Quit Smoking / Smoking: Are Electronic Cigarettes Safe?
Electronic cigarettes are slowly becoming popular as healthier alternatives to normal cigarettes. They are also sold as smoking cessation tools. However, are these cigarettes safe? Experts opine they are not. Even though they do not contain smoke, tar, and other chemicals, there is no scientific proof that electronic cigarettes are safer than normal cigarettes.
What are Electronic Cigarettes?
Electronic cigarettes contains a cartidge/ mouthpiece which contains shots of nicotine, a heating element to vaporize nicotine, and a battery. When a smoker inhales this device, the nicotine solution is vaporized through the heating element and the smoker would be inhaling the nicotine vapor.
Electronic cigarettes look similar to normal cigarettes and they also contains an LED, which gives an orange light at the tip of the cigarette. Electronic cigarettes do not contain the toxic smoke, tar, and chemicals present in a normal cigarette.
Why Electronic Cigarettes May Not Be Safe?
Here are the reasons why electronic cigarettes may not be safe:
World Health Organization pointed out that there is lack of knowledge regarding electronic cigarettes, which can be risky. Electronic cigarettes are new, and they do not have any scientific evidence that they are healthier alternatives. Hence, if you would like to quit cigarettes, speak to your physician about nicotine replacement therapies approved by FDA.
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March 4th, 2009 at 7:22 am
I’ve been smoking electronically for a few months now. Though they do contain nicotine (which is obviously addictive), i still find them to be MUCH safer than normal cigs since they don’t contain tar, toxins etc.
May 16th, 2009 at 2:27 am
I am using electronic cigarettes. Please do the studies of how much nicotine is enhaled and exhaled. Find out the safe amount when vaporizing nicotine and breathing it second hand. This looks like a less harmfull solution. Best used as a life saver for smokers. I think that one should also quit E-Cigs and if you can not, then do not go back to normal cigarettes. Please establish if E-Cigs are less danderous than tabacco cigaretts. Hate to say it but at least then one can choose the least harmfull of both. Maybe having less dangerous alternatives will help us to break the nicotine habit. So far there is no real solution to breaking the habit.
May 20th, 2009 at 5:32 am
These kind of nonsense articles are an a front to any intelligent person. Are regular cigarettes approved by the FDA??? Of course not. So that whole point is irrelevant. And it should be obvious to anyone that while we don’t know if these are safe or not they are clearly much safer than regular cigarettes. And there’s no second hand smoke to complain about either. This product should be heralded as the next great step in the effort to reduce the number of smokers and to reduce the number of early deaths that regular cigarettes cause.
Joe
PS. I am NOT a smoker.
June 20th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Joe put it best.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
This article is a joke. It talks about the e-cigarette being unregulated. Since when have “real” cigarettes regulated? We still don’t know all the ingredients in any given brand of cigarettes (Newport, Camel, Kools, etc.). At least we know what is in these. I’m a smoker and am willing to give this a try. I think Big Tobacco companies are behind pressuring the FDA to ban these. They are pissed about the big settlements they had to dole out and whining about how the government has raised taxes even though they pass these on to us who continue to smoke. I will try this just to defy the Big Tobacco companies, the government, and the FDA. I don’t condone smoking in anyway but I don’t feel I should be ostracized or taken advantage of either for the habits I choose. If I had the time and property, I’d be growing my own smokes. It’s no wonder the smoking community is looking for alternatives. You can’t blame them. And YES, I will quit when I am ready!
August 12th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I just purchased the electronic cigarette, yesterday, per the request of my young son. If I can spare him a lifetime of secondhand smoke, then I have done us both a favor, until the time comes that I can quit for good.
FYI–I’m a nurse. I don’t see the validity of the arguement. The FDA is and has always been a joke.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Some say that using electronic cigarettes can help you quit smoking. Currently there is no scientific evidence for or against it. One option is to gradually lower the level of nicotine in your cartridges to become nicotine and tobacco free.
The other option is to smoke electronic cigarettes with zero nicotine cartridges while applying nicotine patches. That way you separate addiction and habit.