I decided I would give them a try, my grandson lives with us 3 1/2 days a week and I didn't want to smoke around him. It cost about $100 to get started, ordered everything off the internet. Got cigarettes, cartriges and chargers. I tried several different cartriges, some were good and some were bad. I found one I really like and I've almost quit smoking real cigarettes. Its nice to take a draw off of one in public. The doctors really like them, my doc said she could tell a difference in the sound of my lungs and it had only been a month. I live in NC and I don't save that much money but I could see it would be a lot cheaper if you lived up north and they're not taxed like regular cigarettes. I never smoked in anyones house that didn't smoke and if I had nonsmoker company I never smoked around them. I would go outside. I tried to be considerate of my nasty habit. If you smoke they're worth trying and don't give up if you don't get the right cartriges at first. I have way to much wrong with me for them to extend my life but I do it for the sake of others. They're odorless and leave no funky residue or smelly ashtrays.

I roll my own. IMported pipe tobacco doesnt have thimerosol sprayed on it.
Every Non imported tobacco except one ( Its organic & very pricey, cant remember the name) has it.
I think rolling them is part of smoking. I spend around $15.00 every 2 weeks on tobacco & papers.

Midnightrider wrote on 05/01/13 at 12:43:51:


Midnight I'll accept your claims as you were "right there in the trenches" as it were. But,as  tobacco farmer and farm supply employee for the better part of thirty years I can tell you there are quite a few chemicals in the tobacco. Starting with the treatments for disease and aphids while the plants are in the bed, then herbicides for weeds in the field prior to planting,moving to insecticides for bugs and worms in the field,then chemicals to prevent suckers(plant growth at the leaf joints)and finally chemicals to stop growth and start the curing process.

Lots of chemicals in tobacco just on the farm.......even if none are added in the rest of the processing.

Midnight - what brand are you using? I tried the "Blue" and some cheap POS from the gas station, neither of which were worth a darn. Tasted like shite, and didn't curb my cravings. I really like the idea of them, I just havn't found one I like.  

Face, its South Beach Smoke, my wife got them off the internet. Zar I started working tobacco in the fields when I was 11. I know different herbicides were used but back then it was basically the same thing we used on our vegtables. I know things have changed a lot, I'm 58 years old. I have no idea what farmers use nowadays, about the only American tobacco used in major quanity anymore is burley. God knows whats in these foreign tobaccos the companys are buying. I do not condone smoking in any way shape or form! What I was saying is I don't believe the government was telling the truth when it came to cigarette manufacturing, in fact I know the government lied if you can believe that. The government was saying the tobacco companies were adding harmful chemicals, the farmers weren't mentioned. I hand mixed the flavoring in giant mixers for a couple of years and nothing harmful that I wouldn't eat or drink went into the flavoring.

tried them don't like them

Zar I don't remember us spraying any kind of insecticide on the tobacco when I was growing up. We kids had to go through the fields and pick the tobacco worms and pull their heads off. It was a green slimy mess. I love Mexican food but I don't want to be around guacamole. Reminds me too much of tobacco worm guts.

ok Serowbot,and Midnightrider,Justin.  This is your old buddy Mick Justin's nemeses , I couldn't get my old name back so I took one of Bounder that's another name for cad. I have been in and out of hospital
thanks mostly to SMOKING I tried the C/cigs they actually made things worse.  My last time in this last winter with pneumonia, almost killed me.
I have to carry oxygen around with me 24 / 07  that includes bed, I don't look like such a chick magnet in my little Miata. But I still enjoy the heck out of it, I tried to give you my advice 2 years ago,I see by your desperate attempts that none of you made it.
Please guys you gotta do it,  it's killing you, we all know it, we cant keep dodging the bullet .  I can promise you . good luck  guys,  Mick