subject: Four Reasons To Switch To The Electronic Cigarette [print this page] You are at the store, buying your favorite brand of cigarettes. You hand over an stupidly large amount of money, knowing full well almost all of it goes on taxes. Despite the crazy price, you are still forced to look at disgusting pictures and face dire warnings of what it will do your before you can have your smoke.
You take your first drag - you have to go outside in the pouring rain to do so, because you, as a smoker, are accused of killing via secondhand smoke.
You take your first drag, inhaling the smoke deep into your blackening lungs, although you know that it has a one in two chance of killing you.
You walk home, past the local chemist. Displayed in the pharmacy window are quit smoking aids. You have tried to stop smoking with them before, but like 95% of smokers were back on cigarettes before a year had passed.
This can't be the only answer, you think.
And guess what. It isn't!
A new device known as the e-cigarette allows you the joy of smoking - without the tar, tobacco and combustion of tobacco cigarettes.
And here is why you should switch...
Passive Smoking
Despite little real evidence, anti-smoking advocates have unfairly labeled cigarette smokers as killers - not just of themselves, but of those around them.
But with three distinguished Scientists, Professor Brad Rodu, Professor Michael Siegel and Professor Carl Phillips acting rapidly to counter claims by anti-smoker organizations that there is a danger of passive smoking with e-cigs, electronic cigarette users can stop worrying about a danger to other people's health.
Smoke Wherever You Want
In the pub, on a bus, in the gas station or in the office ... the e-cigarette can not be lit up, creates water vapor, not smoke, and can be "smoked" anywhere.
So no more standing outside in the rain!
Save Money
In the United Kingdom switching to an electric cigarette will save a 40-a-day smoker more than 3000 a year. In almost all American states the savings amount to hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
What will you do with the savings?
When you are lying on a beach in the Caribbean, lazily gazing over an emerald sea, enjoying the holiday bought with your new savings, remember us!
Health Advantages
While there have yet to be any long term research projects carried out into the effects of the e-cigarette, scientists such as Dr Joel Nitzkin, Chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force for the American Association of Public Health Physicians, estimate that e cigarettes are between 100 and 1000 times safer than tobacco cigarettes.
Meanwhile, tobacco smoking is estimated to kill between one third and two thirds of all users.
Some anti-smoking advocates believe that the e cigarette should be banned on the basis that it is not one hundred percent safe. Anti-smoking doctor Dr Mintz points out that he doesn't advise his patients to consume coffee, so why should he advise them to use e cigarettes?
Unlike anti-smokers, we don't want to make your choices for you. You know if you can (or want to) stop smoking, and if you want to switch to an alternative.
So what's your choice going to be: tobacco cigarettes, or electric cigarettes?
