By reading ‘s e cigarette reviews, you can save yourself the hassle of trying multiple brands and hopefully get the brand that fits your personality and budget from the get go. Our e cigarette guide, Darren, does his best to dissect every brand on the market by sharing his first hand experiences.

It seems everyone is moving t0 e cigs, mostly because of the terrible health risks associated with smoking.

Now you are ready to get yourself your first electronic cigarette but as soon as you hit the internet or your local shop, you are presented with hundreds of different products and flavors. What do you pick? What is the best for you? Hopefully, all these questions will be answered in our comprehensive e cig buyers guide.

The right manufacturer

The Bull Smoke brand is one of the more popular e cigarette brands. Their tagline is “More Vapor. No Bull.”

The increasing popularity of electronic cigarettes amongst American citizens has caused several companies to come into the electronic cigarette business, each offering a unique version of the basic electronic cigarette and a variety of flavors to pick from. The first thing you must decide is a brand. Each and every brand has a unique product and flavors to go with. So the only way you can come to a conclusion is to actually have enough knowledge about the manufacturer. This is where electronic cigarette reviews will thoroughly help you out. Read the reviews see what people are saying about each brand. This is a very important step that you must take in order to learn about a brand and its benefits. You should easily be able to relate to hundreds of people on the internet who share the same passion of getting the best electronic cigarette as you.

Compare starter kits

Nearly every manufacturer lets users pick a starter kit when they want to try the brand out. You must compare all the starter kits from shortlisted brands in order to obtain the best value possible. In my opinion, always go for a starter kit that offers you the basic stuff you need to get started. Most starter kits will include extras like a carrying case or other fancy accessories. Try and ignore these for your first kit. You simply need to get a kit that allows you to have a battery, a cartomizer, a flavor and a charger to charge the battery. Anything other than these is an extra that should be avoided before you become a permanent customer of a brand.

Look for the right flavors

Okay so this is the trickiest part. There are several manufacturers and each offer at least five different flavors to choose from. While some of these flavors are similar in nature, most are brand exclusives. So if you are the adventurous type, don t hesitate to pick a brand that offers unique flavors. But if you just want to stick to the traditional tobacco flavor, you can go with any brand. But keep in mind that there are even brands that offer different tobacco flavors. The general aim is to get a tobacco flavor that best compliments your paper cigarette flavor.

Choose the right battery

If you are a starter, you should simply go for an automatic battery. This battery was designed with convenience in mind. The automatic battery does not require you to push a button to turn the cigarette on, instead, as soon as you puff on a cigarette, vapor is produced and you can inhale it. If you are one of those curious people who can t go on without discovering new things, feel free to add in a manual battery in your starter kit. Most manufacturers will give you two batteries to start with, so don t hesitate to add in a manual and automatic battery into your list.

Select the right nicotine strength

Generally, there are four different nicotine strengths available. You must determine the strength of the nicotine based on your paper cigarette needs. If you find that you are a heavy smoker, you should pick the highest nicotine strength available from a manufacturer. If you are in only because you want to permanently get away from smoking cigarettes or vaping electronic cigarettes, then start by taking low nicotine and move to zero nicotine.

A few of the more popular brands out there on the market are the V2 Cigs brand and the unforgettable Bull Smoke. If you are brand new to e cigarette smoking, those are the brands you should check out before all others.

10 evil vintage cigarette ads promising better health

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US Surgeon General Luther Terry s 1964 Advisory Committee report on Smoking and Health brought about significant changes for the tobacco industry, leading to far tighter restrictions on advertising as well as the addition of warning labels on packaging. As far back as the early 1950s, cigarette advertising had begun to attract controversy, yet tobacco companies continued to pour money into their marketing efforts.

From the late 1870s, cigarette companies were able to strengthen their brands due to the invention of color printing, which heralded a new era for both advertising and packaging including the placement of trading cards in individual boxes. When people began to express uncertainty about the health effects of smoking in the early 20th century, tobacco companies responded with a campaign to reassure the public about their products and thus safeguard their industry.

To this end, tobacco marketers got actors, athletes and even doctors to endorse their goods and make astonishing claims, with pseudo scientific medical reports another staple of this strategy. These 10 vintage ads offer an opportunity to explore the attitudes of the day and by today s infinitely stricter standards, many of them seem almost hilariously outrageous.

10. Craven A For Your Throat s Sake

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Craven A began marketing its cigarettes under the slogan For Your Throat s Sake as early as 1939 if not before. The brand, which is currently owned by Rothmans, Benson & Hedges, enjoyed huge popularity during World War II. Part of the reason for this is that cigarettes were donated to the war effort by the tobacco industry and they were included in soldiers rations. By the time the war was over, many veterans were not only addicted, they were also loyal to a particular brand. When unsettling reports began to surface that smoking could cause lung cancer and other diseases, people began to wonder whether having a smoke was such a good thing after all.

9. Lucky Strike Reach For A Lucky Instead

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Suspicions about the negative health effects of cigarettes had already become ingrained in popular culture, with terms like coffin nails and smoker s cough part of people s everyday language. To protect their empires, tobacco companies began an all out campaign to convince people not to abandon their smokes. Lucky Strike ads communicated a variety of messages, from the idea that toasted cigarettes are less harmful to your throat and reduce coughing, to the suggestion that their products could lead to noticeable weight loss. When tempted to over indulge, reach for a Lucky instead, says the 1930 Lucky Strike advertisement pictured above.

Although advertisers can no longer claim that smoking keeps you slim, in decades like the 60s and 70s women were targeted with ads that promoted smoking as being somehow glamorous. Worrying research carried out by London s King s College predicts that female lung cancer rates will triple over the next 30 years, because incidences of the disease are generally a sign of people s smoking habits three to four decades earlier.

8. Philip Morris Scientifically Proved Far Less Irritating To The Nose And Throat

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For more than 50 years, tobacco ads focused on dispelling growing fears that cigarettes have a negative impact on health. By the time the US Surgeon General published the report of 1964, the detrimental effects of tobacco were well documented. Over 7,000 scientific studies connected smoking with emphysema, heart disease and various other conditions, and a causal link was made with lung cancer.

In the years before the Surgeon General s report, tobacco companies did their best to bury the truth. They found doctors willing to justify the brazen claims made by their ads in exchange for fat payments worth almost half the physicians annual salaries. The 1940 Philip Morris advertisement pictured above is a prime example of a cigarette company making ludicrous claims supposedly backed up by science.

7. Camels More Doctors Smoke Camels

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In the words of professor of otolaryngology Robert Jackler, MD, tobacco companies successfully influenced these physicians not only to promote the notion that smoking was healthful, but actually to recommend it as a treatment for throat irritation. This 1946 advertisement claims that more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.

According to research carried out by Stanford University, R.J. Reynolds, the company behind the Camel brand, paid to have surveys carried out at medical conventions. In order to skew the results, doctors were given free packets of cigarettes then afterwards, they were questioned about either which type of cigarettes they had in their pockets or which brand they liked best.

6. Lucky Strike I Protect My Voice With Luckies

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The 1920s and 1930s saw a new wave in cigarette advertising celebrity endorsements. Lucky Strike used this tactic extensively. The 1931 advertisement above features Edmund Lowe, who was a prolific actor at the time. In exchange for his endorsement, Lucky Strike provided publicity for three of Lowe s films. The partnership between celebrities and cigarette brands encouraged individuals especially young people to associate cigarettes with glamor and an elite lifestyle, while the products negative effects were trivialized.

In the following decades, tobacco companies further targeted the younger generations by ensuring that cigarettes figured prominently in cartoons and popular TV shows. For example, The Flintstones used to be sponsored by Winston cigarettes, and Fred and Wilma could be seen lighting up at the end of episodes. Regulations introduced in 1964 prohibited advertisements that targeted young smokers, but some contend that advertising ploys featuring appealing characters such as Joe Camel were simply subtler means to the same end. Ironically, Lowe died of lung cancer in 1971.

5. L&M Just What The Doctor Ordered

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L&M Filters are just what the doctor ordered, claimed this 1951 L&M Filter Tip ad despite the fact that tobacco factory chemists knew that filters had no more effect in removing nicotine and tar from cigarettes than the same amount of tobacco. Reader s Digest articles further publicized claims that filters could be effective in this way.

Tobacco companies hosted dinners at fancy restaurants for throat specialists, where the practitioners were encouraged to recommend cigarette brands to patients with coughs and other complaints. Furthermore, even after the 1964 Advisory Committee report, leading medical experts still testified in favor of the tobacco industry.

4. Lucky Strike Smoke A Lucky To Feel Your Level Best

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The fact that many major otolaryngologists testified before Congress against the Surgeon General s findings is alarming. For Robert Jackler, this serves as a caution to current health professionals. Ethically, a physician must always act on behalf of the well being of patients, he says, adding Responsible industries balance their need to maximize profits with a commitment to improve the health of their consumers.

The Lucky Strike advertisement pictured above was launched in 1949, and one of the models used in the campaign, Janet Sackman, was only 17 at the time of the shoot. According to Sackman, an older tobacco executive present at the shoot encouraged her to start smoking so that she would know how to hold a cigarette. She picked up the habit and suffered from throat cancer in later years.

3. Camel For Digestion s Sake

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In this ad, steel nerved oil well firefighter Pat Patton endorses Camel cigarettes for digestion s sake. Run in 1937, the ad was part of a campaign that claimed smoking Camels assisted digestion by increasing the movement of alkaline digestive fluids. Eventually, the Federal Trade Commission sent a cease and desist order to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, for
bidding them from representing Camels as being beneficial to digestion. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen until 1951 more than 10 years after the advertisements had stopped running.

2. Lucky Strike To Keep A Slender Figure No One Can Deny

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Since 1964, even more stringent restrictions have been introduced including the June 2009 FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill, which gave the Food and Drug Administration extensive power over industry products, labeling, ingredients, and the size of the warnings on packages. Claims like those featured in this 1929 Lucky Strike advert are now a thing of the past. The campaign, which was launched in 1928, encouraged women to reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet, and it proved very successful. It was, however, brought to a somewhat amusing end thanks to legal threats from the candy industry. Even the names of some cigarettes (like Virginia Slim) could impart unconscious messages to potential female consumers.

1. Viceroys As your Dentist I Would Recommend Viceroys

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This 1949 advertisement for Viceroys featured a dentist instead of a general physician or otolaryngologist to suggest that smoking is okay. Perhaps a dentist was used in this case to ensure that there were a variety of different healthcare professionals extolling the virtues of cigarettes. Yellow teeth and bad breath are unattractive side effects of smoking, but if a dentist is recommending Viceroys, then cigarettes can t be all that bad, right?

Although increasingly stringent regulations have put constraints on the tobacco industry and the days of false health benefit claims are gone, the battle is far from over. In fact, in 2008 the US tobacco industry forked out nearly $10 billion on advertising and promotional efforts. The question, then, is how can health administrators further leverage their power against the industry and thereby save lives?