Downtown Vaporium, an Electronic Cigarette hardware and e-liquid retailer located in downtown Clearwater, opened its doors in 2015 with a mission: "To transform downtown Clearwater into a smoke free zone." We hope that by educating the public on the health benefits of electronic cigarettes over tobacco cigarettes we can convince them to make the switch. We have an extremely high success rate and believe wholeheartedly in what we do.

"Ever since I turned to vaping I feel better, both physically and mentally. I am no longer haunted by the stigmata of smoking conventional cigarettes" — Downtown Vaporium customer Chris G. says, I myself was a cigarette smoker for almost 15 years and tried everything known to man to quit without any success, until I was introduced to electronic cigarettes. I can now breathe better and no longer smell like an ash tray. Electronic cigarettes not only smell good, but they also leave less waste. No more nasty cigarette butts or dirty ashes to be littered on the ground. We love downtown Clearwater and we are here to do our part to keep the area and the people healthy, and beautiful.

Recent Study Drexel University's School of Public Health published a report last summer concluding that "the exposures from using e-cigarettes fall well below the threshold for concern for compounds with known toxicity."

This report, written by Igor Burstyn, Ph.D., of Drexel's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, further claims, "There is no serious concern about the contaminants such as volatile organic compounds (formaldehyde, acrolein, etc.) in the liquid or produced by heating." The study contradicts previous findings that vaping was not a safer alternative to smoking. Burstyn writes that "the existing literature [on e-cigarettes] tends to overestimate the exposures and exaggerate their implications."

The full study can be found online at:http://publichealth.drexel.edu/SiteData/docs/ms08/f90349264250e603/ms08.pdf