Everyone understands that smoking is bad for the health of both smokers and even nearby non-smokers, but what about using so-called smokeless cigarettes?
These are equipment usually promoted by resellers if not usually the makers themselves as safer choices to traditional cigarettes.
Certainly, it is arguable that they’re completely safe if the user chooses a flavored solution which contains no nicotine at all!
Both smokeless and possibly nicontine-less: this is the electronic cigarette nowadays.
Naturally, most who purchase such devices do so for the nicotine content.
The market is made up mostly of current smokers who are looking for a safer way to smoke or simply an alternate way to do so.
And in fact the novelty factor involved is not to be underestimated – which is why many are concerned about their supply to children.
For example, while regular cigarettes are banned for sale to minors in the State of New Hampshire, e-cigarettes are not.
Compounding the worries of such people is the fact that the flavored solutions used are available in, well, a wide variety of flavors, from cherry and chocolate to coffee and even banana split!
Having been only developed in 2003, with American availability only since about two years ago, controversies abound concerning the devices, though some current developments have been favorable to the industry.
Besides a court decision that has kept the United States Federal Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory impulses at bay, a just completed Boston University School of Public Health study finds these products to be much safer, in reality, than conventional cigarettes as well as of potential assistance to smoking cessation efforts.
For a variety of models now exist on the market, and it’s simple to find one where no tobacco or smoke is required, rendering the inhalation of vapors mostly harmless – indeed, stated previously, nicotine is frequently not even necessary.
