1. What are e-cigarettes?

E-cigarettes are electronic devices that imitate conventional smoking by vaporizing liquid nicotine.

E-cigarettes usually gives the same feeling as smoking cigarettes just that this time the feeling comes though the vapor not highly toxic cigarette smoke.

2. How do e-cigarettes work?

When an e-cigarette is inhaled, the device is powered up. The e-cigarette then vaporizes some of the liquid nicotine which is located in an insertable cartridge.

The vaporized nicotine then flows through the device and into the user’s mouth. Each hit has about 90 percent of the nicotine from a conventional cigarette puff.

3. How is the vapor from e-cigarette different from tobacco smoke?

Conventional cigarette contains tobacco and other items added to improve the substance to make the product taste or feel in a particular way that they deem fit. E-cigarettes on the other hand contain vaporized nicotine and in some cases a small amount of flavoring

Conventional cigarette is burned and inhaled as mordacious smoke. Instead of burning and inhaling pungent smoke, e-cigarettes just heat up liquid nicotine to turn it into odorless vapor.

4. Will e-cigarettes eventually kill me?

The amount of research isn’t much, but scientists agree that e-cigarettes carry numerous health risks, even if the dangers aren’t as glaring as conventional cigarettes.

The American Heart Association resolved that e-cigarettes emit several dangerous toxins and could lead to detrimental health effects, although the long-term biological effects need more study

One study from an international group of scientists found e-cigarettes are safer than conventional cigarettes but still toxic. Researchers estimated conventional cigarette smoke contained 9-450 times more toxins than e-cigarette vapour.

Some ongoing research has indicated that e-cigarettes could cause genetic mutations that can lead to cancer.

Another group of scientists found that certain cells exposed to e-cigarette vapour showed similar genetic changes as cells exposed to conventional cigarette smoke. The changes weren’t identical, but researchers said there were striking similarities — enough to raise concerns that e-cigarettes could, at some level, lead to lung cancer.

5. What other dangers are associated with e-cigarettes?

First of all nicotine is stall addictive, that means e-cigarette users could develop a lifelong habit of consuming the drug.

Nicotine in itself presents some health concerns. Researchers say that that nicotine alone — the main substance found in e-cigarettes — strains development for foetuses, newborns, children, and teenagers. Adolescents exposed to nicotine in particular showed enhanced vulnerability to impulsivity and mood disorders, among other issues.

Researchers and experts have linked E-cigarettes to addiction, developmental issues among youths and reports to poison centers

6. Will e-cigarette help me quit smoking?

E-cigarettes have little-to-no effect on a person’s ability to quit smoking and could, in fact, lead some people to take up smoking.

A group of researchers suggested that e-cigarettes either have no effect on quit rates or correlate with a reduced chance of quitting.

But researchers cautioned that several of the analyzed studies didn’t control for level of nicotine dependence, which means their findings could just show that more addicted smokers — that is, those least likely to quit — are more likely to turn to e-cigarettes.

Still, there’s some reason for concern. The problem, as researchers explained, is nicotine is still addictive, even if it comes in an e-cigarette. So if someone tries an e-cigarette without ever having smoked before, he or she could get hooked on nicotine. And that nicotine addiction could then lead to conventional smoking.

7. I once read second hand smoke from conventional cigarette is dangerous, what about second hand vapor from e-cigarette?

Secondhand smoking from conventional cigarettes, is proven to be very bad for people’s health, particularly children.

The most comprehensive analysis of the research so far, suggests e-cigarette vapor contaminates the air with nicotine and toxins, but the long-term health effects of exposure to these secondhand chemicals remain unclear.

A group of researchers found e-cigarette vapor leaves nicotine in indoor environments, but they didn’t find significant traces of tobacco-based toxins like carbon monoxide. And conventional cigarettes, they found, left 10 times more nicotine than e-cigarettes. But the study, the authors cautioned, looked at a limited number of chemicals.

Another study found traces of select toxins in e-cigarette vapors, but these toxins were 9-450 times less prevalent than what’s found in conventional cigarette smoke. Another study from German health researchers also found increased levels of some toxins following e-cigarette use.

The studies, however, called for more research. It’s still unclear whether consistent exposure to secondhand nicotine and toxins, especially the low levels left by e-cigarettes, could be dangerous to someone’s health in the long-term.



8. E-cigarettes is an electronic device, do I need to worry about electrocution or explosion?

E-cigarettes are electronics, so they can explode. There is YouTube video which shows an e-cigarette explode.

Still, like most electronic malfunctions, it’s rare. Most people can use their e-cigarettes without worry of explosions.

9. So what is the verdict?

E-cigarette while a new and welcomed development should be treated with a very high amount of caution as very little is known so far about it.

Stay safe, stay healthy.


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Pls is this a prevention or cure to smoking