Asked recently to write about electronic cigarettes, I have to confess that I had never heard of such a thing. Some internet research later and I discovered that electronic cigarettes are very much a quickly growing concern. A Google search revealed there is no smoke without fire as almost six million results just for the phrase “electronic cigarette” were returned.

What is an electronic cigarette?

The electronic cigarette has been in existence for almost three years and is a clever device aimed at providing smokers with a healthier option. Apparently also useful in helping to reduce and indeed quit smoking altogether.

Now in a fourth generation, electronic cigarettes have become much more user friendly than earlier versions which perhaps were a little too large to encourage a mass market appeal. The “mini” is the most realistic e cigarette to date with its length of 100mm being the same as a conventional cigarette.

An electronic cigarette contains a taste of tobacco but none of the harmful substances found in normal cigarettes allowing smokers cravings to be satisfied without inhaling the many dangerous toxins. Is it all smoke and mirrors? Or can this item really be the saviour it wants to be?

A battery, an atomiser and a renewable nicotine chamber allows the smoker to hold and smoke the electronic cigarette just as they would any other cigarette, even creating a “smoke” like vapour and glow at the end as they draw. The nicotine chamber proves very useful as cartridges are available in different strengths, permitting the user to reduce the amount of nicotine they intake until if they wish, can quit completely.

A nicotine cartridge typically lasts the same time as 15 to 20 cigarettes, thus creating a huge saving to normal costs. Standard, medium, low and no nicotine at all are the various cartridge strengths.

A healthier option altogether it seems, though the benefits don’t end there. Due to the electronic cigarette not emitting any dangerous substances, toxins or real smoke for that matter, they are perfectly legal to smoke in public. In winter in particular, normal cigarette smokers have to brave the freezing cold and the rain just for a quick smoking break but this alternative will allow them to stay in their offices, restaurants and pubs.

None smokers also will benefit, as their worries about passive smoking are rendered null and void by the electronic cigarette. A much more sociable environment then!

Upon reflection the electronic cigarette is a healthier, cheaper and environmentally friendly alternative to smoking and as the awareness and the market grows they have great potential to successfully replace the harmful cigarettes we have all come to know and many of us have come to dread and fear.

The electronic cigarette really does seems to be a good idea.

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1. Electronic cigarettes are marketed as a healthier alternative to tobacco smoking, since most of the harmful material produced by the combustion of tobacco in traditional cigarettes is not present in the atomized liquid of electronic cigarettes.
2. Electronic cigarettes are becoming the preferred alternative, offering smokers the opportunity to cut down on the harmful chemicals that they inhale and emit while successfully avoiding persecution.
3. They are the cool new alternative to tobacco cigarettes.
4. Electronic cigarettes are actually much safer than tobacco cigarettes.
5. Within the last year at least three independent labs have given the green light to electronic cigarettes and the fda pretends they do not exist.
6. Electronic cigarettes are known to be the most healthy alternative to traditional smoking today.
7. They don’t produce smoke, don’t burn and don’t contain carbon monoxide.
8. Electronic cigarettes are an alternative nicotine delivery system.
9. Electronic cigarettes are also inhaled delivering nicotine almost instantaneously so you can use electronic cigarettes and regular cigarettes interchangeably with no worry of nicotine overdose.
10. They are completely non-flammable electronic devices.
11. Electronic cigarettes are designed to deliver a comparably satisfying smoking experience, minus overwhelming health risks associated with smoking conventional cigarettes.
12. Electronic cigarettes are on the top of the christmas list for tobacco users.
13. Electronic cigarettes are rechargeable devices which simply require the replacement of nicotine cartridges, causing minimal damage to our environment, unlike conventional cigarette smoke and the trash from the  flicking of cigarette butts and ashes.
14. Electronic cigarettes are reusable, you’re never buying cartons or packages of cigarettes, so there’s less trash to fill our landfills.
15. They are more than just an alternative to tobacco, they’re a way to save a lot of money.
16. Each “cigarette” consists of a heating element and a replaceable plastic cartridge that contains various chemicals, including various concentrations of liquid nicotine.