It looks like a cigarette (right down to the glowing red tip) and delivers that nice dose of nocotine like a cigarette, but proponents say electronic cigarettes are a healthy and cost effective alternative to smoking. Ooh boy.
Electronic cigarettes contain no tobacco and don't burn – instead they consist of a microchip and a "harmless" liquid that, when the user inhales, turns into a virtually odorless vapor and then provides the hit of nicotine. "Our product is comparable to the nicotine patch except people still get the oral fixation, which they love," explained Elicko Taieb, CEO of Smoking Everywhere in an article on CNN.com.
Wait, it gets better, Taieb says the company is "pretty sure" the product is safe. "There are no ingredients in our e-cigs that can cause cancer. However, it is a pretty new product, so we are not 100 percent sure of the side effects at this point."
It's words like "pretty sure" and "virtually odorless" that make you want to run right out and buy a pack. Alas, the FDA is clamping down and trying to halt importation of e-cigs since they're considered unapproved new drug and all that and politicians are getting in on the action too.
Now, in a just world, fashion model robots would get hooked on e-cigs.
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I have tried Electronic cigarettes and have found www.torchcigarettes.com to be the best quality and price.With cigarette taxes going up again, switching is the smart choice. It's kind of funny...this product addresses all of the non-smokers issues, cancer, tar, smell, second-hand smoke and even litter, I would think that they would be dancing in the streets. Heaven forbid that I still get my nicotine desires met!
Nanny State at it again....
Unbelievable that they are trying to ban these. I bought one at www.safesmokes.net for under $30. It came 2 days later, and I haven't has a real cigarette since then. They taste fine, there is no odor I can detect. No one complains when I use it indoors. Way cheaper than real cigarettes too. If you want to try quitting, this is an easy way to wean yourself off cigarettes.I wonder sometimes if these
I wonder sometimes if these articles aren't put up just so the vendors can put a spam comment hawking their brand.I have one of these and I love it. While I have had a couple cigarettes since getting mine I've not had more than a handful in the last 2 months being perfectly content to puff away on my digital smoke.
It even has a USB adapter so I can plug it into my computer ;-) The juices come in a variety of flavors and stregths from 0 to very strong.
Hopefully the current efforts to ban these devices will get stalled and they can be brought into compliance with the regulatory requirements they are litterally life savers.
If you are interested go to www.e-cigarette-forum.com where you can read and compare reviews on most of the available products from actual people rather than hitting up the first vendor who happens to get a comment in. The forum is also a good resource for all information relating to E-cigarettes in general.