and a mention about our return trip to China…

As many of you should know by now, we are at the final stages of the FDA proposal to regulate electronic cigarettes under the TCA (Tobacco Control Act). We are literally at step 8 of 9 in the rule making process ( http://www.reginfo.gov/public/reginfo/Regmap/index.jsp ) where the FDA has submitted their intended rules to the Office of Management and Budget for review. The OMB has a period of 90 days to review final federal agency regulations, but can extend the review time by another 30 days. If the OMB approves the final deeming regulations, then Step Nine requires that the final regulations be published in the Federal Register. Generally, the deeming regulations would be effective thirty days after the date of publication in the Federal Register.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the White House will consider the potential economic impact of the rule so I requested two meetings with them as stakeholders, one as Executive Director of the Tennessee Smoke Free Association where I represent 75 small businesses in the TN valley and one as Chief Operations Officer for Mountain Oak Vapors my employer.

I tried to present a variety of economic impact with each meeting. As TSFA I had economic figures for our stores in TN and brought with me owners of small and large operations (Vintage Vapors, Nashville Vapor and Mountain Oak Vapors) as well as Rock Bottom Bottles based out of Memphis who even though do not produce a vapor product, supply the majority of e-liquid manufacturers in the US with bottles. Aside from the economic impact the regulations would have in our state we stressed an extremely important fact. We took a survey of individual SKU’s that stores carry and we averaged out 1992 unique products (a combination of devices, accessories and e-liquid combinations & flavors). We pointed out that if rules are enacted based on the pre market application that would cost millions for each individual product they could easily see that all these businesses would be shut down overnight. Another important point was workforce. We estimate in TN alone over 1900 direct jobs to the industry would be lost due to the proposed regulations. Imagine that multiplied by the rest of the states not counting indirect jobs such as those we support for supplying our industry (bottle makers, raw material providers, shipping and logistics etc.).

As Mountain Oak Vapors we took a different approach since we do contract manufacture for other companies as well. The presentation was based on how much we rely on our customers and they rely on us to continue to grow and expand their business. Ultimately all the products we produce end up in the consumer hands which help them stay off combustible tobacco. Variety of flavors was also presented with all the companies that were there stressing that the top selling flavors were NOT tobacco or menthol. Even though a lot of smokers begin their journey with those flavors, quickly they transition to something more pleasant and better tasting such as fruit or bakery flavors.

Lastly we brought up a point that I think a lot are overlooking. International distribution! There is huge demand for US made liquid overseas and honestly I cannot think of another product we produce in the US currently that is as popular. Mountain Oak Vapors alone distributes to 18 countries and we are seeing more and more US companies overtake the space globally.

The proposed FDA regulations are onerous and burdensome. Realistically no electronic cigarette company would be able to comply especially with the 2007 grandfather date that would make every product currently sold on the market non-compliant and effectively ban them. Were the meetings we and other stakeholders had with the OMB effective? Only time will tell. That doesn’t mean we stop here.

We still need to get support for HR2058 which changes the grandfather date. We still need to contact our representatives as often as possible as users of the products and business owners. We still need to go back to the basics and help smokers transition, effectively increasing our numbers. We still need to register to vote even if we are one issue voters. We still need to get the industry funding to the various organizations fighting for their rights, which brings me to my last point.

I have been working hard for the past 6 months to get the Chinese manufacturers aware of the situation. I do believe they now realize that this lucrative market could be shut down overnight.

We (Phil and I) are headed back to China in January to meet with SEVIA (ShenZhen Electronic Vaporizer Industry Association) and present the current status of US and EU regulations. I feel confident we will be successful in creating an overseas organization that will help us in the fight.

This is an effort that requires everyone to get involved. Electronic cigarettes play a valuable role in public health. They help smokers quit. Period. To me that alone is the drive behind what I do every day to help keep this product available and affordable. And I know my partner in vaping Phil feels the same way.

Phil is traveling with me to support the effort, to continue to stress the importance of devices geared not only the enthusiast, but also the smoker, and to show you some more behind the scenes looks at additional factories and operations.

No matter in what capacity you are involved in the industry (consumer or business), will you join us in the fight?

The time is now!

A PBusardo Review & Stocking Contest Winner – The Diablo Mods Fulgoris

In this video we give some e-liquids a mention that was supposed to happen in the buh-in award video. Oops. 🙂 We take a look at the Diablo Mods Fulgoris, and we announce the winner of the STOCKING CONTEST.

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