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It is a growing trend online and at local malls to see the new e cigarette for sale and people, both smokers and non smokers flocking to them as more and more information is released on the effect they are having on the population.

Most of the smokers that have tried them swear by them with claims of leaving tobacco cigarettes behind and claims of better health and appearance to boot. There was even a study from South Africa that claims that 45% of the people who switched to the e cigarette have now quit using tobacco and are feeling better. All of the scientist and doctors in that study were amazed at the results and highly approve of them as a cessation product and a plain out healthier choice.

This is not the consensus here in the United States when it comes to the government and special interest though. There is still an ongoing battle in a federal court over the popular product with fierce support from most users, family members and even doctors and scientist that are shouting praises for the e cigarette and screaming corruption at the government and special interest for their position on the product.

Several of the board members on the FDA advisory board that are suggesting a ban have direct financial ties to large pharmaceutical companies which creates an open conflict of interest. These companies make profits from smoking cessation products that average a 2% quit rate, so it is in their interest to keep a product off of the market that helps 45% quit smoking according to unbiased studies with no financial ties to special interest.

What is really had to swallow is that these same special interest groups that are funded by these companies also wrote the recent anti-smoking legislation that actually keeps tobacco legal and kills over 400,000 Americans each year. This is a travesty that the ones who claim they want to help people quit tobacco are the same ones that are protecting it and profiting on the funding companies ability to market products that do not work, while trying to ban the products that do work.

Even with all of the corruption from the special interest, the FDA recently put out lab results that were not factual and were misleading to scare the people away from the e cigarette. They did not use a control tthat was equal to the product they were testing and completely ignored the dangers of tobacco that most use the e cigarette to avoid. The current problem is that the coming legal decision may not be based on fact or truth, but rather, based on laws that were written in the past to protect the special interest of a few companies.

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Tobacco cigarettes were accepted by people and society just a few decades ago, but after medical research was conducted it was found that they do more harm than good. Similarly, the electronic cigarette gained much fame and controversy from the day they were made available to the market. But the question remains: which one is better, the electronic cigarette or the tobacco cigarette?

Traditional cigarettes consist of two parts: paper and a tobacco concoction. The dried tobacco leaves are rolled up with thin paper, and then it can be smoked by someone. The electronic cigarette consists of three parts: the battery, the atomizer, and the mouthpiece. The battery makes the e cigarette functional, the atomizer is the small device used to heat up the liquid solution, and the mouthpiece contains the cartridge that holds the liquid solution.

Tobacco in a cigarette by itself probably would not be so bad, but the fact that other ingredients are combined with it is bad. A single cigarette can contain over 4,000 chemicals, 43 of which are cancer-causing agents, and include tar, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and a huge list of other chemicals that you would otherwise not ingest. On the other hand, the liquid solution used in an e cigarette contains about 10 to 20 ingredients. The majority of the solution is comprised of propylene glycol, and the other ingredients can include vinegar, natural and artificial flavoring, and a couple of other ingredients. The only ingredient you should be weary about is nicotine, which can be lethal if ingested in huge doses, but that could also be found in tobacco cigarettes.

Due to the harmful side effects of secondhand smoke, smoking a tobacco cigarette in all public buildings has been banned. Smoking outside of a building? Probably not allowed either, depending on state laws. The e cigarette, as of this time, can be smoked anywhere because there is no dangerous secondhand smoke emitted from the device when you exhale. The smoke-like mist you see coming from the end of the e cigarette is just an odorless vapor that doesn’t contain nicotine or any of the chemicals the “smoker” just inhaled.

The clear winner here is the e cigarette, and as beneficial as these devices are, it seems that certain interest groups and even the own FDA have been cautioning against them a little too much. Because it is contains nicotine, it is being classified as a drug delivery system and additional research will have to be conducted to see the dangers posed by these e cigarettes, if any. Perhaps it is not in the interest of individuals that the FDA is concerned with but the interest of those who help to line their pockets. Just speculation.

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If you want to stop smoking, it may not be as straight forward as you may think. For most people, quitting involves a number of steps and often a number of attempts before finally succeeding, if they succeed at all. Stop smoking aids like nicotine patches, gums, and even prescription medications have a very small success rate, which goes to prove that nicotine is not the biggest part of the addiction here. The biggest part, believe it or not, is the mental addiction.

Mental habits are the most difficult habits to break and most people do not even realize that smoking is a mental addiction much more than it is a physical one. Nicotine is addictive, but it cannot go toe to toe with a mental addiction and win. The mind is a difficult thing to break, but breaking the cigarette addiction can be done with the right methods.

First, stop smoking in your car. This is the first step in gradually removing areas in your life you are allowed to smoke. Clean the ash tray out, have the inside detailed so the cigarette smell is gone, and you can even remind yourself with a non-smoking sign you can put in the car. Eliminating smoking from your vehicle should be fairly easy and once you get comfortable with not smoking in the car (in fact, when you do not even think about smoking in the car), it is time to move on to another area. Stop smoking in another area of your life that you spend a little more time in. Or even restrict a few hours of the day to a no-smoking time instead of removing smoking from a room of your house or from another location.

Most patches, pills, and gums have a very small success rate unless coupled with counseling. New e-cigarette products may be the answer for those who have a problem with the mental addiction, however, because they are extremely easy to put down as necessary. The less it is in your hand, the easier it is to forget you have it. Many e-smokers take a puff or two off of their e-cigarette and set it down for a long period of time because they get preoccupied with work or other things. In conjunction with mental weening techniques like the smoking restriction process listed above, this could be the answer for those who have already tried cessation devices alone.

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Politicians and health officials in the United States want to ban products known as e-cigarettes, without submitting any proof that they are unsafe. While e-cigarette manufacturers have submitted their products for testing to laboratories who have released studies stating that the products are safe and healthier than tobacco cigarettes, health organizations blast the studies as biased due to who funded the studies.

E-cigarette studies released in the United Kingdom and in New Zealand state that e-cigarettes are safer than tobacco cigarettes by 100 times. Tobacco cigarettes emit over 4,800 chemicals (including arsenic, formaldehyde, and many others), according to the CDC, and e-cigarette mist contains none of that.

Further, studies have concluded that bystanders do not have to worry about being exposed to secondhand mist, due to the fact that the mist dissipates within seconds after it is exhaled. It does not hang in the air like smoke does because of its low temperature and weight. Heat rises and unless the mist is exhaled upwards, it does not stay at the person’s breathing level; it sinks. In fact, e-cigarettes only emit 10% of the heat tobacco cigarettes do and when they are not being puffed on, they do not heat up at all.

Aside from e-cigarettes being better for the body than tobacco cigarettes, they also pose no fire hazard, since they do not combust tobacco and are not on fire. An e-smoker can put their e-cigarette down anywhere they want to without concern that it will burn the surface or themselves. Store it in a shirt or jacket pocket like a pen and take it out as wanted. It’s ready to use, but not difficult to put down, unlike tobacco cigarettes that require ash trays and other proper places to dispose of them. Why smoke an entire tobacco cigarette when you can take a puff off an e-cigarette and put it away? Nicotine is absorbed into the body faster through e-cigarette mist, so the craving for the nicotine is killed much faster. No commitment to smoking an entire cigarette just because you don’t want to waste it and odds are, you’ll end up smoking LESS!

While many e-cigarette manufacturers have put their products to the test, the FDA and other organizations still have not performed their own studies on the products, despite the products’ availability and having had ample time to research the products on their own. Smokers are waiting for them to step up to the plate.

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The FDA estimates that close to 100,000 e-cigarettes have been sold in the United States, despite the organizations attempt to bar the products entries into the country via U.S. Customs. Organizations such as the American Legacy Foundation are also bent on pulling the products off the market for illogical and outrageous reasons, including the accusation that the products are being marketed toward children due to the fact that the cartridges are available in many flavors.

The accusations that the products are being marketed toward minors is completely baseless considering the fact that most e-cigarette sales are made online and it is rare for websites to accept checks or money orders as forms of payment these days. PayPal requires that a user be 18 to create an account and to become verified, they must have a bank account tied to it. So, two hurdles that require a person be 18 would have to be overtaken by children who have much easier access to tobacco cigarettes.

Another misconception that organizations like the American Legacy Foundation have is that adults do not have tastebuds. Most adults will tell you that they like fruit flavors just as much as children do, so the flavors = intended for children argument loses validity there.

Some organizations are convinced that it could draw children into the habit of smoking, but e-cigarette kits run anywhere from $50 to $150, depending on the brand purchased. Tobacco cigarettes are only $5 a pack and it is more feasible for children to get their hands on grandpas $5 smokes than Mom’s $150 e-cigarette.

Then there is the supposed risk of nicotine poisoning. E-cigarette cartridges are no more likely to cause nicotine poisoning than tobacco cigarettes and it has been noted on numerous medical websites that children go to the emergency room all the time because they ate cigarettes or cigarette butts. Consumers are being warned by many e-cigarette manufacturers to keep cartridges out of the reach of children and pets, just like they are warned to keep cigarettes out of reach. There is no elevated risk of nicotine poisoning, either for the user or for children and pets.

Even concerns about inhaling nicotine have surfaced, even though nicotine has been inhaled in cigarettes for centuries and through inhalators that have been on the market since the 1990s. The safety of nicotine inhalers has not been questioned to the extent that e-cigarettes has.

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