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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 came across that electronic cigarettes have become 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 targeted at providing smokers with a wholesome 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 touch too large to encourage a mass market appeal. The “mini” is the most realistic e cigarette up to now with its length of 100mm being the same as a conventional cigarette.

An electronic cigarette includes 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 developing a “smoke” like vapour and glow in the end as they draw. The nicotine chamber proves very useful as cartridges are available in different strengths, permitting the user to reduce the quantity of nicotine they intake until if they wish, can quit completely.

A nicotine cartridge typically lasts once as 15 to 20 cigarettes, thus creating a huge saving on track 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 example, they are perfectly legal to smoke in public. In winter specifically, normal cigarette smokers have to brave the freezing cold and the rain simply for an instant smoking break but this alternative allows them to stay in their offices, restaurants and pubs.

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

Upon reflection the electronic cigarette is really a healthier, cheaper and green alternative to smoking and as the awareness and the marketplace grows they have great potential to successfully replace the harmful cigarettes just about everyone has come to know and many of us attended to dread and fear.