| Smoking can be a very addicting and deadly habit. If | | | | tobacco smokes have thousands of chemicals that |
| you or someone you know smoke cigarettes, you | | | | are present in things like rat poison. These chemicals |
| know just how powerful that nicotine can be. I bet you | | | | are what is inhaled into the lungs and tears them apart. |
| have tried everything to stop smoking like patches and | | | | With the recent advancements in micro technology, |
| gum and you name it, you have tried it. Until now, there | | | | electronic cigarettes are able to be a device that |
| really hasn't been an easy way for someone to quit | | | | doesn't have all of those harmful elements. In theory, |
| smoking. A recent invention is revolutionizing the way | | | | this seems like a much healthier alternative. Although |
| people smoke. | | | | electric cigarettes haven't been around long enough to |
| The electronic cigarette is a relatively new invention | | | | do any extensive medical research and no long term |
| that is spreading across the world like wildfire. It's | | | | affects are known, it seems to be an obvious better |
| because the electronic cigarette (or electric or | | | | choice than to use a product that is already known to |
| e-cigarette) is very similar to the function and taste of | | | | kill people. |
| a traditional tobacco cigarette. The e-cigarette works | | | | Financially, electronic cigarettes can save you |
| in the same fashion as a regular cigarette except that | | | | thousands of dollars. If you smoke an average of a |
| it doesn't need to be lit up and has no burning end. | | | | pack of cigarettes a day, you can spend almost |
| The electronic cigarette is composed of 3 parts, the | | | | $2,000 a year on cigarettes alone. With electronic |
| atomizer, the battery, and the nicotine cartridge. When | | | | cigarettes, the cost of the same amount of puffs is |
| a user inhales on the end of the electronic cigarette, | | | | almost 75 percent less. This means that you could |
| the battery activates the atomizer. The atomizer then | | | | save over $1,000 a year just by making the switch. |
| turns on and heats up the nicotine that is inside of the | | | | You can also use electric cigarettes anywhere you |
| cartridge. The nicotine solution is made up of nicotine | | | | want. Since the smoking bans in the United States only |
| and propylene glycol, a substance that is commonly | | | | regulate the use of smoking products that contain |
| used in fog machines. The electronic cigarette works in | | | | tobacco, you are able to get your nicotine fix in places |
| a a fashion that is very similar to that of a fog | | | | like night club, bars, and even airplanes. If you have |
| machine. | | | | never heard of or seen an electronic cigarette before, |
| When the user inhales the nicotine vapor, it gives them | | | | chances are that in the near future they will be just as |
| the same taste and feel of a regular cigarette but | | | | common as a traditional tobacco smoke. They are |
| doesn't contain all of the thousands of deadly | | | | already growing in popularity like nothing the smoking |
| chemicals that regular cigarettes do. Traditional | | | | community has seen before. |