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Enter the Seedy World of Chronic Vaping Addiction
First of it's kind! The first literary work EVER
featuring a vaper as the main protagonist.

Your juice shelf is not complete without Vape Mania steeping on it.

Electronic cigarettes. A drug as addictive as heroin. A mother's worst nightmare. Not sold in baggies behind dumpsters in the alleyways but wrapped inside enticing packages and sold over the counter at convenience stores. Not peddled out of trailer parks by droopy pants gangsters with teardrop tattoos but delivered to your doorstep by unwitting, fine, upstanding United States Postal Carriers.

Follow one man's downward spiral into the seedy world of vaping addiction. Discover the global conspiracy of an e-cigarette forum hell-bent on hooking the masses to freebased nicotine by means of mind controlling paraphernalia and volatile electronic batteries manufactured through the miserable toil of abused slaves working in overseas sweatshops. Learn the vaping hoodlums' secret lingo like "mod" and "drip" and "wick," so that you too can recognize the ticking time bomb vapoholics mingling among you. Discover the shocking truth behind the 21^st century drug of choice, slung to our children in dropper bottles with flavors like gummy bear and lollypop.

Through endorsing this horrific tale inspired by true events, IPIC, the Institute for the Preservation of the Institution of Cigarettes, helps to debunk the myth that huffing antifreeze and skin moisturizer is a safe alternative to the leisurely and respectable past time of smoking traditional tobacco products. You will be appalled at how lax our government has been at cracking down on this unregulated industry's often illegal activity run by e-juice cartels that exist for the sole purpose of turning people into zombie-like vaping junkies who can't survive a minute without getting their fix.

This cringe inducing, sometimes ultra-violent memoir dives unflinchingly into the disgusting corners of the vaping community at large. Not since Upton Sinclair's The Jungle has there been a more provocative exposé of the backdoor dealings of a politically influential mass marketing scheme. Now for the first time the underground sensation that was previously only released to trusted members of the conservative media, is finally revealed to the public in this groundbreaking paperback edition available exclusively through Amazon. Newly edited with commentary provided by IPIC, this is a startling wake-up call that belongs on the bookshelves of every home across the world.

Attention parents. Do not let your children become the marionettes of the e-cig mafia; and before you even think about putting this modern day crack pipe to your lips, give your health and sanity a chance by reading VAPE MANIA. It will save your life!

WARNING: this memoir explicitly illustrates the possessive power

of this devil drug in graphic detail and is therefore not intended for the faint of heart.

Please do not attempt to dry burn your wick while reading Vape Mania.

Uproariously demented. Twisted and controversial. Hilariously horrifying. Offensively funny. Outrageously anti-pc. A book so shocking Vaporacle was banned from ECF just for posting about it. It's here!! The much anticipated sequel to the highly popular Vape Mania. Prepare yourself for ten times the insanity, ten times the hilarity, ten times the intrigue and, of course, ten times the vaping.

Melvin Provario is back: with a vengeance! Angel of Vape begins right where Vape Mania left off. Rejoin Melvin's disturbing downward spiral into madness as he tries to exonerate himself to the vaping community while at the same time taking on a ruthless cigarette bootlegging ring that's hell bent on destroying the e-cig market.

Vape Mania is the only series in existence with a vaper as the main protagonist, set in an e-cigarette community filled with vaping culture. Can Melvin Provario vape his way out of this mess? Buy Angel of Vape now and find out!

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Caribbean airline LIAT has banned e-cigarettes for carriage in checked luggage, citing a recommendation from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). LIAT claims that e-cigarettes that use lithium cells are a fire risk because these devices have on occasion overheated and caught fire when the heating element was accidentally activated. The FAA pointed to two incidents: one in which an e-cigarette packed in checked luggage in the cargo hold of a passenger aircraft caught fire and forced an evacuation; and another in which a checked bag that missed its flight caught fire in the baggage area. LIAT also recommends passengers should not carry e-cigarettes in their carry-on luggage either, stating that airport security reserves the right to remove them.

Source Material

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FEMA (Flavor Extract and Manufacturer's Association) has sent a letter out to flavoring manufacturers, warning them that the flavorings they manufacture have not been approved by the FDA for use in e-cigs. This has already resulted in some flavoring manufacturers abruptly ceasing business with makers of e-juice / e-liquid.

Here are some quoted excerpts from the letter sent out by FEMA:

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"There is no apparent direct regulatory authority in the United States to use flavors in e-cigarettes. In this context, it is important to note that the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) provision in Section 201(s) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) applies only to food . . ."

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"E-cigarette and flavor manufacturers and marketers should not represent or suggest that the flavor ingredients used in e-cigarettes are safe because they have FEMA GRASTM status for use in food because such statements are false and misleading."

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"In 2014, FDA published proposed regulations to deem e-cigarettes as tobacco products subject to the regulatory authority of the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act thereby bringing them under regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."

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"The FEMA Expert Panel evaluates the safety of flavoring substances only under their conditions of intended use in human food, including beverages and chewing gum. Therefore, the Expert Panel only evaluates flavor ingredients for exposure through ingestion. The Expert Panel does not evaluate flavor ingredients for use in tobacco products and e-cigarettes or other products that are not human food, or products that result in exposures other than by ingestion."

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"Occupational exposure limits (OELs) have been established for a small number of flavoring substances. OELs have no relevance to exposure to flavors from the use of e-cigarettes. . . . It is improper to use OELs as indications of safe levels of exposure to flavoring substances from the use of electronic cigarettes."

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The letter is signed by John Hallagan, FEMA Senior Advisor and General Counsel.

READ THE ENTIRE LETTER HERE

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Hana Modz has won a lawsuit against ILLVAPES, who was selling clones of Hana products, including a clone of the v3 DNA 30.

Hana has been awarded $300,000 in damages plus fees. The lawsuit was filed on May 16 of 2014 and settled on February 27 of 2015 by the Honorable Janis L. Sammartino, who ruled by default judgement that the "defendant has damaged the reputation and goodwill of Hana Modz."

Read the judgement in its entirety HERE.

According to GuideToVaping, Hana Modz is also suing Vapor Tek USA and Dailey Vape Steals for trademark infringement.

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Vapeline: 2/28/2015 7:30 CST

I for one am sick and tired of playing nice with politicians who are trying to set the clock back to the days when we didn’t have any alternative to smoking. With their attempts to ban flavors and tax e-cigs and over-regulate the industry so that only Big Tobacco will be able to pay to play in it, they are essentially making a concerted effort to condemn millions of people to slow death by lung cancer and other diseases caused by smoking. Ignorance is no excuse. It is their job as elected officials to educate themselves regarding the issues they vote on.

These politicians are not people we need to play nice with. On the contrary. These are people we need to rebel against with everything we have. Playing nice with them only turns us into the lambs for their slaughter. It’s time to bring some civil disobedience into this fight. It’s time we showed them that even if they do manage to pass their backward laws that will ultimately condemn us to death—we have no intentions to obey them.

So many people are under the delusion that if we act civil, somehow, like magic, that’s going to stop these greedy politicians and corrupt lobbyists from taking away our only hope to escape the disease that the cigarette industry has brought upon the world. They don’t care one iota about how civil we are. Money talks, not politeness. In fact, the more civil we are, the easier it makes it for them to do whatever they want to do to us. Being friendly to them is like being friendly to the Nazis as they make their plans to build their concentration camps to kill us in. Let there be no mistake: what they propose with each attempt at banning e-cigs is nothing short of an attempt at mass murder.

It’s time to act out and show them how enraged we are. It’s time we violated their personal space and reminded them of the horrors cigarette smoke has created over the last century. It’s time we got up in their faces and showed them that there will be no business as usual as long as they are proposing bills and passing laws that are detrimental to our health. It’s time we interrupted their system. They deserve to be accosted in the streets, not pandered to. If they think they have the right to butt their noses into our lives, then let’s show them what it feels like to have their privacy violated. They need to be interrupted and publically ridiculed and shamed for what they are doing. They need to know what it feels like to be threatened, since every one of their actions is threatening us. They don’t need diplomatic phone calls begging them not to destroy us. They need to be spammed with hate mail and harassed at every opportunity; they need to be called out for what they are—stupid greedy bastards who care more about collecting taxes than they do about the welfare of those who voted for them.

We have seen in places like Indiana what happens when we politely participate in their system to voice our concerns. We get ignored and they vote any way they want to vote anyway. More impact would have been made if a gang of dying cigarette smokers stormed the hall in protest and splashed the politicians with a symbolic bucket of blood. At least that would have made the news. Instead, by playing nice, the voices of the vapers were washed away as if they never even spoke in the first place. Politicians who are trying to condemn society with the plague of cancer do not deserve to feel safe. They need to understand that their actions will have consequences. They need to know in no uncertain terms that if they threaten us by taking away our tried and true means of smoking cessation, they will also feel threatened.

Being Mr. Nice Guy has gotten the vaping community absolutely nowhere. It’s time to come up with a more effective strategy. It’s time to declare war.

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"Afterwards, they (director) were like, 'Okay, we got that (shot), we can get you guys changed (into clothes)', and he's (DiCaprio is) like, 'Where is it? Where did I put it? I had it right here'... I was looking around with him - both still sitting in this bed - and then I went, 'Oh, um, it's literally, like, in my butt crack. I'm sitting on it. I am so sorry!'

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A couple in England who was trying to adopt a child was barred from doing so by Staffordshire County council social workers, because the would-be father was seen vaping an e-cigarette.

After paying over £20,000 for failed fertility treatments, the couple approached the council in December 2013 and began a long series of tests to qualify as parents. They went through medical examinations and interviews to prove they were of sound character and financially capable of raising a child. At the time, the would-be father was a light smoker of normal cigarettes, but one of the requirements for adoption is that, in the case of children under five, potential adopters should not smoke; so the would-be father stopped smoking. He hadn’t had a real cigarette in months and was using e-cigarettes as a cessation aid, to ease the nicotine cravings. But when a social worker saw him using the e-cigarette, everything changed. The next day, the council said it would not place the child with them, telling the potential father to stop using e-cigs for an entire year and then reapply.

“When there are so many children desperate for a family and a stable home, to put up such trivial barriers is ridiculous,” said the couple, who wish to remain anonymous. “It made us feel judged and worthless, that you are a lesser person if you smoke e-cigarettes.”

Source material.

UPDATE: BAAF MAKES U-TURN

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Reddit has come alive with accusations that vaping critic Rip Trippers is on the take.

I've now seen two different versions of this letter purporting to be from someone representing Rip Trippers demanding a “2% equity” in an unnamed "app" in return for his promotion of the unnamed "app" on “all platforms” (in both examples of the letter, the name of the company in question has been removed). The two letters were in completely different typeface suggesting at least one of them (if not both of them) is not an original copy. Also, the wording of the letters suggests they were in response to someone inviting Rip to be on the advisory board of their company. There is nothing unusual about owning a share of a company that you are on the board of (and a 2% share is actually quite conservative); there is nothing unusual about that unless, of course, you take it out of context and claim it means something else.

People are also linking to this post of someone making a similar accusation.

At this point we are dealing with nothing but internet rumors and we haven't seen any hard evidence nor have we heard a rebuttal from Rip Trippers. Some tabloid-type blogs (run by drama-queens who ironically make money off of advertising themselves) have jumped on this in order to increase their traffic, but Vaporacle would like to remind everyone that this is America and we're suppose to be innocent until proven guilty. Even if Rip Trippers was negotiating a deal to promote an "app," that doesn't prove that his long history of reviewing actual juices and vaping gear has all been paid for.

Update: the main person behind these allegations appeared on the TV Show Mod Envy on Saturday night and refused to elaborate on what evidence he had that Rip Trippers did anything wrong. We're still waiting for the evidence . . .

Final Word: Twisted420 admits it is nothing but hearsay on YouTube.

Comments from Reddit

. . . he did a review on the veritas from us and we didn't pay him he bought it himself . . . He said wasn't going to let people know who he got it from if we weren't a stand up vendor and that he appreciated all our help and that he felt comfortable sending people our way knowing that we'd take care of them.

--Re-DOC

I dont think some cropped posts/texts/comment really proves anything . . . drama is always nice and juicy

--D1STURBED36

So we are basing this entirely off of screenshots that could be entirely fabricated? . . . Say this is true and he has been getting paid for positive reviews; shouldn't we be mad at the companies who've paid him for the coverage as well? I just don't see why everyone grabs their torches as soon as a little speculation arises.

--pfftyagassed

Can we just take a second to recognize some of the good that RIP does for the community before we grab our pitchforks and start another reddit witch hunt? If the accusations are 100% true, then I agree it is scummy and should be stopped. But the only person who is going to make the decision on whether or not it stops is RIP.

--MajesticBlueFalcon

I would want to be paid too if I put as much time into reviewing products and really showing people how to do this stuff safely. This happens in all industries and has been happing in this one too before Rippy Trippy.

--Juicepup

I fail to see the problem. As someone who deals with copy/reads for play on the radio, the only thing it seems is that he is asking for either a stake in company profits as a whole, or for the device for which he is marketing. I still don't see a problem with that. Anyone who does a 'review' of a product AND doesn't keep said product/get paid, can cast the first stone. But if you accept and keep the product/money for doing your review, it's nothing different. Please go hunt witches elsewhere.

--theycallmedelicious

This is disappointing to me, not because he's asking for money, only because he's already making money on his videos! He doesn't need more just to put out a review.. It's sad.

--BassFridge

So, your going after Rip for being an infomercial and selling his name. If thats the case then you should be calling out pbusardo and dimitris for their whole China thing as well? Are you? ...yeah...didn't think so... Rip is the easy target. he's an infomercial, thats all his channel is about. Why don't you call out the other two big names in the US review circles for the three one hour infomercials they done on behalf of Kanger, Aspire and Innokin?

--VapingWithVic

Who cares. He spends alot of time on his videos, gives back to the community, and is pretty good at his job. He should be compensated for his work. . . . Take a fucking pitchfork to something that can make change happen. Not some dude talking about ecigs man.

--VapingSmooth

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On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, the Indiana House committee passed a bill that, if turned into law, will put sweeping regulations on e-juice. Despite testimony from vape shop owners who complained because the bill punishes the ethical vendors along with the unethical ones, House Bill 1432 passed the committee 9-2 and will now move onto the House floor in the next session. The bill puts drastic regulations on the manufacturing and sale of e-liquids that, if the bill is made into law, will shut down most small vendors and hand the local industry over to Big Tobacco and others who will be able to pay to play. Among other things, the bill requires e-juice mixers to have a $5,000 retail tobacco certificate and limits the ingredients juice chefs can use.

Summary of the bill:

Regulation of e-liquids. Requires a manufacturer that manufactures, bottles, or stores e-liquid to have a permit issued by the alcohol and tobacco commission (commission). Establishes requirements to obtain a permit to manufacture e-liquid. Establishes penalties for not complying with the terms of the permit. Prohibits a retailer from selling e-liquid: (1) to a minor; (2) that is purchased from a manufacturer that does not have a permit; or (3) that has been altered or tampered with. Allows a permit holder to bring a civil action for violations of the e-liquids laws. Provides that e-liquid manufacturing equipment must be cleaned and sanitized to the same standard as commercial kitchens.Allows the commission to approve not less than three, independent laboratories for e-liquid sample testing. Requires manufacturing facilities to create and maintain clean room space where all mixing, bottling, and packaging of e-liquids must occur. Requires manufacturers to store and maintain three, 10 milliliter samples of e-liquid from each production batch for a period of not less than three years.Requires existing e-liquid inventory to be sold or removed prior to July 1, 2016. Requires all manufacturers to obtain a valid tobacco sales certificate, an e-liquid manufacturing permit, or a distributor's license by July 1, 2016.

Related: House committee passes e-liquid regulations

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Check out this hilarious parody of the cover of Vape Mania created by a newbie vaper who goes by the pseudonym V4P3R (also known among the vaping blogging circles as V00P3R).

Check out what V4P3R said about Vape Mania on his self-published blog.

"Vape Mania is a book anyone can digest during a week of before-bedtime reading, or to fill up a rainy Sunday afternoon. In pure slapstick fashion, Vape Mania explores and exploits just about every public misconception about e-cigarettes, complete with sporadic diagrams and drawings. With characters like DarthVaper, the author ironically explores the hilarity of online vaping forums. Vape Mania is funny, no doubt. Sometimes laugh out loud funny. Everyone who vapes will appreciate the comedy of this book, especially those who are part of the online vaping community. The book is smartly written, though at times it does degrade into screwball humor a la Monty Python style . . . Vape Mania is a great conversation starter to have on your coffee table or in your vape shop, and would make a great gift for that dedicated vaper who has everything."

--V4P3R

Thanks V00P3R!!!

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On February 11, 2015, I noticed that Dimitris, aka VapingGreek, retweeted a warning that the new “US Vaping Association” is nothing but a scam. The tweet points out that in fact, the “US” Vaping Association domain name is registered to someone in Canada.

Today I noticed, since that tweet went viral, the association has changed its domain name information to private, blocking access to any registrant information whatsoever.

Others have claimed that the address in Greenwood Village, CO that is listed on the association website is nothing but a drop box service. So who is the USVA?

No, this isn't a joke.

A subscription to USVA costs $25 per month.

Some of the benefits the USVA claims a subscription provides include:

A 75% off discount to a National Conference. But what National Conference?
Connections to professionals, peers and the USVA "knowledgeable staff". None of whom are named.
Special rates on "industry publications". None of which are named.
Cash advances, short term loans and franchise financing. Are they a loan company then?
Discounted insurance. Are they an insurance company then?
Wholesale credit on stock purchases. Are they a stock broker then?
What exactly IS USVA?

And WHO exactly is the US Vaping Association and why are they seemingly trying to cover up their true identity? There is one person with the answers to these questions.

Vaporacle will stay on top of this story for you: I can guarantee you that!

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In a piece published yesterday in Forbes, Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes himself comes out strong, mashing anti-vapers into a pulp and publicly showing support for e-cigarettes and for vaping.

In the article called "California Joins Baseless Bashing of E-Cigarettes," Forbes calls the war that is currently being waged on the vaping community nothing but “weird superstition.” He compares the anti-vaping hysteria to “the belief in witches.”

“E-cigs have been a godsend to people who wish to give up smoking,” Forbes points out. He explains that “smoking among teenagers is at the lowest level” now that teens have been choosing to vape instead. “But instead of being hailed as the most effective anti-smoking tool ever, e-cigs have been pilloried as the devil’s device.”

Forbes goes on to criticize the California Department of Public Health's report (titled “A Community Health Threat”) saying it “apocalyptically attacks" e-cigs. “It turns out this report is scientific garbage,” Forbes accuses. “It twists facts, quotes scientific studies out of context and is laced with outright whoppers.”

“The fanatical fervor of anti-smoking crusaders won’t be stopped by objective science,” Forbes warns the vaping community. He says that is due in part to “an intolerant, puritanical mind-set that is offended because e-cigs make giving up cigarettes too easy. Forsaking smoking should involve pain, not pleasure!”

"Instead of focusing on sensible guidelines to ensure the safe and sound manufacturing of electronic cigarettes, anti-smoking jihadists indulge in what might be called a scorched-earth approach," Forbes concludes. "All tobacco products are regarded as equally bad–a scientific falsehood–and anything resembling cigarettes, even when no tar or smoke is involved, must be quashed."

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People who didn't witness the explosion speak out!!

"That's really scary!" says Anette Garcia, a customer who wasn't there when it happened. "It makes me think I need to warn all my friends who are doing that."

"I like to run my things at very extreme temperatures," says Marlow Younan, a vaper who also wasn't there when it happened. "I've maxed everything out."

In response to this horrific e-cig explosion, this unnamed man attempts

to catch a vape-ring with his hand--not once, not twice but four times.

And this big, bearded man with a baseball cap on is caught

walking out of the disaster zone, miraculously unharmed.

02/09/15, a date that will live in vaping infamy.

MORE EXPLODING E-CIG HORROR STORIES

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And an e-cig "may have" caused this!!

CRISIS: 5 e-cig explosions per year

Idiot Uses Wrong Charger, Blames E-Cig When Explodes

Dangerous Ecig Identified

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On Saturday, February 7, 2015, the Mod Envy TV Show (well, Internet TV Show anyway) celebrated its 100th episode, two weeks after celebrating its two year anniversary by giving away thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of free e-juice and vape gear. In case you've been vaping in a cave, Mod Envy airs every Saturday night at 10 PM Eastern Standard Time (9 PM Central Time) on the VU Live Channel at Vapers.tv with hosts Vapor Joe and the senior moderator at Vaping Underground -- Smokie, along with co-hosts Tyger, Nitro and Tiny.

All you have to do, to enter for a chance to win one of the many, many prizes that they give away every week, is sign up to the chat room while the show is live on the air. The chats are a lot of fun and the show hosts often read and respond to the comments being made.

For a complete schedule of VU Live TV events, click here.

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Voodoo from Halo
7ml, 24mg/ml

I'm not that big of a fan of tobacco flavored juice. I lean more toward fruit flavors and deserts. But vaping has become somewhat of a hobby for me and I'm priding myself on building a nice juice shelf with a variety of flavors so how could that be complete without some tobacco flavors? My logic was, if I was going to get some tobacco flavors I might as well get something top shelf, since anything less would probably never get vaped. So I placed an order with Halo for a bottle of Voodoo and a bottle of Tribeca. I'll concentrate on the Voodoo for now, since it seems to have its spell on me.

I paid $12.80 for both bottles (including shipping) which means each little 7ml bottle cost $6.40 (that's $1.40 more than what the cut rate joints charge for a 15ml bottle of juice). I placed my order on November 12 and it arrived on November 20, so Halo doesn't have the speediest shipping but it's certainly no slow boat from China either. Unfortunately, Halo shipped out multiple orders under the same tracking number, which made my tracking number useless since I couldn't track my specific order with it, so it's up in the air when the package will actually arrive.

But alas it did arrive. I took the cap off and let it steep for two days before I couldn't wait any longer. I filled a Protank II Mini with a 2.4 ohm head and screwed on my ego-c twist and set it at 3.8 V. I sat down not knowing what to expect, and I took a vape, then another one, and another one, and . . .

Right off the bat I can tell this isn't merely something someone tossed together like a salad the minute after I ordered it. Voodoo is something well thought out and presteeped. It's something you have to savor in your mouth to really appreciate. There is a consistent but not overpowering tobacco essence to it that lingers on the tongue long after it is vaped, but that is just the stage for a grand opera of subtleties. If you're old enough, you may remember the Mood Ring that changed colors supposedly due to your moods and this is what Voodoo is, the Mood Ring of juices. The flavor evolves depending on what you may be eating or drinking or what you're thinking about or who knows why?

I taste a bit of a snowy February morning when it's time to trek to fourth grade and I only have time to pop two slices of Wonder Bread into the toaster. The toast comes out too dark so I sprinkle a bit of cinnamon on it and crunch away without a care in the world. But is it really that? Or is it the Windmill Cookies in my lunchbox that I eat during recess? No, as a matter of fact it might be the sugar sprinkled roll in the tray under plastic that I carefully take out with a sheet of wax paper and put in a paper bag down at the store after school.

I want to say I taste popcorn but it's not the Jelly Belly buttery popcorn flavor but more like the taste of the drive-in theater popcorn on the lips of my date. I dreamt of tasting those lips for months so now that flavor is fused to everything good and loving and it makes me feel that way on a warm summer night camping in a dark world of chirping crickets with sparks speedily floating up off the fire as I pull the blackened ear of corn from the coals. I toss it from one hand to the other, blowing on it before peeling off the husk letting out a huge ball of steam. The yellow kernels are just slightly burnt but I chomp them off the cob as my friends are playing guitar and singing. Is that flavor the same flavor as the popcorn-lips or are they two distinguishable flavors or is the popcorn Simon and the ear of corn Garfunkel?

And what does this have to do with the smell of your grandfather's sweater, or the kielbasa on his breath, or his pipe burning with rich tobacco in it, or the smell of the pages of the book he is reading to you as you sit on his lap? He has passed away and someone at the funeral smells of patchouli as you embrace your mother and your lips brush her cheek and you realize you have just tasted the salt of your mother's tears. Are you remembering the deja vu from that day or is today the deja vu? For me it was the jerk chicken from the "bad side of town" that I ate in my car while smoking a Cuban Cigar. Who knows why that moment takes me to the hot sand on the beach, to the piles of burning leaves in the distance on a breezy autumn afternoon.

I hid that chocolate bar and ate it in private because I didn't want anyone to know I spent so much money on it. When I was alone I slid off the wrapper as if it was a lover's dress and opened the gold foil as if unlocking the gates to heaven. It was so dark that it only required the tiniest bit to satisfy the palate but nevertheless I ate it in one sitting, tiny bit by tiny bit. But, no, that's not it, it's something else, something else, perhaps the tall glass of oatmeal stout with the two inch foamy head that I had at the fondue restaurant after dipping a strawberry into extra sharp cheddar cheese. What was on my tongue wasn't the masterpiece seen from a distance on the gallery wall, but the intricate brush strokes examined up close. And it was most certainly Maker's Mark and toasted coconut water with the pulp still in it and there I am again, peeling the gold foil off some piece of chocolate, this time a sphere with a cherry inside, because I've been waiting for hours for the glazed ham with pineapple rings on it to be served and now for the love of god they want to say grace!

Well, well, well, I could go on and on with what Voodoo tastes like but I fear it may become a bit too personal.

THE FINAL VERDICT

Voodoo, 10/10. (Possibly the best six bucks you will ever spend.)

Service from Halo, 8/10. (Confusing shipping can cause unwarranted stress.)

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So, my vaping pals, there’s some guy out there who started vaping three months ago and who started a blog one month ago, who has been frothing at the mouth over the We Are Vapers movie documentary project. I can guarantee you that this doedoe-with-a-blog did not donate one red cent to the We Are Vapers project, so I have to wonder why he pretends to care so much about it, other than that he thinks he’s the National Enquirer of Vaping and he's generating ad revenue for himself by doing that.

Here’s the scoop. Three years ago a guy named Linc Williams launched a fundraising campaign on IndieGoGo to make a movie called We Are Vapers. The campaign raised $21,985. Williams later admitted that he himself put in an additional $18,000 of his own money. That’s about $40,000 to make a film—not a heck of a lot of money by anyone's film making standards! Three years later, the project has yet to be completed. Is this surprising in any way? No, not really. The movie Boyhood took 12 years to film. But doofus-with-a-blog thinks it’s suspicious that Williams hasn't given an update about the film in over a year. Why does Williams need to do that, though? He was very clear in the last update he did give, and there’s no need to keep repeating it:

“After lots of thought the footage we have lacks tension or [a] compelling / unifying thread
. . . I am working on adding footage that will tell the American story….. how this industry has transformed the lives of people not only by quitting smoking but also by creating jobs. For the tension element we will film the reactions of people and vendors to the deeming regulations when they are released.”

That’s it, dude-with-a-blog. There’s your answer, right in front of your face. What part of it don’t you understand? Williams is waiting for the opportunity to get additional footage so that when the film is finished it will be, well, an actual film. Over the course of the other updates Williams gave, he explained clearly all the reasons why the film was being held up, such as family emergencies and government officials backing out of interviews. In addition, nobody could have predicted three years ago (three years before chest-thumper-with-a-blog even took his first vape) how quickly the industry would change; unfortunately, this made some of what Williams filmed unusable, through no fault of his own.

Loudmouth-with-a-blog thinks it is suspicious that so far “no footage has been released.” Since when does a director release “footage” of a film before the film is finished? Never, that’s when. And muckraker-with-a-blog thinks Williams should donate the footage to some other filmmaker, so someone else can use it to make a film. Now that’s a laugh. Why doesn't troublemaker-with-a-blog donate whatever he’s been working on for the last three years so someone else can take credit for it? Furthermore, nitpicker-with-a-blog thinks it’s odd that “No one is even talking about it anymore.” Well, duh. That’s because most people who actually donate to projects like this, instead of just bitching about it, know that projects like this take a long time to complete and there is always the very real possibility that it will never come to fruition. That's just the nature of the game. Philanthropists who donate to artists know they aren't ordering a bottle of e-juice that will arrive via vape mail in a couple of days. If those who actually gave money to this project aren't complaining about it, why is newbie-with-a-blog complaining?

Finally, blogger-with-a-blog wonders why nobody involved in the We Are Vapers project will answer any of his questions. It must be a conspiracy, right? The answer to that question is obvious. Since vaper-with-a-blog didn't actually donate any of his own money to the project, it’s simply none of his business. That’s why!

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Breaking Vaping News (2/4/15, 11:34 AM): Atomized Labs, LLC (Evolve E-Liquid) of North Carolina has been shut down by NicoPure (makers of Halo and eVo juices), due to alleged trademark infringement. The company that uses the slogan "E-liquid Evolved" is claiming that merely using the word "Evolve" violates its rights. It also appears to be claiming, at least to a certain extent, that it owns the word "vapor" as a registered trademark as well. That's nuts, right?

But when the giant stomps its foot down on the little guy, what can you do? And it seems the giant is stomping its foot down an awful lot these days; in the last month alone, NicoPure has filed three similar lawsuits and is also being accused of trademark violations itself.

Atomized Labs posted the following on the Vaping Underground Forum: "We will re-launch under another brand name; for now we have shut down all production and sales." What a bummer, especially since they worked so hard establishing their brand (check out the interview at SpinFuel). Evolve's Facebook page has been completely erased and a petition at Change.org was temporarily closed then reopened.

Jay Blazio, a spokesperson for NicoPure, admits the company has spent "millions of dollars" gobbling up trademarks. Blazio claims those who are criticizing NicoPure for picking on smaller companies are merely posting "slander on the internet." He goes on to say: "Contrary to the rumors being passed around, Nicopure Labs does not own a trademark for the individual term 'Vapor' [but] we do have other terms that include the word 'Vapor', but not that term by itself." Um, okay . . . Other terms NicoPure has trademarked include "Turkish Tobacco" and "Cafe Mocha".

Blazio has accused Evolve of "escalating the situation" by informing its customers that it was shut down due to a lawsuit. He says "I really wish they would have contacted us directly to resolve this . . ." Keep in mind, this is coming from a company that didn't even have the decency to issue a cease and desist letter before filing its lawsuit against Evolve.

Packaging doesn't look similar.

Logos are completely different.

One is called Evolve and the other eVo.

Where's the trademark infringement?

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Statement from Atomized Labs

We would like to apologize for the abrupt nature in which we reacted to the trademark infringement lawsuit that was filed against us. Since this was the first we had heard of this issue and due to the severity of the claims, we had a knee-jerk reaction to remove our online store and other advertising materials from the marketplace until we could consult with legal counsel.

Now that we’ve had a chance to weigh the options, we have taken steps to communicate with NicoPure Labs. We hope to resolve this issue with grace; even though we strongly feel that our brands do not meet the criteria for likelihood of confusion in the marketplace. No matter what the outcome; we can guarantee that there was never any intent to capitalize on the property of others.

Update: Evolve has changed it's name to INFRINGEMENT

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