Your first instinct when considering buying an electronic cigarette is probably to go for the cheapest you can find online. If so, then you may get some benefit from this article as trying to choose between the offers and prices online can be a confusing dilema . Here is a quick checklist you might want to consider

1. Safety

Considering you will be inhaling the ingredients, it pays to know what you are ingesting. Be advised that nearly all electronic cigarettes are manufactured in China, home of the childrens toys and milk fiasco. There are literally hundreds of manufacturers vying to supply the market, each one trying to undercut costs and compete. With no regulation of the product and the nature of the materials used (both nicotine and propylene glycol can be dangerous in high concentration and only pharmaceutical grade is safe) then independently verifiable ingredients are recommended.Only one company provides e-cig refill cartridges manufactured in an FDA registered lab. The cartridges are more expensive but still a fraction of tobacco cigarettes. – Recommended purchase at inLife LLC

2. Reliability

The other major consideration are the reliability of the rechargeable battery unit and the atomizers. E-cigs usually comprise 3 parts to the device. The Battery, the Atomizer and the cartridge containing nicotine.

Many cheap chinese cigarettes still use a manual switch mechanism which will break if you drop the device or knock it. more reliable are solid state batteries and switch mechanisms. better still use a website where you have an address and telephone number you can use for customer service. Otherwise you may end up buying up to a dozen batteries a year…which all adds up to make the cheap electronic cigarette not so cheap any more!

3. Accountability

As mentioned above, use a company where you can contact customer services locally that has accountability and where if something goes wrong with your e-cig you get an automatic replacement, no questions asked. This is new technology and sometimes it fails but this should be at the suppliers cost and not yours.

4. Recommendation

My personal recommendation is inLife. If not for the fact that they are the only company responsible enough to take steps to have their refill cartridges independently verified and manufactured in an FDA registered laboratory, they also have a great customer service department, local distributors and a ‘no questions asked’ replacement policy on the product with an extended 6 months warranty.

At $130 for a starter kit the Regal is not only state of the art in technology terms as far as e-cigs go but add to this the refill safety and you pay a little more to get get a whole lot more in terms of product satisfaction.

Editorial Note:

As a 50 a day tobacco smoker I would give personal testimony that the Regal electronic cigarette transitioned me from smoking tobacco to what I now consider a much more pleasurable smoking experience. I had never wanted to quit and haven’t…I just quit tobacco for smoking something that isn’t going to kill me. I recommend it to all my fellow smokers as a way to regain your rights to smoke where you want, without harming others ans save money to boot….

Original article posted by AMLA The Spanish Property MLS News Blog