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(For those of you wondering why this review is on my blog, go here.)

Once upon a time, smoking was sexy.  Seeing stars like James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Clark Gable talking around a cigarette between their lips or punctuating their words with a cloud of smoke was exotic and sensual.

But then there’s the whole downside to smoking, which I really don’t need to go into.

Now there’s vaping.

I’m going to try to explain this without sounding like a sales pitch. Vaping is basically taking liquid nicotine (mine actually has no nicotine in it, so it’s propylene glycol and vegetable glycerine), soaking cotton with it, and turning on coils in the vape to turn the liquid into vapor. That’s what you then inhale.

Many people use it to stop smoking, since the liquid nicotine is set up as a step-down system. They start with a higher level of nicotine – 24g, for example – and then work their way down to eventually 0g.

I use it because I like the flavors. It keeps the munchies at bay, to inhale chocolate chip mint flavored vapor without all the calories of ice cream (mmmmmm, ice cream…)

So, one of my review focuses will be nicotine flavors. It’s amazing how many different companies are now out there.

I’m going to be testing out vape flavors on my Hammer mechanical mod.

I don’t have much to say about the mod. I liked the shape and heft of it, I saw it on line, I bought it. The build (the set up of the wires in the chamber) was done by Stephen Pappalardo, manager of General Vape (2001 Victory Boulevard, Staten Island). It’s been a while since I had it done, so I should go back and pretty please him into doing it again for me…

So keep an eye out for my first flavor review…

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