| It may be out there somewhere, but I have yet to see | | | | What exactly is an electronic cigarette anyway? Well, |
| a Hollywood movie that featured a scene where | | | | in its simplest possible terms it is an electronic device |
| someone is smoking an electronic cigarette. In recent | | | | that looks almost identical to a regular cigarette (very |
| years, cigarette smoking in movies has been frowned | | | | similar shape, size and general appearance) but it is |
| upon, and any that do contain “smoking” scenes | | | | reusable. It houses a battery and an atomiser and a |
| tend to receive an awful lot of criticism, because of | | | | nicotine cartridge chamber. It is this cartridge chamber |
| course movies are said to be very influential in what is | | | | that really makes an electronic cigarette what it is and |
| considered trendy and what is not. | | | | enables the smoker to reuse it again and again. |
| Actors smoking in movies are often considered bad | | | | Nicotine cartridges are available in various strengths, |
| role models in this modern era, especially with the | | | | including one that contains no nicotine at all. |
| dangers of smoking being firmly established for many | | | | It is clear to see that if the legal wrangling over |
| years now. Head back to the black and white movie | | | | electronic cigarettes is ever resolved and they are |
| yesterdays though, and cigarette smoking was | | | | declared officially safer than tobacco cigarettes, that |
| extremely common as it was considered cool and | | | | these things could be massive. They already seem to |
| sophisticated. | | | | be proving popular with smokers trying to quit regular |
| Perhaps the controversy surrounding the electronic | | | | cigarettes and there are hundreds and hundreds of |
| cigarette and its first few years on sale is making | | | | websites and distributors selling them. |
| Hollywood think twice about approaching the subject, | | | | Some celebrities already rumoured to have switched |
| but these things don’t seem to be going away and | | | | to the electronic cigarette are Mr Titanic himself, |
| they are yet to be proved anything less than healthier | | | | Leonardo Dicaprio, Tom Petty, and Nikki Reid. Perhaps |
| than regular tobacco cigarettes as there is no tobacco | | | | a scene in the current top movie at the world box |
| present in the e cig, as it is sometimes known. | | | | office, Avatar, where Sigourney Weaver’s |
| How long will it really be though, until we see some of | | | | character is seen smoking, and has caused much |
| our modern day movie icons “vaping” away on | | | | controversy, will in the future be a scene featuring the |
| an electronic cigarette in a Hollywood blockbuster? | | | | electronic cigarette? |