Electronic Cigarette

Kingpin Unveils the Newest Premium E-Cigarette: T-Rex 510

Kingpin, which is affiliated with the biggest manufacturers of e-cigarette and liquid around the world, offers the latest innovation in premium electronic cigarettes: the T-Rex. Packed with three times more battery life than the usual e-cig, this dinosaur can last for a full day or two even with continued use.

Online PR News – 09-April-2011 –Kingpin, the leading retail company in providing the best quality e-cigarette products, liquids, and accessories, recently revealed their newest alternative to the traditional cigarette stick: the T-Rex 510.

As an effective smokeless alternative to the conventional cigarette, e-cigs are the next best thing. In place of inhaling smoke, e-cigs produce vaporized liquid to copy the stimulation of real smoke. Users are allowed to pick the flavor and nicotine strength of an e-cig through a liquid solution. The T-Rex gives all these with a few more benefits.

The T-Rex 510 is similar to the regular 510 e-cigarette; however, it’s not your ordinary e-cig. This manual button e-cig features a longer battery life of 660 mah, allowing smokers to use it for one or two days straight. The T-Rex 510, with its sleek black surface, is convenient, handy, and ready to use because of its flat tip, keeping the e-liquid near the atomizer. You can store it with its cap that acts as a leak barrier when the liquid in the cartridge is overfilled.

Interested smokers can try the T-Rex 510 Starter Kit that includes two atomizers with a genuine Joye standard resistance of 2.2 ohms, which is the same as the 510 e-cigarette, two atomizer covers, and two 660 mah batteries that show a blue light. The starter kit also includes a USB charger (400 ma), USB to wall outlet adapter, an instruction manual, and five pieces of round tip high Marl bros. cartridges.

Kingpin also has a variety of e-cig accessories and e-liquids to suit any individual’s need. Each e-liquid is made with vegetable glycerine and USP grade propylene glycol from the USA.

E-cigs are effective and safe substitutes to conventional cigarettes because unlike smoke, the vaporized liquid of e-cigarettes does not have carcinogens or toxic materials. Kingpin e-cigarettes do not need lighting and burning, and do not need the use of ashtrays.

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E-cigarettes new way for smokers to get nicotine

COLUMBUS — Ignited by the state’s public-smoking ban, a relatively new product is gaining popularity among Nebraskans looking to fulfill their nicotine fix.

Sales of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, are on the rise at Columbus retailers like Boulevard Express, East 30 Bar & Package and BJ’s Tobacco Outlet.

“You can smoke indoors with them,” Boulevard Express owner Bernice Archer said. “That’s the biggest thing.”

According to Archer, the convenience store sells about 30 of the products each week, mainly to a clientele looking to skirt the Smoke-Free Air Law, which bans smoking inside most public places, including bars and restaurants.

“We get a lot of phone calls (about e-cigarettes),” she said.

The increased interest is evident by e-cigarette purchases at Boulevard Express, where Archer said sales have tripled since they were first stocked three months ago.

E-cigarettes are produced to look like a common cigarette, cigar or pipe, but function in a smokeless manner by heating and vaporizing a water-nicotine mixture that is inhaled by users.

Judy Meays, owner of East 30 Bar & Package, has sold the products for two years and said customers haven’t complained about a second-hand effect when they’re used in the bar. She likened what’s exhaled by users to a humidifier, “and it disperses right away.”

“I’ve sold quite a few over a period of two years,” Meays said. “People like them.”

Not everyone, however, is convinced e-cigarettes are the safe alternative to smoking some manufacturers tout.

“It’s true that you don’t have the second-hand smoke, but that’s not the only concern that surrounds cigarettes,” said Brenda Preister, tobacco prevention coordinator at East Central District Health Department.

Preister notes that e-cigarettes still present an increased risk for cancer and lung disease because of carcinogens found in the products. A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) study conducted in July 2009 found one brand of e-cigarette contained additives like diethylene glycol, an ingredient in antifreeze.

The FDA hasn’t determined e-cigarettes to be a safe product, yet no warning label is required on packaging.

The administration has previously issued warning letters to multiple distributors for violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, including unsubstantiated claims and poor manufacturing practices.

Until the FDA resolves its current battle to regulate e-cigarettes, Preister believes they should be avoided.

Other issues work as both pros and cons for e-cigarettes.

While a range of flavors from cherry to chocolate and mint may increase appeal to adult users, Preister said they also make e-cigarettes marketable to children.

“The scary part is they come in so many different flavors,” she said.

Because of the nicotine content, e-cigarettes can’t legally be purchased by anyone under the age of 18. Archer said the typical buyer is in the 30- to 50-year-old range.

Cost and strength also are reasons for both concern and rejoice.

After the initial device purchase — a cost of about $15 — five-packs of refill cartridges can be purchased for around $14. These cartridges range in nicotine strength, up to 24 mg each, making a single cartridge equivalent to anywhere from one-half to one-and-a-half packs of cigarettes.

Without an obvious stopping point like the end of a cigarette, Preister said the products can lead to an overkill of nicotine consumption.

“You could very easily raise your addiction to nicotine by taking in more nicotine than you’re used to,” she added.

But at less than $3 for a figurative pack-and-a-half of smokes, many consumers also are looking to e-cigarettes as a cheaper alternative to smoking.

“You know how much cigarettes cost,” Meays said when asked about the increased popularity.

An even stronger push toward e-cigarettes could be seen if the state Legislature, and Gov. Dave Heineman, agree Nebraska’s tobacco tax needs to be raised.

Legislative bill 436, introduced by Sen. Mike Gloor, of Grand Island, proposed just this — calling for a 211 percent increase in the tax, to $1.99 a pack.

Cigarette smokers currently generate $63 million a year for the state by paying 3.2 cents in taxes per cigarette, or 64 cents for a standard 20-pack.

Any increase to the state’s tobacco tax, coupled with the allure of smoking inside on a cold Nebraska winter day, could further spark the growing e-cigarette market.

“It’s exciting to see it happening,” Archer said, “and not having to pay another cigarette tax and another cigarette tax.”

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