The Spanish government has failed to take the initiative once again and legislate for a total ban on smoking in public places. It now seems that the total ban has had a stay of execution. The reasons for the possible delay may just be political and of course it could just be another example of Spanish procrastination.

Governments that bring in legislation, as this government did in 2005 and then back tracks when voices of dissention are heard, starts to lose credibility with the general public. They have made ammendments to the 2005 act and now these may not reach Congress until the holiday season starts. It is now rumoured that the law will not be implemented until 2011, at least for bars and restaurants.

Cynics will say that the reasons for the delay are far more political expediency. There is a Spanish election coming up in the next 12 months and maybe the PSOE are seeing a loss of the “smoker´s vote “. There is also pressure from the tobacco industry and the service industries to delay for fear of job losses.

The service industries are also fearing the increase in IVA and together with a ban on smoking they feel that it will end all chances of a revival in their economy.What they don´t take into account is the fact that with a smoking ban in place they may actually increase their revenue as smokers keep a large number of non-smokers out of these facilities. This is a very confusing situation for everyone and the government needs to address it very quickly. Passive smoking for those who work in bars, restaurants and cafes is not a good thing.

As with most things in life, ingenuity usually overcomes adversity and there is a window of opportunity available for individuals with an entrpreneurial flair with a business opportunity to build a residual income from the growing electronic cigarette industry.

Electronic cigarettes are seen as a logical alternative to tobacco especially in countries such as the US and UK where bans have been in place for some time. A US company, inLife is currently expanding rapidly across the UK and has plans to open in Spain in the coming months.

The company which uses Network marketing to distribute its electronic cigarettes and new inFocus energy drink allows individuals to leverage a large residual income in a market woth 20 billion Euros a year.

Those who see the potential for positioning themselves ahead of the paradigm shift in social behaviour in Spain should contact Regional Director (Europe) Neil Ebsworth at e-mail neil@myinlife.co.uk or visit www.myinlife.es

It has been a long road travelled to reach what many would have said was straight-forward logic, but the UK government department, MHRA, is finally starting to admit the potential benefit that electronic cigarettes or e-cigs may have in reducing the numbers of people smoking tobacco.

Even at this point though, they are still wavering to sucumb to drug company pressures to classify the new technology as a medicine. The same drug company lobby that has effectively been ripping off smokers with NRT treatments like patches and gum that have been shown to be expensive and completely ineffective in helping people stop smoking. (The effectiveness of these NRT treatments has been gauged at 4-5%, a level lower than that of the human will to stop smoking on your own with no aids, which was measured at 10%!)

The race is on in a lucrative market, (Tabacco sales amounted to over 12.6 billion pounds (2007) and amongst the myriad of companies currently selling electric cigarettes in the UK, there is only one company, inLife LLC , who manufacture refills in any sort of controlled enviroment.

The fact that chinese manufactured cigarettes have flooded the market with a lack of labelling has raised concerns over what the cartridges from China may contain. Recent scares with Chinese milk and lead in toys meant that a product such as electronic cigarettes must have some sort of regulation to stop a similar catastrophe.

inLife, whose Marquee electronic cigarette uses refills manufactured in an FDA registered laboratory seem to lead the way to the future of the industry and their launch in the UK at the beginning of the year is seen as a stepping stone to wider expansion across Europe.

In any event, now that governments are beginning to see past the mis-information put forward by Tobacco and drug company fronts like ASH the acceptance of the e-cig as a logical alternative to smoking tobacco may start to see the use of the devices becoming more widespread

Original Post AMLASpain – The Spanish News Blog

Inlife, the electronic cigarette network marketing company annouced it was open for business in the republic of Ireland this week, on the heels of  its launch in the UK.

The company which supplies the only e-cig with refills manufactured in an FDA registered lab and attached to a business opportunity that allows individuals to build a business with very little investment is rapidly expanding its exposure across the Euro continent as well as the USA as it moves into its second year of trading.

In the US, the company also markets Inlife Journey coffee, a gourmet coffee to rival the best coffee in the world combined with a flavorless infusion of Acai & goji berry antioxidants.

If you are a smoker, a coffee drinker or just simply an entrpreneur that can see the immensity of the markets involved and would like to join the founding team in Europe with Inlife then just drop us a line and we will send you a link for our live, online presentation that we hold twice weekly on monday and Thursdays in both the USA, (7.30p.m. EST) and the UK, (8.00p.m.  UK time)

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Q. What was your smoking habit before the electronic cigarette?

I started smoking when I was about eighteen. I put it down to pier pressure, a new school, trying to fit in etc. Since I started I gradually increased the amount I smoked until I was on about 50 a day.

Q.  So how did you come across the electronic cigarette and…tell us what happened.

Well it was my wife who first discovered it. She was introduced to it by a neighbor who had heard that she was going in for dental surgery. It was fascinating…. but my initial reaction was that it wouldn’t replace my tobacco cigarettes but could come in handy when we were out, in a bar or restaurant. So I really tried it for that purpose.

Q. So What Changed?

Well, we were moving into a condo at the time…where you couldn’t smoke…well you had to go out onto this tiny balcony. It was a pain and when it rained etc..you get the picture.

So I started using the electronic cigarette more and more and soon, after about three days I started to enjoy it more than the tobacco. In fact I can honestly say that after three days smoking my Regal I started to wonder why I ever smoked tobacco. It was like smoking the ‘uncut’ stuff! It was cleaner, smoother…just totally more enjoyable.

You know about two months down the road we had returned to Spain and I ran out of cartridges and had to buy a pack of cigarettes…wow…who would have thought..it was like sticking my tongue in the ashtray.. I guess you de-sensitize to all the crud in a cigarette over time so you just dont taste it..that’s probably why it took a couple of days to get used to the taste of the electronic cig. It takes that amount of time just to get ride of the build up in your mouth of the tobacco crud.

“After three days smoking my Regal, I wondered why I ever smoked tobacco. It’s like smoking the ‘uncut’ stuff’!, cleaner, smoother….wow!”

Q. So it wasn’t the health issues that made you change?

No, but of course they are a consideration..you know…every smoker knows..knows that its killing them slowly. But it doesn’t make us quit.  So to say I moved to electronic because of self interest would be a half  lie. At the back of my brain was something telling me…hoping that this would be easy to do…that it would get me off tobacco…which would save my life. Lets be clear here though. I understand that there are no health benefits to an electronic cigarette. The benefit is allowing me to continue to smoke and feed both the addiction to nicotine and the habit of smoking, which i enjoy…without having to use tobacco as the delivery system…that’s the benefit.

I honestly didn’t think it would be possible…but it works…worked. I look forward to my e-cig with my first cup of tea in the morning. I get it out at the table after dinner…even at my parents! something i would never have done with a cigarette.

Q. What about the press reports and the recent court case with the FDA that say it is unsafe?

Look, I am an intelligent guy. I did my homework. I read the studies and the FDA report and put all the facts together before I started. It is one of the reasons I got involved with Inlife LLC. They are the only company that manufactures cartridge refills in an FDA registered lab. That means that the ingredients are independently verified so you know exactly what you are smoking. The rest of the cheap chinese copycats out there online need to either get on board with verification or be taken out of the market. There is no point in moving from one thing that will kill you to smoking something else that you later find out has god know what in it. I remember the chinese milk and the toy thing that happened in China…everyone does. But what I am smoking now..that is verified independently…it  has no known cancer causing agents in it…..for me its got to be the single most important breakthrough in public health that has occurred since….innoculation.

Of course you are fighting the two biggest lobby groups probably on the planet…the drug companies that make millions from patches and gum that are only 4% effective…not surprising that they are worried. i mean, something comes along that actually works…where do think there profits are going? yea, right down the toilet with their gum!

You know what I would like to see. i would like to see Obama get involved and stand up if he is the man we thought we all voted for and say…I am not going to let the lobbyists win this fight…c’mon, its will have a bigger saving than anything put forward in the health bill. It will save more lives in terms of harm reduction than any patch, gum or TV advert will ever achieve. I know it needs some regulation but a lot of that regulation is in place in terms of verification already…if inlife can do it…make anyone who wants to sell them do it as well.

We already have Congressmen & Senators using them. This is one fight that needs to be won on the facts and not the interests of the drug & tobacco companies.

Q. You feel strongly about the issue?

Yes i do. So much that I got involved with company that is doing most to get the message out to the people that need it.

We smokers are a funny breed.  We hate being told what’s good for us.  We will back ourselves into a corner and fight like a wildcat. I think it comes from being lectured to,  by everyone down to our own parents about ‘what you are doing to yourself’.

I am just hoping that as a smoker, through and through, I can get the message across to other smokers that this is a great thing. It is better than smoking tobacco…as I said…cleaner, smoother..just more enjoyable….and dont forget cheaper as well!….. and you dont have to give up any of the things you love about smoking to stop smoking the brand that kills you…i.e. tobacco.

Thats good, I like that…just change from the brand that kills you to a brand that wont! I might use that in a banner!

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This is an interview transcipt with Neil Ebsworth, a smoker of tobacco for 27 years. You can contact him on

E-Mail: neil@myinlife.co.uk

Tel: 00 34 96 649 2327 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 00 34 96 5748930 or 670250110 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Skype: inlifespain

inLife electronic cigarettes products have not been certified by the Food and Drug Administration or the Office of the Surgeon General to be used for smoking cessation purposes. To purchase inLife products or sign up a distributor, you must be the legal age of smoking in your state or older

The Inlife smoking devices are not FDA approved cessation devices for stopping smoking and it should be noted that Inlife make no claims, statements or innuendos that their products can be used to quit smoking nor do they make any statements or innuendos that their products diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, mitigate or offer any therapeutic value