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Clearwater Beach Vape Friendly Interactive Map of Restaurants, Shops, and Bars provided by Island Vape Shop

Local business provides visitors and locals an interactive map of vape friendly businesses on Clearweater Beach.

As part of our effort to support the vaping community, Island Vape Shop, located on Clearwater Beach, an Electronic Cigarette and E-Liquid retailer has provided an online listing of vape friendly locations as reported by the e-cig community. Vape Friendly Restaurants, Shops, and bars locations can be found at the interactive online map at www.islandvapeshop.com

We are thrilled the community has embraced our store on Clearwater Beach and we believe we can make this a very ‘vape friendly’ community by providing local individuals and businesses with the products they need to clear the air around town. Doing well here will really be a boom for the safer alternative than the harmful counterpart of tobacco cigarettes.

We plan to win over Clearwater Beach and the surrounding area by creating a sense of community with other local businesses. We urge business owners from across the area to stop by the Island Vape Shop location to pick up a “Vape Friendly” sticker that can be displayed in shop windows letting customers know e-cigs are welcomed. Island Vape Shop wants businesses to know that showing your support to local vapers is a smart move.

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What is Vaping?:

It is important to understand what “vapor” and “vaping” is — and what it isn’t. Vaping is the inhalation of a vaporized liquid through a battery-powered, handheld vaporizer that heats liquid to a gaseous state. The liquid — also called e-liquid, juice and e-juice — is typically made up of a food-grade, vegetable-­based solution mixed with flavors and nicotine; the latter two ingredients are optional. Many companies, including mine, offer nicotine-free juices, and tobacco is not used in our liquids.

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Vaping is very different from smoking. With just a few ingredients, vaping creates a water-based vapor by the same process that steam is created when boiling liquid on your stove, all without combustion.

By contrast, cigars, pipes and cigarettes all burn tobacco, creating a smoke that contains thousands of chemicals, including a large number that are known to cause cancer. The health effects of smoking tobacco have been researched extensively and have been proven unequivocally to be detrimental. The same is not true of vaping.

Relatively few scientific studies have been done to examine the effects of vaping. Of the studies conducted on this emerging industry, evidence suggests that vaping is safer than smoking cigarettes, and that it may be as safe as other nicotine replacement products such as the nicotine patch.

From my experience, I believe that vaping is a safer alternative to smoking, and that it can be an effective smoking cessation tool for many. It provides a replacement for the oral fixation many smokers have difficulty giving up, with or without the addition of nicotine replacement

While purely anecdotal, I feel better since I stopped smoking and switched to vaping. My lungs don’t hurt from the chemicals and particles I sucked in when smoking, and I no longer get breathless during physical exertion. My clothes and breath don’t stink, and my teeth have stopped yellowing. I began jogging again.

The detrimental effects of secondhand tobacco smoke are well documented, but there is no similar evidence currently to suggest that “secondhand vapor” should be cause for concern. Research conducted by Dr. Igor Burstyn of the Drexel University School of Public Health, based on more than 9,000 observations of e-cigarette liquid and vapor, found “no apparent concern” for bystanders exposed to e-cigarette vapor, even under “worst case” assumptions about exposure.

About Island Vape Shop

Owned by Andrew Nawoichik, he started selling E-Cigs in November 2012 as an online retailer. Headquartered on Clearwater Beach, the company boasts an online store and now a brick and mortar location offering a wide range of electronic cigarette hardware, e-liquids and accessories.

You can celebrate with Island Vape Shop in April when we they planning a Vape Meet-up at their Clearwater Beach location. For more information about Island Vape Shop’s plans for the coming years or to learn more about the products they sell, visit their website at www.IslandVapeShop.com, or go to their new location at 61 Baymont Street (next to Frenchy’s Cafe), Clearwater Beach, FL 33767. You can reach them by calling (727) 754-9751

To contact Andrew Nawoichik for additional information or comments, please call him at 727-342-0575, or email him at islandvapeshop@gmail.com

Island Vape Shop offers a large selection of personal vaporizers, e-Liquids,  and accessories for both the novice and experienced user.  We specialize in educating the beginner on the various electronic cigarette devices and pride ourselves on offering our customers a money-back guarantee.  


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