Electronic Cigarettes – A con or a good idea?

Electronic cigarettes have only recently come onto the market and are an alternative to smoking “real” cigarettes. It is a battery operated pen like device that can look like an ordinary pen or can look like an ordinary cigarette which gives the user nicotine hit via a vaporized solution. This is about as close to actually smoking a full normal cigarette without actually smoking one. There is no smoke emitted from the device, no tobacco used or lighting required. You can actually legally use them anywhere anytime legally without fear of recrimination.

All electronic cigarettes come in four parts; a heating element or atomizer, a rechargeable battery, a mouth piece and an electrical LED light cover. The mouth piece or cartridge is disposable and can be bought from stores from up and down the country. Within them they contain a material that is laced with the nicotine solution. You can either refill the mouth piece with more solution if and when it runs out, or you can buy more or replace it. The heating element or atomizer as it is also known vaporizes the liquid which is in the mouth piece so that the nicotine can be inhaled. The battery can be different from make to make and some are lithium based or USB charger. The E cigarettes as they are also known to have an electronic airflow sensor in them. It has a timer on it to prevent it from over heating and cutting out or melting the cigarette. The LED light on the end lights up to let you know that the device is working but also known to help you emulate the action of smoking making it real to you. The battery is rechargeable and some come with a battery cell that can be charged and then replace the one with the lesser charge so that, that one can then be charged.

The nicotine solution is available on the market in a wide range of different flavors and levels of concentrations of nicotine. This is so that it is similar to smoking full strength, mild, ultra light and light cigarettes. The solution can be made up in several different ways where the nicotine solution is made at either six percent, four percent, two percent or 0.1 percent. The flavors are traditional cigarette taste, menthol cigarette tastes and other more interesting flavors such as strawberry, orange, coffee, caramel, lime. Lemon, honey, blueberry, mint and can even be the same tastes as traditional cigarettes like Marlboro.

Somoking these E cigarettes or electronic cigarettes are a lot more healthier than normal cigarettes but are still bad news when it comes to your health. In most countries you will find that their use is completely legal in every way, others you have to buy certain parts on prescription like the nicotine solution itself and in only Australia is the electronic cigarette or E cigarette illegal in all ways. They cannot be sold in this country at all.