Electronic cigarettes

If you're a smoker who's trying to quit, you might find the attached NY Times' article interesting. Some small studies are finding electronic cigarettes beneficial in helping smokers to quit or reduce their smoking habits.

The vapors released give addicts (let's face it, that's what they are) the nicotine they crave without the harmful carcinogens and toxins found in cigarettes. Anti-smoking groups argue that abstinence is the best method of quitting. There seems to be a concerted effort against electronic cigarettes, however. And this has other groups taking notice...

In Britain, the Royal College of Physicians has denounced “irrational and immoral” regulations inhibiting the introduction of safer nicotine-delivery devices.

“Nicotine itself is not especially hazardous,” the British medical society concluded in 2007. “If nicotine could be provided in a form that is acceptable and effective as a cigarette substitute, millions of lives could be saved.”

If you're a smoker, I encourage you to read the following article and decide for yourself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/science/e-cigarettes-help-smokers-quit-but-they-have-some-unlikely-critics.html?_r=2&ref=science

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The future is now

Our cameras followed South Buffalo resident Brian Reiss to the Boulevard Mall. Reiss is ready to buy into the latest quit smoking fad-electronic cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes are battery operated devices that provide inhaled doses of nicotine without the harmful tobacco tars.


Reiss is very excited about this scientific breakthrough and hopes to cure his other addiction when electronic crack comes out on the market.

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The New York state cigarette money grab

This is what's called a classic money grab. New York states' cigarette tax will now be the highest in the country. On July 1st, it will go from $1.60/pack to $4.35/pack. The question becomes how much will people pay for the right to kill themselves? The leaders of the state know nicotine is an addictive drug. They know smokers will pay whatever they have to to get their smokes.

A friend of mine tells me people on corners constantly leave their posts and approach his window to ask him for a cigarette. I talked to someone else today who said she is constantly approached for spare cigarettes downtown. When smoking becomes affordable only for the rich, New York state will lower the taxes on it again.

Legislature approves cigarette tax increase : Albany : The Buffalo News