A recent study by Boston University School of Public Health showed that e-cigarettes may hold promise as a smoking-cessation method because they address two aspects of smoking: the nicotine and the behavioral habit of puffing. The limited study used a survey of 5,000 first-time buyers of e-cigarettes from one company over a two-week period. The results showed that 68% of the first-time users were able to reduce the number of cigarettes they smoked.

The Electronic Frontier

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Frank Seltzer

The popularity of e-cigarettes has risen substantially over the past couple of years, giving retailers an opportunity to make up for shrinking tobacco profits. By Frank Seltzer, Contributing Editor. Electronic cigarettes are a relatively new product, but for convenience stores they are beginning to make a big impact on sales. Electronic cigarettes were invented just [...]