These days, electronic cigarettes are pretty ubiquitous, with people puffing away in places cigarettes haven’t dreamed of going in years. I actually saw someone smoking an e-cigarette in the lobby of my gym the other day! But are these electronic alternatives really better than the real thing? The market is totally unregulated and the research is murky, but one thing is for sure, these addictive high-tech gadgets are anything but “safe.”
The biggest health marketing claim purported by electronic cigarette companies is that the absence tobacco and all the other harmful chemicals that are added to cigarettes render it completely harmless to your health. That, however, is being disproven with more and more research studies coming out each year. Although it is definitely safer than tobacco products, liquid nicotine, in its inhaled form, is definitely not devoid of harmful effects.
