Is Electronic Cigarette better option than smoking cigarette?
October 15, 2015
There is speculation that the new, healthier alternative for the bad habit of smoking is E-cigs. Well sorry to hit the buzzer on you, but who ever told you that probably doesn’t know how similar e-cigs and regular cigarettes really are.
I personally found out about e-cigs when a close friend and I used to work for a vape store in San Diego. The e-cig originally came out in 2003, but it took a couple years for them to become big. You may have heard of e-cigs by their common name: the “vape pen.” It’s what people use in Instagram photos and Vine videos when they’re performing all those crazy smoke tricks.
For a very long time I was pro e-cig as the next step to be able to quit smoking. I even owned one myself. One night, all of my friends and I were celebrating a birthday, when someone was made fun of because he was using an e-cig.
“You might as well smoke a real cigarette dude,” my friend Ryan told him.
We all disapproved of Ryan’s comment. Even I was confused by it.
Thanks to my nosey personality, I did my research and compared the ingredients of a e-cig to a real cigarette.
“People think that since it doesn’t have tabacco that it is super healthy and the safer alternative, said Crystal Nguyen, who lives in Los Angeles. “But it is not. What people do not know is that just like a cigarette it contains nicotine and much more harmful chemicals that can make the user become just as addict[ed] just like if it were a real cigarette.”
I was mind-blown when I first heard this. Once I found that out, I haven’t wasted my money to go out and buy an e-cig (a decent quality e-cig is an easy $50.00 or more).
Now doesn’t buying yourself some new shoes, video games or makeup sounds much more nice than one boring old e-cig?
Chase Richardson • Oct 16, 2015 at 8:10 am
Can you please provide the points of reference for this quote?
“But it is not. What people do not know is that just like a cigarette it contains nicotine and much more harmful chemicals that can make the user become just as addict[ed] just like if it were a real cigarette.”
Did you educate yourself any further or just take the word of on person?
Zig • Oct 15, 2015 at 11:30 pm
So, what qualifications does “Crystal Nguyen, who lives in Los Angeles” have? What studies did she perform? Methodology? Can we see the data?
Or can you at least provide links to something, anything, to back up your “research”?
Just curious, because, you see, I did some research as well, just by doing a few searches, and wouldn’t you know, it doesn’t seem like Crystal is correct. Search for “ecigarettes less harmful than regular cigarettes”, for example. It seems that Public Health England thinks the opposite of Crystal. And, gee, they also provide actual evidence:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/e-cigarettes-an-evidence-update
So…
Please stop trying to kill people with garbage like this article. If even one person turns away from trying out an ecigarette because of you, then their eventual death from tobacco related illnesses is on your hands. Hope the money you got from some faceless corporation to write this trash helps you sleep at night.
Scott G • Oct 15, 2015 at 2:49 pm
Sorry, but I’m afraid I have to hit the buzzer on you. Not sure if English is a second language for you, but your grammar is atrocious (particularly the title), you misspelled ‘tobacco’, and there are about 7,000 differences between tobacco smoke and vape emissions. A few dozen of them being known carcinogens, and tar being the most noteworthy.
I don’t really believe that either you or your friend have ever vaped or worked in a vape shop, or you probably would have mentioned 0mg (nicotine free) e liquid, and wouldn’t be referring to vapes as ‘e cigarettes’.
Your friend Ryan is an idiot, and shouldn’t be giving anyone health advice. I’d stop him before he kills somebody.