As a customs officer, one of my pet research topic at work would be cigarettes and tobacco. Here’s a really interesting cigarette that is powered electronically by USB.
The USB version of the electronic cigarette provides inhaled doses of vaporized nicotine, so smokers can puff away without all the harmful effects to second hand smokers. The kit comes with 11 filter butts and an atomizer and retails for 2,980 yen.
If you were wondering why the user can still exhale smoke from an electronic cigarette, it is because there is a heating element that vaporizes a nicotine solution stored in the mouthpiece.
Still I find it really stupid to be smoking … much less on a plastic one. So do any of you folks smoke?
Only cigars and pipe. But not very often.
It happens like 10 times a year.
I just bought an e-cigarette kit, though a different company’s. I agree it’s a stupid concept, but since I’ve started using it I have cut back on regular cigarettes significantly. So I’m sending less tar and gunk into my lungs and I’m saving money as well, since the e-cigs are cheaper to use.
I’ve been 2nd hand smoking for nearly 2 decades, and I hate it through and through.
I agree, smoking is stupid — even on a pretend cigarette! So why do you advertise this product,particularly without telling readers whether this product is safe or dangerous? E-cigaretts are more than just suspect. Looks like they could be highly toxic and poisonous. The U.S. Federal Drug Admin. calls e-cigs “new drugs” and may soon pull them off the market. So far to date, the American Cancer Society, Cancer Action Network, American Heart Assn. and American Lung Assn. — all agree that electronic cigarettes should be pulled off the market and have asked the FDA to do so. The World Health Organization says they may be highly poisonous. The makers of e-cigs claim that they are safe but have absolutley no scientific studies to back up their claims. No evidence. No proof. Just their word “believe us, so we can make more money.”
Ethic Soup blog posted an excellent article on the subject at:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/03/hey-hey-fda-whaddaya-say-are-ecigarettes-safe-eh.html
The cost of stopping your cigarette habit does not have to be breathing toxic poisons into your lungs from a pretend cigarette!