Posts Tagged ‘electronic cigarette’

Sherlock Homes Style Electronic Pipe – Environmentally Friendly

December 10th, 2009

We know for a fact that smoking is dangerous to our health and yet a lot of people are still smoking and many are still engaging themselves in to smoking.  Smoking does not only harm the smoker, it also harms the health of second hand smokers – those who are around the smoker.  Many smokers have tried quitting but still failed after countless attempts.  The nicotine in cigarettes is highly addictive which is why many are struggling to quit.  Good thing that there is now a brand new invention that smokers need to know about.  It’s the electronic pipe and the electronic cigarette also known as smokeless pipe/cigarette.

Electronic Pipe

Electronic pipe and cigarette may look, feel and taste like the real thing, but they function way differently.  This device do not actually burn any tobacco, instead it only releases a water vapor that contains nicotine upon inhalation.  It only mimics the feeling of smoking a real cigarette.  This means that an electronic cigarette or pipe will provide the smoker their nicotine fix while avoiding all of the cancer causing agents that is found in a real cigarette such as tar and other carcinogens.

Smokers have now a healthier alternative to smoking with this technological breakthrough.  It is not considered to be a smoking cessation device, but electronic cigarettes and electronic pipes can somehow aid smokers to quit smoking.  Aside from the benefits a smoker can get from this device, it allows smokers to smoke with no fears of inflicting harm on others due to second hand smoke.  This made the device friendly not just to non-smokers but to the environment as a whole.  As E-cigarettes and E-pipes becoming more and more popular, they seem to become the next thing and may soon replace and eradicate smoking of real tobacco.

Is An E-Cigarette Right For You?

August 22nd, 2009

Smoking has always bothered me.  I remember being stuck in a car with one of my friend’s parents when I was young.  The windows were up and his Dad was smoking a cigarette.  The odor and fumes were intoxicating, leaving me with a headache and clothes that smelled awful for the entire day.  The first time I ever put a cigarette in my mouth and smoked it was in the 7th grade.  I was staying at a friends house and he stole a couple from his older brother.  As I coughed my way through it in the alley outside of his house, I remember wondering, “Why does anyone smoke these things?“.

I am older now, and I do a lot of things that my 12-year-old self probably would not understand.  However, we are still of one mind when it comes to smoking cigarettes.  I am grateful every time another law is passed that prevents smoking indoors, and support any increase in tobacco taxes.  Each time I see one of my friends light up I am not entirely sure why they do it, and wish that there was something I could do to convince them otherwise.

Recently, I learned of a new product called an Electronic Cigarette (E-Cigarette).  These devices look like cigarettes, and upon inhalation give smokers a hit of vaporized nicotine from a liquid cartridge.  The second hand smoke is harmless and has no odor.  While it still isn’t healthy to inhale nicotine vapor,  it is certainly less toxic than cigarette smoke.  I have already convinced one of my friends to switch to E-Cigarettes – her response after first taking a drag on one was “Wow, its so smooth!”  What’s even better, she is progressively reducing her dependence on nicotine by purchasing cartridges with a lower content of the drug.

Electronic Cigarettes

While I care about my friend’s health, I really want people to switch to E-Cigarettes for my own selfish reasons.  Mainly, I don’t like the smell of cigarettes.  If you are currently a smoker, perhaps now is the time to ask – is an E-Cigarette right for me?