In 2004, a study by the CDC reported that there are over 4,800 chemicals released by tobacco cigarettes and that at least 69 of them are known to cause cancer. Unfortunately for smokers, there has never been a real smoking alternative that is healthier and also simulates the act of smoking... until now.
E-cigarettes contain none of the tar and none of the carcinogens that tobacco cigarettes do and while some health organizations say that they could still be dangerous, there is no evidence pointing toward that assumption. In fact, all evidence points toward e-cigarettes being not only healthier, but also safer and more convenient than tobacco cigarettes simply because they do not burn and they contain very few chemicals.
While tobacco cigarettes contain a great number of additives to make them more addictive to smokers, e-cigarettes contain just a few chemicals that are relatively harmless, including water, propylene glycol, alcohol, flavorings, and a few others. Most e-cigarette solution mixes contain less than 20 chemicals and in many cases, less than 10. When compared to the 4,800 chemicals and 69 carcinogens that are in tobacco cigarettes, one would think that e-cigarettes would be embraced by health officials worldwide, but it seems only a few have jumped on the band wagon. The FDA and others have blasted the e-cigarette, stating that many smokers mistakenly believe that this product is safer than cigarettes. With a death rate of 1 out of 2 smokers, how can the FDA make such a claim? The United States Government rakes in millions of dollars in tobacco-related taxes every year and if smokers switch to e-cigarettes, those taxes would be lost.
Pharmaceutical companies also stand to lose big if smokers switch to e-cigarettes, because the anti-smoking industry collects millions of dollars per year. Most stop smoking aids, such as the suicide-inducing drug Chantix, don't work as well as they are advertised and in fact, stop smoking aids only keep a person off tobacco long term less than 10% of the time.
The pharmaceutical industry says that nicotine is the most addictive aspect of tobacco, but when a person stops smoking, the nicotine has cleared their system in 48 to 72 hours. After that, a metabolyte of nicotine, cotinine, clears the system in about 2 weeks. For smokers who have been smoke-free for months, the mental addiction and the habit of smoking is the hardest thing to get over. Because it is literally so easy to set down anywhere, e-cigarettes may be the bridge between a life of smoking tobacco and a life of smoking nothing at all.
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