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Electronic Cigarettes
By Amanda Schoenberg
Journal Staff Writer
Smoking indoors without the secondhand smoke? A nicotine rush without the cancer-causing chemicals?
For about 3 million people in the United States, electronic cigarettes sound like a dream come true.
Charlie Casados, manager of Smoke Source 51, started offering them at a booth in Coronado Shopping Center in July and sells 25 to 30 kits a day.
The devices may be popular with consumers who see them as a safe alternative to cigarettes but public health officials say too little is known to label them safe.
Electronic cigarettes, which often resemble traditional cigarettes or pens, have a lithium battery that ignites a coil, which heats a nicotine-filled cartridge. Smokers exhale a vapor that doesn’t contain the tar or carbon monoxide found in most tobacco cigarettes.
Smokers who have switched to electronic cigarettes say they get the same satisfaction from inhaling the nicotine that they get from a traditional cigarette.
“It’s just like smoking,” said Lynette Catt of Tularosa, who first tried e-cigarettes about seven months ago and now sells them online. “The electronic cigarette is a little heavier. There is no ashtray. But the sensation of smoking is pretty much the same.”
The kits Casados sells cost $80 to $135. An $80 kit includes a battery, two cartridges, a case and charger. One cartridge equals about two packs of tobacco cigarettes. “We’re doing quite well,” he said.
Last year, U.S. Food and Drug Administration chemists tested 18 cartridges and two cigarettes made by two companies and reported varying levels of nicotine and traces of cancer-causing nitrosamines found in tobacco. One cartridge contained diethylene glycol, an ingredient in antifreeze.
The Electronic Cigarette Association, an industry group, has said those results were too narrow to reach a valid conclusion. If used in the proper amounts, electronic cigarettes are non-toxic and non-carcinogenic, Matt Salmon, president of the ECA and a former Arizona congressman, said in an e-mailed statement.
Most are imported from China, and FDA officials have stopped shipments from at least 20 manufacturers, claiming the products are drug delivery devices that require scrutiny.
But earlier this month, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., granted a preliminary injunction that prevents the FDA from seizing the devices. The judge said they should be classified as tobacco products.
In a statement, the FDA said public health issues surrounding e-cigarettes remained a serious concern and the agency would review the decision.
Unregulated industry
The New Mexico Department of Health hasn’t taken a stance on them, said David Tompkins, media strategist for the Tobacco Use, Prevention and Control Program administered by the state agency. Tompkins expects states to look at clean air laws to determine how � or whether � e-cigarettes should be included.
In New Jersey, the sale of e-cigarettes is prohibited to people under 19, and adults are barred from smoking them at work and in public places. This month, California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed suit against Smoking Everywhere Inc., claiming the company has no evidence to back up safety claims.
E-cigarettes remain an unregulated industry. That means no health warnings are required, unlike nicotine patches and gum. But that doesn’t mean they are harmless, he said.
The tobacco industry once touted cigarettes as a safe social norm, he said. Unregulated until last year, cigarettes were deemed “safer” when companies added filters and created low tar and light cigarettes. Tompkins said he worries e-cigarettes are slipping between regulations in a similar way.
“They’re always able to make a safer way to keep people addicted,” he said. “It’s d�j� vu.”
Tompkins also worries that young people will get hooked without realizing the potential for addiction.
Without evidence about their health impacts, consumers should be wary, said Patricia Torn, coordinator of tobacco control programs for the American Lung Association in New Mexico.
The Electronic Cigarette Association says about 3 million people in the United States use the devices, which shouldn’t be seen as a smoking cessation tool but as a safer alternative to tobacco products.
While some e-cigarette smokers, often called vapers, may still use them to try to quit tobacco cigarettes, Torn said they may not be as effective as other products.
“If you look at the habits of smokers, that hand to mouth and inhale, exhale is an important part of the habit. The e-cigarettes do not address that.”
Faithful vapers maintain that e-cigarettes are better than the alternative. “I was looking for something where I wouldn’t have to share my bad habit with everyone aroun…
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This question is for bloggers who make money blogging?
I was wondering if someone can give me the info on how much money I can make blogging, also a website where I can start for free. I want to write and have people read it, but I cant do it for free, so can someone help? Thank you
Sure, you can make good money blogging and it is easy to start for free, just sign up to www.blogger.com and set up a free account.
You now have a few choices, you can:
1.Earn from the Google Adsense Program
2. Promote an affiliate product
3. Sell your own product
4.Do a combination of the above
I have a perfect example of this, 3 days ago I created a Twitter Adder program and set up a free Google blog to promote it.
Here’s the site I made:
http://twitteradderpro.blogspot.com
I then created a Twitter account and using my software started to build a following. I then pomoted my product, but not aggressively, just the odd update and snippit of information I thought people might be interested in. By the end of the second day the orders started to come in and I got an amazing testimonial from one of my buyers. I think the reason why the testimonial was so good was that the guy couldn’t believe what he was getting for his money…I set out to provide value and achieved what will be a loyal, returning customer.
The secret is to write about something you are passionate and knowledgable about. If you can then create a Ebook on your subject then you can offer it for sale on your site. The ebook should be in PDF format and you can easily create one online using Google Docs.
As you can see, you can do it in a couple of days and promote the blog by using social networking sites like Twitter, Myspace, Facebook etc. You can also use forums in your niche to promote your product too.
I expect to make a couple of hundred dollars by the end of this week and will also have a recurring source of income.
I have some tutorials, free ebooks and software for bloggers on my website. I recommend you go there and learn everything you can.
It really isn’t hard to do, just be passionate about your subject, arouse your readers curiousity and make some money.
Good luck, you can do it 
How do you make money by blogging?
I’m a teenage boy and I couldn’t figure out a way to make money. Some people said by blogging you can make money but they weren’t specidic about it. Please help me out and please tell me some ways to make money.
you can make a lot of money blogging on the internet.
take a look at the link below to find out exactly how to do that…
How do I start blogging and make money at the same time?
I would like to start making money blogging. Can someone lead me in the right direction? There are so many free sites, kits, etc? Don’t know where to start?
Hello!
The biggest secret to being a "profitable" blogger is blogging about your passion. Blogs that are built with a reason of making money usually don’t make it far and do not make money.
You need to update your blog often. Once a day is the BEST but if you cannot do so, try to update it at least 2-3 times a week – this way your readers will see that you update often, they will come back and read your blog again, maybe click on some ads, buy something from your blog…
Blogger.com is great but I prefer WordPress.com
To give you an idea, check out my blog: http://blog.extra-paycheck.com – I built it with WordPress and I do not have any DESIGN or technical skills!
Best of Luck,
Alex
what would you like to see a person do a video blog about?
If you could watch a person talk about something in a video blog, what would you like to watch? What would be your interests in seeing that "vlog"?
What makes a video blog worth watching to you? Do you have a favorite video blog that you enjoy watching?
Thanks for answering!
I would like to see vlogs about the history of one’s farm or house, property, especially if it were over one hundred years old.
What is the name of the video blog thing that Payton Sawyer on One Tree Hill has on the beginning seasons?
Payton Sawyer, a character on One Tree Hill had a video blog thing on the first couple seasons. What is the name of it?
the website is: http://www.punkndisorderly.com/index.html
Hoped i helped…
what are the steps needed in starting a video blog? what camcorder do you suggest?
what camera do i get?do i need software to download my images online? how would i do that? is there a memory card for video like there is for stills? what should i look for? i would like to be able to contribute videos to my blog. thanks.
Any video camera will work for video blogging, although if you want to go out in the world and shoot video you may want to buy something that will last several years.
For uploading your video to share on your blog, I highly recommend using Blip.tv:
http://www.blip.tv
They have free video hosting and do all the conversion so that you get a file that plays on your blog and one that’s easy for people to download and put on their iPod.
For some of the geekier aspects of video blogging, there are a bunch of tips that apply to both podcasting and video blogging here:
http://www.jakeludington.com/podcasting/