The electronic cigarette has been in existence for over 10 years and is a clever device aimed at providing smokers with a healthier option. Apparently also useful in helping to reduce and even quit smoking altogether.

Now in a fourth generation, electronic cigarettes have become a lot 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 exact 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 it all smoke and mirrors? Or can this item really be the saviour it desires to be?

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.

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

A nicotine cartridge typically lasts the exact same time as 15 to 20 cigarettes, thus creating a huge saving to normal costs. Standard, medium, low and no nicotine at all are the various cartridge strengths.

A healthier option altogether it seems, however the advantages don't end there. Because of 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 above all, normal cigarette smokers have to brave the freezing cold and the rain just for a quick smoking break but this alternative shall permit them to stay within 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 much more sociable environment then!

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