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Recently I started smoking e-cigarettes, and have not touched paper cigarettes for two weeks. Because it feels pretty good, I wanted to recommend some good e-cigarettes. But e-cigarettes, after all, is still a controversial consumer product, so rashly recommended seems to be an irrational behavior, not as good as first write a science to the safe.
With the popularity of e-cigarettes, there have been a lot of e-cigarette supporters on social networks who have begun to preach. But you can't just rely on the voice of the masses to say whether something is good or bad. For example, Americans in the 1950s believed that uranium ore could be used for cosmetic purposes, which is just plain brain-dead with the common sense we have nowadays. Before trying something new, it's important to have a good grasp of the information available, so that even if you're ridiculed for having a brain, it's still your own choice.
Part 1 What is an e-cigarette
Most of the mainstream electronic cigarettes (E-cigarettes) available today use an atomizer (vaporizer) to turn liquid into vapor, simulating the sensation of smoking. Because it's all vapor between puffs, e-cigarette enthusiasts also tend to call themselves vapers.
? Common atomizer-based e-cigarettes
The principle of atomizer type e-cigarettes, specifically, is powered by lithium batteries, so that the liquid through the atomizer becomes water vapor, simulating the production of smoke similar to smoking, and cigarettes, and not very different. The atomizer is usually a heated electronic component containing a coil and cotton, to which the liquid is added, commonly known as vape oil, or as some vapers refer to it, "juice". The oil usually contains propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, flavoring and nicotine, but even just vegetable glycerin can be used, and flavoring and nicotine are both optional.
Theoretically e-cigarettes replacing traditional paper cigarettes could significantly reduce the health risks and fire potential for smokers, and may serve as a safe nicotine replacement. E-cigarette sellers generally market them as cigarette substitutes, which some in the medical community believe would be promising alternatives.
Because e-cigarettes are a new product, most countries do not yet have clear laws on e-cigarettes, and there is a lack of monitoring of the quality of the product, the nicotine content, and the sales pipeline, which makes it difficult to capitalize on the advantages of e-cigarettes at this time, and even if you buy the e-liquid that has a problem, there is the possibility of inhaling too high a dose of nicotine or formaldehyde or acetaldehyde.
Part 2 History of e-cigarettes
A fact you might not have expected: although prototypes of e-cigarettes were made a long time ago, the e-cigarette in the modern sense that we see it now wasn't invented until 2004. Not only that, but this seemingly foreign product was actually 'exported for domestic consumption'.
American Herbert A. Gilbert obtained a patent design for a "smokeless, non-tobacco cigarette" in 1963, which heated liquid nicotine to produce a vapor that mimicked the sensation of smoking. 1967 saw several companies try to produce the e-cigarette, but the harm of cigarettes hadn't been taken seriously by society. society's attention, so the project was not really commercialized in the end.
In 2000, Dr. Han Li of Beijing, China, proposed diluting nicotine with propylene glycol and atomizing the liquid with an ultrasonic device to create a water mist effect (which actually heats up the gas to create an atomized mist). This allows the user to inhale the nicotine-containing mist into the lungs and deliver nicotine to the blood vessels. The liquid nicotine diluent is stored in a device called a cartridge to make it easier to carry, which is the prototype of the modern e-cigarette.
Hanley patented the product in 2004, and it was commercialized the following year, sold by China Ruyan. With the popularity of anti-smoking campaigns abroad, e-cigarettes have also flowed from China to Europe and the United States; and in recent years, as China's major cities have begun to implement strict anti-smoking bans, e-cigarettes have also slowly begun to become popular in the country. #p#Page title #e#
Recently there is also another class of e-cigarettes, is through the heating pad heating tobacco to produce smoke, due to the lack of open flames, but also does not produce cigarettes burning tar and other carcinogens. I am smoking is this kind.
Part 3 Think about these questions before you start
Are e-cigarettes harmful?
In principle, e-cigarettes can indeed avoid many of the hazards associated with paper cigarettes:
When in use, the nicotine is absorbed by atomization and does not need to be burned, so e-cigarettes do not have tar, which is the biggest cancer-causing culprit in paper cigarettes. In addition, e-cigarettes do not produce the 60+ carcinogens found in regular cigarettes. Because of the lack of combustion, there is no second-hand smoke, or at least the amount of second-hand smoke is greatly reduced. According to the BBC, a commissioned report by the Public Health Commission for England states that e-cigarettes are safer than traditional paper cigarettes, reducing the harm by 95%. The report also points out that e-cigarettes can help smokers quit. The government even advocated for the inclusion of e-cigarettes in the NHS healthcare system. E-cigarettes can be used with nicotine-free oils or cartridges, which are not only harmless to the general public, but also give off a candy-like and drink-like flavor that makes people feel comfortable. But there are some skepticism in the public sphere:
Vegetable glycerin is safe to apply to the body or to eat in the stomach, but whether it's safe to vaporize and inhale into the lungs has not been determined. Also, very few people have allergic reactions to propylene glycol. Studies have shown that e-cigarette smoke, in addition to nicotine, formaldehyde, and acetaldehyde, actually still contains many chemicals, such as propylene glycol, diethylene glycol, cotinine, toxin quinoa, tobacco alkaloids, or other ultrafine particles with volatile organic compounds, which may still cause cancer or other problems after long-term use. The use of the product may still produce cancer or other health hazards. Because no laws have been enacted yet to regulate e-cigarettes (e.g., Beijing's smoking ban does not specify e-cigarettes), there is no way to be sure that all commercially available vaping oils are safer than traditional tobacco, or that they may be mixed with other drugs, such as amphetamines. There is no way to be sure that all tobacco oils on sale are safer than traditional tobacco, even if they may be mixed with other drugs like amphetamines. I'm not a professional, so I can only offer two opinions for you to judge.
Are e-cigarettes safe?
This is a topic that can't be avoided: regardless of the type of e-cigarette, lithium batteries are commonly used, and therefore the danger of lithium battery combustion still can't be completely avoided under current technological conditions. In fact, at the same time that Daimao was writing this article, the headline of the Electronic Cigarette node on Reddit was a post from a fellow user complaining that his e-cigarette had exploded.
?Reddit user shares exploding e-cigarette
There's also the danger that you'll have a hard time determining the ingredients of the vape oil beforehand. There are urban legends in the US of vapers smoking oils of unknown origin and becoming addicted as a result. The e-cigarettes I've been smoking lately are made with Marlboro / Paramount cartridges, which should be able to avoid this risk if they're purchased through regular channels; but since I'm in China, I can only buy them through Taobao, which is pretty mysterious.
Can I quit smoking by smoking an e-cigarette?
This is a much more esoteric topic, and in 2015, Rolling Stone interviewed Daniel Walsh, who is known as the High Priest of Vaping, and when asked about it, Walsh said:
There is so much anecdotal evidence out there supporting the idea that people like me have helped hundreds of thousands of smokers quit.#p#Page Break #e#
But that's not entirely believable when you consider that he's also the CEO of the e-cigarette company Purebacco - after all, Purebacco had $350 million in sales in 2015 from e-cigarette oils.
He himself later added:
Yet as an e-cig CEO, I’m not really supposed to say that, since current rules prohibit us from marketing our products as anything but another vice.
Welcome vapor e-cigarette enthusiasts to communicate and interact with each other, not only for the replacement of smoking, tobacco control, smoking cessation, we are also more healthy and the use of the exchange of experience!
