Are You Up To Date On The Electronic Cigarette Controversy

The electronic cigarette is something that is either being heavily promoted, or heavily contested among the public due to the fact that there is no certainty here or there about whether or not there are serious health risks from using it and if it is healthier than regular cigarettes or not. Naysayers will say that the electronic cigarette has a higher risk of causing nicotine poisoning, and thus far that has been the primary argument against them. Many who have done their own independent research have found this new product to be a more helpful than harmful device that, if used correctly, it could be used as a means of helping someone quit smoking. 

The nicotine in this new version of a cigarette is made up mostly of water, alcohol, nicotine, propylene glycol, and flavorings. However, despite this fact, many researches cling onto the remote possibility of nicotine poisoning as a result of misuse. It has been the most used possible problem by researchers. There have yet to be any other medical issues brought up. 

This product has actually been used by many as, despite not being marketed as such, a quit smoking device. This product does not use many of the chemicals that are put in cigarette tobacco. They are also technically smokeless, emitting only a vapor that gives the smoker the sensation of smoking. The electronic cigarettes, while not FDA approved as of yet, are not shown to have any of the other side effects of smoking conventional cigarettes, such as bad breath, stained breath, and the very serious lung cancer. The product acts similarly to the patch, in the sense that it releases only nicotine into the body and not any of the other additives into the body.

Another point of controversy is that many nonsmokers think that this means that any smoker friends they have will use the electronic cigarette as a license to smoke all of the time and stink up the place. But even this argument is void, because the electronic cigarette does not burn anything. Even the smoke which they often complain about is not even smoke by definition. It is actually an odorless vapor. That is right: an odorless vapor. This means that nobody will be stinking up anything. In fact, this is one of the factors that makes this smoking apparatus so popular. And to those who think the electronic cigarette is more expensive, it is actually more cost efficient compared to buying pack after pack of cigarette.