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A Preview of Craft Vapery

Subscription eLiquid service You know, one of my favorite things about vaping also happens to be one of my greatest sources of anxiety and even a little trepidation. The thrill of a new eLiquid combined with the uncertainty, “But will I like it?” Is there anything more wasteful in a Vaper’s life then tossing eLiquid in [...]

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Emanuel’s E Cigarette Ban

The December 9th entry on the Chicago Sun-Times site brought with it a cause for brief celebration. The headline: "SURPRISE OPPOSITION DERAILS EMANUEL'S E-CIGARETTE BAN" Could it be? Did rational thinking prevail once again over the childishly shallow-minded regulatory reflex that holds, "It looks like a cigarette, so we must treat it like a cigarette"? At first [...]

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All The Cool Kids – Underage Vaping

Commentary: John Castle As a Vaper, this is a sensitive subject for me, and I'm sure it is for you, as well. But it's out there, it has to be dealt with, so let's deal with it. Underage vaping. Let's start things off with a joke -- have ya heard the one about government officials? They [...]

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A Thanksgiving Tale by John Castle

I'm gonna keep this one short and sweet, folks; this being the week leading up to a holiday, it only seems fitting that brevity is the better part of valor here. Ehm… unless you're sitting in an airport terminal or riding shotgun while your significant other drives, in which case I guess I should keep [...]

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Unlucky Strike – What Big Tobacco May Mean For Vaping

Subject: Big Tobacco If there's one thing you can count on with a nascent industry with a similarity to an older, more entrenched one, it's that the big movers and shakers of the preceding industry are going to do one of two things: beat 'em or join 'em. So we should feel a sense of relief, I [...]

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The Precautionary Principle and Castle’s Wager

John Castle Intro There is a political doctrine at the core of anti-vaping efforts in the United States and in many other countries around the world. What that doctrine is became clear to me in discussions I've had in person and around the internet, and now I'm going to reveal it to you. The doctrine in question is [...]

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Book Review: TobakkoNacht – The Antismoking Endgame

TobakkoNacht - The Antismoking Endgame FOREWORD: This is a book review long in the making. We received our copy (purchased, not given, well worth the $25) several weeks ago and it has made the rounds here at Spinfuel . You can’t help but to apply what is so fully researched and so thoughtfully laid out, to other [...]

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People Power Guides Europe Towards Sensible Electronic Cigarette Decision

 People Power And Electronic Cigarette The last few months have been some of the most fraught and frustrating for electronic cigarette users throughout the World due to the seemingly incessant stream of laws, restrictions and regulations being proposed by various authorities as well as the varied dubious scientific studies that have been fed into the media. These [...]

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Electronic Cigarettes Proving their Worth Without Regulations

Who Needs Regulations? Beginning today Chris Balme will be stopping by on occasion to share with our readers important articles concerning the e-Cigarette industry and the regulations thereof. We hope you enjoy Mr Balme's work and we look forward to reading your responses below in the comment section. - Tom McBride - Managing Editor Sometimes sticking with the status [...]

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In Defense of the Cig-A-Like

Where Does The Cig-A-Like Belong Now? Vaping Is As Simple, Or As Complicated As You Want It To Be … And for some people it can become a nightmare full of the obsessions for mathematical equations, constant adjustments, wrapping and rewrapping coils, and owning a few fluke meters and testing every atomizer and battery within your [...]

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Beyond eCigarettes – The Next Step

Beyond eCigarettes An eCigarettes Opinion Piece By guest writer George W Hanson   I recently experienced a weekend of “unsatisfactory” vaping with my ecigarettes. In that I mean none of the eCigarettes that I regularly use were doing what they needed to do. For some reason, not the fault of the eCigs themselves, I was not getting enough [...]

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Is Smoking Cigarettes Really That Bad? Well, yea, but…

Smoking Cigarettes It’s funny watching people who are so adamant against cigarette smoking. They have made it their lives work to stamp out smoking everywhere. You can no longer smoke any place that I could smoke back in the day. Not even in clubs or city streets can you smoke these days. Now that they  (you [...]