Marketing smokeless cigarettes online for enjoying electronic smoking has great appeal for particular audiences along with many restrictions.
Search engines and article directories consider electronic cigarettes a tobacco product. The FDA considers them a drug dispensing product. The major search engines consider electronic cigarettes a tobacco product even though they do not contain any tobacco. They do contain nicotine. Nicotine is a naturally occurring chemical in the tobacco plant. However, it can also be manufactured from a petroleum derivative.
The major search engines do not allow you to purchase advertising for smokeless cigarettes. You may be able to slip an advertisement in the paid listings for a short period if you spell cigarettes in some unique variations so it does not trigger automatic alerts and attract human scrutiny.
You can still write articles mentioning electronic smoking and appear in the organic listings if you can find an article directory that will accept the articles. There are many more article directories than search engines so they can not monopolize content as rigorously.
The best way to find an article directory that will accept electronic cigarette articles is to do a Google search with the statement: "electronic cigarette" site:directoryname.com. Also add the option of last year searches as many have recently quit accepting ecig articles.
The FDA considers smokeless cigarettes a drug dispensing device. Yes, they do dispense nicotine. However you can order them without nicotine. I suppose they are like non-alcoholic beer. Without the alcohol, they just do not have the same appeal.
The reality is the addictive nature of nicotine hooks the electronic smoking users on purchasing cartomizers instead of tobacco cigarettes. Of course, they can purchase brands having refillable cartridges. Now they have to obtain syringes and bottles of chemicals to refill their vapor cigarette cartridges creating the image of drug addicts. In some states it is illegal to possess syringes without a drug subscription and you can be arrested for possessing drug paraphernalia.
Some brands are designed to look like tobacco cigarettes like Green Smoke, Smoke 51 and E Smoke. Other brands are colored to differentiate them from real cigarettes like Blu Cig. Some brands like Green Smoke and Blu Cig have their own affiliate programs. Others have programs part of affiliate networks.
The FDA claims the vapor cigarette is not a proven stop smoking device. The upstart vapor cigarette companies do not have the resources to do extensive testing like the large and established tobacco and pharmaceutical companies. Also they do not have large numbers of lobbyists and officials in the governmental regulatory agencies.
