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About a year ago, Bentley discovered e - cigarettes, which are battery-powered device that releases steam to simulate real smoking. Bentley, aaada a smoker of 30 years, experimenting with e - cigarette use for about a week, but not until he upgraded to a product with the tank system a few months later he kicked aaada the habit.
"I stopped the day I got it and I do not smoke since then," said Bentley, exhaling vaporized. "I tried to quit with the patch, gum, cold turkey. None of that ever worked, but it worked the first time."
Bentley personal success with e - cigarette motivated him to open Twickenham Vapor, one of the few stores to pop up new steam because of the explosive growth in the use of e-cigarette in Alabama and the United States. More than 30 e-cigarette stores currently operating statewide, according VaporSearchUSA.com.
The debate over the security of e-cigarette and the future of the industry continues to boom. The New York Times reported recently that the FDA will soon issue regulations on the device, which has been banned in public places in cities such as Boston and New York and states like New Jersey and Utah.
Although last year the CDC said the device "appears to have much less of toxinsfound in comparison to traditional cigarette smoke, the impact of e - cigarettes in the long-term health should be studied."
Yarbough Tod and his wife, Tammy, launched Vape On! Madison as e - cigarette is a product family "can be found on the back and feel good about selling." Since opening next Saffron aaada Indian Restaurant in May 2013, Yarbrough said the business has been steadily growing.
Yarbough, who smoked up to a pack and a half of cigarettes a day for 30 years, lay off cold turkey after the purchase of the first e - cigarette. Tammy, who quit smoking about 14 years ago when she became pregnant with a child now, also using e - cigarettes, but more like bread - inspired a sense of non - nicotine.
In fact, many of the steam store north Alabama said they banned the sale of e - cigarettes to minors. A CDC analysis in September found that approximately 10 percent of high school students aaada to try e-cigarette in 2012.
"We hold ourselves to the moral standards," said Yarbough. "I do not want my child when she was 13 years of running here and can purchase these items, so I do not sell them to other people's children."
Yarbrough said the e - cigarette usually consists of vegetable glycerin, water, food-grade flavoring, in some cases nicotine and propylene glycol, which has been smelling substances "generally recognized as safe" by the FDA and used in theatrical fog machine and use.
Business, which recently expanded to a second location aaada on Whitesburg Drive, only sell American-made e-cigarette liquid produced in a laboratory approved by the FDA. Co-owner Chris Ray said regulations on online sales and the company that produces the fluid that is needed.
Constantly fighting the stigma of being "head shops," shop owner Reynolds aaada and others say the e-cigarette education goes a long way. Some local stores sessions one-on-one or classroom to teach e-cigarette users and fans of the product.
Eco smoke shops now offer discounts to local companies that have employees who smoke. Ray said, the e-cigarette business is "one industry where you truly get what you pay for."
"This is an industry that is misunderstood," he said. "I always encourage and invite people to come and visit us because we let you on the samples, and we do not ask you to buy something." (TB / IT / YR)
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