While our parents might not have known the dangers of smoking, today it’s a well-known fact that smoking is hazardous not only to our health, but those around us. Luckily, the electronic cigarette, a new safe alternative to smoking, has arrived. Benefits of the Smokeless Cigarette The benefits of the smokeless cigarette are many, including: [...]
What Do Smokeless Cigarettes Have To Do With Big Tobacco Companies? Can you answer the question of whether we can trust big tobacco companies to make smokeless cigarettes? Everyone has an opinion on important questions and this is a timely question. Why? The reason for this question is because smokeless cigarettes are becoming more popular [...]
Secondhand smoke, also called “passive” smoke, or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), is smoke that fills offices, vehicles, restaurants, homes, or other enclosed areas where people smoke cigarettes, pipes or cigars. Non-smokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke are known as “involuntary” or “passive” smokers, and take in nicotine and other chemicals, just like the smoker [...]
Smokeless cigarettes, or “e-cigarettes”, are battery-powered devices that are designed to look much like traditional tobacco-filled cigarette. The electronic cigarette uses a nicotine (or a non-nicotine cartridge), which when inhaled by the smoker, produces a vapor, which looks very similar to tobacco smoke. These electronic cigarettes have strengths and flavors similar to conventional cigarettes, including [...]
Those that have tried know that quitting smoking is certainly no easy task. In fact, smoking cigarettes is one of the most powerful addictions there are, i know i have been there. There are a few lucky people who quit “cold turkey” – they put down the cigarettes and never pick them up again, but [...]
The electronic cigarette, smokeless cigarette, E-Cig or electric cigarette (take your pick!) is an electrical device that is powered by a small, lithium ion battery that is cleverly designed as the same shape and size of the body of a regular cigarette, and simulates the act of smoking. The electronic cigarette was invented by Hon [...]
There has been a lot of controversy surrounding the electric cigarette since its launch a few years ago with many new to the product not knowing what the best electric cigarette has to offer. So much so that it is quite possibly one of the most questioned, or should i say misunderstood products to come [...]
There have been a number of celebrities that have switched over to smokeless cigarettes, lets take a look at a few right now…. Katherine Heigl 1st celeb we are going to feature is Katherine Heigl who famously appeared on the David Letterman show and spent some time talking about and using an electronic cigarette, if [...]
What is it that makes electronic cigarettes safe? The answer lies in what they’re not, perhaps rather more than what they are. In a word, they are not regular, tobacco-burning cigarettes – and therein lies the key. With no tobacco to burn, there is no smoke. And it is the smoke that is universally acknowledged [...]
FDA intervention The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) do not like electronic cigarettes or the relative freedom with which they are currently marketed. The bureaucracy wants to be able to regulate e-cigarettes in the same way that conventional tobacco products are regulated, under the provisions of something called the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco [...]
