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I thought about getting some packaging foam (its quite sturdy) and cutting holes in it for particular size e liquid bottles, like 10ml and 30ml. Cut that foam to fit inside any box and hey presto.

I did see a packaging company that supplied foam inserts with holes cut for 30 ml bottles, but they were quite expensive for what it was, probably cheaper to buy the foam and cut yourself to suit.

I like the idea of storing all my e liquids in some neat and tidy box, with compartments for various bits and bobs.

I dont suppose they will last long, I think that Ebay filters disallow sales using words such as ecig etc, but if none of the text uses the flagged words they slip through the automated net, but then usually they get taken down on manual review.

It seems to be the same with google adwords, currently there are 3 e liquid ads on google, even though google policies do not allow e cigs or e liquid to be advertised using adwords. They usually last a few days until they get taken down. But I have seen some last longer, one was for a facebook shop selling e cigs, and i think even facebook disallows them. So it seems to happen quite often, but not last long.

I did an ad for adwords for E Liquid Labs a few months back, I did not realise at the time that it was not allowed. The ads ran for about 12 hours then were blocked. An email from google explained that they categorise them as tobacco products, hence the ban.

I would imagine that in some years when the classification of e cigs and e liquid is clearer, things may change, but until then the big companies are going to play on the safe side and not advertise them to protect themselves from a legal point of view. At least that is what the people at google adwords told me, that it is for legal reasons that they have to disallow at present.

Most of the time I am happy with Royal Mail, but I did read recently that they are introducing a new system for signed for, if you are out, they are going to stop leaving cards and just leave it at a neighbours.

I dont like that idea at all, because how are you supposed to know that there has been a parcel, if your neighbour doesnt tell you, or goes away, or whatever. My postie says that you can opt out and tell them not to leave with a neighbour, which i will do, but the idea of abolishing cards through the door seems really a bad idea.

That is interesting, I will look into that further.

The article says that it is only a hypothesis, not a fact, but it is still something of interest. It says that the levels of formaldehyde found were 5 times less than the amount found in tobacco smoke, so e cigs are still a healtheir alternative than smoking tobacco.

Although I can see that those who may want to curb the use of e cigs, could use this to strengthen their case.

I have tried VG e liquid and do not like it, because for me I want a good throat hit and just didnt get it from VG vapour, even though it produced alot of smoke. I also found the taste of VG a bit unpleasant. PEG as well I tried and did not like the taste of that. PG is the only diluent I have found satisfying, but as I say, that is a personal preference.

So I hope that they do some further studies on this and thanks for pointing that out to me...appreciated.

I tried an intellicig and a Gamucci as my first e cigs. I did not get along with them, I didnt feel they satisfied my cravings. It wasnt until I tried a friend of mines titan 510 e cig with a refillable cartridge that I got to thinking e cigs were really good.

Things have moved on since I started vaping with my 510, I can only recommend what I have tried, but from what I have heard there are e cigs with longer battery life and that hold more e liquid these days.

I think most people start with prefilled cartridges/cartomisers, I did, and I think it is sensible till you get used to vaping and find which strength and flavour suits you, then you can save some money buy refilling carts instead of buying packs of new ones.

Tobacco is a particular tricky flavour to find to suit you, because there are as many varieties of tobacco e liquid as there are types of tobacco. there are some e liquids that mimic specific brands of tobacco, such as marlborough or golden virginia for example, but its a case of finding what you like.

Anyway, good luck with your switch to vaping!

"The available data suggest that there can be great variability in the content of electronic cigarettes, both in the amount of nicotine present and also in relation to other potentially toxic substances.

Electronic cigarettes are not currently regulated as medicines, which are required to meet appropriate standards of safety, quality and efficacy."

This same argument was put forth some years back when the MRHA first took a look at e cigs and it simply does not stand as a reason to categorise e cigs as medical devices, because the exact same thing could be said of tobacco cigarettes. Tobacco cigarettes also present variability in the amount of nicotine present and other potentially toxic substances, so if this is the criteria for such a classification, then tobacco cigarettes should also have to be classified the same way, and also regulated as medecines.

This was the argument before and it still stands today. So I cant see how they can justify regulating e cigs as medicines, without doing the same with tobacco cigarettes.

So far EU courts have ruled against such classification of e cigs and that precedent will bear alot of weight in the UK when MRHA looks over the subject later.

It is not that the e cig industry does not want any regulations, I think most vapers would like to be sure that what they are vaping is what it is supposed to be, however such regulations can come about without the medicinal classification, because the medicinal classification, will likely kill the industry, due to few manufacturers being unable to spend millions of pounds for clinical trials required for medicinal products, that would take years to complete.

I am not sure what the answer is myself, I just believe that classification as a medecine is really going to far and that there must be some other more reasonable way to regulate what we are vaping.

E liquid manufacturers could for example, be required to have regular lab tests done on their products. Something like that would reassure vapers what they are vaping and I think that most companies would be willing to do that.

It would be seem to be much more useful if the government would come up with some directives and for example an approved list of required tests and labs to do such tests, than it would to kill the ecig industry, while the tobacco industry just continues as before.

Norton is nortorious for being hard to get rid of, but there is a 'Norton Removal Tool', you might google it to download to get rid of all traces of norton from your system.

I had trouble with Norton and with Mcafee, both just slowed my system up too much to be any use. Avast seems to be ok, although that little popup that tells me it is updating virus definitions, really bugs me.