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aufin

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  1. 12 hours ago, Walt said:

    And of course, what we have been expecting.  If current proposed legislation is passed this will have a value of $2800.00.  1 ltr 100 proof

     

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    Yep, then it'll become just like cannabis. ....... DIY home extraction, and another target for the DEA.  

  2. Bebop, you're probably right ..... the banning has nothing to do with the illnesses, BUT, the illness situation is the driving force behind this round of vape demagoguery.  The general public is so under informed about vaping that anything negative about vaping is ammunition.  And someone dieing while associated with vaping is a huge piece of ammunition that can and is being used to fuel the ignorant anti-vapers. It's just wrong!!! My feeling is the tobacco and pharma lobbyists are really enjoying this round of hysteria. According to my newspaper this morning, Michigan and New York have already banned flavored vape gear way ahead of any thoughtful Investigation on the matter.  I'm still pissed.  Had occasion to see a friend yesterday who is a vaper and the conversation eventually turned to the current vape issue.  She was "scared to vape" because of the filtered information she was hearing.  Like I said,  ignorant people making uninformed decisions.  

  3. Nice article, but my thoughts are it is a bit light on pointing fingers at what's/who's driving the vape persecution.  I smoked 50 years, was introduced to vape and vaped 4+ years till I quit everything about 2 years ago.  Even though I'm no longer an active participant in the vape community, this vilification of vapers/ing still has me pretty pissed.  I understand the anguish and hurt around the sickness and deaths, but a knee jerk reaction to ban everything is just plain wrong.  From everything I've read or heard, the culprit seems to be a new ingredient to the vape scene, a type of vitamin E.  Which brings the question ..... how to successfully ban just one ingredient.  Instead, the answer seems to just ban everything.  That should make tobacco and pharma happy.  Stupid!! 

    If I were still vaping I would be stocking up on my fav flavors. Just in case. 

  4. To begin with, any "study" coming out of California, I automatically look at as suspect.  When it comes to whether vape or smoke cigarettes, I much prefer my chances vaping over cigarettes.  And ..... it may seem a bit morbid to think about, but I would choose to have "my lights go out" with a heart attack than spend my last days in agony with lung cancer from smokes.  Now, with that said I'm not in favor of rushing either outcome.  That's why after 50 years of smoking cigarettes, after a friend offered me his vape rig to try, I went out and bought myself a setup.  The day I started vaping I put cigarettes down and havent looked back.  That was 6+ years ago.  Vaped 4 years, stopped vaping 2 years ago.  So I guess that means now I dont have to worry about having a heart attack or lung cancer.  

  5.  Well, looks like today's the day.  April 18, 2913 a friend loaned me one of his rigs to try.  4 hours later at the agreed on meeting spot I gave it back to him.  The next day I went out and bought myself a double set ...... 650 batteries and CE4 tanks.  That day I wrote the date on the pack I had just opened, dropped it in the console and after 50+ years of cigarettes, I started vaping.  Haven't looked back.  Within the first 6 months i started diy'ing my own juice.  Eventually i worked myself to 0 nic.  Been there for over a year, now.  Almost got sucked into the "bigger 'n better'n shiny stuff" end of vaping till I realized that's not why i started vaping in the first place.  Biggest setup I worked up to was a nautilus sitting on a 40W Eleaf.  Lately, till a couple weeks ago, I was back at the basic level with a t3 sitting on a 1100 batt.  Caught a cold that migrated to my chest, so everything got put away for a few days.  A couple days grew day by day ....... been vape free for the past 3 weeks, so now seems like as good  a time as any to give everything up for good.  Gotta say it feels very liberating walking out and only checking for keys instead of everything else I used to carry around.  

    So, if you're vaping to quit smoking, I wish you good luck.  Just keep that goal in mind and know that it is possible.  And, yep that pack is still riding around in my console with the same number of cigs it had in it back in 2013.  It's become a conversation piece.  Maybe I'll memorialize it in a block of Lucite.

    So...... Happy Trails everyone.  Color me gone.   

  6. On 1/1/2017 at 8:58 PM, Lacuna said:

    So I took it back to the guy, and he traded me for a different one. ****** that one up too so quit. Just sticking to smoking cigarettes. Good ole simple cigarettes. Thank you for the help, but these things are too complicated and too expensive to keep messing around with. 

    My suggestion would be for you to find a vape store that gives a rats-*** about you and understands the value of customer service for building repeat customers.  Evidently the sales guy just wanted to sell you something with no regard for your lack of experience.  E-cigarette aren't rocket science, but there is a small learning curve.  

    The above also is directly related to your desire, or lack of, to give up cigarettes.  If your goal is to drop cigarettes, then start with an inexpensive  entry level rig, learn what's going on and proceed from there.  Don't allow yourself to be talked into getting the latest 'n greatest cloud chaser equipment.  You've already discovered how expensive and discouraging that experience can be.  There are some of us in the vaping community who are still using pretty basic equipment ..... and are quite satisfied.  

    Many vape shops just want your money and send you on your way.  Finding the right vape store can be tough, sometimes.  

  7. Backwards=flavor getting worse instead of better. Don't care for the hit/harshness of very much pg. Maybe 10% so it won't be too thick. Trying to compensate for the lower pg with more flavor doesn't seem to be working. Or ..... my taste buds are just plain shot. Been almost 3 years now, and I have yet to land on a flavor to get excited about.

    sent from my fancy doo dad

  8. Well, so much for being the "information age". The U.S has become a nation of sheeple.

    I've just about given up trying to steer someone away from the dark side. I get looks like I'm trying to sell snake oil, or get excuses- "I've heard it can cause pneumonia", "ecig are just as bad as cigarettes", "I'm afraid it might blow up". Ya just can't fix stupid.

    The U.S and Europe are going in opposite directions with vaping. Just doesn't make any sense.

    Sent from my SM-G900V using The Vapor Talk mobile app

  9. Hmmm, timely question.  I've been thinking about my drip tip(s) lately.  Not so much as to the preferred shape, but where my DT goes during the day.  It goes in my pocket, both pants and shirt, on the car seat, on the dash (and on the floor), on table/counter tops of eateries where they're sometimes "inspected" by someone interested, and occasionally on the ground......and in my mouth.  Which got me thinking about making a special one just for me with .999 silver.  Pure silver has some amazing antibacterial properties, so, since I have the equipment, know-how, and the "want to" I'ma thinking I'm going to make myself a one of a kind DT.  Right after I decide on a shape......and source some proper O rings .........and find a few of those "round tuit's"   Haven't caught anything from my DT that I know of (yet), but .........  Could be an interesting project.

  10. I just don't see the govt. trying to totally "kill" vaping.  Vaping is too big and there's just too much money being passed around for govt. to ignore.  Regulate the crap out of vaping, yeah.  And, get their pound of flesh, Oh, Hell yeah.  But "kill" vaping, I don't think so.  Not only would the vaping community jump up and down yelling and screaming, and become a bunch of bootleggers, and "criminals" in the eyes of govt., but China has a pretty big stake in what's going on.  (That's not to say BT and BP wouldn't like to see vaping disappear)  If some of the articles I've read about vaping are correct, vaping is much bigger than just ex-smokers and active smokers, so I'm sure the money guys in govt. have run the numbers and what they have come up with is the Big Dollars they are, and would be missing out on were vaping to go away.  I see the vaping issue is just about the money...... the anti-smoker zealots, you'll never make them happy.  I think that making vaping go away would be a totally asinine move.  Yeah, I know, we're talking about the govt., and asinine moves are pretty common, but still, killing a money cow just doesn't make sense, and I'm pretty sure they know it, too.  I really don't think the govt. gives a rat's *** what we vapers do as long as we pay to play. I do see vaping being more expensive in the future.  I do see panic buying and shortages till everything settles down.  The govt. bastards just want what seems to be a pretty big (and undeserved) piece of what's going on.  I feel they're overstepping their authority, but what's new in this unconstitutional govt. we've seen these past few years?  (Hopefully that'll change in the near future, but that's a topic for another time and place).  I'm not saying I'm happy in the least little bit with what's going on, but tossing a few cents per ml tax on a bottle of juice to feed the govt. bears, I can live with.   I haven't seen any hard numbers tossed around about the sin tax on juices, so I'm probably in for a big surprise I won't be too happy about.  I've heard taxes are kinda like plucking live chickens:  See how many feathers you can grab at one time before the chicken starts screaming too bad.  That's the govt. way. 

    Like someone once said, "that's my opinion, I could be wrong".

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