Utah’s oldest smoke shop is scheduled to close on June 30, a day before a state tobacco tax hike goes into effect. The owner of the historic shop blames Utah’s cigar tax, the second highest in U.S., while the rate for cigarettes will tie with Montana for the nation’s 18th highest.
“Why would the Utah Legislature pass a law that forces someone to go out of business?” asked customer Bill Staker, as he picked up a box of cigars for half the regular price. “It’s the same as highway robbery, without the mask or a gun.”
Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, who fought for years to raise Utah’s tobacco tax, said he’s surprised that Jeanie’s is going out of business.

Christensen had discounted warnings from Jeanies’ owner Gary Klc that the higher taxes on cigars and pipe tobacco — the mainstay of his business — would force him to close his shop at 156 S. State St.
“I felt it was one of those things that people speak out in reaction to something, and think better of it later,” said Christensen. “I hate to see any business impacted by the government that actually goes out of business. But on the same hand, these are business that are selling a dangerous drug. I wish them all luck as they go into a different field.”
Klc (pronounced Kelch), had also that said he could not come up with $125,000 on July 1 to cover the higher tax on his existing inventory, among the state’s most-extensive stock. He said it was too big an investment for products that will be taxed at some of the highest rates in the nation.
In Murray, the Tinder Box, open for nearly four decades, is staying put.
“We’ve reduced our inventory so we won’t have to pay more taxes on products we had already paid taxes on,” said Manager Ken Crandall. “We’re also looking for some good cigars at a lower price point. We’ll make this work — at least we hope we can.”
Jeanie’s employee Tom Calder, one of four workers who will lose jobs, said it’s sad that Utah is losing a classic, old-time gentleman’s shop that harkens back to the 19th century. Despite the high-end products and leather chairs where customers relax and read, Jeanies catered to a broad spectrum of customers.
Klc, a nonsmoker, was known for cashing checks for some of his regular customers, mostly day labors and disabled who would have had to pay a fee elsewhere. Klc said he will miss his customers most, particularly the ones who often dropped by on Saturday mornings to chat.
“The funeral is almost over,” said an emotional Klc of the family business that began in the 1940s when his late father bought out the old United Cigars store on State Street. The shop’s name changed through the years, finally to Jeanie’s in honor of Klc’s mother.
At this point, Klc, 50, has no immediate plans, other than to save some of the historic memorabilia, such as the life-sized Punch wood sculpture, signifying a cigar manufacturer that first registered its brand in 1840, and a Utah cigar box, recalling the days when dozens of factories in Salt Lake City manufactured the smokes.
So far this year, bills increasing tobacco tax rates have become law in three other states: Hawaii, New Mexico and South Carolina. In 2009, bills increasing tobacco tax rates became law in the District of Columbia and 13 states, including Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin.
Nationwide, state tobacco tax collections for 2007 totaled $15.2 billion, compared to state alcohol beverage taxes of $5.1 billion.

By Dawn House, June 4, 2010, sltrib.com

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has disposed of Golden Tobacco Company’s appeal against a judgment of the Company Law Board (CLB) on January 19, 2009, which stayed resolutions passed by the company’s board.

The court on Friday asked the CLB to pass a judgment on the matter by February 2.

The Golden Tobacco board had sought to sell or jointly develop some of its land banks in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Guntur.
However, Pramod Jain, a minority shareholder in the company, filed a case against Golden Tobacco, Sanjay Dalmia, the company’s promoter, and Gujarat Heavy Chemicals Ltd (GHCL) in the CLB alleging foul play.

He alleged that GTC wanted to sell the land and use the proceeds to pay off its liabilities to Indiabulls Financial.

Jain urged the CLB to monitor the land sale and make sure that the money collected is used for the welfare of the company. “I want the CLB to appoint a real estate consultant and the company to invite a global tender to sell the land,” he said.

Sanjay Dalmia refused to comment when DNA contacted him on Saturday.

As per the resolution, Golden Tobacco has given powers to J P Khetan, the company’s managing director, and AK Joshi, director (finance), to take necessary steps for the sale or joint development of the land.

Dalmia had on January 20 told DNA that the company has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a real estate developer.CLB asked to pass judgment by Feb 2.

He refused to divulge details.

Golden Tobacco Company has, however, not yet informed the stock exchanges about the MoU. It has also not notified it about the CLB order.

Dalmia and Indiabulls Financial are in a legal tangle. Indiabulls had filed an FIR on July 25, 2009 against Dalmia and a few other directors of GHCL alleging he had duped it of Rs 641 crore. It alleged that Dalmia had issued bogus shares of Golden Tobacco Company and GHCL as collateral.

The two parties, however, reached an out-of-court settlement in which Dalmia agreed to pay Rs 25 crore cash to Indiabulls and Rs 235 crore as mortgage by March 31, 2010. Dalmia, wanted to sell the 7.5 acre prime property in Vile Parle and Marol areas in Mumbai to pay-off the Indiabulls loan.

If the matter goes to the Supreme Court, it is unlikely that Dalmia will be able to settle the IndiaBulls spat before the deadline.
Meanwhile, Jain is seeking to take over Golden Tobacco Company and has announced an open offer for 25% stake at Rs 101 per share. He is awaiting mandatory clearances from Sebi to start the open offer.
January 25, 2010

Millions of people around the country have been treated to the anti-debt ads run by one-time tobacco industry lobbyist Richard Berman. Mr. Berman, who has also worked to thwart minimum wage increases and managed to get on the opposite side of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is now working alongside the Wall Street types who wrecked the economy.

Wall Streeters, like billionaire fund manager Peter Peterson, want to use the government debt burden created by the collapse of their credit bubble as an excuse to slash Social Security and Medicare. Therefore television viewers are being treated to an expensive ad campaign telling us that “debt stinks.”

While the ad seems to imply that we should reduce or dispose of our debt by just writing off an entry on the government’s accounting ledgers, in reality getting rid of debt means cutting important programs like Social Security and Medicare. These programs are more important than ever for our seniors, now that the wreckage caused by the Wall Street crew has taken away much of the wealth they had accumulated in their homes or in the stock market.

We can also start to work down the debt by cutting back funding for the education of children, like the cute ones in the commercial. That will be great for future generations.
By Dean Baker
Source: Truthout

Of course it is not just education that we provide to future generations; we give them a whole physical and social infrastructure. The quality of the society we pass on to our children is what determines their well being; not the government debt.

The generation that grew up in the decades after World War II was subjected to the largest debt burden in the history of the country. Yet they also enjoyed three decades of extraordinarily rapid growth. There is no reason that the debt burdens being projected at present should depress the living standards of our children and grandchildren.

In fact, the best way to limit the burden of the government debt on the economy is to support policies that promote growth. The federal government’s debt burden shrank from more than 110 percent of GDP immediately following World War II to less than 30 percent of GDP in 1980. This happened in spite of the fact that the government ran a deficit in all but three years over this period. The debt burden shrank because the economy outgrew the debt.

In short, the key to keeping our debt at a sustainable level is running sound economic policies that foster growth. We also need to contain health care costs. Our broken health care system is threatening to wreck our economy. It will also lead to impossible debt burdens if it is not fixed. But as every economist knows, the issue here is fixing the health care system, not whining about government debt.

But, the Wall Street crew’s agenda is not really about debt and deficits; it is about gutting Social Security and Medicare. They know that they cannot do this through normal congressional procedures, after all Congress is answerable to the people who depend on these programs. Instead, the Peter Peterson crew wants to do an end run around congressional procedure. They want to set up a special commission that will come up with recommendations to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Under this scheme, the commission’s report would be fast-tracked. There would be limited opportunity for debate, no amendments, and the vote would be taken by a lame duck Congress, after the November 2010 elections. That may not sound fair, but what else should we expect from the tobacco lobbyist/Wall Street gang?

So watch carefully for these folks. They have lots of money and they are prepared to use it to buy influence in Congress. They will use any conceivable tactic to achieve their goal of cutting Social Security and Medicare. (The commercial even tries to exploit nationalist sentiment by whining that half of the debt is owned by foreigners. The foreign debt is the result of the trade deficit and the over-valued dollar; it is not caused by the government debt.)

The people who depend on Social Security and Medicare (i.e. just about everyone) must realize that there is nothing benign about the Wall Streeters’ deficit commission. This is an end run around the normal congressional process to accomplish in backrooms what could never be done in full public view. If the public knew what is going on here then “commission” would be a four-letter word.

NEW YORK — The publicity for a Hollywood movie is a machine to behold, especially from the inside.

It’s a view rarely offered, but Jason Reitman, the director of “Juno” and “Thank You for Smoking,” has done just that. Reitman has spent much of October and November promoting his new film, “Up in the Air,” all the while documenting the process.

He has taken photographs of the journalists who interviewed him, the hotel drink carts that have surrounded him and the half-drunk Starbucks cups littered about him. He has also recorded the questions he’s been asked most frequently and organized the data in a pie chart.

The biggest chunk? “What’s it like working with George Clooney?”

“Up in the Air,” which will be released Dec. 4, stars Clooney as a perpetually jet-set traveler who relishes airports as quasi-homes while he traverses the country as a contractor hired to fire people.

While marketing the movie — traveling constantly from international film festivals to media hubs — Reitman’s life has mimicked the rootlessness of his protagonist’s.

“It’s really not a promotional tool,” Reitman, 32, said of his project. “It’s really for my own enjoyment.”

As the media has become more fractured, drumming up an audience for a film has become more difficult for studios. Marketing budgets frequently match and sometimes surpass production costs. At press junkets, cast members and filmmakers are holed up in a hotel and give dozens of interviews, most timed to the minute.

Reitman noticed some trends in the interviews. In Chicago, more people asked him about his father, Ivan Reitman, the famous comedy director (“Ghostbusters,” “Stripes”). In New York, many asked him about the book by Walter Kirn that “Up in the Air” is based on. In Europe, everyone wanted to know about the economy (a subject in the film) and President Barack Obama.

“By keeping track of these questions, I realized that not only did I know what questions the reporters were going to ask, but the reporters often knew what answers I was going to give,” said Reitman. “In that sense, I was acting and they were acting in a scene. We’re doing dialogue.”

Among his tallies: 119 questions on Clooney, 79 about his father, 69 of “What’s next?”

“I’m a numbers guy, I guess,” he shrugs.

Reitman estimates he’ll spend just as long promoting “Up in the Air” as he did making it (about six months). The process will be especially long because the film is being positioned as a contender for the Academy Awards.

“It’s a pleasure to talk about the movie and it’s wonderful there’s interest in the film,” Reitman said. “Sometimes I wonder if the balance would be better if I spent more time making movies. The only part that’s a little tricky is — and every director says this — I made the movie because I want the movie to speak for itself.”

Many journalists have enjoyed Reitman’s side-project. On Twitter, Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers applauded the director for promoting his film with “smarts and flair.” Roger Ebert blogged about it, cheerfully comparing his own interview questions of Reitman with the chart.

Reitman plans to turn his material into a short documentary. He made something similar (though less thorough) while promoting “Thank You For Smoking” — a short film titled “Lighting Will Guide You,” that featured every airport he traveled through.

News of the pie chart has gotten out, too, especially after Reitman posted it on his Twitter feed. Thus, the pie chart has become a frequent topic in interviews — its own thin slice on the diagram.

“It’s almost folding into itself,” laughed Reitman. “It’s a black hole.”

Plainer cigarette packages, perceived as boring or unattractive, would make smoking much less appealing to teens, according to a new Australian study.

Even before adolescents try smoking, they have preconceived ideas about what smoking is like. They often glean these images from the appeal of a cigarette pack. Colors, images, logos and font sizes all play a part in increasing teens’ susceptibility to future tobacco use.

“We found that when branding is progressively removed from a cigarette pack, adolescents not only perceive the packs to be less attractive, they associate the brand with people who have less favorable attributes. They also assume the cigarettes have a more negative taste,” said study co-author Melanie Wakefield, Ph.D.

Wakefield is director of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer of the Cancer Council Victoria. The study appears online in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

The researchers asked parents of teens between age 14 and 17 if they would allow their children to participate in an online survey about cigarette packaging. Parents were told the survey results would help guide Australia’s tobacco control policies.

Using three popular Australian cigarette brands, the researchers looked at how adolescents perceived cigarette packs and what their expectations were about cigarette taste. The packs showed a gradual diminishment of brand information on the front and a progressively larger-sized health warning. Researchers randomly assigned each teen to rate one of 15 pack conditions.

“Although plain packs are perceived to be unattractive, we found that increasing the size of the health warning on the front further reduces the pack’s appeal,” Wakefield said. “This also includes teens who had already experienced smoking and are most likely to go on to a lifetime of regular smoking,”

“This is an important paper because it shows that graphical warning labels and plain packaging make a real difference in how adolescents perceive smoking and cigarettes,” said Stanton Glantz, Ph.D., director at the University of California-San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research.

“The study points to the need for the FDA to act quickly to impose strong, effective graphical warnings and plain packaging in the U.S. It also shows that we can expect the tobacco companies to fight effective action tooth and nail,” Glantz said.

Wakefield agreed: “If parents supported moves to strip as much branding off cigarette packs as possible, that one element of marketing that makes smoking attractive could be reduced.”

By Sharyn Alden, November 9, 2009

Parents: Beware of nicotine posing as candy and alcohol that tastes like punch.

That’s the combined heads-up given this week by the state Department of Health and a grass-roots parents group trying to quell underage drinking and tobacco use.

Smoking and other uses of tobacco products continue to decline, but nicotine is coming at children in breath mints, candy and toothpicks, said Amy Sands, program manager for the health department’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program.

“The products are designed to make tobacco addiction more accessible as well as to promote the dual use of cigarettes and smokeless products, creating an even stronger addiction,” she said.

ParentsEmpowered.org kicked off the fourth year of its ongoing public awareness campaign against underage drinking Thursday with some good news.

Statewide averages for underage drinking are down across all grade levels for lifetime use, including use within a 30-day time frame and binge drinking in general, according to the Student Health and Risk Prevention survey.

The survey also found that teens cited parents’ disapproval of alcohol in general as the main reason they don’t drink.
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The survey, conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, also found an average 4 percent reduction in drinking among teens over the past two years and across every high school grade. That means about:

11,260 fewer Utah children reporting ever trying alcohol in their lifetimes.

5,520 fewer having used alcohol in the past 30 days in the last two years.

2,600 fewer underage binge/heavy drinkers in Utah than two years ago.

While most Utah parents don’t drink, 65 percent of them generally agree their child could be exposed to alcohol.

“This is significant since many Utah parents often erroneously believe their children are insulated from the dangers of underage drinking because of their upbringing and their children don’t need parents’ help to stay alcohol free,” said ParentsEmpowered spokeswoman Sherri Clark.

Parents should continue to be vigilant about tobacco products as well, said Sands, adding “there is no safe tobacco product,” and in any ingested form causes heart and other organ diseases, cancer and death.

Sands specifically outed Camel Snus, a smokeless — and with the added attraction of being spitless — tobacco in tea bag-type pouches touting refreshing flavors such as “frost,” now available in convenience stores.
With its “pleasure for whatever” slogan and concealable size, kids can easily take it into the classroom, she said. It also comes in a container shaped like a cell phone.

There’s something particularly insidious about hiding the most addictive element in tobacco in candy, said Dr. Ellie Brownstein, a University of Utah Health Care pediatrician.

Because the products have arrived so quickly, not much is know about them, she said. But so-called “dissolvables” have three times the nicotine, and contain cinnamaldehyde, a toxic insecticide, fungicide, corrosion inhibitor, and severe skin irritant. Coumarin, a food additive the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned in 1978 and was removed from cigarettes in 1997, also has been found in the product.

Losing 400,000 smokers a year, the tobacco industry is busy figuring out ways to promote products to have an ever-young market, Sands said, noting that adults trying to quit shouldn’t be fooled into thinking they can be used to help them get off nicotine.

“Ironically, the cake mix in your cupboard is more regulated than these new smokeless products, which are known to be addictive and destructive,” she said. “We, and our children, are to be human guinea pigs in the tobacco industry’s pursuit of profits. The only way to eliminate risk is to quit or never start.”

By James Thalman, Oct. 22, 2009 Deseretnews

JTI Leaf Services’ decision to process American-grown tobacco in Danville doesn’t just mean 39 new full-time jobs and 150 seasonal jobs.

It’s about more opportunities for the Dan River Region’s tobacco farmers — and a potential shot in the arm for the local agricultural economy.

“They’re here. They never left,” Commissioner Todd Haymore of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said of local tobacco farmers last week. “They have the land and the infrastructure. They have the knowledge and the know-how.”

Over the past decade, though, it seemed like those advantages — developed over generations of growing tobacco in this community — were destined to be ignored, forgotten and eventually lost. Make no mistake about it — flue-cured tobacco is still an important cash crop in the Dan River Region. But the acres grown and the pounds produced are well off the marks set just a decade ago.

It’s no surprise, then that local economic developers have moved on to recruit new manufacturing, retail and technology jobs to the Dan River Region.

But in this economy, any job is a good job and if we can keep local tobacco farmers — and all the people who supply them — working, than we’ve at least stabilized an economic sector long assumed to be a lost cause.

“In these tough economic times, this multimillion dollar investment and the jobs it creates are especially significant in Southside Virginia,” Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said in a news release. “Even as we continue to diversify the region’s economy, we’re pleased by the opportunity to build on traditional industries that have historically been important in the commonwealth.”

The deal was closed with a $100,000 grant from the Governor’s Opportunity Fund and up to $250,000 from the Virginia Tobacco Commission. JTI Leaf Services is also eligible to receive money from the Virginia Enterprise Zone program.

Some people may see that as an example of new money chasing after old jobs. But we think it’s a smart investment in jobs that can be filled quickly by a company that recognizes the quality product grown here.

The Dan River Region needs every good job it can get, and growth in the tobacco sector through JTI Leaf Services’ commitment to our community is great news.

October 12, 2009 2.godanriver

If you were making a movie about the Cuban tobacco trade, a movie that just happened to contain a role for a Canadian cigar tycoon, then you’d want to talk to Johnny Miller.

Not only does Miller resemble a cigar tycoon in dress, diction and demeanour, he is a cigar tycoon.

“The tobacco businesses is in a fight for survival because it is so persecuted,” grouses the owner of F. Correnti Cigars Ltd. – “Manufacturers of Handmade Cuban Cigars” – whose second-floor, brick-walled factory is hidden at the end of a narrow alley off King St. W. in the chic, sandblasted heart of Toronto’s Fashion District.

“The taxation has destroyed the business. It’s a persecuted business. It’s prohibition.”

Born in Copenhagen to a cigar-making family, the 64-year-old tobacco magnate swans into the antique, wood-floored premises of what he describes as Canada’s only remaining manufacturer of handmade cigars.

He clutches a cup of Tim Hortons coffee and wears a checkered sports jacket over a black-leather vest, black trousers, and black snakeskin boots.

A single strand of coffee-coloured beads encircles his neck, beneath the open collar of an off-white dress shirt. His dark hair is combed back in a confident pompadour.

It is 4:30 in the afternoon, and Miller is launching his working day – the very picture of a man who makes his living by manufacturing and purveying those aromatic hand-rolled icons of a bygone age, a time when men were men, women were women, and cigars were smoked, publicly and privately.

Those were the days, or maybe they weren’t. Either way, they’re gone.

“Politicians can’t walk around with a cigar anymore, like Winston Churchill,” Miller laments. “That’s not acceptable now.”

Miller is even barred from lighting a cigar in his very own factory – a cigar factory! And so, as a photographer busily snaps pictures of the tycoon in his now mostly vacant domain, the tycoon in question is reduced to posing with an unlit stogie.

“The business is too heavily taxed,” he complains “You can’t smoke anywhere.”

Still, the F. Correnti cigar company smoulders on, catering to a rump of loyal clients who have long counted on the firm to supply them with high-quality smoking material fashioned from Cuban tobacco exclusively.

It isn’t big business anymore.

“We don’t chase the market,” Miller concedes. “We just supply old, steady customers. We make custom orders.”

According to Miller’s 27-year-old son, Chris, those customers include a clutch of readily recognizable names, including U.S. film stars Charlie Sheen, Tommy Lee Jones and Adam Sandler.

Hockey executive Glen Sather is another faithful and long-time consumer of F. Correnti products, says Chris.

Loyal they might be, but such luminaries belong to a diminishing breed. Even Fidel Castro gave up cigars years ago.

“We were a full house back in the old days,” says Chris, who now helps run the cigar business along with his older brother Jeff, 32. “We were backed up six months.”

Not anymore.

Licenced as an insurance broker, Johnny Miller admits he does not rely on cigars alone to get by.

Neither of his two sons works at the cigar factory full-time, either. A daughter, Kelly, doesn’t work here at all.

Not many people do.

Located above the impressively renovated offices of Uniq Lifestyle – “a dynamic entertainment company at the forefront of Toronto’s upscale nightlife community” – the well-worn work floor at F. Correnti contains a dozen wooden tables that in busier times would have been occupied all day long.

They are mostly empty now, and just one employee has reported for work today.

She is Lien Trinh. Born in Vietnam, Trinh has rolled cigars at F. Correnti for the past 29 years, but the work these days is on the spotty side – just a single shift of gainful employment in an average week, she says.

“She just came in today because you guys were coming in,” admits Chris.

Nonetheless, Trinh has been hard at work, and a large stack of freshly rolled cigars is accumulating at her side, as she expertly cuts, moistens, and fashions one puro cubano after another, in what has become a rather lonely job.

“I come,” she says. “Nobody else comes.”

Only two cigar-makers remain in business in Toronto – F. Correnti and House of Horvath Inc., a manufacturer of machine-made cigars, located on Ossington St. just north of Queen St. W.

In addition to being the sole surviving producer of handmade cigars in Canada, F. Correnti also lays claim to being the country’s only extant maker of Cuban cigars. “Cuban tobacco is what we demand,” says Johnny Miller, whose father, Kai, established the business shortly after moving his family to Toronto from Denmark in 1956. “Tobacco has to go through its natural stages. There are very few countries in the world willing to take that time. That’s what makes Cuba so special. They don’t take shortcuts.”

Once upon a time, Miller travelled to the Caribbean island regularly to place his tobacco orders on the spot, but not anymore.

“I used to go a couple of times a year,” he says. “Now you can just send an email.”

Ordering Cuban tobacco via email – it seems to lack a certain romance. But that’s the cigar business for you. It’s not what it used to be.

“I don’t smoke that much anymore,” admits the last cigar tycoon in a cold and increasingly smoke-free land. “Now a cigar is more of a symbol. It’s part of your image. You don’t even need to smoke it anymore.”

In most places, of course, you can’t.

If you haven’t heard about it yet, the electronic cigarette is the all new alternative to smoking. Instead of smoke, this electronic device creates a vapor like mist that is inhaled and gives the user a small amount of nicotine on each puff. You can get high, med, low, and non nicotine cartridges that are either replaceable or refillable. Each cartridge roughly equals about half a pack of cigarettes. You can also choose different flavors such as regular tobacco, menthol, cherry, strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, cappuccino and more.

Another great plus is that the electronic cigarette never has to be lit, the vapor/smoke doesn’t smell like anything, and there is no cigarette butts or ash trays necessary. Many people are making the switch to the ‘e cigarette’ on the spot, realizing the undeniable fact that it is a better alternative to inhaling burning smoke.

With the electronic cigarette industry booming, e cigarette sites are popping up all over the web. With many different brands out there, how can a person know which one is the best and who they should purchase from?

We have seen and tried many different kits, out of all of them there was one unit that left us astonished at it’s amazing quality, sleek design, and excellent vapor production. It’s called the Vapor King 510 and it is being offered by a US company, Electronic Cigarettes Inc.
“E-Smoking should be a customized experience tailored to the users needs and the Vapor King offers just that.”

“We wanted to offer an e cigarette that you didn’t have to work hard to smoke. There is many e cigarette kits out there and many of them are cheaply made, don’t last long, and hardly produce any vapor. We have solved this problem with the Vapor King 510.” says John, a spokesperson for Electronic Cigarettes Inc.

This new type of e cigarette has an all new feature that is taking the experience to a whole new level. It comes with a small manual push button that turns the e cigarette vapor producer on and off. This enables the user to create a custom amount of vapor without trying very hard. Other kits we have seen come with a built in pressure switch that creates the vapor as you puff. The pressure switch models can be very difficult to use sometimes and have been known to create very small amounts of vapor. This is why Electronic Cigarettes Inc. is focusing on creating new models that offer custom vapor production and a high quality experience. The company states that “E-Smoking should be a customized experience tailored to the users needs and the Vapor King offers just that.”

A couple of other issues with the e-cigarette industry that Electronic Cigarettes Inc. has tackled is mobile charging and electronic cigarette protection.

“A lot of customers were telling us that they needed something to hold and protect their e cigarette. Keeping them in purse’s or pocket’s just isn’t efficient because they get scratched and dirt/lint can get inside the cartridges. They also told us that when they were on the go, they needed something to help keep their cigarette battery charged. So we developed the charging pack which solves both of these issues.”

This charging pack is what e cigarette users everywhere are raving about and claiming as a ‘must have’. It holds your electronic cigarette, your atomizer, and 3 cartridges. When you close the top of the unit it automatically starts charging your electronic cigarette battery. This ensures that you never run out of power and that you can always protect your e cigarette and accessories from rolling around loose pockets, cars, or purses. The pack comes with a built in lithium ion battery and charging unit. You charge the pack via a USB port or with a car charging adapter. Once it’s fully charged it can charge your e cigarette up to 4 times. This comes in handy when your out for a long night, or whenever your going to be away from a power source for an extended period of time.

“It’s all a process of evolution.” says Electronic Cigarettes Inc. “Once the concept of the product is out there, it only continues to get better and better and we are happy to be a part of that.”


For more information regarding the Vapor King 510 and the Charging Pack you can visit the Electronic Cigarettes Inc. website or call them at 1-877-ECIG-INC.