Tuesday 21 May 2013

E-Cigs Becoming Cool? Trendy? ... Profitable?

I don't know who Jodie Marsh is, but the video below says she is a model, so does that make her glamorous?

Whether the answer is yes or no, she certainly knows her stuff on e-cigs, by crikey!



The reason I ask is that e-cigs have attracted some stellar afficionados.

Hollywood stars like Stephen Dorff and Johnny Depp have embraced them, following on from Katherine Heigl on the Letterman show, no less (please feel free to add others I might have missed). And now, Jodie Marsh, the most informed and eloquent celebrity so far on the subject of vaping in my opinion.

Early articles on e-cigs portrayed them as uncool or even embarrassing to be seen using. Yet in the past few days detractors have described them in entirely different terms. A Sydney Morning Herald sneerer said they were "trendy", whilst a Daily Mail hack reported that they are "the latest craze" (by the way, do go read the Mail article as its 'information' is an exhibition of utter shite from start to finish, as I remarked on Twitter). 

I'm sure this adulation of e-cigs will all come as a terrible kick in the guts to a certain closed-minded blowhard we all know.


Of course, if he weren't such an old dog incapable of learning new tricks, he might be sensing an opportunity with all this 'trendy' celebrity-glittered publicity. You know, rather like a proper businessman would do.

Bannatyne once said that ...
“One of the hardest lessons I've learned along the way was that the advice you don’t want to hear is probably the advice you should listen to the most”
This would appear to be precisely one of those occasions.

E-cigs as trendy, a craze, and attracting positive attention from celebrities, politicians and astute businessmen? With all that in their favour, what businessman could possibly be stupid enough to not be able to spot massive profit potential in the e-cig revolution?

UPDATE: Thanks to Rursus in the comments who provides an update of Bannatyne's deep comitment to health.



12 comments:

Rursus said...

Duncan Bannatyne does not dispise them anymore...

Actually, he hates them:

@lord_sugar What is the big thing about efags? Personaly I hate them!— Duncan Bannatyne (@DuncanBannatyne) 17. Mai 2013

Dick_Puddlecote said...

Ah, thank you for the clarification - post duly updated. ;)

Jeff Wood said...

I fail to see how this fellow Bannatyne can hate electronic cigarettes: I seriously doubt if he has ever tried them. No doubt the dishonest motives mentioned here many times account for it.



I mentioned a few posts ago that they are becoming popular here in Italy, and even in the week or two since they have become more widespread, at least to my eye.

Dick_Puddlecote said...

It's nothing but dinosaur anti-smoking 'quit or die' mentality. With a touch of smug ex-smoker self-adoration thrown in for good measure.


Basically, he's a twat (and not at all interested in the health of smokers despite his claims).

Tony said...

Bannatyne is slowly learning that peeps are going off of his filthy sweat riddled second hand poser gyms, he might do well to get on the e-cig bandwagon like Suger is about to do.

theprog said...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2324165/Dragons-Den-star-Duncan-Bannatyne-sees-430m-health-club-fortune-vanish-Rich-List-company-faces-debts-122m.html

BrianB said...

Oh god, no!

Not the Amstrad e-cig, please!

JonathanBagley said...

Jodie Marsh is a widely despised pneumatic former celebrity. However, as she demonstrated here and in other interviews on various topics, she is a lot more intelligent, analytical and better informed than most of her detractors. Well done Jodie. That was brilliant. All the important points very clearly explained.

JonathanBagley said...

Duncan's spelling isn't the best. I always assumed Twitter had a spell check. This was because Wayne Rooney's tweets never contained any spelling (or grammatical) mistakes. It obviously doesn't, so a big up to Wayne - unless Colleen corrects them.

JonathanBagley said...

I go to one of Duncan's gyms. It's actually pretty well run and not filthy. Not much posing goes on either. Moreover, vaping is permitted in the lounge. By that, I mean my vaping while reading the paper has attracted no comments from the staff. He doesn't hate them enough to ban them - yet.

JonathanBagley said...

An ecig built into a phone so you can vape while talking. (Reference to the ill-fated Amstrad emailer, for younger readers)
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/amstrad-emailer.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/07/02/with-regret-sir-alan-youre-fired/&h=351&w=433&sz=79&tbnid=KOAx9tP2sa16TM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=111&zoom=1&usg=__yKJZ1c2jdS9FET-SLuMronLEOZY=&docid=N546FoaTdF3-RM&sa=X&ei=nb-cUavMHsLb7Ab78oGQCg&ved=0CEkQ9QEwBg&dur=2280

wrinkledweasel said...

I would love to try e cigs or whatever they are but am too embarrassed to ask for them. I ended up last time in a queue of old women and had to buy Johnnies instead.

But seriously, I have tried (in no particular order) roll-ups, pipes, snuff, chewing gum and sniffing old cardigans. Sadly I appear to be allergic to nicotine.