Electronic Cigarette

It has the same appearance, feel, and taste of a normal cigarette, but it is not a cigarette and does not include all the harmful side effects that smoking a tobacco cigarette does. The smoking habit is thousands of years old, but today there is a growing trend to find an alternative to quit the addiction. One method that is steadily growing in popularity around the world is the new electronic cigarette.

Cigarettes contain thousands of chemicals when they are burned, including argon, lead, mercury, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, and many others. Of all of the chemicals a burning cigarette emits, at least 69 of them are known to the medical community to cause cancer in humans.

The e-cigarette works by atomizing a mixture of mostly water, nicotine, propylene glycol as you inhale it through a cartridge that looks just like a cigarette filter. They started out being as big as a writing pen, but have since decreased in size to the point where most models look like a slightly fatter cigarette.

There are multiple brands of e-cigarettes currently on the market, but many of them come from China, where the first e-cigarette was invented in 2004. Models that look like traditional cigarettes which are white with an orange filter are available, as are brown cigarettes, cigars, and even pipes.

There are also multiple flavors of e-cigarette cartridges, including menthol, fruit flavors, and even tea. Additional flavors are currently being developed and some consumers are even learning to blend their own with products available from food flavoring companies.

The benefits of an e-cigarette include no second hand smoke for anyone you care about to inhale and no lingering odor that will make your clothing stink. There is also no mess associated with e-cigarettes, since you will not need an ash tray and you never have to worry about dropping ashes in the floor. E-cigarettes are also safer than traditional cigarettes because you don’t have to worry about accidentally burning yourself or anyone else.

Even though they are 10 times safer than normal cigarettes, they are currently being banned in multiple countries due to the concerns of government health organizations that say that they are unsafe, often without any substantial proof to support this claim.

While normal tobacco cigarettes (including all 4,000 chemicals they emit) remain legal in all of the countries that ban both the sale and possession of e-cigarettes, e-cigarettes just may provide a safer alternative as smokers continue to look for a healthier alternative to traditional smoking.

-by Aydan Corkern

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