Electronic Cigarettes…The Best Alternative To Smoking

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This is the dawning of the age of e cigarettes.  It is bar none, the best 21st century invention of all time.  Statistics continue to show that despite efforts to heighten awareness of the dangers of smoking, the habit is still at an all time high reaching into the billions globally and costing just as much every year in health care cost.  The average smoker will try to quit at least 6-8 times during a lifetime with very little success.  Now is the time to focus our efforts on finding an alternative to smoking, instead of chasing after the notion that we can get people to quit.  It is indeed a lot harder than most people think.  It has been integrated into our social lives since tobacco was first discovered thousands of years ago.  To suggest that smokers quit out right is digging deep.  Offer an alternative instead.  The success rate will be much higher with a healthier world.

Electronic cigarettes also commonly know as “ecigarettes” and are basically all made the same.  Each manufacturer uses more or less the same components that make up an electronic cigarette. These are the “ecigarette parts”.

• A  LED Light Cover
• B  Battery (also houses circuitry)
• C  Atomizer (heating element)
• D  Cartridge (mouth piece)

Electronic cigarettes usually takes the form of an elongated tube and many are designed to resemble real tobacco products.  One very common design is the “pen style” named so because of its resemblance to a ball point pen.  Most designs are reusable with the cap or mouth piece being a disposable part.  For the most part this is how an electronic cigarette work.

When a user inhales through the device, air flow is detected by a sensor.  This activates a heating element that vaporizes a nicotine solution stored in the mouth piece.  It is this vapor that the user inhales and activates an LED at the end of the cigarette which glows red to simulate burning tobacco.  Electronic cigarettes take many forms, but they are all made up of the same “ecigarette parts”.  They are the atomizer, rechargeable lithium batteries, a mouth piece and electronic circuits.

The mouth piece is a small disposable plastic cup affixed to the end of the tube.  This is filled with an absorbent material that is moistened with a flavored propylene glycol/nicotine solution.  The atomizer serves to vaporize the solution so that it can be inhaled.  This is what emits that smoke like appearance during exhale, but is actually harmless vapor.

We must band as a nation in support of electronic cigarettes.  Our efforts should shift in this direction if we are truly concerned about our smoking problem.  Get on board America.  The rest of the world is way ahead of us.