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Smartphone Battery Charges in 30 Seconds!
Awesome new battery charges in 30 seconds — When will this be available for your electronic cigarette?
In awesome tech news, a new battery that uses something called nanodots was just demonstrated at Microsoft’s Think next symposium. It is the brainchild of Israeli company StoreDot.
Not only does it manage to charge small batteries in under 30 seconds, it will charge larger batteries like car batteries in about a minute, making the possibilities of legitimate electric cars not too far out into the future. “Fuel up” in just a minute or two vs. the overnight plugging required in current electric cars would go a long way to making electric cars practical for more people to use.
StoreDot is in the process of patenting this technology, but is planning to go into mass production of this battery technology within the next two years. It is a much safer technology then any previous attempt at super fast charging batteries, and the cost for this technology will be relatively low.
This technology of super fast charging batteries, if it ends up being sustainable and legitimate will surely become the wave of the future and will change so many areas of our lives, including laptop and cell phones, portable devices, electric cars and scooters, and so much more. It will eventually even impact electronic cigarettes, who most of you are used to the double battery situation, having to always be charging a battery while using another. How about a quick 15 second charge of your e-cigarette battery and you are back on your way!
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Calgary to study e-cigarettes with an eye to regulation
Council votes to look into the safety around electronic cigarettes
CBC News Posted: Mar 31, 2014 8:12 PM MT
The City of Calgary will study the effect of electronic cigarettes and look at the possibility of regulation.
Council passed a motion eight to six in favour of looking at the new devices.
Coun. Diane Colley-Urquhart introduced the motion.
“I’ve had a few complaints with people smoking these things — or I guess that’s the wrong word, ‘inhaling’ these vapours — that we don’t know what they contain because there’s no regulation around e-cigarettes.”
Right now many Calgary bars and restaurants allow customers to use the devices indoors.
E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that use a liquid-filled cartridge that can contain mint, vanilla or other flavourings. The contents are vaporized into a mist that is breathed into the lungs. Some cartridges contain nicotine but are not approved for sale in Canada, so have to be ordered online.
‘What are you doing?’
Colleen Kahut-Seminuk says she uses her electronic cigarettes around the city.
“We were actually at the Jubliee Auditorium last weekend and we were using it there and the looks we were getting were a bit off, double-taking, looking, you know, ‘What are you doing?’”
Alexander Sarvucci, the manager of VapeWorld — a store on 17th Avenue S.W. — uses e-cigarettes.
“They shouldn’t treat us like smokers because we’re not smokers — we’re vapers,” he says.
“It doesn’t leave harmful [inhalants] in the air or stuff like that, like how a cigarette would, you know the smoke you can get the second-hand smoke, there’s no such thing as ‘second-hand vapor.’”
Many city governments, like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, have banned indoor “vaping.”
City staff will come back with a report on e-cigarettes in September.
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Keeping your kids safe – Being responsible with your electronic cigarette
Being Responsible with Your Electronic Cigarettes
I can remember back BEFORE lighters were childproof. I actually remember as a teenager who smoked buying these new fancy lighters with metal circles inside of them, and how annoying they were. I actually remember pulling apart my Bic lighter to remove this annoying metal piece that made it harder for me to flick my bic. Nowadays it would seem not only strange but dangerous to see a lighter that did not have child protection on it.
In the same way, as responsible adults using electronic cigarettes in Canada, we need to be responsible with our electronic cigarette devices. It is our responsibility to ensure that our e-liquid and e-cigarette accessories are kept well away from pets and our children, as both children and pets tend to get into everything! In the same way we keep our lighters and matches away from our children we need to do the same with our electronic cigarettes and e juice! At CanadaVapes.com, all of our e-liquid is sold with child-proof lids, but this is only the beginning. It is up to each adult to be responsible with the safety of their families, and keeping e-juice in areas out of reach of children and pets is just the smart thing to do.
In a recent study, it has been reported that e-cigarette related poisoning has been on the rise in the United States. It is up from 1 in September 2010 to 215 in February 2014. While this is not a giant number, it is still significant. As e-cigarettes become more popular and available across Canada, we must do our due diligence to ensure that everyone is responsible. In Ontario, there were 10 reported cases of nicotine poisoning in 2013 reported by the Poison control center.
Nicotine is a poison, and when ingested orally in large amounts can be fatal. Even in smaller doses, e-liquid with nicotine can cause upset stomachs, headaches, and nausea. If you do vape electronic cigarettes, you likely at one time or another have had a device leak some e-liquid into your mouth. It is not a pleasant experience, and even in smokers and vapers, who’s bodies are used to nicotine in their body already, it can cause an upset stomach. Imagine now how much worse just a small amount can be for a child or small animal. Just a few drops will cause a very bad experience!
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Health Canada moves to get read on e-cigarette use
Seven years after the first electronic cigarettes arrived in this country, Health Canada is finally taking steps to get a handle on the booming market for the controversial devices.
The department’s Controlled Substances and Tobacco Directorate proposes to award a contract, worth up to $232,000, to Montreal firm AC Nielsen to provide data on retail sales of e-cigarettes in Canada over the past two years, along with ongoing monthly totals.
In an email, Health Canada said the data will give the department up-to-date information on the number and type of e-cigarettes and nicotine-replacement therapy products sold in retail outlets, the companies involved and sales trends.
The information will support ongoing work by the Federal Tobacco Control Strategy “to track tobacco-related trends and emerging issues and commitment to continue the downward trend in smoking prevalence in Canada,” Health Canada said.
In 2012, 16 per cent of Canadians 15 and older smoked tobacco cigarettes, the lowest rate ever recorded and down from 25 per cent in 2001. Just 11 per cent of 15- to 19-year-olds were smokers, half as many as in 2001.
E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat up a liquid containing nicotine or flavouring agents and dispense metered doses of mist to users.
The experience is akin to smoking but concentrations of cancer-causing chemicals in the mist are up to 1,000 times lower than in tobacco smoke.
In the U.S., sales of e-cigarettes, which first entered the North American market in 2007, are approaching $2 billion U.S. a year, and are expected to top $10 billion a year globally by 2017.
Though e-cigarettes are widely available here, no reliable sales figures exist in Canada. But in 2012, eight per cent of Canadians 15 and older reported having tried smokeless tobacco products, which include e-cigarettes.
The devices exist in a regulatory grey area in this country. While they can be sold legally, Health Canada has not approved nicotine e-cigarettes. In 2009, it advised Canadians not to use them, saying they “may pose health risks and have not been fully evaluated for safety, quality and efficacy by Health Canada.”
More recently, the department has been cracking down on businesses offering e-cigarettes with nicotine cartridges, ordering scores to stop selling them.
Supporters tout e-cigarettes as smoking cessation devices and replacements for traditional tobacco cigarettes. But others fear they could attract new users to tobacco and undercut decades of effort to stigmatize and restrict smoking.
In a recent policy brief, the Canadian Public Health Association said the challenge is that there are limited data to substantiate any of the claims made about e-cigarettes.
The paucity of reliable evidence “favours a prudent approach” to managing the sale of e-cigarettes, the association said, arguing that existing controls on their sale should be maintained pending additional research into their risks and efficacy as smoking cessation devices.
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Council to consider merits of banning e-cigarettes indoors
As sales of e-cigarettes continue to explode, one councillor wants the city to examine the possible health risks of the popular devices.
Coun. Diane Colley-Urquhart will bring a notice of motion to the council on Monday seeking a working group to look at the impacts of electronic cigarettes and whether they should be snuffed out in many of the same venues where tobacco smoke is prohibited.
Some jurisdictions in the United States, including New York City, have new legislation in place that bans the products in restaurants, bars and clubs (banning e-cigarettes indoors).
In the absence of any provincial direction on electronic smoking devices, Colley-Urquhart believes it’s important for action on the municipal level.
“To me, it’s a public health policy issue that we need to deal with,” she said. “People are promoting these as a smoking cessation substitute but a lot is unknown about the chemicals that are in them.”
With their glowing tips and exhaled mist, e-cigarettes are designed to simulate smoking. Depending on what kind of fluid cartridge — “juice” in e-cigarette jargon — they are loaded with, some deliver a hit of nicotine, while others use non-nicotine fluid in a variety of flavours.
Addiction treatment specialists, public health officials and tobacco control advocates are divided over whether e-cigarettes are useful smoking cessation aids.
In Alberta, government authorities say there is insufficient research on the health effects of battery-powered devices.
“We don’t have a policy on it yet,” Health Minister Fred Horne recently acknowledged.
“There just isn’t a lot of evidence, but we know this is something that is going to become more significant as more people use the products.”
Alberta Health Services has urged caution around electronic smoking devices, particularly those containing nicotine. In a brief report published in March 2012, the health authority warns that e-smokers can’t be sure what they are ingesting due to a “void of regulatory requirements for product design and content.”
The report cites studies done on U.S. products that found detectable levels of toxic chemicals in the vaporized liquids and variations in levels of nicotine.
But the debate continues. A different study south of the border suggests the second-hand effects of the vapour, at least, do not present the same health hazards as tobacco cigarettes.
In Calgary, stores that specialize in e-cigarettes and related products are popping up around the city.
At Vape World on trendy 17th Ave S.W., owner Alexander Sarvucci sees brisk business from people interested in trying the products, which contain flavoured liquids and vegetable glycerine.
Many are opting for them as an alternative to traditional cigarettes. “I call it a harm reduction tool. It’s something that prevents you from putting 4,000 chemicals into your body,” he said.
“I find most people are pretty accepting of them.”
Sarvucci is mystified as to why Colley-Urquhart is pushing for prohibitions on e-cigarette use.
“Obviously people shouldn’t be doing them in movie theatres where it is disrupting to others. I wouldn’t have an e-cigarette around children. But bylaws? It isn’t right,” he said.
He’d like to see cities like Calgary abstain from tougher rules until Health Canada conducts a 10-year-study.
But Colley-Urquhart believes the matter carries urgency. “There are things that people probably feel are a bigger priority,” she said.
“(But) much like the prostitution issue that I brought forward a couple of weeks ago, in the absence of the federal government or the province taking a lead on this, we need to get to work and take the lead ourselves at a community level.”
If approved, a working group would consult with AHS, Alberta Health and Wellness as well as other stakeholders and provide recommendations to the standing policy committee on community and protective services in September.
With files from The Canadian Press and the Edmonton Journal.
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© Copyright (c) The Calgary HeraldBy Tamara Gignac, Calgary Herald March 31, 2014