Ok guys, sorry for the delay, i'll start replying to everyone now.
Kumari
The answer to your first post is:Yes, yes and yes.(And no i'm not a distributor...hehe)
But one thing that everyone needs to understand is this:E-cig
is not a smoking cessation device. It is wrong to depict it as such and it was never intended to such purpose.
Personally, i picked the e-cig, not because i wanted to quit smoking...but because i wanted to keep smoking.
The right definition is this: The e-cig is an alternative to smokers, that is way safer than smoking tobacco.
My experience is that the moment i tried it, and although i had a real dated and rotten useless device, i instantly knew that there was a real potential. I jumped on the keyboard and ordered a sample from the UK...5 days later i received it...Since then, i didn't touch a cigarette...But most importantly...I didn't feel the need to smoke tobacco cigarettes anymore.
And i'm a heavy smoker...50 cigarettes per day...look at my banner ...it's says it all.
TK,
When i bought the first e-cig, it was from a pharmacy in Lebanon, a month ago. The device didn't work properly and the cartridges were probably rotten or something.
I made a little search and study over the internet and almost instantly understood that i had a defected material worth nothing. But something in my head kept telling me that the concept is so bright and logical, that there is no reason it couldn't work. So i bought a sample online from the UK...And when the goods arrived...I tried the little baby and it was vaping like hell...
It works...just give it one more shot and a little patience and it will really make a difference, trust me.
Faithful,
You're right, there are no retailers in Lebanon for such device because it is in a state of "Not allowed/Not banned"....We'll talk about this later.
You might still be lucky to find something in some pharmacies, which are products imported before the recent Statut-Quo. But i wouldn't recommend buying such material simply because it's probably outdated, and there are surely no available spare parts and accessories for them.
The Lebanese product that you might find is the E-Steam electronic cigarette. It's too pricey for what it is, and even online, they do not propose spare parts and accessories. I think that those 2 doctors who imported this are just amateurs and don't have any knowledge about the product they tried to market.(By the way, you must all get used to read and hear in this domain, lots of ignorance coming especially from the scientific community...makes you think...)
http://e-steam.org/epages/eshop14014...ps/eshop140147
Now if the pharmacy tells you that this product is Swiss made or British made...they're lying to you. This is a pure 100% Chinese invention, and a pure 100% Chinese manufactured product...All over the world, it's the same.
RP,
Like i said before, there are no retailers for it in Lebanon, but you can get them through the net. But before buying online, iI should give few advises so not to have those products stopped by the local customs.
It's not like it's illegal, but they are trying to restrict and stop them. If it passes it passes, but if it doesn't...then you should have been more clever to find a discrete way...
Like everything in Lebanon...No public employee minds anything whatsoever...but just don't put him in a position that doesn't give him a margin of maneuver...hehe
LebanonUSA,
I'll make it simple for others to understand what is going on in the US and around the world in this matter:
FDA are corrupt
WHO are incompetent
State's health organizations and administrative bodies are ignorant
The report that you posted about the FDA was obviously twisted, spinned, stretched, misleading and "motivated" and is simply a scandal in itself, and the FDA is facing lawsuits over it.
I will not comment on what is in the report for now because it would take too long, and we'll get back at its details later, but here is a brief overview about that matter for the time being:
The WHO on the other hand, is as incompetent and useless and mostly corrupt, as most UN organizations, and is following the steps of the FDA on that matter because someone in the US is pushing for it.
And finally, the third world like usual, is watching and following "WHO ignorant recommendations" without even knowing what the hell it is all about, and Arab States in particular, like in everything else, like the good doggies they are, and just to please Mr America, simply decided to ban it, plain and simple. BTW, the US government couldn't restrict it in the US, because of issues of rights and personal freedoms and liberties...but it could do whatever it pleases in the Arab part of the globe.
Anyway, just as we're talking now, the FDA is busy doing this:
FDA starts collecting fees from tobacco companies - BusinessWeek
Forget what governments and governmental bodies are saying today. They will try to undermine the E-cig as much as possible. We all know that money talks inside those institutions...And when I say money...I'm talking about hundreds of
Billions of dollars...H1N1 and Bird flue scandals, and their Rumsfeld/Roch/Tamiflu killing vaccines, are nothing in comparison to the "Tobacco (
fighting) industry" affairs...
Did you know that Tobacco is America's 3rd most important industry?
But if you're interested in real scientific studies and researches and findings about the product, one of the few serious places to look in so far, is here:
Health New Zealand
Note that the studies are funded by the world n.1 E-cigs company...But this does not undermine the credibility of Dr Murray Laugesen, an authority in this matter, especially that further studies conducted by independent institutes and laboratories around the world, are reaching the same conclusions.
That's it for now, i hope that i was of a certain interest, and I will be open for more questions if anyone needs to know more.
The electronic cigarette: A serious and healthier alternative to tobacco smoking -
6th October 2009
6th October 2009
... at least it is odorless, and it doesnt hurt as much as the original one. 
