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Meet the man who changed the landscape of the vaping industry by employing strategies from Apple and Vertu.

the propaganda of success Find out how this man built an empire by spreading his propaganda of street hustle and vape lifestyle.

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clear sailing for a cosmic fog

With a backpack and $60 to his name, find out how this former marketing executive cast a cloud of success over the vape industry.

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When Flavor & Art collide.

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a touch of glas

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The Cosmic Fog Hall - Hall #4 The Lost Art Hall - Hall #6 The Vapor DNA Hall - Hall #7 The 3D Vapor Hall - Hall #9

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CONTENTS

7 FOREWORD

12 SPACE JAM JUICE

8 INTRODUCTION

18 THE VAPE BANK: BANK CARD USA 24 THE PROPAGANDA OF SUCCESS 30 A TOUCH OF GLAS 36 CLEAR SAILING FOR A COSMIC FOG 42 2015 ECC VENDOR DIRECTORY

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1 CONVENTION LAYOUT 10 HOMETOWN HEROES

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of US smokers will quit this year.

(http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/mmwrs/byyear/2011/mm6044a2/intro.htm)

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Vinh Nguyen CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER VINH@ECC-EXPO.COM

Steve Mac

Do we tell the other

43 million

to just keep smoking?

CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER STEVEMAC@ECC-EXPO.COM

Dulce Mac CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER DULCE@ECC-EXPO.COM

CJ Catchillar CO-FOUNDER & PARTNER CJ@ECC-EXPO.COM

Lino Geaga PARTNER LINO@ECC-EXPO.COM

Grace Geaga PARTNER GRACE@ECC-EXPO.COM

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F O R T O KE W E L L

Richard Coyle PRESIDENT

Ryan Furuya CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Cindy Galindo SVP OPERATIONS

Yvonne Morton DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

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We at Tokewell are blessed and honored to be part of such an amazing event such as ECC. As industry leaders, ECC has always been at the forefront of the vaping movement as well being the architects of this must-attend show for years.

Their advocacy and passion for this industry has never wavered and is second to none. We released our first issue of Tokewell Magazine at ECC last year to critical acclaim and skepticism.

Fast forward to almost an entire year, we are now part of this amazing collective as the official s how guide producers.

Like Tokewell Magazine, we aim to bring you the best editorial and visual content. We hope you enjoy our efforts.

ECC is back for the third year in a row, and our 2015 event will be bigger and better. Our 2015 Premier Sponsor is Cosmic Fog Vapors, creators of world-famous e-liquid such as Milk & Honey. We have four exhibit halls to display hundreds of the industry’s leading brands from around the globe. This year we have expanded our B2B (business to business) sessions for entrepreneurs to 2 full days beginning on Thursday. Saturday and Sunday are devoted to vapers so that they can visit the booths of hundreds of ECC exhibitors and have the time of their life. In addition to the expo, ECC provides cuttingedge education from the industry’s leading advocacy organizations. Since 2012 ECC has been highly active in advocacy, and one of our primary goals has always been to get more vapers and

businesses involved. Multiple advocacy groups from across the United States will be educating consumers and vendors on the issues at hand.

ECC has organized a gala for SFATA to increase awareness and increase involvement in our fight for our right to vape.

The ECC team strives to make your xperience more interactive and fun, so we offer this Show Guide (published by Tokewell) as well as a free mobile app.

This guide also serves as a memoir of your experience here at ECC 2015. We hope you enjoy “the Hometown Heroes” series of articles in this Show Guide that feature engaging interviews from some of SoCal’s finest success stories. So browse through these pages, have a vape, and get ready - because you are at the biggest, most anticipated vape event of the year.

CJ “VAPING MONKEY” CATCHILLAR CO-FOUNDER AND PARTNER

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Third Time’s a Charm

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INTRODUCTION

the Truth is Never Simple WORDS CJ

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CATCHILLAR, OWNER VAPING MONKEY

Six years. It’s been six years since my last cigarette and all my gratitude is reflected in my passion and business: Vaping. This is a fast-growing industry where both manufacturers and consumers are having difficulty keeping up. Since 2010, as a reviewer and mixologist, the innovation and progression is the fastest I have ever witnessed in any industry. Not only does that apply to the evolving technology, but the development of a flavor vape enthusiast would use with his device: e-liquid.

E-liquid is the product in the e-cigarette industry that may or may not contain Nicotine and what produces the flavor and vapor when an e-cigarette is triggered. It’s the perfect marriage of flavors, Vegetable Glycerin, Propylene Glycol and sometimes Nicotine. To a mixologist, it’s a formula just

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like how a recipe is to a chef, and that formula determines whether the e-liquid succeeds or fails in the vaping industry.

With the innovation of our industry comes more formulas and flavors to choose from. With progress comes research and with research comes good news or bad news. The good news is that there are new successful flavors. The bad news is what some contain, chemicals such as Diacetyl, Acetyl Propionyl and Acetoin. These components are potentially harmful when combusted.

Without proper research or lab testing, these components are unseen to the mixologist’s eye. I for one can be guilty of that.

Back in 2012, I created an e-liquid called Monkey Cream. A flavor that I made for myself because I couldn’t find an e-liquid that would satisfy my palate. Local vapers

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ent resources, my flavors have gone through multiple lab testing to assure the consumer what components are in it. 11 of 14 resulted in Diacetyl and Acetyl Propionyl being nondetectable. Monkey Cream and three others have been reformulated to contain the lowest trace amount of Diacetyl possible to retain the flavor. But just like over-the-counter medicines to the toothpaste you use, we place the warning on the bottle as well as on our website to give the consumer the freedom of choice whether to vape it or not. Basically what I’m getting at is, with this fast growing industry–especially in the e-liquid criteria,–do the research and be open about it. The truth may not be as simple to express after the hard work you put into your creation and coming to find out that there might be harmful components. Being an open-book and showing the community what steps are being made will help us all as an industry grow together.

As a consumer, express your concerns and reach out to companies if there are matters or issues that worry you. If they comply, there’s no need to bury them to the ground.

Trust me, there are way bigger enemies we have to fight as a community and our duty to inform the public that e-cigarettes are a better alternative. We all know that truth is just as difficult to express and never simple.

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started liking it and I couldn’t keep up with demand. It was a hit! The buzz reached all the way to multiple e-cig forums (keep in mind, 2012 rarely had any vape shops, mainly online or forums.) I was in awe that a formula I created garnered so much attention from vapers. Then came the bad news, it contained Diacetyl: a component that gives a flavor it’s “buttery or custard-like” flavor.

When consumed, it’s harmless. But when it’s combusted, it can be potentially harmful. I was terrified. “How can this be happening?

Diacetyl? How can I answer to this when I’m just as unaware of this?”

Thankfully, I had friends in the e-cig community I was able to reach out to for advice: The Vape Team, advice from Dimitris and Jamie; Flavourart, a flavor company in Italy where they sent alternative flavors; and Anthony from Juicy Vapor, who offered help to reformulate the flavor. With all this help, I kept the community updated. On ECF, I told them there is Diacetyl and what are the steps I’m taking to resolve this. The truth wasn’t that simple, but to empathize with the common vaper, I too would be curious how the company is taking action.

Since then, my e-liquid line grew from 1 to 14 flavors. Making new friends in the e-cig community and now more access to differ-

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HOMETOWN HEROES: Space Jam Juice

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Founded in 2012, Space Jam Juice has become a staple within the e-liquid industry. Launched by Aaron Pederson and Mike Crawford, the company has quickly risen in status among vaping elite, thanks to their wide variety of blends and flavors. Co-founder Aaron Pederson credits his own initial lifestyle as his motivation behind the company. “I smoked a pack (of cigarettes) a day until I discovered vaping,” explains the young entrepreneur.

“I quit smoking over the better part of one weekend and haven’t gone back to it since.” Using his own lifestyle change and initial culinary aspirations as fuel, Aaron and Mike have gone on to create a company that is not only succeeding, it is at the forefront of vaping industry standards and practices.

The duo have been extremely active in pro-vaping efforts with the Food and Drug Administration and other government entities in order to promote conscious regulation and product quality control. In just a few short years, the pair have been witness to the steady rise of the industry and vast change in product technology, and they vow never to lose their own virtues of innovation and dedication as their company’s journey continues.

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How did the company get started?

Growing up in Seattle, I had always wanted to be a chef, but that dream changed and I ended up moving to So Cal when I was 20.

I was working in a restaurant and wasn’t super stoked about where I was in life. I had a friend who lived in the apartment complex I lived in and one day, I saw him vaping. He explained what it was and I was curious since I was a heavy cigarette smoker at the time.

He was also making his own flavors, which intrigued me even more because of my culinary background. I started messing around and came up with some flavors I liked, and my friend Mike Crawford drove me to some shops to see what they thought of them since I didn’t have a car. Vape Rev ended up wanting to do a whole order of my product and Mike and I realized we might be onto something. Deciding to become a partnership, we

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made and packed the order ourselves with DIY supplies and shipped the order. We got a $550 loan from Mike’s Dad to pay for the initial supplies, and we had paid it back, with interest, within seven days. We’ve never need a cash infusion since.

Where did the name come from?

I was always into space stuff. I wanted to incorporate it somehow. Mike, who is one of the co-founders with me, plays guitar and I play drums. We had made the liquid and we were trying to come up with a name for it. We had “Space Juice” and we were playing music one day and I made a joke that we were “Space Jamming” and the name just stuck.

It’s funny because we just lived in the same apartment complex and wanted to check out vaping to kick our cig habit and now we have a legitimate business. We never saw this hap-

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Your company is known for being active in legislation and unifying the industry. What sparked you guys to want to participate in those efforts?

After about a year of fast success, we realized the responsibility and leadership potential we had. We joined the Smoke Free Alternatives Trade Association (SFATA), we supported The American Vaping Association, Americans for Tax Reform, and I’ve gotten much more involved with SFATA, in par-

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ticular. I went to their conference in Chicago and they organized a meeting of the biggest e-liquid manufacturers who attended.

We sat down in the room and Mitch Zeller cautioned us on responsible marketing. We ended up creating a Statement of Principles on responsible e-liquid manufacturing in regards to childproof packaging, warning labels, etc. We all signed it and presented it to the FDA in a private meeting and got their feedback on it. Basically, we got a nod of silent approval; they were very impressed with our proactivity. We built a website for it and started disseminating it through the industry and we already have about 250 plus signatures from companies who are committed to responsible marketing and manufacturing. It’s a good starting point and we will continue to amend it and grow until it can be considered a self-regulating set of principles

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pening at all. We officially launched in 2012, and when we went to ECC in 2013 it really sky rocketed. Vape Rev really helped us get our name out there initially and Local Vape had the national distribution. We wouldn’t be who we are without their initial help, but we have been distributing our own product since late 2013. It’s a process of growth.

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for the industry. In many cases, manufacturers aren’t intentionally marketing themselves that way, and this helps them to realize that they need to be responsible. Its called vapefreeyouth.com, by the way. Check it out!

Did that conference change your business in any way?

Yes, we completely rebranded Space Jam Juice at ECC last year. We made a whole new logo and color scheme, switched up our marketing and everything and totally unveiled it at ECC. It was pretty cool way to release it and this all came through our change in going from a small start up company to a responsible corporation intent on serving the public in a positive way. We added child resistant caps, we implemented tamper

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evident seals, batch coding, we’re producing at an ISO and GMP-certified facility, and we changed our logo to be much more adult-oriented. We’re constantly working on improving our manufacturing and creating products that consumers can trust.

What’s the end goal for Space Jam Juice?

Our mission is to turn every smoker in the world into a vaper–in the interest of public health! Between our sales and marketing team, the brand is doing well at the consumer level, so we are focused more on the regulatory level in ensuring that the industry stays alive, it’s regulated fairly, the consumers remain educated, and we can promote and keep a positive public attitude towards vaping.

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he success of any industry depends solely on the passion behind it. The names of the creators are often known on a first name basis but the facilitators are a different story. You probably know the name “Steven Spielberg,” the director behind screen gems like “Titanic” and “Jurassic Park,” but do you know the names of the film distribution heads that made it possible for those movies to be shown in your local theatre and kick back money to the studio companies for profit? Most likely not. That analogy may or may not be perfect, but enter, Chris Jimenez, Director of Business for Bank Card USA, and the vape industry’s equivalent. Through his own passion for vaping, business and marketing background, and entrepreneurial eCommerce experience in the vape industry, Chris and Bank Card USA have helped to open the doors for vape companies by establishing bank direct rates for credit card transactions. While other banks were gouging vape and e-liquid companies for ridiculous rates, Chris convinced Bank Card USA that the industry was a stable and viable community that was more than worth sticking up for. Read up to see how he did it, and what Chris’ work means to vape retailers and merchants worldwide.

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HOMETOWN HEROES: Bank Card USA

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How did you come to form a relationship with Bank Card USA? I come from a marketing and advertising background, and in my 20s I had my own distributor in the promotional product industry.

One of my biggest clients 20 years ago was Bank Card USA, so I’ve had a good history with them. They did business in the right way, specialized in emerging markets and I always gravitated to them. Shortly under 10 years ago, the agency I owned and operated was greatly affected by the changes in the mortgage and financial industry. I had made quite a shift in my career and ended up working for them for a short time until I could regroup. I had grown up in the entrepreneurial world, and to this day, the only time I’ve every worked for anyone was Bank Card USA. After you regrouped, what was your next move?

Sitting in a cubicle isn’t my thing, so I ended up getting back into the marketing agency work within online digital markets. I’m a vape guy, I’m a big enthusiast, I’ve got multiple mods, and tanks, and I love the

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juices, so four or five years ago, I found myself starting a company and serviced new upstart vape and e-cig companies. It intrigued me. We built a couple websites for people and I ended up developing my own eCommerce site for vape products called ecigavenue.com.

So you were pretty well versed in the vape community’s technology and practices?

I didn’t know a damn thing about it. I was one of the original guys that attended the first ECC show. I was an enthusiast, but I also had an online store, so I was going to meet more people, find new products, find more sources, inventory, hardware, juice lines, everything.

We all got kicked out of the Anaheim convention center because the smoke alarm went off. It was just crazy. I met a number of really cool people and I met a few who were also very good business people and I gravitated to them, as I was an experienced businessman myself. I met a couple key contacts at that original show, and I wanted to do business with them.

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How were you able to go about trying to resolve this issue?

Since I had the preexisting relationship with Bank Card USA, I was able to sit down with the company president about the rates. He explained the conservative mindset that the banks were coming from, as the saw that vaping was an unregulated tobacco industry, and there was the potential for minors being involved with harmful products and the banks didn’t want to run the risk of financial

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exorbitant rates on our transactions that were killing our profit margins.

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What was the biggest thing you learned from your experience in the market?

Thanks to my online store, I found out that the rates for processing credit cards for online purchases were astronomical. It had nothing to do with my credit or my business’ credit; the banks were claiming it was seriously high risk. It was an industry they didn’t understand, and in a very nice way, it was their way of saying “We don’t want to do business with you.” Banks do this in many cases where they will charge you extremely high rates to drive you away to avoid the headaches. All of us who were online retailers were paying these

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liability for this new industry’s possible short comings. I was vetted in the industry and told him I saw an opportunity for them to get into the industry. He understood the points I made regarding what I saw in the industry and offered me a job with them to help attract accounts from vape companies, as he was willing to cut them better rates. I explained that I didn’t want to work for them in the traditional 9-5 capacity and he said that if I could get their underwriters aboard and bring in some accounts, I could work independently and get a direct deal for myself. I became the Director of Business Development for Bank Card USA. How is Bank Card USA able to afford better rates than other banks?

When I joined their team, we created a team and a banks-direct deal that could bypass all the agents and brokers that were responsible for the gigantic rates. I started going to trade shows and set up an account for vaporbeast. com, who are the largest online seller of vape products. I went to the ECC the next year and the next year and within a few years, we are now poised to be the bank sponsor for ECC. I’m great friends with the ECC board and anybody who is anybody in this industry, from Space Jam Juice to Cosmic Fog, Vapor Beast, Vapor Shark and the list goes on and on. These are all companies who are strong brands and currently process with Bank Card USA. Why do you think you have had such success securing and helping clients within the industry?

We removed the stigma of high risk for vape companies and brought the costs of merchant processing into a much more realistic structure that the companies can control so

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they can grow their brand. You couldn’t plan or strategize what we were able to do; it came from a very organic place. I just happened to have had a background with merchant sponsorship and marketing and branding, but also had a vape store, was an enthusiast, and ran an eCommerce site. I worked tirelessly to make sure that anybody who speaks of Bank Card USA has the highest and most honorable things to say about our company and services for our family of vape retailers.

Having a merchant account and a merchantprocessing bank behind that is the most important partnership any retailer can have.

It doesn’t sound exciting, but our solutions alleviate a lot of profit margin struggles for merchant processing fees.

You mentioned seeing the industry as a family.

How important is that mindset to your success?

It really is a close-knit group of people. My wife-to-be and I have been at every single trade show for the past few years. It’s our guy, Larry, who is our ad guy, Margot the beautiful blonde, and myself; people have come to know us. The last thing we would ever do is take advantage of an aspiring company. We want to help and be in this for the long haul.

I’m honored to come to the market with solutions. We simply removed the agent/ broker from the process and are able to offer them bank direct deals that cost them a lot less than those deals. Of course, we make less money doing it that way, but again, we want to be here for the long haul. I can’t tell you the last time I had to make a cold call. The business comes to us because our reputation precedes us in a very good way.

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icholas Bull and Nicholas DeNuccio may know a little something about Propaganda. While that is the name of their meteoric e-liquid brand, the hype surrounding their products is far from it. Propaganda’s success in the e-juice market is very real - with the brand’s products now lining the shelves of some 1,000 retailers worldwide. With a marketing theme designed around secret society and governmental propaganda, and a best selling flavor called “Illuminati,” the brand is poised to grow even further. “Illuminati” was organically conceived by the pair, as were their other signature flavors, “Subliminal,” “Widow Maker,” and “Wild Fire.” Genius marketing, high quality products, and a commitment to educating consumers will likely ensure this brand’s longevity within the e-liquid market. Did I mention neither of the duo has reached the age of 25?

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How did you guys get started in the e-liquid business?

My partner and I hade been vaping for like two years. There were fairly standard flavors at the time and we saw how the market was changing and evolving and we wanted to try to make our own, instead of paying $12 a bottle to buy flavors we didn’t like that much. We put in $100 a piece ourselves and started trying to make our

own flavors. Two hundred bucks and a dream and a year later, we are in 1000 vape shops. It’s definitely been a dream ride.

When did you first realize you were onto something?

We came up with a good flavor called “Widow Maker,” and our friends really liked it. We kept tweaking it and tweaking it and

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How long have you officially been a company?

We formed our LLC in 2014 and that was after a couple years of development. We’re only fourteen months old now. We started mixing when I turned 18, I was 19 when we launched, and my partner is 23, so we are both pretty young.

When did you pick up the momentum to get to where the brand is today?

We got into our first couple of stores, and I started to dig deeper in the community. I came from the background of advertising, marketing, and PR. I wanted to try to get into community-oriented things and the vape meetings, so we went to our first CaliVapers meet and we saw an amazing response. People loved our flavors and our branding and that’s when I saw that we could definitely move forward. We were in five or ten shops and we had a distributor at the time, but after seeing the response, we decided to pull the plug on it and form our call center and take our own approach with building a business plan.

Being so young, did you parents support your business idea?

My parents weren’t too keen on it at first.

They were worried about whether or not what I was doing was going to cause harm

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How did you come up with the name “Propaganda?”

We were gonna call it “First Class Vapes,” and didn’t like the sound of it. We eventually came up with the idea of “Propaganda;” doing like a play on subliminal messages and the government style of information. Once we got the brand together we found a really good graphic artist and we had him design the label in the theme with the reds, the golds, the blacks and he created such great images for us. We were really stern on having a great brand and a great face to our brand. I think the logo definitely catches your eye and people have really latched onto our theme.

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began selling the bottles to our friends. They started going to the vape shops and actually showing the employees there and people began to really enjoy the flavor. After that, we sat down and decided that we could really make a brand behind it. We came up with “Illuminati” and then we made “subliminal.”

Once we had those three flavors, we knew it was time to form a brand behind them.

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and they didn’t understand what was happening in the industry. Once they saw the momentum and I started buying warehouse space and moving into spaces, they saw what the industry is and what we could do. They are pretty proud of what I am doing now.

Do you think regulation will be a positive thing for the vape industry?

I’ve always seen this industry as the wild west.

It’s heavily unregulated and unfortunately, there’s even a lack of business etiquette sometimes to a certain extent. For any industry that explodes like this, there’s gonna be regulations, and I agree that there should be regulations. I don’t think we should be classified as a tobacco product, but there should be some requirements and regulations among the manufacturers. Who’s to say that some juice line sold in stores isn’t made in someone’s bathtubs? There should be manufacturer requirements; I mean you’re selling a consumable product. We’ve taken steps to move

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in that direction. We’re in a national certified lab, all of our manufacturing is contracted, everything is made in a clean environment, our products are packaged and heat-shrunk in a lab and everything before it ships out. I don’t think regulating us as a tobacco product is the right decision, but I think there needs to be some sort of structure to our industry. We have to keep the media and people informed about vaping and safe responsible products.

That’s our biggest challenge.

What is in store for the future of Propaganda?

We are currently building our network of retailers, we have about 1000 retailers and we would like to progress into being on shelves with about 80% of all e-liquid retailers out there. From there we will just keep pushing the brand. Whether that’s in the form of more flavors or a different line, mods, technology, we are going to keep pushing Propaganda and giving consumers high quality products.

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ithin any industry, differences in styles and trends emerge and in many cases, the customer is ultimately on the losing end of the situation. As excitement around and industry grows, so too, does the manufacturing side of that industry.

This leads to the inevitable course of sacrificing brand quality and rushing product out simply because the demand in that industry is so high. One person not willing to do that is Sean Glas, founder of Glas Vapor. In fact, Glas is absolutely in the opposite end of that paradigm, believing instead that customers of any price point deserve the utmost in customer experience, especially those who seek high end and luxury products. So far, Sean is correct. His Glas Vapors mods have set the vape industry on its ear, with incredible craftsmanship, innovation, and packaging. A former cigarette smoker himself, Sean wanted to give back to the industry that gave him back some of the self-esteem he had lost within his previous habit. “I’d always been a cigarette smoker, for a little over ten years,” he says. I was active, I was an athlete but I could never kick the habit. It bothered me as a smoker to know the impact I had on others, and I thought it was amazing that I could satisfy my craving through vaping without impacting people around me. My level of confidence, and self esteem went up because I wasn’t worried about them thinking about me smoking.

Being a fan of high end products with a strong virtue for customer service, Sean’s company products have quickly become some of the must-have items of the industry elite. With the recent release of the company’s own e-liquid, Glas Vapors stands to weather the test of time within the industry, and will likely spark a positive change that well help the industry continue to rise in the face of big tobacco in market share.

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Once you quit smoking and became a vaping aficionado, how did you end up deciding to start your own company?

I started to look online and dove further in the industry. I quickly got involved in high-end forums and looking at the first mechanical mods. Being a hands-on tinkerer that I am, I realized that a lot of people were focused on the performance aspects of these products - especially in the conductivity aspects. All they had was brass and copper pins being on the early devices. I knew there were forms of plating but there were a lot of positives and negatives to using plating. Through working with rhodium plated over silver, I realized that we could get the conductivity of silver without the maintenance headaches. I started

making these pins for different devices and quickly people realized that my pins were outperforming everything on the market. I started selling this pins to all of the high-end customers and then moved onto social media.

What was your next step from there?

After realizing the acceptance and appreciation I was getting for the pins, I looked at the industry from a multi-brand consumer perspective and felt there was more of a customer experience aspect that was missing in terms of customer support, and product delivery for products. I decided to design my first mechanical mod, but I wanted it to be very functional, especially concerning the functionality of the button. Everybody had locking rings and

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us a place to deliver that customer experience with givebacks, service requests, and ensures that their experience as an end user is everything it needs to be. Everybody is treated as if they are guests at our party. I tell my staff that once a week, so we can keep that focus.

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How would you describe your mod design?

People describe us as “meticulously simple.” I think it’s very easy to make something complex and “busy up” the design, but to make something simple yet elegant is very hard to do. A year after our initial release, we had released 9 different editions, spanning three different collections, and each collection has three different editions. We have different cases for all different collections. We also have our luxury lines which feature a blend of exotic and domestic woods paired with precious metal inlays

like 14k gold, rose gold, sterling silver, and platinum. We’ve got some with Swarovski crystals, some with diamonds; we’ve even got one with ivory. They’re all individually hand made and we are really proud of them.

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How did you approach your customers?

For the high end, or luxury market at the time, you’d sign up for a list, prepay for an item, wait six months, get approval on the order, get the product back after another six months and it would just be in bubble wrap! I wanted to make that aspect of the customer’s experience much more enjoyable. I love unwrapping Apple products and I believe that quality packaging should be part of the experience of the purchase. I wanted our device to be in beautiful upon arrival, so we sourced the same leather company that packages Vertu products. Not only are they packaged properly, the packaging will last the life of the product. There’s a leather travelling case, an experience card, a QC card, the conductivity drop for the device and a registration card. The registration invites them to be a part of Glas Concierge where they can talk with other owners and it offers

Are your products currently on a waiting list?

We’ve been in business for about a year and a half, and during out initial releases for the first eight months, we would put up 300 units at a time and they would sell out within a minute online. We didn’t believe in having a waiting list and collecting money in advance. When products were ready to ship, they went up and I gave people a fair opportunity to purchase. The values that I have as an individual and what I communicate to our employees and customers, is that I really believe in treating people with respect.

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you’d have to unscrew it and unjam it if it got jammed. The telescoping pins made you adjust multiple times before you could reduce the battery rattle. I knew we had to make a selfadjusting plunger system for the top cap and an easy to use, quick 180-degree rotation of the button. From a functionality standpoint, we put all that into our first mod, The Glass Mod.

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Did you ever reach a turning point where you felt really stable within the marketplace?

We realized that we had such a great customer base and grew our concierge base to the point it was pretty substantial, so at that point, I wanted to give something back. In December, we designed a beautiful box and packaging to display a 100ml bottle of Pound Cake and sent it out to our 800+ customers in the Glas concierge. They loved it, and they were treating it like it was an aged bottle of scotch. The feedback we got, from the flavor, to the bottle, to the packaging was crazy.

It was enough to make me decide that we needed to launch our own e-liquid line.

How did you go about developing the e-liquids?

We put about a year into flavor development and designed our own custom molds for the glass bottle, the aluminum over-cap, the badge, and the dropper. We put a lot of hidden details in the packaging alone, which makes it fun when customers notice those types of things. We’ve got our G logo frosted at the top of the bottle so you don’t see it until you break the seal of the cap. We get it all bottled in an ISO 9000 facility, we’ve got traceability across our products, lot numbers on the bottom of the bottles, custom labels and label machines, but it was all worth it to us.

Has becoming an e-liquid manufacturer helped or hurt your brand?

For us, it was a big milestone for our company was to release e-liquid and be viewed as a full brand - as opposed to just doing mods.

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It’s more important to me to have us be seen as a company that stresses the value of our experience with the customers in all of our different products, so we channeled that same dedication we had for our hardware side into our e-liquid line.

Where do you see the vape industry going?

What changes would you like to see?

I’d like to see the industry become more focused on unity and coming together because right now we’ve got a total of 10% of the tobacco market We can look at each other as competitors and go after that 10% of the market, or we can come together and go after that other 90% as a strong union. A lot of people have started coming to that mindset during the past year, and understanding that we have a product that can have a huge positive impact on the health of people who were cigarette smokers.

What’s in store for the future of Glas Vapors?

As a brand, I believe in going above and beyond for our customers to give them the best experience possible. If we stay focused on that, then the money will come. When you solely focus your intentions on money, you lose integrity. It’s about creating a positive change for people and giving them back the self-confidence they lost as cigarette smokers because of impacting their environment with secondhand smoke or stinking up the room.

Being a vaper is something I am so proud of because it got me to quit, that motivates me to want to be a leader in this industry for positive change.

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he weather phenomenon known as “fog,” is one of mystery. When conditions are right, fog can emerge from out of nowhere, blanketing everything in it’s path in an unexpected shroud. Such is the case for e-liquid company Cosmic Fog. Much like the weather phenomenon of the same name, the company has emerged to become one of the most formidable e-juice companies on the market in an extremely short amount of time. “It’s funny,” founder Rob Crossley states, “I moved to Orange County from Philadelphia about three years ago with a backpack and about $60 to my name. Now my life is moving in the right direction.” The company is, too, having not only garnered the respect of the marketplace and the sales to go with it; Cosmic Fog is also working with researchers to determine optimal materials in vape liquid to provide safer products for the industry. Couple that with the company’s worldwide distribution and foothold on the vaping landscape, and it’s safe to say we will all be underneath a Cosmic Fog for years to come.

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How did you get started?

I worked construction for a while and landed a job at a marketing firm. I met my current business partner there, and in about nine months, we had taken over the firm. We were doing really well, but we weren’t happy with what we were doing.

We wanted to help people and go into business on our own. It just so happened that we were both vapers and living in Orange County, so we kept running into friends of ours who were starting e-liquid companies and we were friends with them before they went into the market. It was just people we knew and all the stars just aligned for us. We were able to hit market really quickly thanks to our relationship with them, as well as our own sales and marketing background. We went through our product development and brand image creation, and knew this was the industry we wanted to be in.

chef. We invested our money that we made in marketing and just started experimenting in our kitchen. The first three months, we didn’t even make anything palatable. Everything tasted awful!

(Laughs) But we just kept at it.

Were you a cigarette smoker?

I was a pack-and-a-half-a-day smoker for about eight years. I was trying to quit with the patches, the inhalers, the gums, and I was about 48 hours in and ready to kill someone. A person in my office had a little e-cig on their desk and took a pull. I went down to the closest vape shop after work and bought my first vape and a couple local e-juices and I haven’t had a cigarette since. This was about three years ago.

Did you have family support behind you?

My dad is a vaper. He has converted and my parents are extremely supportive. It wasn’t easy because my marketing job was literally the first time I had demonstrated being responsible (laughs).

To call them up and say “You know that stable, good paying job I got? I’m thinking of quitting to start a vape juice company.” That wasn’t easy but they are extremely supportive. They even offered to invest but I turned them down because I wanted to do it on my own.

We started in a one-bedroom apartment and we just got a $1.5 million dollar lab for development.

When did you guys officially launch? Did you know the company would become this big?

Cosmic Fog was founded in October of 2013. We always knew it was possible to be big and we were fortunate enough to know some industry leaders when we started, but the plan was just to be able to have a business that sustained itself that we could do full time. Before I moved to Orange County, I was a trained

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At what point did you first start believing that your brand was taking off?

The first convention we ever went to was a very small show out in Texas. We went out to the show with another e-juice company that was distributing us and just seeing the people down there have a positive reception to our products was encouraging. Fast forward to our first ECC, which was last year, and I knew it was a big show, but to go from being a consumer to having the response and crowds we got was just incredible. It really fueled our fire that maybe we had developed something great.

How do you guys currently see your position within the vape community and industry?

We are focused on responsibility to the industry. We try to look at where vaping is going to be 10 years from now. We

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brought our operations manager in from a pharmaceutical company to head up our lab because we want to really bring our juices to the standards that will be necessary going forward, to make sure this industry is always around. We’ve also been stretching out wildly in international markets–Cosmic Fog is currently being distributed in over 40 countries.

Most recently, we have been investing in travelling to these countries to set up bases of operations and we are establishing a centralized distributions center in the UK, as well as China as those are our biggest markets. We’re trying to stay one step ahead of the curve.

We’re always trying to improve, and we spend heavy on our own scientists and toxicologists, who we have on retainer to run studies and test our products to see what’s healthy and what’s not healthy so we can always keep improving our products.

What do you think the biggest challenge is for the vape industry?

One of the biggest things is that there’s a lot of misinformation and bias in the industry in terms of what information is being put out there. It’s really important for vapers to know

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whom we are fighting against. It’s not just big tobacco; it’s also the pharmaceutical industry.

Most of the funds for the politicians who are fighting against us are coming from them. We have to remove the bias and the fear of blanket statements being put out about our industry. Instead of having the proponents say, “Vaping is horrible,” and then have the vapers saying “Its great there’s nothing bad about it,” when in fact, there is a median. We stress that vaping is a harm reduction product. Anytime you inhale anything into your body, there’s going to be risks. What’s monumental about it is that we need to be able to understand those risks and concerns and present them in a totally transparent manner. Vaping is a harm reduction product that is monumentally safer than traditional tobacco cigarettes but there are still a lot of things in e-liquid that people don’t know about and that needs to be studied and analyzed before the mainstream market can fully accept us. We need to know all the facts before we can progress to the next level and we hope to be one of the companies to help discover some of those facts. We have a good market share and we want to affect the industry in a positive way.

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13th Floor Elevapors

Box Mod

2puffs

Brew City Juice, LLC

3D Vapor

Brewell Vapory / Flavies Juicy Brew

Aeon E-Liquids, LLC

Buckshot Vapors Inc.

Alchemy Vapor

BVH Distribution

All About Vapor

C.R.E.A.M. E-Juice

American Merchant Center

C3 Vapors

Amigovape

C9 Ecig Distribution

Anabolic Juice Co.

Café Racer Craft E-Liquid

Anarchist

Calco Commercial Insurance

Apple Valley Vapor

Cali Steam

Asmodus

Capella Flavors Inc.

Atom Vapes

Capmatic Ltd

ATX Cloud Technologies

Card Connect

Avail Vapor

Cartel Mods Inc

Babylon Vapeshops

Cashmere Millionares

Bad Drip

Cencal Vapes Inc

Baked Vapes

Charlie’s Chalk Dust

Baker White

Cigr8

Baker White (Box Mod Customs)

Clancy’s Royal Vapors

Balls Vape

Cloud Bringers K.R.E.A.M.

Bamskilicious

Cloud Candy

Bauway

Cloud Syndicate Vape

Beard Vape Co.

Cloud Vapor

Beijing Qucheng Conference &

Cloudbreak Vapors

Exhibition Service Co., Ltd.

Cloudwerks

Beyond Vape / Aria Built

Cloudy Collaborations LLC

Blue Diamond Vapors

Coastal Fog Eliquid

Blvcklisted

Cofo Industrial Group Limited

Boardwalk Vapor

Coil Master Co.

Boilermaker Vapor

Cold Fusion Juice

Bomb Squad

Congrevape

Bombies Unchained

Cosmic Fog Vapors

Boom Boom

Cotton Bacon

Boosted E-Juice

Council of Vapor

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Ethos Vapors

Crow and Chemist Artisanal E-Juices

Euphoria E-Juice

Custom HandCrafted Drip Tips

EZ Cloud Company

Cutwood LLC

Fa-Q Premium Vapes

Cyclops Vapor

Far West Vapor

Darksyde Vapes

Filamatic

Darth Vapor

Five Star Juice

Demonic Vapes

Flavors United

Desce Ohm Keepers

Fog Fluid

Deuces Wild Vapor

Fog Works Vape Supply

Devious Ellixirs

FoggyGnome

Digital Labeling

Fogwerks & BLAQ

Doctor Big Vapes

Founders Favorites

Dongguan Yihi Electronic Co. LTD.

FOX Juice

Dotmod

French Juice Chuff Caps

Dr. Crimmy’s V-Liquid

Frisco Vapor

Dr. Juice LLC

Fumi Vapor

Dr. Picnic’s Magic Elixir

G2 Vapor

Drip Club

GearSpek

Drip Nation (Vaportactics)

Ginger Vapes

Drip Origin

Glas Vapor

DRPN (Vape Junkies)

GotVape/Wulf Mods/ Paradise Vapes

DRPN V-Juice

GQ Vape

E-Cigaretteswholesale.com

Gryphon Vapor

E-Generation

Halcyon Vapors

E-Juice 2 Die 4

Halo

E-Liquid Bottling Co.

Happy Budha Vape Juices

E-Lixir Laboratories

Harlequinn E-Liquid

EC Supply Inc.

Harlequinn Wood Works

Ecigs Direct US

Harmonic Labs

EliqCube (Doses/

Heartland Vapes

Elixir Vape Co

Helios

Epic Juice

High Roller Sweets

Epicus Nebula

High Voltage Vaporz

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Hit Dat Vapor

Longhorn Vapor Company

Hobo Joe’s Juice

Lost Art

Hohm (HΩ) Tech, Incorporated

Lovela

Hold Fast Vapors

Lucid Distribution

Holy Grail Elixir

Lucky 7 E-Liquids

Ice Cream Man

Lush Vapor LLC

IMR Batteries

Luxe Mods/Pariah/UD

Inertia

Mad Hatter Juice

Innokin Technology Co.

Majestic Prestige Collection

Intrinsic E-Liquid

Malicious Liquids

Ism Vape

Marina Vape

J Well

Mastermind Elixirs

JAM Enterprises

Max Professional

Jester’s Juices & Scottua

Mechanica Mods

Joy Flavor

Merchant Services

Juice Man

Merchant Services

Juice Parlour

Merkury

Juice-E Vapors

Mewes Juice

JUUL

MidEvilVapes

JWraps

Midwest Vape Supply

Kandy Pens

Mixwell Vapors

Kidney Puncher, LLC

Mod Fuel

Killa Kloudz

Moose Knuckle

Kilo Eliquids

Moshi

Kind Juice

Motley Brew

LA Clouds

Mr. Good Vape

LA VAPORZ

My Vapors

Langrey Inc.

Naked Fish

Legend E-Juice

Nautical Vapors

Lighthouse Liquids

Nic Select

Line Liquids

Nice Juice Co.

Liquid EFX

Nicobine

Liquid Guys Distro

Nicotine River Wholesale

Liquid State Vapers

Njoy Artisan Collection

Local Vape

Northern Lights/Cold Fusion

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Odin by Baker White

Ruthless E-juice

P.O.E.T. Electronic Nectar

Sauced

P&P International, Inc.

Sejuiced All Organic

Pacific Packaging Components, Inc.

Sense

Parrot Vapors

SGB Tech Ltd.

Peace Breeze

Shenzen Brillipower Technology Co. Ltd

Penguin E-Juice

Shenzhen Aweite Technology Co.,

Pinnacle Black Pinup Vapors

Limited Shenzhen Basecom Technology Co., LTD.

Potion Seller

Shenzhen Betterlife Technology Co., Ltd.

Pourhouse

Shenzhen Brillpower Technology Co.,

Premium Labs

Ltd.

Primera Technology

Shenzhen Eternal Technology Co., Ltd

Propaganda E-Liquid

Shenzhen GF Smocare

Pure Lightning

Shenzhen HCigar Technology Co. LTD

QuickLabel Systems

Shenzhen IVPS Technology Co., LTD

RAD Vapor

Shenzhen KingZone Technology Co.,

Rage Box Modz Ramiya Korea Ravnesmoon Vapor Redline Vapors Redwood E-juice

Ltd. (TESLA) Shenzhen Siken3D Technology Development Co.,Ltd. Shenzhen Simeiyue Technology Co. Ltd.

Regal eVape

Shenzhen Troogle Technology Limited

Rehab Vapors

Sicboy Industries

Reign Drops LLC

Sideshow Serums

Restless, LLC

Sincereboss Technology Co. Ltd

Revol Vapors

Skull & Roses Juice Co.

Rip N Drip

SLSTCE E-liquids/Dark Room

RND Creations

E-liquids

RNR Vapors

Smash Vapor

RockBottomBottles

SMAX Juices

Rooks Eliquid

Smiley E-Liquid

Rope Cut

Smok-Emountain

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Phillips & King Int’l, Inc.

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Oakwood Vapor

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Soft Vape

The Captain Eliquid

South Coast Vapor, CO

The Mitsu E-liquid

Space Jam

The Originals

Speed Vapors

The Plume Inc.

Spider Silk Titanium Wire by Envy

The Schwartz E Liquid

Spitfire E-Liquid

The Studio Brand

Sriracha Vape Co.

The Vape Barrel LLC

Sriracha Vape Co.

The Vape Coalition Wholesale /

Standard Functions

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Standard Functions

The Vape Kit

Steep Vapors

The Vape Kitchen

Steep Vapors

The Vapor Spot

Stone Abstract

THRST E-Liquid

Strix Elixirs

Thunderhead Creations

Stryker Juices

Tin Cigar E-liquid

Sub Ohm Innovations

Tip Top Vapor

Sub Ohm tank and RDA tank

Tizetech (Dongguan) Co., Ltd.

Suicide Bunny

Tobacco Replacement Technologies

Supremacy Vapors

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USA Inc

Suprimo

Totally Vaped Out

Surefire/Samurai Cotton

Trabuco Vapors

Svoemesto & Mr. Good Vape Unity

Tradition Vapes

Collection

Traditional Juice CO

Sweet Nectar Juice

Trinity Glass Tanks

Sweet Tooth Ejuice

Tronic Vape LLC

Switch Mods

TSL Flavors

Switch Vapor

Twelve

Syntheticloud Tech

Ultra Hybrid Inc

Tailored Vapors

Unbroken E-Liquid

Tasty Vapor

Uncle Junk’s Genius Juice

Teardrip Juice Co./reaper Box Mod

Uncle Mike’s Elixir

Tendou, Inc.

Underground E-Juice

THC (Thunderhead Creations)

UTAH Distribution Group

The Bakery

Uvaper/Aspire USA

The Best Damn Ejuice You’ll Have

Vape 7 Daze

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Vape Clean

Vapor Vaultz

Vape Direct 777

Vaporfi

Vape Fiends / Geography

Vaporous Technologies

Vape Fuel

Vapour

Vape Marketing Services

Vapour Lounge Distribution

Vape Orenda

VapPuro

Vape Organics

Vaptio Inc.

Vape Rev

VGOD

Vape Storm

Vicious Ant

Vape Tools

Victus Vapors

Vape Up USA

Vintage E-Liquids

Vape Wild

Vinyl by Super Jaymze

Vape Zone USA Distribution

Virgin Vapor

VAPE94.COM

VLS Vapour Life Style

VapeDojo

VM Distribution LLC

Vapefiends / Geography

VO Distribution

VapeJamUK

Volcano eCigs

Vapeoholic LLC

Wanderlust Vapor

Vaper’s Mark Premium E-Juice

West Coast Vape Supply

Vaperlicious

Whiskey Rebellion USA

Vapesox

White Label Juice

Vapetasia

White Rhino Products

Vapevo

Wolfpack Wholesale

Vapey Kool Inc.

XL Vape

Vapin Art

Zeta Vape

Vaping American Made Products

Zuro’s Milk

Vaping Depot Vapor Beast Vapor City Sauce Vapor Craziness

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Vapor Trail

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Vape Boss

Vapor Hub Vapor ML Vapor Shark

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Meet the man who changed the landscape of the vaping industry by employing strategies from Apple and Vertu.

the propaganda of success Find out how this man built an empire by spreading his propaganda of street hustle and vape lifestyle.

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clear sailing for a cosmic fog

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a touch of glas

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