The Electronic Future of Smoking

I smoked for 6 years and used e-cigs to quit. It took about two and a half months using high, then med, then low nicotene levels. I still have one around with fluid that contains no nicoteine just in case I get an urge. It worked for me and I have recommended e-cigs to many others who are trying them and having a varying degree of success. I will be pretty upset if they ban or over regulate these. Currently it is cheaper to quit using e-cigs, but the FDA will likely tax it until its no longer cost effective. I dont understand why they would want to keep people from a valid choice of quitting.

It is refreshing to see an airline take this approach. For many smokers, sitting through a flight not doing anything can be a cause for smoking (at least trigger the urge).
The electronic cigarette can defiantly solve the issue here and if some folks can quit tobacco using electronic cigarettes, so be it!

I picked mine up from Eko Cigs.

Saying these are aimed at kids is B.S. People like various flavors period.

To give that ignorant opinion is unbelievable for a source supposedly dedicated to science and facts.

I quit tobacco by using these, and did 3 months of research before I bought one.

Can't stand the taste or smell of an analogue cigarette now.

The nicotine must be extracted from tobacco so yes there will be some ingredients found in the liquids that are also found in tobacco.

It looks like you did no research at all, and simply quoted the FDA's crap.

If you did you'd know that the two companies who manufactured the liquids found to contain Diethylene glycol, were from China, and were found to have used farm grade Propylene glycol

It's china and we know about their standards for these things already.

This led to the contamination. They have said to have tightened up controls and now only are supposed have switched to using vegetable glycerin, and have eliminated Propylene glycol entirely.
Old stock is still being sold of course and who knows what rules some of their companies will abide by.

Any doubts in the new PG free liquids from China? , then buy it from a US manufacturer.

As far as tobacco companies being behind some FDA's opinions.. well if you don't know the history of the FDA then do some reading: money means everything.

Plus why are tobacco companies doing research on e-cigs while claiming they would prefer smoking just be banned completely?

I find the skepticism here at PopSci, often to be like the young people on that tube site, crying fake over every video they see.

Everyone knows the FDA has never lied or done anything wrong, no one there has ever taken jobs or money offered by big corporations etc., to look the other way to pass a drug or hurry it through without proper testing , or refuse something due to lack of $$...

Anyone should know that the process of combustion produces poisonous things. Vaporizing some nicotine and USP grade glycerin probably made from soy, compared to the thousands of harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke seems preferable to me, and my now clear lungs.

And getting down to zero amount of nicotine is pretty easy too.

Even if my kid was influenced by the ads (which I don't approve of , same with alcohol ads that suddenly were unbanned some time ago) and started using an e-cig, I wouldn't be very concerned.

And if they were aimed at kids , why no mention of the flavors in any ads I've seen in three months or more of researching them before I purchased one?

There far are worse things to do to yourself these days, like actually smoke , drink, drugs, bad foods etc.

The main point being that if you vaporize something reasonably safe,(the FDA has approved nicotine and glycerin both for human consumption) as opposed to inhaling smoke from combustion of nearly anything, you don't have to die, or be someone's sick burden later in life.

Kinda sounds like more fun to me.

If used to quit smoking, great.

If used to reintroduce nicoteen addiction to a growingly post-tobacco world, then, no thanks.

Theres nothing wrong with nicotine, which is about as bad as your daily cup of coffee, its the other hundred or so chemicals found in cigarettes that really affect you and result in dangerous side effects.

...There's plenty wrong with nicotine. Having a short half-life of roughly 2 hours, it's no wonder why it's so addictive. Not to mention just 60mg (a drop) is enough to kill a person.. But lucky for the cigarette smokers, there's only about 9mg within each one, and only 1mg of which you, the smoker, inhale--the other 8mg is burnt out on the side-stream for the population to enjoy.

Anything is toxic in a large enough dose, even water. If these don't smell, and don't pollute, I honestly don't see why you are complaining. Nobody is asking you to use it. Stop being so concerned about things that don't effect you.

I've been smoking for about 50 years now and I have COPD/emphysema. Of course, I also inhaled some other probably hazardous (and some definitely toxic chemicals back when I was in the Army), but I agree that cigarettes probably had the most harmful effects on my lungs. Whether or not I'm physically addicted to nicotine is debatable (according to my doctor as well as me), but I am psychologically addicted to the act of smoking. I just enjoy the act of smoking. But I *don't* smoke around non-smokers.

I've been researching herbal smoking mixtures, but these "e-cigarettes"also sound good (if a little expensive) and I'm also researching them.

Thanks for all of the comments!

This is an awesome article.

I recommend and encourage people not to waste any time if they are considering an alternative smoking into helping them to quit smoking,.. Electronic cigarettes has helped me greatly to stop smoking tobacco cigarettes which is extremely harmful to your overall health. With over 4000 chemical compounds created by burning a cigarette with various toxins and carcinogens that is cancer causing. Compared to an electronic cigarette which has no tobacco, 0 carcinogens or toxins that is no risk to your health, it contains 99% water and 1 percent nicotine which can be addicting but not harmful. Please make the right choice for yourself and for others. Think Right & Be Safe!..
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the principal meaning of e cigs is health and environment. helping to quit smoking the entire society should support this instead of fighting addicted humans. So stop everybody talking in circles and support.
Nicotine is a bio chemical substance and to be found in many vegeteables too. So this is no re introduction of nicotine addiction if a non smoker starts smoking e cigs.
The other comment in defense of FDA makes me laugh. Nowhere on the entire world exists such a lush organization and corrupted by corporated will. Why do you think 75% of the US population is sick permanently from cancers, diabetis, overweight, microwave damages to severe brain damages.

No one has mentioned the regulation of these, except maybe one person. My main concern is that if they are not regulated, children (anyone under the age of 18) can essentially buy them. Ok the cost is spendy but like anything else, the cost will eventually go down, just like any other electronic gadget. Remember when DVD players were once over $400? Now they're being sold for under $100. I think if these aren't regulated and prohibited from our youth, now, eventually they will be "affordable". And then it may just be a gateway to actually smoking the real cigarette. And honestly...do any of you smokers out there wish your child or the kid down the block will start smoking? It's super dangerous. I don't think folks realize this because the affects most times don't occur until later in life.

If it's an aid to help smokers stop smoking, even if it has some toxins in it, I believe that it's better than the real thing. Nicotine is addictive and very hard to just stop using, so if there is an aid out there to help folks quit, I say right on.