subject: The Difference Between Tobacco Smoke And The Vapor Of E Cigarettes [print this page] The biggest gripe that non smokers have about tobacco smokers doing it in public is because the smoke is toxic to them as well the person doing the puffing. Non smokers do not indulge in the habit and they feel like it is unfair for them to have to be exposed to deadly smoke and chemicals against their will. Of course, they have a very valid point. It is almost like forcing someone to take drugs or some kind of poison that does not want to. A smoker might have the right to smoke tobacco themselves, but they can not force others to do it with them.
This very subject is likely to be heavily debated in the near future as more and more smokers are using the electric cigarette that does not produce smoke, but a nicotine vapor instead. The debate is probably going to be over whether e cigarette users will be able to continue to use their vaping device in public around other people. The question lies in whether or not the vapor is totally safe for bystanders to possibly inhale. Many researchers believe that it is safe, but there are others that are still questioning this point.
Unlike tobacco cigarettes that will continue to put out toxic smoke from the second that it is lit, the electric cigarette will not produce any vapor at all until the the user puffs on it. The vapor goes into their lungs and then any excess vapor is exhaled. The smoke from tobacco cigarettes is considered toxic because it is burned and it is carcinogenic. This means that it can cause cancer. The chemicals that are in tobacco are burned also and they can cause cancer. You might say that the nicotine in the tobacco causes cancer too, but actually the threat of nicotine causing cancer is extremely small and perhaps even non existent when not combined with the deadly smoke and other chemicals in the tobacco.
Nicotine is an addictive substance, but it is also thought by many researchers to be much less addictive when not combined with toxic smoke and the other deadly chemicals that are added to tobacco. This has produced the opinion by many researchers that the vapor that is exhaled by e cigarette users is virtually harmless to bystanders given the fact of what is in the nicotine solution itself and the fact that is dissipates so very quickly, almost instantaneously in fact. You would almost have to right up against someone using an e cigarette to have time to inhale any vapor at all.
At any rate, when and if the electric cigarettes are finally approved for continuous use, it will likely still be debated whether the product can be used in public the same way that tobacco smoking used to allowed. E cigarette users will want to be able to use their device anywhere they want to, but they should not set their minds to being able to do that just yet.
