Is The E Health Cigarette A Safe Cigarette Alternative?

The e health cigarette is marketed as a safer alternative to normal tobacco cigarette. But is it really safe? We need to look at it objectively.

Tobacco cigarettes are dangerous to health mainly because of the damaging effects of the smoke from the burning of tobacco.

There are numerous toxic chemicals that are inhaled when tobacco is burnt and this is what makes it most harmful to health. It's the actual smoke itself and not nicotine that is the culprit causing respiratory disease and lung cancer. However, in electronic smoking, no burning of tobacco takes place and therefore there are no toxic chemicals produced so there will be no damage to the lungs.

The next matter of concern is the substance nicotine which electronic cigarettes deliver. How risky is nicotine? More studies need to be done on the effects of nicotine on our health as there are no conclusive results at the moment. However, in the e health cigarette, there is an option to reduce the nicotine in stages, down to zero nicotine levels.

But whatever, it's obvious that delivering nicotine without real smoke is going to be much safer than burning tobacco cigarette. The FDA has complained that traces of carcinogens were found in a sample of electronic cigarette liquid.

However, these carcinogens are also found in nicotine delivery alternatives like the patch and gum, both of which are approved by the FDA. Also many types of foods like peanut butter contain trace levels of carcinogens too. However, we should take note that the amount of a carcinogen is an important factor in its toxicity. In this case, these carcinogens in the e health cigarette vapor is considerably small and most probably not dangerous. It is likely that these carcinogens are not even found in the actual electronic cigarette vapor that is inhaled.

We probably do not know if e health cigarettes are 100% safe until we carry out more studies. However, here we should instead compare the two alternatives, the e health cigarette and the tobacco cigarette. Any comparison would show that the e health cigarette is by far a safer option when it comes to health risks like lung cancer.