Money speaks louder — and faster — than science. While proponents and opponents of electronic cigarettes wait for studies to bolster their arguments, there’s already solid and compelling evidence that electronic cigarettes provide at least $40 billion in economic benefits to taxpayers and employers as well as to the health and hospitality industries.

The V2 Cigs Express Yourself giveaway has come to an end. We’re pleased to announce the final winners of this giveaway. Thanks to all of you who participated. The winners will be contacted within 48 hours to claim their prize. The V2 Cigs Express Kits along with the V2 10-Flavor Samplers will be shipped by V2 Cigs within 3-5 business days.

We’re happy to announce our V2 Cigs “Express Yourself” giveaway winners. Thanks to everyone who entered. Each of you will receive a V2 Cigs Express Kit as well as a V2 10-Flavor Sample Pack.

Today we’re excited to announce the 10 winners for the second week of our V2 Cigs Express Yourself Giveaway. Each winner will receive a V2 Cigs Express Kit as well as a V2 10-Flavor Sample Pack.

Last year we brought you a review of the Pure Cigs Starter Kit G4, one of the more affordable packages available to new vapers. Established back in 2010, it’s safe to say the brand has earned veteran status among a plethora of new start-ups. As such, they are now delving into the market of mods and variable voltage with starter kits like the XL and Elite, presumably to compete with the likes of the eGo. So today we will review their latest and most advanced e-cigarette, the Elite Kit, currently selling for a cool $71.99 on Pure Cigs’ website.

We’re excited to announce the first 10 winners of our V2 Cigs “Express Yourself” Giveaway. Each of you will receive a V2 Cigs Express Kit and a V2 10-Flavor Sampler. This week’s winners are: Colleen S., Jessica, Melanie M., Shiann B., Joy A., Cliff T., Tamara T., Jamie, Thomas S., Donald B. If you’re name has been announced, you will be contacted via email shortly to claim your prize.

We’ve all heard the arguments before. The anti-e-cig crowd cries that there hasn’t been enough research on the effects, that the hypothetical issues with the manufacturing process could lead to catastrophic consequences for users or that they are as dangerous tobacco outright. However, an old rationalist analogy from philosopher Bertrand Russell teaches us that it is the anti-e-cig crowd – not researchers who understand the amazing potential for harm reduction – are the ones who should be offering evidence.

The Huffington Post has uploaded a 24-minute video debate in response to Contra Costa County’s decision to ban vaping in no smoking areas. The move also means that any sellers have to obtain a tobacco retailer license in order to sell any e-cigs. This is a controversial move, since e-cigs are not smoking and release nowhere near the level of chemicals you’d find in a tobacco cigarette, but the fierce debate still rages on.

We’re happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with V2 Cigs for the biggest giveaway of the year, offering a total of 50 V2 Cigs Express Kits and 50 ten-cartridge flavor samplers throughout the month of April. V2 Cigs currently holds the coveted top-spot on our top e-cigs of 2013 list, and their reputation is thoroughly earned. They’re widely praised for their wide selection of delicious cartridge flavors and the thick, smoke-like vapor the e-cig produces. The Express Kit is one of their most basic, but you still get everything you need to get started, with an automatic battery and USB charger included.

The Green Smoke Spring Renewal Sweepstakes has come to an end! The final four winners have been randomly drawn. Each of you will receive a Green Smoke Pro Kit, a $188.92 value!

In the US Air Force, e-cigarettes are treated in exactly the same way as tobacco cigarettes. That means if any personnel want to reduce the harm they’re doing to themselves through their nicotine addiction, they aren’t allowed to unless they stand in designated areas with smokers, who are pumping in excess of 7,000 chemicals out into the air. The fact that the e-cigarette users are releasing primarily water vapor doesn’t matter in the eyes of the Air Force, and as if this wasn’t enough, the anti e-cig efforts they started in 2010 have been redoubled.

Oklahoma Senator Rob Johnson’s proposed bill to impose a small tax on e-cigs, formally ban their sale to minors and require any vendors to be licensed seems like a harmless and sensible piece of legislation on first reading about it. However, there is a darker vein lurking in the densely layered legalese and clunky phrases like “vapor products,” since the bill would also make it illegal to buy e-cigs online and for sellers in the state to buy their products from anybody other than Oklahoma-based distributor or wholesaler.

Njoy, more famous recently for the controversial TV ad, has made a landmark addition to their board of directors, appointing former Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona. The calls for increased regulation of the e-cigarette industry come notably from groups generally critical of e-cigs, but Njoy’s decision reflects the fact that e-cigarette manufacturers themselves also rank their customer’s health as their primary concern. This is obvious to anybody in the vaping community, but it will hopefully serve as a wake-up call for wider society.

New research from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York is piling up even more evidence that using electronic cigarettes is considerably safer than the tobacco alternative. It looked specifically at several toxic components found in cigarettes, and compared the levels of them to those found in e-cigs. Unsurprisingly, they found that e-cigs contain from 9 to 450 times less toxic components than their tobacco counterparts. Anybody persisting in the belief that e-cigs can be just as dangerous as traditional cigarettes is left with even more to explain, but yet the story seems conspicuously absent from the mainstream media.

The American Legacy Foundation has released a statement which makes the bold claims that “consumers are taking unknown risks by using e-cigarettes,” contributing another misinformed, scaremongering piece of pseudo-scientific nonsense to a debate where lives literally hang in the balance. They advocate the use of traditional nicotine replacement therapies, which will generally only successfully help 17 out of 100 people. Let’s think for a second about what they’re proposing that those other 83 people do… Yep, if the current NRT products have failed you, you should be “wary” of using e-cigarettes, so assumedly the only option left from Legacy’s perspective is good old, carcinogenic tobacco.