by VAPEadmin | Dec 19, 2013 | Press
-Ken Christensen and Chris Bragg Spike Babaian loved the way the first puff hit her lips. She never thought electronic cigarettes would be her gateway into the business world. “I thought it was a miracle device,” she said. “I just wanted everybody to have one.” Four...
by VAPEadmin | Dec 11, 2013 | Press
by VAPEadmin | Dec 11, 2013 | Press
It’s been more than a decade since smoking was allowed in restaurants and bars here, but lately, new electronic, or e-cigarettes, have been showing up again, and now, the City Council is weighing whether to place the same restrictions on them as on traditional...
by VAPEadmin | Dec 11, 2013 | Press
Seeing his administration coming to its close, Mayor Bloomberg must have decided to take one last swing at New Yorkers’ rights by having his Commissioner of Health, Dr. Tom Farley, try to restrict e-cigarette use to areas where smoking is permitted. The venue was the...
by VAPEadmin | Dec 11, 2013 | Press
Former NYC Mayoral candidate and e-cigarette user Randy Credico puffs away at the hearing (Gothamist) Will forcing e-cig users to step outside of the bar spare the public from exposure to an unknown menace lurking in their secondhand vapor, thus erasing any...
by VAPEadmin | Dec 4, 2013 | Press
The City Council debated Tuesday whether to snuff out the growing popularity of electronic cigarettes by banning them in bars, restaurants, and workplaces. But e-cigarette sellers and users – who puffed on the still-legal devices throughout the City Hall hearing...
by VAPEadmin | Dec 4, 2013 | Press
By Colin Daileda Smoking areas could be cloudy with both puffs of smoke and e-cigarette vapor in New York City one day soon. The New York City Council held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss a bill that would restrict e-cigarette use to outdoor zones in the same way...
by VAPEadmin | Dec 4, 2013 | Press
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS A woman in a skintight dress lounged in the front row of the City Council chamber on Wednesday, sucking on an electronic cigarette and blowing out sweetly scented clouds, as if she were at a nightclub. Other people in the crowd of about 200 did...
by VAPEadmin | Oct 10, 2013 | Press
Matt talks about the popularity of e-cigarettes and whether or not they are a safer alternative to cigarettes with an advocate for the product, Spike Babaian. They discuss how e-cigarettes should only be used by former smokers who are trying to quit, and different...