Cigarettes 2.0 – The Electronic Version

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A fairly new cigarette on the market is starting to grow in popularity in the U.S. Electronic cigarettes are battery-powered “cigarettes” that are similar to traditional cigarettes, but without the tar, fire, flame, smoke, and other harmful properties. Electronic cigarette cartridges are atomizers that contain nicotine (one nicotine cartridge contains as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes) and creates a water vapor, which allows smokers to ingest nicotine without producing smoke.

Are Electronic Cigarettes Healthier?

While electronic cigarettes still contain nicotine, they do not have many of the other harmful elements found in traditional cigarettes. Specifically, smokers of e-cigarettes are not actually inhaling or exhaling smoke. In fact, the American Association of Public Health Physicians supports the use of electronic cigarettes over traditional cigarettes.

What are the Benefits of E-cigarettes?

A few of the benefits of electronic cigarettes include:

  • They’re healthier for non-smokers. – Second-hand smoke can adversely affect the health and lungs of non-smokers. Because electronic cigarettes do not produce smoke, non-smokers do not have to ingest harmful chemicals.
  • E-cigarettes don’t produce bad odors. – Part of the unpleasantness of traditional cigarettes is the smell of the smoke that clings to your clothes, your hair and anything else you smoke around (such as in your home). An electronic cigarette produces a vapor smoke that does not have an odor.
  • There’s no bad aftertaste with electronic cigarettes. – Electronic cigarettes use flavored water vapor so that the aftertaste in your mouth is your flavor of choice (such as mint or cherry), rather than the smoky taste of cigarettes.
  • E-cigarettes produce less pollution. – Electronic cigarettes do not contain carcinogens or tar, so they are healthier for the environment than traditional cigarettes.
  • They’ll save you money. – Many smokers spend hundreds of dollars on cigarettes each month alone. Electronic cigarettes require only refills that last longer than traditional cigarettes, saving money in the long run.

Electronic cigarettes are a healthier, cleaner alternative to traditional cigarettes.

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The E-Cig: A Healthy Alternative to Smoking Cigarettes

Smoking is a hard habit to break. There are several products that promise to help people quit, but many people go back to their habit eventually. Whether it is gum or a patch, the use of these sometimes becomes inconvenient while the person still craves the cigarette that they had easy access to before. Something like an e-cig, however, has none of the dangers of the real thing, and also poses no danger to anyone else nearby.

Tobacco smoke has long been known to have many health risks, some that don’t show up for many years or even decades. It does not only affect the smoker, but people who are exposed to the smoke. Those who never smoked themselves can have problems later on if they are regularly exposed. The smell it adds to the breath or even people’s clothes can be very undesirable, and cigarette butts and ashes are quite unsightly when thrown around.

An electronic version tastes and feels like the real thing, without the harmful compounds that are inhaled from regular cigarettes. It looks like the real thing too. While a dose of nicotine is provided with each smoke, there is no smell or a single chemical that is harmful to the person using it or to anyone nearby. You can use at home, at a movie theater, or in clubs while socializing.

Don’t expect this to make you want to quit anymore, but it does have some nicotine to avoid withdrawal symptoms. You will at least have a healthy alternative, and if you like the look of having something to smoke, as some people do, then you can do so without inconveniencing, or even jeopardizing the health of, other people. E-cigs are sold in brands that come in kits with colored cartridges, batteries, cases, chargers and more.

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The Only way to Smoke

In this day and age, the non smokers of the world are winning a war that they started decades ago. It used to be that people could smoke whenever, wherever and however much they wanted to. People could just puff away, either on the factory line, in their office or in any restaurant or bar. But nowadays, you pretty much have to be in your own home, hiding under a blanket will all of the shades drawn and lots of lights on, in order to enjoy your smoking habit. And if anybody smells the smoke, you may end up having the fire department kick down your door.

Fortunately, this anti smoking Gestapo crap does not have to become something that makes you hate yourself for having a craving for nicotine. While the ideal situation would be to simply quit cold turkey, not every smoker is capable of doing things like that. And if you could count yourself in that group of people, you may need to consider some other alternatives to “just quitting.” One way that a lot of people go about circumventing the anti smoking war is to start using E cigarettes when their cravings come on. After all, it solves all of the major problems that non smokers pin on smokers.

There is no filter to an electronic cigarette. You receive your nicotine without having to throw away anything, so there is no pollution. And speaking of there being no pollution from an e-cig, they also do not send out any smoke. So the people who hate the smell of traditional cigarettes (and their cancer causing properties) will not be offended if you whip out an electronic cigarette and puff away for your own benefit. And it is actually better for your own health to use e-cigs, as the lack of tar means you have far less poisons entering your system.

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Everything Electronic

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These days, technology is changing almost everything, even the ways you can get nicotine. An electronic cigarette is just the latest and greatest when it comes to an old addiction. Who would have guessed that paper cigarettes might become out-dated, not because people decided to get healthy and kick the habit. No, there’s just a cooler way to get your fix. Actually, this invention should not be surprising, since the whole world seems to be going electronic. Even now, most people can’t imagine a world without the Internet, cell phones, or hand held devices. More and more people are finding that their interests and need for information can be met in the palm of their hands–they can socialize, play games, access data, communicate, recreate, and more with just the touch of a few buttons. Now the question is, can people ever stop using electronics or lessen their dependency on them? They are a powerful drug. Some would say they’re more powerful than nicotine. Instant gratification, feedback, and pleasure can all be heady temptations. Things that require work become less tantalizing with the passing of each day. Having the attention span to read a challenging book of 200 pages or so is becoming rare. (Even 200 page books are available on electronic hand-held devices.) Having the energy to run a mile seems like a distant dream. It seems like there are highly addicted people who are zoned out from reality and are tuned in to the virtual world of texting, social networking, watching videos online, and playing computer games. Who knows what kind of world the future will be, whether this trend will continue or whether people will wake up and begin to pull the plug on the electronics that surround them? It’s anybody’s guess, but it looks as if it’s a habit that’s here to stay.

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