If your mother smokes, she probably has for a long time. Isn’t it time she switched to smokeless cigarettes?

URUS Cigs is probably ideal, as a gift and a great deal. They don’t offer one-hundred-and-one e-cigarette varieties or starter kits or accessories – just high-quality simple and basic assortments.

Sleek, Simple & Bold: three words URUS Cigs uses to describe itself  - and for once there’s truth in advertising.

They recently added two Mother’s Day Kits at only $34.99 instead of $54 – a 35% savings – and this is the last day you can get them.

While she’ll have everything needed to switch to electronic cigarettes, she maybe missing one thing: a computer, to recharge the batteries.

Not all moms have them, so URUS Cigs includes a handy wall-adapter for those non-computer situations.

At these prices, you should probably order one for yourself!

So Canada is sort of a weird place, eh?

At least when it comes to electronic cigarettes.

While the Canadian Lung Association warns they’re “potentially harmful to lung health.” and the government insists they haven’t yet been fully evaluated, they’ve gone ahead and allowed the sale of non-nicotine e-cigs in Quebec corner stores.

Since personal vaporizers without nicotine can’t be called tobacco products, they can’t be forbidden to underage users.

So what are they up to? Getting teens used to vaping for when their studies show vapor’s harmless and it uthorizes e-cigarettes? Inculcating a replacement market for when smokers make the swtich?

About a week ago, it was reported elsewhere that a masked, armed robber managed to steal almost $1400 worth of electronic cigarettes from Denver store.

And nothing else. No liquor, tobacco or even money. Just e-cigs.

This is a new one for e-cigarettes, which may have seen starter kits or disposables pilfered here and there, but nothing on this scale.

It’s interesting to consider this in light of recent efforts to tax smokeless nicotine the same as tobacco. Perhaps the government wants a black market to develop?

You have to wonder if they’re going to blame e-cigs or nicotine or both on what drove this thief – who has yet to be caught by the way.

The website is PLoS ONE and the study concerns the presence of metal particulates in electronic cigarettes.

That’s it. No comparison, context or conclusions from their findings apart “the need for improved quality control in EC [electronic cigarette] design and manufacture and studies on how EC aerosol impacts the health of users and bystanders.”

Just enough to be scary, provide fodder for screaming headlines and pseudo-informed journalistic mumbo jumbo from the media.

The panic is starting, and its’ not the apparently hoped-for false public alarm so much as Big Pharma panicking,  reflected in the release and dissemination of this study.

Which  fails to mention their results actually report the same or less contaminants than smokeless devices approved by the FDA for public consumption.

As William Shatner would say, how weird is that?

Courtney Love, dressed elegantly, in a chateau-like setting, calmly vapes an electronic cigarette, looking out a tall window, when she’s upbraided by the house matron for smoking.

Love turns, snooty, and says “Relax, it’s a f-cking NJoy,” and walks away as the  classical surges into rock by Love’s band Hole.

Cute.

But the new online ad campaign’s premiere webisode’s rock’n'roll attitude and presence of Love herself seem to strike all the wrong notes in terms of providing ammunition for anti-e-cigarette canons aimed at vilifying e-cigarette companies as “marketing to minors”.

Unlike an earlier ad featuring vaping quasi-activist Stephen Dorff, Love doesn’t mention smoking, switching from tobacco, alternative nicotine delivery, or any boring stuff. It goes straight for the jugular.

As a marketing tactic, it reflects how vapers feel misunderstood by misinformed masses.

Strategically? It represents e-cigarettes as cool, rebellious devices and a means to thumb your nose at the “establishment”.

Now maybe the movement needs a little more ‘tude, and this is the first oen. Hopefully future webisodes expand upon the electronic cigarette as a smart NRT, or the reason Love switched, etc….

To paraphrase Freud, remember, an e-cig iss till just an e-cig…

Switching to e-cigs is easy when Premium Electronic Cigarettes offers an Easter site-wide special of %15 (coupon code: easter15), but converting to digital can get even sweeter…

Smokers and vapor veterans might want to coat their throat with the fine taste of chocolate this weekend, rather than gorge on eggs and rabbits (ahem).

Chocolate flavor, relatively rare because of efforts to demonize E-cigarette producers as trying to get children addicted to vape-sticks, is nonetheless offered by companies to target the palates of consenting adults.

Uber-inexpensve BullSmoke complements low prices with a “Chocolate Treat” e-liquid.

And SouthBeachSmoke offers a tasty “Deluxe Chocolate Flavor” to their vaping clientele…

But if “sweet” isn’t your thing, true choco connoisseurs will appreciate Halo E-Cigs‘ Belgian Cocoa liquid, with a “dry cocoa undertone and a sweet… top note”.

Jesus proved you always have a second chance… and electronic cigarette users’ testimonials show it’s never too late to start over. This just makes it easier.

Whether you’re staying in to avoid parade routes throngs and green-beer drinking crowds, or greened yourself up and put on your “Kiss Me I’m Irish” pin, you may find another way to celebrate in a couple of St. Patrick’s Day e-cig deals.

Smokers and vapers should appreciate the the 15% rebate on everything from starter kits to accessories and refills at appropriately-named GreenSmoke Electronic Cigarettes.

But better still is at SouthBeachSmoke.

On top of the site-wide 25% special on starter kits, you can get an even bigger 35% off any order if you get lucky in their pot’o'gold scavenger hunt.

Click around the site before you buy, and when that icon appears, click it to open a coupon that will give you a deal-code.

Find it or not, you’re sure to be a winner with these e-cigarettes!

Takeovers and acquisitions, although symptomatic of a robust, growing industry, seem a little feral and cannibalistic…

While WhiteCloud Electronic Cigarettes recently announced the acquisition of Vapor Jackets LLC, two other companies have also taken steps to consolidate growth and lateral business development, as well as step on a few toes.

Since the Safe Cig site has mysteriously gone offline,  and the company seems closed, V2 E-Cigs has developed an adapter for Safe Cig users so their original investment in Safe Cig e-cigarette doesn’t go to waste.

Green Smoke, on the other hand, is taking things one step further by offering a trade in on any brand of electronic cigarette for one of their own – free of charge, including shipping!

So the sharks ares starting to circle, they smell blood in the electronic cigarette waters, and the bait is vapers… but all to our advantage.

Would you vape a long, thin pink e-cigarette with sparkly crystal glow-tip from a sleek purple carrying case??

Well, whether you’re a “dude” or a “chick”, the answer depends…

Vapor Couture figures if you’re a woman, you need electronic cigarettes for women.

But seriously, these could go with men too, depending on the kind of guy… shiny leather jackets and polished boots and blingy gold chains would be well complemented by glowing gem-tipped fuschia personal vaporizers…

Vapor Couture touts itself as being the only e-cig company of its kind. We’re not so sure, but it’s definitely the first.

Of course, Liberal and “progressive” Huffington Post did write a snarky piece about e-cigarettes for women as “absurd products arbitrarily marketed to women”, but then again it was published in the “Women” section of the Post…

At least it didn’t make the list of HuffPost’s 12 stupidest products for women…

White Cloud Electronic Cigarettes has acquired Vapor Jackets LLC, an innovative company that creates custom and personalized “skins” for e-cigarettes and cases.

This represents the nascent industry’s growth and development.

Although big tobacco investing in the e-cigarettes provides a sheen of viability, these internal currents are more significant than the mastodons barreling through.

WhiteCloud buying Vapor Jackets is a sign the company was solid and profitable and the market dynamic enough to create opportunities for startups and secondary products and services.

The development of tertiary properties into appetizing acquisitions signals bad tidings for anti-vaping forces – either protecting the mastodons or acting out of crusader/prohibitionist self-righteousness…

Either way  it’s a good sign for electronic cigarettes.

Let’s keep our ears to the ground!