Cigarettes That Do Not Cause Cancer - Truths About Electronic Cigarettes

By Marc Riley

In recent years, electronic cigarettes have become one of the most popular cigarette alternatives. But how safe is the electronic cigarette? Here are the facts that will help you rethink about regular and electronic cigarettes.

What's Dangerous About Regular Tobacco Cigarettes? When regular tobacco cigarettes burn, a toxic smoke is generated. This smoke contains over 3,000 chemicals and carcinogens that contribute to deadly diseases, including lung cancer. As if it is not worse enough, the second hand smoke that you breathe out is even more deadlier than the first hand inhalation. This is because the cooler smoke that comes out of the lungs can attack bystanders better than when it was still fresh.

How are Electronic Cigarettes Different Than the Regular Ones? Electronic cigarettes are a relatively new technology that delivers "smoke" without actually burning anything. The "vapor" contains only nicotine, flavors, water, and some harmless ingredients. In other words, there is none of the cancer-causing chemicals and tar that come in regular cigarettes. For this reason, they are a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes.

Information on Nicotine When some people think of nicotine, they think of lung cancer. However, the truth is that nicotine is not carcinogenic. It is actually the other chemicals in tobacco smoke that lead to lung cancer.

As for its addictiveness, nicotine is only mildly so. Still, smokers find regular cigarettes hard to quit because the chemicals and the physical act of smoking both contribute to the habit. While smoking electronic cigarettes is not quitting, you at least knock the habit down to only nicotine as the active ingredient.

So Are Electronic Cigarettes Really Safe to Use? If you ask a doctor if you should smoke anything, the answer is mostly likely to be "no". But if you do smoke, the electronic cigarette is absolutely safer than regular cigarettes. It lacks the dangerous chemicals that cause lung cancer and literally stops smokers from killing themselves.

Some opponents may argue that electronic cigarettes only give people an excuse to continue smoking. They could be right, if the product steers smokers away from quitting to settling for the next best (worse) thing. However, given the fact that a majority of chronic smokers simply accept their fate and continue to use cigarettes, the electronic cigarette is a much, much safer and attractive alternative. The product mimics the appearance and the nicotine level of a real cigarette and gives the user the option of reducing health risks without actually quitting. - 30285

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