InLife, LLC

The company offers an alternative smoking device via a multi-level marketing plan that they claim simulates the sensation of smoking without exposing the user to cancer causing agents and other harmful chemicals that are normally associated with traditional tobacco products. The company's promotional literature states that the simulated smoke produced is actually a vapor that looks like, tastes, feels and reacts much like tobacco smoke. When exhaled, the vapor harmlessly evaporates in the surrounding air within seconds.

The basic components consist of a battery, an atomizer, a safe, flavored cartridge containing nicotine, water and propylene glycol and a computer chip that controls it all. Both the atomizer and the cartridge are consumable items. Cartridges are available in varying amounts of nicotine content, high (16 mg.), medium (14 mg.), low (6 mg) and no nicotine. The company offers two types of electronic cigarettes: A longer, more elegant unit called the Elite and a smaller, sleeker unit called the Prestige.

Our experience with similar offers has been that earnings claims are exaggerated at best, affiliates are not paid as agreed, and in some cases the companies fail to disclose total costs involved for website development, or purchasing up-line positions. Although there are some legitimate multi-level sales companies, many similar companies engage in pyramid marketing tactics. Make sure you are aware of the differences. A legitimate multi level plan encourages successful distributors to recruit and train a sales force, but the distributor must also assume ongoing wholesaleing and managing responsibilities as well as, selling to their own retail customers. Emphasis should be placed on selling the product or services offered as a means to earn money, not recruiting others. In an illegal pyramid, the recruits on the bottom level pay money to a few people at the top. They generally do not publically advertise their offer, but instead rely on word of mouth recruitment of new affiliates. Some pyramids are easily recognizable and are as simple as a chain letter. Others are very sophisticated, and disguised to look like legitimate multi-level marketing companies to fool investors and law enforcement. As their disguise, they may take on a line of products or a service and claim to be in the business of selling to consumers. When in realtity, the real money comes from recruiting and not from marketing the products. Recruits themselves run a significant risk of arrest and fines by authorities for participating or promoting such offers.