Cartridge Refills – Why it Pays To Be Careful
When it comes to the comparison between the dangers of smoking tobacco against those of smoking the revolutionary electronic cigarette, regulatory bodies such as the FDA and MHRA along with ‘anti smoking lobby groups such as ASH have done the public a great disservice and allowed lobbyist of the financially interested to ‘muddy’ the truth to protect financial profit.
Whilst this is not something new and many readers will read on with a cynical, all knowing smile, it belies a more serious point to the writer, who as a smoker for many years and a proponant of e-cigarettes has come to realise that the ‘regulatory body that cried wolf’ had missed the more important role it was meant to serve which was protection of the public interest and not that of the drug companies and tobacco lobby.
For whilst a revoltion is taking place and the introduction of electronic smoking as opposed to tobacco could be viewed as the single most important step forward in public health since the introduction of innoculation, it doesn’t come without dangers of its own.
The primary concern for this fledgling industry is the source of production which is almost exclusively China.
Now I am not one for bashing the largest manufacturer of the worlds goods for no reason. But when a product such as electric cigarettes and the consumable nicotine refill cartridges that accompany them are produced in a country that is undergoing an industrial revolution not akin to the one experienced in the UK in the nineteeth century and combines the competition of the globe with such a lack of regulation that they are unable to milk a cow without adding something indigestible to it, then you have to worry a little.
Especially when, where electronic cigarettes are concerned, using the wrong grade of its primary ingredient, Propylene Glycol can mean the difference to inhaling something completely safe by all recognised standards, to inhaling an industrial toxin capable of equalling or surpassing the worst effects likely to be achieved by smoking tobacco.
I am, therefore somewhat pleased to announce that at least one US company had the merit to ensure that the cartridge refills it supplies are manufactured in an FDA registered laboratory using only pharmecuetical grade materials. The Japanese owned laboratory is bound to independently verify the ingredients and these are then prominantly labelled on every container.
The company I am referring to is inLife LLC and it is the only company to the writers knowledge that supplys e-cig cartridge refills in this way.
I should note that use of industrial grade PG has never been found although traces of its sister compound DEG were found in trace in an FDA spot check in some e-cig imports into the USA.
The moral of the story I suppose is that if you are going to take the most worthy step of getting off the weed…and its a life changer, take my word for it..then do it safe and do it right.
inLife electronic cigarette cartridge refills for the models such as the Regal or Marquee (UK) may cost a little more but as I said to a friend who said they buy cartridges cheaper online..
” That may be so, but if I said I could buy you milk from China at 10 cents a gallon would you drink it?”
