Asked recently to write about electronic cigarettes, I have to confess that I had never heard about such a thing. Some internet research later and I discovered that electronic cigarettes are extremely much a quickly growing concern. A Google search revealed there isn't any smoke without fire as almost six million results just for the phrase "electronic cigarette" were returned.

What is an electronic cigarette?

The electronic cigarette has been in existence for almost 36 months and is a clever device directed at providing smokers with a healthier option. Apparently also useful in helping to reduce as well as quit smoking altogether.

Now in a fourth generation, electronic cigarettes have become much more user friendly than earlier versions which perhaps were a little too large to encourage a mass market appeal. The "mini" will be the most realistic e cigarette to date with its length of 100mm being the same as a conventional cigarette.

An electronic cigarette contains a taste of tobacco but none of the harmful substances found in normal cigarettes allowing smokers cravings to be satisfied without inhaling the many dangerous toxins. Is everything smoke and mirrors? Or can this item really be the saviour it desires to be?

A battery, an atomiser and a renewable nicotine chamber allows the smoker to hold and smoke the electronic cigarette just because they would any other cigarette, even creating a "smoke" like vapour and glow by the end since they draw. The nicotine chamber proves very useful as cartridges are available in different strengths, permitting the user to reduce the total amount of nicotine they intake until whenever they wish, can quit completely.

A nicotine cartridge typically lasts the exact same time as 15 to twenty cigarettes, thus creating a large saving to normal costs. Standard, medium, low and no nicotine at all will be the various cartridge strengths.

A healthier option altogether it appears, even though the benefits do not end there. Due to the electronic cigarette not emitting any dangerous substances, toxins or real smoke for that matter, they can be perfectly legal to smoke in public. In winter specifically, normal cigarette smokers have to brave the freezing cold and the rain just for a quick smoking break but this alternative will permit them to stay in their offices, restaurants and pubs.

None smokers also will benefit, as their worries about passive smoking are rendered null and void through the electronic cigarette. A significantly more sociable environment then!

Upon reflection the electronic cigarette is a healthier, cheaper and environmentally friendly alternative to smoking and as the awareness and also the market grows they have great possibility to successfully replace the harmful cigarettes we have all come to understand and several of us have come to dread and fear.