Hoping to kick the butt with Electronic Cigarettes?
Read on to know all about the electronic cigarette disadvantages and hidden dangers before you take a decision.
What are Electronic Cigarettes?
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Electronic Cigarettes are battery operated devices that have been developed as an alternative to normal cigarettes. These are made up of a heater, a battery and a cartridge that contains a solution of propylene glycol, nicotine and some other chemicals. It gives a smoker the apparent effect of nicotine intake without delivering the toxic elements like Tobacco, Carbon Monoxide and Tar that harms the lungs. There is bad breath or yellowing of teeth either.
Man smoking Electronic Cigarette. Source: onefoot
Electronic Cigarette History
The electronic cigarette was devised in 2003 by a Chinese druggist named Hon Lik. It was introduced into the Chinese market in 2004. It began to be marketed abroad from 2005 by Golden Dragon Holdings, the company where Hon worked.
The Electronic Cigarette Association is the body that includes all private companies in trading of electronic cigarettes.
Are Electronic Cigarette Dangerous?
Electronic Cigarettes were first popularized as a safer way of nicotine intake. While Electronic Cigarette consumption is safer than having actual cigarettes filled with tobacco, they are not really a total safe option.
Read on to know about some of the main Electronic Cigarette dangers.
Diethylene Glycol
Electronic Cigarettes are found to contain an anti-freeze component known as Diethylene Glycol. It is toxic to humans and can cause health worries on inhalation. This is one of the major Electronic Cigarette side effects.
Toxicity
Other than Diethylene Glycol, e-cigarettes also contain cancer-causing compounds like nitrosamines. If the cigarette accidentally breaks, humans may be exposed to such harmful components.
Electronic Cigarette Picture. Source: shopkami
Bad Marketing
The marketing strategy of e-cigarettes has also come under criticism. Many electronic cigarette brands are being found to offer e-cigarettes in various flavours like mint, orange and chocolate. This can entice smokers as well as non-smokers. This actually promotes smoking rather than curbing it.
Some electronic cigarette juices have caramel and strawberry flavourings that may attract children into smoking.
Nicotine
Health experts argue that electronic cigarettes contain nicotine, the basic element found in cigarettes. In an electronic cigarette liquid nicotine is used. Nicotine is an alkaloid medicine that is harmful for humans. A long drag on the cigarette can make you actually suck some of the liquid nicotine into your mouth. This can be very damaging for health. You have to drag the cigarette slowly for 3-5 seconds, which is not always possible to be careful about.
Tetramethylpyrazine
E-cigarettes also consist of Tetramethylpyrazine. Prolonged exposure to Tetramethylpyrazine can result in brain damage in human beings.
Misuse
There is also a widespread concern that electronic cigarette consumption may promote drug use. There are reports of liquid nicotine being substituted with liquid THC, a popular potent marijuana resin. If electronic cigarette e liquid is replaced with addictive drugs, it can become highly damaging to health. It can cause further breakdown of the health instead of improving it. In any case, electronic cigarettes do not contribute to health.
Cost-Effective
That the electronic cigarette costs less is also a factor that can aid its popularity. Many websites offer these devices at a starting price of about 40 pounds. Cartridge refills are available for less than a pound. This is far lesser than monthly expenditure on actual cigarettes.
Do Electronic Cigarettes cause Cancer?
People often worry whether Electronic Cigarettes give rise to cancer. In electronic cigarette nicotine, flavourings and many other harmful chemicals are used that may have cancerous effects on the body. However, carcinogenic electronic cigarette health risks have not been proved by any study.
Electronic Cigarette Risks for Heart
Electronic cigarette cartridges contain nicotine which can cause heart ailments. Cartridges containing even traces of nicotine can be risky for the health of your heart. The risk can be reduced only by using Electronic Cigarette no nicotine cartridges.
Is Electronic Cigarette Good For You?
It is a fact that no electronic cigarette company is endorsed by any health organization. This is the reason why there has been an effective Electronic Cigarette ban in a number of countries like Canada. While Electronic Cigarettes are less dangerous compared to real cigarettes, they are still a threat to smokers. For an effective removal of smoking habit, it is best to give up smoking completely. It is best not to try to stop smoking with Electronic Cigarettes.
Who wrote this scare tactic post? Someone from the FDA with no proof? Let’s play FDA here. Where’s your documented proof from laboratory tests??
In traditional Oriental medicine, Ligusticum wallichii Franchat (Chuan Xiong) is applied in the treatment of neurovascular and cardiovascular diseases. Tetramethylpyrazine (TMP), a purified and chemically identified component of Chuan Xiong, has strong effects to scavenge oxygen free radicals. It has been shown that TMP can alleviate kidney and brain damage induced by I/R via scavenging free radicals.
Have to agree this is a scaremongering article. I wouldn’t argue they are 100% safe but would that they are 99% safer than cigarettes with 1 or 2 chemicals instead of 4000 tocix chemicals in a cigarette.
Finally this scary anti-freeze this article talks about, propene gylcol used in some ecig liquids is also known as food additive E1520 and has many uses including being added to pipe tobacco.
The FDA of course want to attack the industry, its losing them money.
E-cigs aren’t banned in Canada, but the e-cigs are still no where as bad as actuall cigs, like I’m looking at what’s inside real cigs, and Formaldehyde, tar, and the same chemical that makes up garbage bags seems worse than what’s in the E-cig…doesn’t all this smack on the e-cig sound like a smear campaign fueled by the tobacco companies… Yeah if I made billions of dollars off death and addiction, I wouldn’t want a healthier alternative (that appears to be the next best thing after quitting) around either…
Holy smoke, Batman! What a load of crock.
Diethylene glycol (antifreeze is ethylene, *not* diethylene): Tobacco humectant. U.S. allows less than 0.2% when used as a *food additive*. If you already smoke, you’re ingesting it. Or, if you eat. Traces were found, from 1 seller. We need regulation, not banning.
Nitrosamines: Found in tobacco AND *FDA approved smoking cessation products*. You still get less in an e-cig than a regular one.
There’s nicotine! Duh. That’s the whole point.
If it breaks, it can be dangerous! Also true for your vibrator & car battery. Hell, 3 tuna steaks can give you mercury poisoning. Ban tuna?
E-cigs are not as good as not smoking, but better than inhaling tar, ashes and 100+ chemicals. My friend is 75, sweet little old lady & a heavy smoker w/ bad asthma. She simply can’t quit, even tho it’s killing her. A lesser-harm e-cig may save her life. You tell her, nodeal & co., to suck it up and quit cold turkey or die?
I’d like to see you tell her that face to face.
I can’t stand blogs posting as medical articles, read carefully the part about nicotine. Not one specific piece of real information, especially when many Dr’s say nicotine is addictive but doesn’t cause disease. And then contradicts at the end were through the whole blog talks about how these are dangerous and has cancer causing chemicals then at the end says no evidence has been shown that these cause cancer. And the part with the can be used to deliver liquid THC. a soda can could also deliver THC. any pot smoker that ran out of contraband can tell you that. And the process to get liquid THC would make it improbable as well. You need to heat up the THC to it’s boiling temp and then distill it into another container, do you know how much pot you would need to make enough to fill a cart? Far more than would be worth it to waist.lol this is another one of those blogs where you tell someone that ecigs not bad for you and they want to disagree because smoking is looked down on and then you go into a prove it match and the pull up this garbage and say… See …and in the end now everyone is wrong because no one can be proven otherwise.
We all know how bad real ciggs are & there is undeniable proof of this. The FDA regulates Ciggs Why are real ciggs not banned & made illegel?
I would look beyond just blaming the FDA and searching out the most likely culprits, the tobacco companies themselves.
I’ve only been using my e-cig for 5 days, and first and foremost I can breathe, my teeth are back to being white, I love that I don’t smell like an ashtray, and my sense of smell and taste have returned.
In regard to this and other hit pieces on the web, it’s all about taxes people. The Feds take $1.00 per pack and each state also gets their cut. If smokers stop using tobacco products and switch to e-cigs (like I did) they can’t collect taxes.
gotta say, i smoked for thirty years, nonstop. bought the e cig, vapor4 life brand ten days ago, and i dont smoke regular cigarettes at all anymore. i feel good, and i only am toking about 15 times per day on the e cigarette, i highly reccomend it for people wanting to quit, especially long term smokers
Wow, beware that the tobacco companies and FDA put people out there in all kinds of places to scare you into continuing to smoke because anything else is not regulated! LOL. What about booze? h they are forced to endorse not abusing alcohol now these days, hmm why is that? Smoking? The E-smoke being a bad bad thing and having no proof? BS. I’m awaiting my shipment of the new E-smokes and can’t be happier.
Hey maybe the e-cigarette is not the bad thing here but the cartridges, I’m a smoker for 15 years and I want to quit but can’t bec. I got hooked up…my sis bought me this hoping that I can stop my nicotine intake or lessen it for that matter, I’m bit skeptical because this is a new thing for me, but one thing for sure, whenever I inhale it, I feel something heavy in my lungs…if it is my lungs or heart, that’s why I really am researching on this. So if anybody can draw the line from FDA to strictly regulate the contents of the cartridges but not the e-cigarette…it would be great!
Despite removal of some benign growth on the voice box and the doctor instructing me to give up immediately and forever, just could not live without cigarettes. Tried giving up but failed miserably – went back after 6 agonizing weeks.
3 weeks ago started e’lite – its magic man, haven’t felt the need for a real fag since then. Don’t feel guilty of smoking socially or indoors any more. Feel clean and am now waiting for some health benefits.
is using e cigarrete can lead to cancer or brain damage???????
Have smoked for 16 yrs. I bought an e-cig with the liquid nicotine. It has been 7 days. I have not smoked a real cig. in that week. Feel better in the morning. The e-cig helps take the edge off. Similar to the gum or a patch. Smoking way less with the e-cig. I bet in another week I can quit the e-cig too.
i was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for 20 years, bought an ecigarette and since that day i have the same pack of marlboro, never smoked again, 7 days now i´m still ajusting to the nicotine level on the e cigarette find that 18% is to much for me going to reduce to 11% and the plan is to reach 0% for all smokers that, like myselve never could quit because the cigarette gives pleasure and nicotine needs try the e-cigarette and you will quit smoking and start fell better in every way, smell, skin color, breath, taste, no more lighters cigarettes burns on sofas, car seats, walls becoming yellow after some time smoking there you will look at smokers in a different way and be greatfull for your choice, not the perfect one the best one would be quit any type of smoking but still the right step,as for myselve, its a miracle i still dont believe how easy it was for me ….
I’m from the UK, I’m a long term smoker I’ve tried every thing there is to stop. A few months ago i started to feel the effects of smoking for so long. pain in my chest when i breathed in, I did get that checked out. bad breath, yellow teeth and brown fingers: bad sleep pattern the list goes on. I had to stop but nicotine it my poison. By chance i meet someone using a e-cig and asked him about it; and it sounded like a solution to my needs. So i went home got straight on the net and did some research on them. there is not much or if any medical research on them but there is a lot of personal statements from people who have used them and still using them and they are all good. So i got my self one as a means to cut down on cigs but ( and this is a good but )after a week the real cigs tasted like crap, so much so that I’m now off them completely, and i feel so much better. I can breath with ease, sleep like a log, smoke were i want now which is the one i really like ( two fingers to the anti-smoking natzi’s ). so all i can say is F**k them.
I put on a fundraiser just last Friday for Cancer Care reaserch. I remember thinking during the night that I need to get out for a smoke because I was craving one. And then I thought wow…when the heck am I going to quit this habit?! I’m here with people who have beat cancer! Just before I was about to go out side I saw a girl smoking a e-cig. I had been wondering about the e-cig for some time and if it would help me to quit smoking. Well she just happen to have another starter kit on her as she just came back from a trip to the U.S and picked up a few to bring back home to Canada. I bought the kit and have not smoked again since. I loved smoking, but I did it! I’m pretty sure the Show…”The Doctors” Would not be saying that it is a great way to quit smoking if it were so bad for you. See for yourself just goole e-puffer dr show. Our government makes way too much tax dollars from smokers to want them to quit. I bet they are just planning how to market the e-cig so they can tax the $*#T out of that as well. But until that happens of course they are going to ban the sale and say they are bad.
Paulo feud said it perfectly. I have smoked about 17 yrs and I tried to quit many times unsuccessfully and now I have not smoked a real cigarette for a MONTH! these e-cigs work but only if u want to quit. I wanted to and did all because of the e-cig. Thank u inventor.
Anybody that smokes regular or electronic cigarettes is just plain stupid.
Why the hell would any government ban e-cigs! 4000-10,000 Chemicals vs. like 4-14 chemicals (all of course included in cigs). In itself, that strongly suggests that E-cigs are safer by several orders of magnitude. I can’t believe the dirty power moves that wealthy elitist of Big Tobacco are using. This article is disgusting. The amount of nitroasmines found in (certain eliquids), in the FDA study, was at least like 500 times less than whats found in a single cigarette.
thats a pretty unfair comment seeing everyone here is trying to give each other positives stories to their success of quitting smoking. nicotine is a pretty powerful addiction be it a ecig or gum or patch hats off to all of us deciding to quit personally an e cig has been the only thing that has worked for me
That they are safer for the environment has not been proven. Just the fact that there are so many chemicals in them is proof enough that they are a hazard to the smoker. Anyone who is hell bent on killing themselves without calling it suicide, will use these cancer sticks. This is not a scare tactic, it is harsh reality.
i quit smoking real cigs 2 weeks after i started using the e cig after 3 weeks i quit the e cigs its been a month now and i have tried to quit several times without the e cig ive smoked for 40 yrs
E-cigs ARE dangerous people!!
The article clearly shows this and does not even mention the most dangerous aspect which is that if you tripand fall with an e-cig in your hand you run the very serious risk of impaling yourself upon it (whereas normal cigarrette this would be impossible) Impalement in humans is the leading cause of a terminal condition known as “gut-spill” ..most victims die before reaching a hospital. Why play russian-roulette with your life? Stick to regular cigs -much, much safer
Sincerly,
Phillip M.
well the only danger i guess when you are using e-cig is when u prick or stab anyone with this cool puffy! have some puff dude!
i just recently bought an e-cigarette; i’ve been smoking since i was twelve and i feel this is the easiest way to quit as my will power is not strong enough to quit cold turkey. the first thing i though when i read the article is cigarette manufacturers are behind this or hired someone to write this, but then it’s so obvious. i’m gonna stick with the e-cig for now. i’ll get bck to you later
@skiptick: Seriously? You could catch yourself on fire with a match or lighter. You could impale yourself with a lighter too.
You could stab yourself with a pair of scissors, knife or fork, yet they aren’t banned. Pens and pencils should be banned too. Your TV remote could be dangerous. What if it were to catch on fire and you inhale the toxic plastic substances?
Your argument is as idiotic as any of these.
You missed the saracastic joke that person made how? Haha it was signed Phillip M. You know like Phillip Morris? Geez XD
I have been googling ‘side effects of e-cigs’.
What happened to me.
Ordered my e-cigs and from the day they were delivered have not had another tobacco cigarette. After a couple weeks, I also stopped the e-cigs.
Wonderful, right? No tobacco cigs OR e-cigs. Totally nicotine free!!
But – my breathing did NOT get better. It got worse every day. After a cig free month, I was very short winded just walking across a room. I actually considered having some tobacco cigs to see if my breathing would get better, like it was before I stopped smoking, but didn’t do it.
I ended up in the Emergency room and in the hospital on Oxygen for a week. Then went to rehab for 3 weeks to regain strength (still on oxygen).
Went home – NO home Oxygen or any other treatment recommended. Oximeter readings in low 90’s.
Now 6 months later, still no e-cigs or reg. cigs. Oximeter readings in the 80’s and once 76. Getting winded easily again.
Is the above a side effect of e-cigs?
Anyone else having this type of problem?
Terri
Hi i would like to try the e-cig but how do u know which one to buy? there are so many on the market.
I just got the ecig from krave very interesting not sure if its a placebo effect or what but didn’t buy a pack since and feels like I can tough out my withdrawls. Will holla later so far 2 days
I started my E cig last saturday…haven’t smoked a real cigarette since…I have smoked for 20+ years and like this alternative as a way to eventually quit. Like many of you, I researched what little info was available, and there is no “healthy” cigarette, I feel this is a great alternative for those trying to quit, or smokers who want a healthier habit at best. Honestly, I was thrilled with 21st century ecig, good taste, no odors, no stigma…husband is a non-smoker I always smoked outside, but nice to have one inside with my coffee during the “crutch times” we smokers know what those are 🙂 especially when humid and 96 degrees..ugh. I find in the last 4 days I am smoking less, nice.
If you use an e-cig too much it is bad for you, especially if you use the liquid nicotine.
I have been seriously ill after a few days of use using the ego-t system.
They give way too much of a hit in 1 single drag.
I also got a blister in my mouth and throat from the hot steam.
I’m a 30 Marlboro a day man for 30 years plus. Had no thoughts of stopping or cutting down until I lit up after coming off a train and being accosted by a seller at Euston station two weeks ago. She asked me to try E-Lites…..they were good, tasted like the real thing and gave me the nicotine hit I need. Take it from me troops, they work. I haven’t smoked a real ciggy for 12 days now, all I need is this E-Ciggy. They’re a lot cheaper, apparently healthier and taste just like the real thing…….For that reason, I’m in!
Thanks for the Article. The FDA supports much of what you have said. Check out the FDA article here.
skiptick is absolutely correct… self-impaling is a real issue people! Not to mention those who have lost an eye… the e-cigs must be underwritten by glass eye manufacturers!
I just had a stent put in my major leg artery after 40 years of smoking 2 packs per day. Will the nicotine in the e-cigs finish me off?
Propylene glycol
These are the items its used in.
As a moisturizer in medicines, cosmetics, food, toothpaste, shampoo, mouth wash, hair care and tobacco products.. yes in the food you have all eaten.
FDA says- In one study, rats were provided with feed containing as much as 5% PG in feed over a period of 104 weeks and they showed no apparent ill effects.[16] Because of its low chronic oral toxicity, propylene glycol was classified by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration as “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) for use as a direct food additive.
read up on it here …check the sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propylene_glycol
skipstik.you seem to be forgetting about all the harmful chemicals that are found in real smokes.that aren’t found in e-ciggs.impalement is a poor excuse used buy an idiodic person who doesn’t understand health and well being.e-ciggs are much healthier than real ciggs from a medical point of view.in regards to this i am not saying that e-ciggs are healthy either.i’m just saying that they’re not as harmful
Terri …no joke, you just wrote 1/2 of my story verbatum! I got out of the hospital today and immediately came here to see if any one else had the same thing happen, I quit smoking tabacco and went to e-cigs with the intention to quit smokin and made it down to 6mg cartridges. At first I ignored the cough which turned into no air getting in my lungs walking from the couch to the bathroom of my small home. I also entered the hospital through the emergency room and was on oxygen for 5days. i came home today with 7 perscriptions and a grim diagnosis not pointed to the e-cigs. i 100% believe it was the e-cigs because i started coughing while useing them and figured it was because my body was getting rid of the old tobacco products my lungs were probably expelling. I wonder if we used the same brand coincidentlly, or if not, i wonder if thir all harmful. i am very scared. I hope you are still out there to respond. blu products & Smoke51 products used
I have been on another brand other than Green Smoke for 11 weeks. I went to the zero tips 2 weeks ago. Sence then I have developed a cough, sore throat and sore tongue. I just change to the Green Smoke yesterday. I paray it helps. I can’t go back to smoking. Need some feed back. Thanks
I just bought the white cloud cirrius 2 menthol light starter kit. After approx. 8 hours of use (about 4/5 cigarettes worth) I got something like swimmers ear or like when your on an airplane but all the yawning and opening and closing my mouth would not get rid of it. I was dizzy and holding on to the walls to walk thru the house, also nauseas, scary. It’s been over 12 hours and I’m still not right. I am taking it back to the shopping mall kiosk that I bought it to get my money back. To scary for me. They have to mention possible side effects or somekind of warning, not buyer beware or buy at your own risk.
Thanks Eddie. I was actually going to buy the same starter kit. I now will skip this system.
I have smoked for years…the e-cig is now saving my life….:)
There are two primary liquids which are used in electronic cigarettes. Vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol or vg and pg respectively. While both of these are on the list of the FDA as considered safe, and tests have been done with vaporized pg an it’s safety, a small number of people do experience an allergic reaction to pg. If you start coughing and having respiratory problems STOP using that cartomizer or liquid. Ask for the vg. It won’t taste exactly the same, and it won’t have the throat hit… But it does produce alot of vapor. The detrimental effects of nicotine can be summed up with its ability to slow the healing process and cell regeneration. Two groups of people are most at risk… Those with bone fractures heal slower and can have complications, and those receiving chemo for diagnosed cancer can have a slower recovery or complications. This goes for all nicotine be it in the patch, gum, or e cigs. Nicotine is not carcinogenic and is a stimulant much like caffeine.
Im 25 yrs old and have been smoking since i was 16. i quit when my son was born in 2009 along with my wife. I started back in 2010, my wife did not. i had to hide it from her. Now with My E GO E-CIG, Monster flavored, i have quit for good. its been 1 month. now i can go home smelling like lacoste instead of smoke/ Health wise i have noticed a slight cough in the morning and i sometimes cough up flem like substance that i seemed to think old gunk from smoking cigs. other than that i feel healthier and breath better while working out.
@cuervo that a really stupid thing to say about 97% of us have a reason to smoke like we have had a hard life something that you might not know about… Im going to start on the e-cig to try it if you dont try it people how will you know if it work , these things may have there risks but thats life everything has a risk. The only reason they have been banned is because the Goverments cant get money out of us ! I havent tryed them yet but i would recomend people to just give them a bash..
James.
I gave up real cigs Dec 31, 2011…I have been using the e-cig and seem to be doing well. I am having a hard time sleeping…not sure what’s up with that. I’ve smoked for many yrs…so I first gave the cigs to the Lord…then started with the ecig…so good luck all…my plan is to pray ALOT and use the ecig.
I have been on e-lites for 1 week, yes my lungs are cleaning but i have had a dry throat. But overall everthing is good , i wake up fresh my clothes are clean and i am doin what i promised at 39 years take action for my future . I am hoping when ready to quit even the e-lites but slowly does it.
But what Eddie says I have to admit. I have the nicotine dropper. I start to use it right a way. First I was dizzy. Than I had waves that I could not consantrate. Than I could not finish my sentence. After 2 hours . It went gone. Must be the nicotine that I had to get use to instead of the cems of the cigarette
I smoked for 30 years. I’ve tried quitting many times…the patches, nicotine gum, dum-dum suckers, cold turkey…nothing worked. I bought an e-cig and today marks day 28 since I’ve smoked a real cig. I feel great! No more smoke smell on my clothes or breath…no more coughing…my food tastes better…I can smell better…I don’t get out of breath as quickly. E-cigs are bad? Probably, a little. But a way better choice then real smoking!!! I agree that the FDA is losing money on those of us who are choose an alternative to cigarettes and that they would do ANYTHING and SAY ANYTHING up to and including lying to bash the e cig industry. It’s all about the almighty dollar!
I USED BLU E-CIGS FOR 1 DAY AND I STARTED COUGHING ALOT AND SPITTING UP ALOT OF FLEM IS THIS NORMAL?
Yeah. It is called what happens when you are not smoking cigs. You go through withdrawal. Jesus how could someone not know this?
I smoked for 40, yes FOURTY YEARS!!! With the e-cigs help, AND lots of prayers, I am now today, 12 weeks free from smoking!! Praise the Lord and e-cigs!!
I am using Logic e-cigs, I have tried many before this one. This is the best on the market. July 29th has been six months since I smoked a cigarette, and I will never go back to them. Congrats to all who have stopped cigarettes. I feel so much better, no wheezing at night when trying to sleep, I can exercise better without being out of breath, I can finally run. My food tastes better, I can smell much better. Overall, I FEEL GREAT!!!! Go on the website and try the LOGIC e-cigs I promise you, you will not be disappointed, I order the 400 Puffs Logic Value – 5 pack Platinum.
Gave up a year ago using the e-cig! My doctor said how well I had done & put me down as a non smoker on record knowing I am still using the e-cig. I don’t think a doctor would have taken this action if he thought the e-cig was in anyway dangerous. I feel so much better, no smelling like an ashtray, my hair & clothes, car & house are always fresh. I use to suffer with chest infections every cold I caught was more like flu with a nasty cough that dragged on for weeks, since using the e-cig I have had 2 colds the past year that lasted all of 3 days with absolutely no cough at all! My teeth & nails are whiter. Even my head feels clearer. I love the fact that when I go to bed & wake up, I DONT wheeze anymore! My chest is completely clear. So thank goodness for the E-CIG!!!
i find this a biased one sided article that isnt backed up with many actual facts.it also turns a blind eye to the positives of smoking an e-cig rather than a regular cigarette.
the whole article hasnt any comparisons to the level of harmful chemicals or the dangers compared to other daily goods. ie a cup of coffee can be classed as bad for you if you really wanted to make an issue of it.
so i will go on what i know from experience. e cigs are better for you than regular cigarettes in everyway. health wise ,safety wise ,socially hygenicaly and financially.
for those who are preaching about them being bad – a.imo you dont know what your talking about and b. do you worry about peoples health as much when you drive past them in your car ? spouting Carbon monoxide, Nitrogen dioxide, Sulphur dioxide, Benzene, Formaldehyde ,Polycyclic hydrocarbons and Lead into the air they breath! i can smoke an ecig for months before i get anything close to the health risk of 5 seconds stuck next to you at a traffic light while on my bike.
i choose to enjoy nicotine , i dont choose to have you poison me with you vehicle exhaust. get real and put the actual dangers into context and stop scaremongering.
any of the above problems in posts are either not connected to e-cigs in anyway and were underlying health problems the person had anyway , or are at most just the slim exeption to the rule that most people who use e-cigs are fine.
If i could grow my own tobacco and distribute it I’m sure their would be another issue to gripe about. To each their own. Good luck E smokers
I smoked 25 years,quit many times but always restarted. first day on vapor I never even thought about cigs for 6 months so far. excellent way to stop smoking. as far as dangers,common sense tells me hot ,burning stinking dry, smoke used to make beef jerky,,in your lungs,,verses moist tasty vapor my body can flush out easily,i choose vapor..only losers are tobacco industry and health care monies and of course the governments loss of the ridiculous taxes on tobacco products.!
i smoked for 25 years , quit many times but always restarted,within weeks, first day on vapor I never even thought about cigs for 6 months and going, excellent quit method, as far as dangers? common sense tells me hot,burning,dry,stinking smoke used to make beef jerky, (flooding your lungs) verses moist tasty vapor my body can easily flush out,i chose vapor. the only losers are the tobacco industry,health care industry,(healthier patients) and of course the governments loss of the ridiculous taxes imposed on tobacco products. these vapor devices are nasa technology,,you can adjust them precisely to your needs in every respect i’m still waiting for the vitamin solution to put in my vapor device,and who knows what else these things can be used for in health care!
I was a 47 year smoker. I coughed up wads of yucky stuff all the time. I was sick of the smell it left on me. So my baby sister bought me an ecig as a help for me to quit. I am now two and a half months a non smoker. Even though I smoked for years I have always been very active and my lungs were clear according to my doctor. But truthfully I think I feel better than I have in years. As far as my home goes I have never smoked inside. I didn’t want to pollute my family’s or my pet’s lungs with my habit. Food taste so much better and I can smell the rain again. I hope to toss the ecig out very soon. I want to be FREE of it all. With 9 grandchildren and being 64 I have a lot to do before I go home to see the Lord. Best of luck to all of you.
After using the ecig for one year I developed glaucoma. I’m hoping it’s just coincidence. Has anyone else experienced this?
I think I may have to just completely quit smoking instead of switching to vaping after learning about the harmful effects of Diethylene Glycol.
Thanks for sharing this. I believe if ecig is used properly it can really help people quit their bad habit. It can be also use for medication. But it Should also be regulated because a lot of teenagers these days are vaping just to look cool and all that.
To all who keep saying they used the s#”‘t for one day and coughed up goop. Yes it is normal. Especially if you have not smoked an actual cigarette your body will expel all the crap it has accumulated. Your natural defense systems get reignited and your body begins the task of detoxifying your lungs. I believe there is too much variance in a sea of products. Find good safe coils and good liquid. Safer than a cigarette? Yes. So in my opinion worth it. You stop using and go through withdrawal so you get freaked out? Give me a break go look up what you all list as ecig side effects by typing in. What happens when you stop smoking? You will see all the things you somehow attributed to a healthier alternative.