According to a release on the State of California web site just 2 days ago, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declined to sign Senate Bill 400. On September 11, 2009, the California Senate passed Bill 400. The bill was originally written as "The Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program", and then was amended to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, which was very supportable. Additional wording in the bill would have also banned the sale of electronic cigarettes in the state of California to adults.

In a statement on the California Government web site, Governor Schwarzenegger made it clear that there is a difference between the freedoms of adults and children. In the letter, the governor made the following comments.

"I am returning Senate Bill 400 without my signature. While I support restricting access of electronic cigarettes to children under the age of 18, I cannot sign a measure that also declares them a federally regulated drug when the matter is currently being decided through pending litigation. Items defined as "tobacco products" are legal for anyone over the age of 18. If adults want to purchase and consume these products with an understanding of the associated health risks, they should be able to do so unless and until federal law changes the legal status of these tobacco products.

For this reason, I am unable to sign this bill.

Sincerely,
Arnold Schwarzenegger"

You go Arnold!  Terminate that bill!

Points East, It looks as though a handful of Congressmen have taken up smoking electronic cigarettes!

Reps. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) and Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) have all been spotted using the device on Capitol Hill.

That's about as close to bipartisanship as Congress can get, so enjoy it while it lasts!  What's more, here's a beaming endorsement of electronic cigarettes by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL):

“These e-cigarettes are smokeless and do not produce carcinogens. The nicotine in e-cigarettes is controlled in a capsule that can help in smoking cessation by allowing the user to reduce gradually the nicotine level, hopefully to zero.”

Stearns has sent electronic cigarettes to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and President Obama to help them quit smoking.  He’s been seen using the device in the Speaker’s Lobby, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) banned smoking two years ago.

That's right folks: President Obama owns An Electronic Cigarette.  How cool is that?   I wouldn't count these things out just yet.

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This brings a little more clarity to the FDA's position.  Why should they let a new, innovative product compete with one of their main sources of bread and butter?

Think that's ironic?  Get this! Ever heard of an organization called "Tobacco Free Kids"?  From their Google listing: "Working to expose Big Tobacco's lies, the Campaign reveals the truth about the deadly effects of smoking, tobacco's corporate public relations campaigns to convince the public that it is a reformed industry, and the advertising and marketing tactics tobacco companies use to entice youth as their new customers."  Yeah, well they've teamed up with Philip Morris to the tune of $3.5million to lobby for the passage of the Tobacco Bill.  Tobacco Free Kids argues that is designed "for the good of the nation" when, in reality, it was designed for the good of Big Tobacco.

For those not familiar with what the "Tobacco Bill" will do, in short it will lead to a ban on alternatives to tobacco cigarettes, like electronic cigarettes, without FDA approval.  It will also reduce advertising so smokers will only remember the biggest, most popular brands, read: Philip Morris.

Of course, Philip Morris has a stellar history with regards to health issues and the public interest.  Here are just a few examples:

•Philip Morris spent $2 million on a domestic violence program - and then $108 million on a television ad campaign to tell us about it
•While saying it doesn’t want kids to smoke, Philip Morris pressured Florida to stop some of its anti-tobacco ads, which have been among the most effective in the country.
•Philip Morris has secretly helped or funded front groups in Florida and Washington that have been fighting measures to ensure smoke-free indoor workplaces and raise cigarette taxes.
•More kids smoke Philip Morris’ Marlboro cigarettes than all other brands combined.
•Philip Morris issued a report in the Czech Republic last year that argued early smoking deaths have “positive effects” because they save the government money.
•Abroad, Philip Morris has hired underaged Marlboro girls who pass out free cigarettes to other children and sponsored concerts where cigarettes were handed to minors.

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While filters and light tobacco cigarettes reduce the amount of nicotine a person inhales, the chemicals present in the cigarettes are still enough to cause health problems and most scientists maintain that, in the long run, the small difference between light and full-flavored cigarettes does not necessarily result in a safer smoking experience. Other types of tobacco products, such as chewing tobacco,   are thought to be slightly safer as there is nothing inhaled but on the other hand, chewing tobacco multiplies the chances of getting mouth, tongue or throat cancer.

Who among us isn't affected by the constant anti-smoking advertising and warnings of near-certain disease and death resulting from smoking cigarettes? Today's smokers find it very difficult to find any enjoyment in smoking after work or a meal due to all of the social and medical backlash. Even the concerns about secondhand smoke have caused smokers to be herded into distant corners of parking lots or into their cars, away from any public areas. Consequently, many smokers have been looking to safer and milder cigarettes for health reasons. But, is that really enough?

While not truly, chemical-free, the new Electronic Cigarettes appear to be the closest thing to a Healthy Cigarette that you are going to find on the market today. Considered to be the safest alternative to tobacco cigarettes, e-cigarettes are even better than they sound. Electronic cigarettes look like conventional cigarettes in most cases but do not require a flame. Although they contain nicotine, it is the only chemical that users inhale, allowing smokers to satisfy their craving while avoiding the 4,800 other chemicals present in tobacco cigarettes, of which 69 of them are known to cause cancer, nicotine not being one of them. It gets even better.

Electronic Cigarettes are safer than tobacco cigarettes for several reasons. First, there is no flame or smoke involved, which reduces the risk of lung cancer and heart disease. Second, they only contain the one chemical - nicotine. Smokers may not be aware of the potential for psychological dependence on simply the act of smoking, such as the inhaling and exhaling of the smoke. This was not lost on the inventors of the e-cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes contain water vapor and propylene glycol, a common ingredient in food coloring that gives the water vapor enough color to been seen by the user as they inhale and exhale. These "vapors" are odorless, harmless, and are only added to give the illusion of smoking and increase the pleasure of using e-cigarettes.

Possibly the greatest benefit over traditional tobacco cigarettes is the freedom from most smoking bans. With widespread smoking bans in most public places it's getting more and more difficult for those who need nicotine to smoke while working, shopping or while dining out. E-Cigarettes offer people the ability to smoke anywhere! Officials in parts of Europe have deemed the electronic cigarette a public-friendly product. For smokers who are tired of having to search out the "area" in airports, malls, hotels and restaurants, this is the breath of fresh air that you've been searching for!

Are you tired of the constant, repeated, "sin"-tax hikes on cigarettes? Get this: Electronic Cigarettes are CHEAPER than tobacco products. Instead of smoking a pack a day, or about twenty cigarettes, you can get the proper quantity of nicotine with only one electronic cigarette cartridge, which is equivalent to about thirty cigarettes, or a pack and a half. As you will be really just smoking the same cigarette until it runs out or starts to taste weak, you may even be able to start cutting down. Cartridges generally come in groups of five for about fifteen dollars, which works out to approximately one dollar per pack. Wow.

Let's summarize. Are you looking to save your health? Are you tired of being ushered to the corners? Is the price of tobacco cigarettes starting to wear you down? Electronic Cigarettes are the answer....hands down. We review the best and the brightest right here.

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Some Quick Smoking Facts

• Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the United States and world-wide.
• Smoking-related diseases cause an estimated 440,000 American deaths Annually.
• Smoking costs the United States over $150 billion EACH YEAR in health care costs.
• A 2004 Study by the CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion found that cigarette smoke contains over 4,800 chemicals, 69 of which are known to cause cancer.
• Women account for 39 percent of all smoking deaths.
• 3,000 nonsmoking adults die of diseases caused by exposure to second hand smoke EACH YEAR
• Secondhand smoke contains more than 4,000 chemical compounds, including carbon monoxide ( which poisons the human body), ammonia, formaldehyde, and other poisons. 4 of the chemicals - benzene, 2-naphthylamine, 4-aminobiphenyl, and polonium-210 are classified by the EPA as known carcinogens-cancer causing agents.

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