A week later my overseas order arrived and I was ready to go. That was nearly five weeks ago. I haven't smoked a single cigarette since. I haven't had the urge or the need to smoke a single cigarette since. I started on the recommended nicotine level for my cigarette intake (18mg) but am already down to 12mg and doing okay. I've converted about a dozen smokers at work to these PVs (personal vaporisers) and all but one have had the same success as me. The 'unsuccessful' one has cut her daily smokes from 30 to 5 so far...
And then, last week, this happened:
Brilliant! So the WA Health Department are banning these items outright and are doing so backed by the Cancer Council no less... A Council who are citing a lack of research as the reason for their opposition to PVs... A Council who a right minded person might expect to be falling over themselves to get the research done in the hope of cutting incidences of cancer caused by smoking.E-cigarette sales in WA stubbed out
The West Australian
Tim Clarke The West Australian April 15, 2014, 5:39 am
Selling electronic cigarettes has effectively been banned in WA after the Supreme Court ruled the products were designed to look like the real thing - breaching State tobacco control laws.
Last year, the WA Health Department brought a test case against a Duncraig company selling e-cigarettes online, under the banner Heavenly Vapours.
The battery-powered devices do not burn tobacco but turn nicotine or fruit flavours into vapour which is inhaled and exhaled.
It is illegal under Australian law to sell e-cigarettes containing nicotine.
But the department prosecution argued it was also illegal to sell e-cigarettes containing no nicotine, because the law prohibits the sale of any food, toy or other product which is designed to resemble a cigarette or cigar.
A magistrate originally ruled there was not enough evidence to prove the two types of e-cigarettes sold looked like real cigarettes.
But after an appeal from WA health bosses, Supreme Court Justice Janine Pritchard ruled selling e-cigarettes in WA should result in a trader being prosecuted.
"Evidence supported the conclusion that the items were used for inhaling vapour (whether or not containing nicotine) through the mouth, which was exhaled in a manner reminiscent of the smoke from a cigarette," Justice Pritchard said.
Vince Van Heerden, owner of Heavenly Vapours, has begun an appeal to "crowdfund" the $50,000 he says he needs to continue his legal battle, saying the case has ruined him financially.
Australian Council on Smoking and Health president Mike Daube said the judgment was an important step in the continuing battle against smoking.
Last year, the Cancer Council of WA called for the promotion, sale and use of e-cigarettes to be banned, arguing they could become starter products for children and ex-smokers.
Mr Van Heerden is due to be sentenced next month.
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It's only a matter of time before this lunacy spreads across the rest of the country, possession itself is banned and many ex-smokers find themselves presented with the choice of becoming a criminal, going back to their ineffective 'approved' Big Pharma quit aids or heading out to the supermarket to buy a pack of perfectly legal cancer bullets.
BTW, the Cancer Council actively promote the Nicorette inhaler device in WA. A device which has the same hand-to-mouth movement and vapour exhalation that they are concerned about (not to mention about half a dozen chemicals not present in PV liquid). The cynic in me might suggest that they are not promoting this purely out of the goodness of their hearts...
I belong to a very active vaping forum and with their help and from researching myself I very quickly went from a basic starter kit through to the vv set up and protanks I use at the moment. I did a quick tally of my e-iquids last month just out of curiosity and at that time I had 340mls of juice at 18mg or 12mg in 19 different flavors to choose from (none of them tobacco) without checking this morning that has probably risen to somewhere around 25 flavours and over 400ml but the strength of any new purchases is dropping to 12mg. I vape several flavours during the day I always have 3 different devices and tanks set up with 3 different flavours, a very strong mint, a blow your head off menthol to which I add black cherry or strawberry, and the third either something fruity or sweet or aniseedy and I use a dripper for when I just fancy trying lots of different dessert flavours. 
though I am on Armageddon watch so the instant it appears likely that they'll bring in any legislation restricting juices I'll be buying gallons of nic base which will be the only ingredient they can possibly restrict and mixing my own. 
