Out of Pod Experience

I've smoked a few cigars (mostly light, not the dark noxious variety), but I'm a pipe smoker. I love the aroma. I've got a cherry blend, a blackberry, and this delectable honey blend. I will not touch cigarettes, I choke if someone's smoking one nearby.

I don't smoke more than once a month though.

Awesome gz, I can see the vape method becoming commonplace, no toxins except the nicotine!


I was tempted by the Red Bull flavour, but I really want to avoid the melon flavour. I don't know anything about the Favour Art "Vape Wizard" business though. Gonna go check


EDIT: Orly ? looks like a good way to avoid that op coffee taste first thing in the morning.

Pipe is very different from cigarettes or cigars, and it's definitely something you will either like or not like pretty quickly, although it seems the liking for it can be acquired. Firstly, pipe smoke is quite hot compared to cigarette smoke. There is also a lot of flavor in pipe tobacco, which may be a good or bad thing if you are used to cigar tobacco, which isn't particularly flavorful (beyond the normal aromatics of dried tobacco). A comparison could be (for me) cigar tobacco - newly mown grass pipe tobacco - potpourri

Except that wicks are not plastic, but silica rope, and the poly filling should not ever heat up anywhere near dioxin-releasing levels if you keep the cartridge at least quarter-full at all times.
Plus, if it ever gets so low that that MIGHT be the case, the "burnt" taste (coming from the lack of enough liquid to keep vaporization temperatures steady to "just enough") will make you want to refill or even replace the cartomizer ASAP anyway, before you actually manage to inhale any remotely dangerous levels of anything you were not expecting in the first place.
Tank systems don't even have that poly filling, just a silica rope wick and a silica rope dripper, no plastic of any kind anywhere near the coils.

Also, just for fun, see barbecue dioxin levels : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3106039.stm


You're either giving everybody else a lot more, or yourself a lot less credit than you deserve for managing that.
It's nowhere near that simple. Most former smokers who quit "cold turkey" relapse eventually. Eventually being the key word.

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P.S.
There's a LOT of scaremongering regarding e-cigs, and at least part of it is almost surely financially motivated.
When you spend a fifth or even a tenth of what you would normally spend on cigarettes AND the vast majority of cigarette-smoking-related health issues simply vanish AND you no longer bother anybody else in your vicinity, there's no question of which of the two nicotine delivery systems is the vastly superior one.
SOME health claims are valid, but most are either wildly exaggerated or even outright false. And out of the valid ones, the most significant ones are occasional manufacturing-related corner-cutting resulting in a substandard and potentially dangerous product from that particular company, something that can be fixed and checked for in multiple ways.
Of course quitting altogether is the healthier choice, but the health gap between smoking regular cigarettes and e-cigs is HUGE, whereas the one between not smoking anything and e-cigs is reasonably small.

P.P.S.
There's actually quite a bit of interest in the study of nicotine for medicinal purposes, with potential uses in cardiovascular applications, asthma treatment (go figure, heh), some pregnancy complications, OCD, depression, Parkinson's and even Alzheimers. Of course, the dosage and rate of delivery is critical, and still being investigated.