Cross your fingers - might be publicity!

[lolli]

Chrissie -brilliant thanks for C&P ing that message for me
(took me ages to type & was running late with other commitments so it was a massive help - couldn't face typing it all again )

Foxy - you're a star!!! - am printing all this kinda stuff off for my bedtime reading Thank you.

Kate - Thanks for that list - you're fab - will try to get some quotes from those links tomorrow!
(BTW - Did you get my message?)

Just read my post that Chrissie put on for me earlier - noticed my smilies in it were def NOT smiling !!! Silly silly me, it's all as it's all publicity anyway - and when I think back, having simmered down now, actually it went ok - even well - so sorry for being a bit earlier - now totally back to

[kate]

Here are some quotes for you Lollipop: www.vapersforum.com/showthread.php?p=130755#post130755


I didn't get a message from you, it must be lost in cyberspace ???

[lolli]

(Kate thanks for the quotes 'Spect message will come tomorrow )

This is my first ever C&P - I'm a late learner (followed instructions Chrissie )

It was in our local paper 2nd March

"Our" broadcast will prob go out around the SAME date (good or bad ?? )

Thought you guys would be interested Wot do you make of it?

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World's first smokeless cigarette to be unveiled in Bournemouth
10:30am Tuesday 2nd March 2010
IT’S the invention pubs and restaurants have been dreaming of – the smokeless cigarette.
A non-carcinogenic alternative to the traditional packet of fags is about to be unveiled in Bournemouth.
The manufacturer claims its invention, the Similar, offers the feel and taste of a cigarette, but without the smoke. And it’s not covered by the law forbidding smoking in enclosed public places.

Notar (UK) Ltd will be bringing the Similar to the Hotel and Catering Show at the BIC on March 16-17.
Andrew Wrench, director of the Warrington-based company, said: “Publicans believe the ban has driven customers away. Many of the country’s 11 million smokers are believed to have felt marginalised by the ban and simply stayed at home. That loss of custom has contributed to the growing number of pub closures across the country.

“But the arrival of the Similar has had a huge welcome from publicans. They see it as a golden opportunity to welcome back smokers and revive a flagging business sector.”

The company says the product was developed in Germany using nano-technology.
Similars retail in a choice of two flavours for around £6 for a packet of 10 – around the price of 20-30 cigarettes.
They allow smokers to inhale the flavours of tobacco and get a nicotine buzz, but without the tar and the carcinogens, it is claimed.

Unlike electronic cigarettes which have been marketed in recent times, it does not emit any vapour or require batteries and could safely be taken on aeroplanes.

It is being made available in pubs and clubs following a deal with vending machine company the Cherwell Group.
Bryan Ford, sales director with Cherwell, said: “Publicans need to attract people onto their premises if their businesses are to be viable and the availability of a smokeless cigarette that can be ‘smoked’ on the premises will have a tremendous positive impact on the trade.”
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[foxy9212]

With the exception of there being a choice of two flavours, they sound precisely similar (no pun intended) to the Nicorette Inhalator with which I had such resounding lack of success! Expensive and unsatisfying - I need the vapour. They would, however, be useful for smokers who wish to smoke in pubs, clubs and planes but too expensive to replace the regular cigs. For example, I can make the equivalent of 250 cigarettes using juice, for the princely sum of £8.50 delivered.

Vaping is not a substitute, it's an alternative as far as I'm concerned; there's a difference.

Fox

[Chrissie]

(((Lolli))) you are doing brilliantly & well done with the copying & pasting

Huge thanks to Foxy & Kate for helping Lolli so much last night.

Re the Similar cigarettes, these are the ones that Ryan Air are selling on board their planes. Here is a link telling you more about them :

www.similarshop.eu/commerce/smokelesscigarettes/company/smokeless.jsf

As Foxy says, they would work out very expensive & unsatisfying without the vapour. I also can't see how they could escape the proposed ban as they do contain nicotine.

[foxy9212]

If they're unlicensed Chrissie, they won't escape the ban. The manufacturers and suppliers need to make a lot more noise! A lot more!

Fox >

[lolli]

Yes they DO Foxy!
Why can't one of them have a "launch" like these people are doing in a fortnights time near me? Even got their own special day with local news coverage!
Maybe involve a nightclub - all publicity after all!

[Chrissie]

Lolli, I so wish there had been a launch of the e-cig a couple of years or so ago, Maybe things would have been different.

I think the main reason it didn't happen was due to the fact that the e-cig was invented in China & the first people (like Pillbox) that started selling them in the UK, just didn't have the funds to finance a launch & it's most probably too late to do so now

Foxy, it will be interesting to see how the Similar fairs & whether the MHRA include them in the proposed ban .

[kate]

Why don't we organise a day ourselves? A tobacco harm reduction day or a vapers day or something?

[Chrissie]

I really like that idea Kate

Not sure how much use I would be though as I'm a bit of a recluse & therefore never met another vaper in RL.

[Lilac]

I'd be up for it too, i'm very much not a recluse and as long as there was an airport Ryanair flies to and a lift to and fro, i'd love to...

I have several friends down souff that i have met several times that i met through ebay, even went to the wedding of 2 of them 2 years ago...lol

[Lilac]

What i'm afraid of is if this ban goes through, it includes a ban on importing juice into the country

then we really would be snookered

[Chrissie]

Lilac, Ryanair flys to Newquay

[Lilac]

where's that, lol?

Depends where 'the day' would be, i know Stansted airport like the back of my hand, prob cos i was in a LDR with a guy from Essex for 18 months...

[Chrissie]

Mar 5, 2010 23:53:52 GMT Lilac said:

where's that, lol?

maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Newquay&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Newquay,+Cornwall&gl=uk&ei=V5yRS7bqOon80wT6xOzvDA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ8gEwAA

Just a few miles North of me & I can get a train to there fairly easily