The question has been asked if e-cigarettes are less harmful than smoking tobacco since the vapor produced doesn't contain the chemicals found in tobacco smoke. This relatively new method of nicotine administration and for the most part we don't know a lot about the safety of these products. The long- term health risks from using e-cigarettes will not be known for many years.
E-cigarettes were created as an inhalable nicotine vapor by heating a liquid nicotine solution. The variety of these devices on the market are numerous and widespread but the basic parts of a typical device include a battery, a cartridge with nicotine and a heater that heats up or vaporizes the nicotine to be inhaled by the user. When activated the user puffs on the end of the device and creates a negative pressure and a battery powers the heater and creates vapor. That vapor in turn is collected into a chamber and is drawn out of the end of the device and inhaled into the lungs.
The first known E-cigarettes were invented by a pharmacist in China and since then China has been the Hub if you will for the manufacturing of these devices. Currently in the U.S. we have over 400 e-cigarette devices. Early research of the devices suggest that the newest of the E-cigarette models are more like a cigarette, getting nicotine further into the lung with …show more content…
The problem is that we do not have good evidence that people are quitting smoking completely by using e-cigarettes. Many will use e-cigarettes where smoking tobacco is not allowed such as bars and ball fields while still smoking tobacco at home or other times it is allowed. The only way to stop the effects of smoking is by stopping the act completely. The dual user approach that has been demonstrated by many calls in to question if this is helping the general population or enabling them to put off quitting until a later
E-cigarettes were created as an inhalable nicotine vapor by heating a liquid nicotine solution. The variety of these devices on the market are numerous and widespread but the basic parts of a typical device include a battery, a cartridge with nicotine and a heater that heats up or vaporizes the nicotine to be inhaled by the user. When activated the user puffs on the end of the device and creates a negative pressure and a battery powers the heater and creates vapor. That vapor in turn is collected into a chamber and is drawn out of the end of the device and inhaled into the lungs.
The first known E-cigarettes were invented by a pharmacist in China and since then China has been the Hub if you will for the manufacturing of these devices. Currently in the U.S. we have over 400 e-cigarette devices. Early research of the devices suggest that the newest of the E-cigarette models are more like a cigarette, getting nicotine further into the lung with …show more content…
The problem is that we do not have good evidence that people are quitting smoking completely by using e-cigarettes. Many will use e-cigarettes where smoking tobacco is not allowed such as bars and ball fields while still smoking tobacco at home or other times it is allowed. The only way to stop the effects of smoking is by stopping the act completely. The dual user approach that has been demonstrated by many calls in to question if this is helping the general population or enabling them to put off quitting until a later