I didn’t really mean to quit smoking this time around, I bought an electronic cigarette– tried it, liked it, tried an “analog” smoke at the end of the day and decided that combusting tobacco products are so back then.

Which means now I’m vaping (using vapor instead of cigarette smoke to get my fix.) Before I get any lectures about replacing one deadly habit with another, check this out. According to the documents (and spiffy powerpoint presentations) linked its far safer than combustion cigarettes.

Toxic emissions scores for the Ruyan brand of e-cigarettes tested compared to tobacco cigarette brands such as Marlboro revealed what most e-cigarette consumers already knew: tobacco cigarettes emit over 100 times more toxic chemicals than e-cigarettes do. From a list of more than 70 of toxic substances found in tobacco cigarette smoke, 0 of those toxicants were found in e-cigarette emissions.

Nicotine levels per puff were also analyzed: e-cigarette mist contains significantly less nicotine than tobacco cigarette smoke. Only 10% of the nicotine found in a normal puff from a tobacco cigarette was found in e-cigarette mist.

And beside, it plugs into my USB– anything that plugs into my USB is good (that’s not a hard and fast rule, it’s really a guideline.)

So I’ve been kind of busy around the house, because now I’m noticing all sorts of new smells and I had to spend several days with mop and bucket of vinegar water and soap and lots of elbow grease eliminating those smells. The irony being, of course, that I have never smoked inside my house– so those smells are old house smells, pet, and fireplace smoke smells.

Oh so charming. I must have good friends because no one ever acted put off before, and I was completely unaware.

Either that or my friends have no sense of smell.