Blessed Relief From Secondhand Smoke With Electronic Cigarettes

by Carlos Varela under CC BY 

Use Electronic Cigarettes For No Second Hand Smoke

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As any tobacco smoker knows, his or her smoking not only compromises personal health, but also threatens the health of others. One of the greatest advantages of electronic cigarettes is the blessed relief of freedom from secondhand smoke, for the former smoker and for all his friends, family, co-workers and even complete strangers in the path of his cigarette smoke. Choosing electronic cigarettes is truly a wise choice for every smoker, as well as the whole environment. And the choice to use electronic cigarettes is becoming more popular and, at the same time, easier and easier because there are so many styles and models of electronic cigarettes available on the market today.

Sometimes people resist moving in the direction of making a better choice unless that new choice offers other, tangible benefits, too. Fortunately, electronic cigarettes offer significant tangible benefits that can be seen immediately, and those same benefits can be enjoyed and even enhanced over time. Acknowledging that choosing electronic cigarettes is choosing to avoid toxic tobacco smoke, and thereby avoiding toxic secondhand smoke, is the beginning of a new relationship with electronic cigarettes as the best smokeless alternative. Grateful former smokers fill online forums with their praise for electronic cigarettes, and also with their suggestions for compounding custom mixtures of e liquid. Electronic cigarettes all operate on the same, simple principle.

The liquid consumed in electronic cigarettes is called “e liquid” and it consists of liquid nicotine, flavoring and a hygroscopic base which turns the water in the solution into a smoke-like vapor when it’s heated up in the tiny vaporizer. Those are the basic components of all e liquid, although there are variations. Users of electronic cigarettes have the option of selecting the particular strength of nicotine they like, the flavor they like, and if they have a personal choice, even their base solution preference. It’s easy to see some of the other, tangible benefits of electronic cigarettes over standard tobacco cigarettes. Relief from secondhand smoke is just one of many, many benefits of electronic cigarettes.

What’s So Bad About Secondhand Smoke?

Technically, secondhand smoke is called “environmental tobacco smoke” or ETS. That term encompasses two different types of smoke created by burning tobacco; those two different types are called “sidestream smoke,” which is the smoke streaming out of the end of a burning cigarette, pipe or cigar, and “mainstream smoke,” which is the smoke exhaled from the smoker’s mouth or lungs. Non-smokers in the path of either type of secondhand smoke absorb nicotine and many other toxic chemicals, too, so it’s not only the smoker who suffers. It is no secret that avoiding both sidestream and mainstream smoke is one of the great blessings of electronic cigarettes. Although the fun and flexible features of electronic cigarettes are more interesting to think about and talk about, the reality of a genuine smokeless alternative gives electronic cigarettes a tremendous advantage over tobacco products.

The Environmental Protection Agency, the US National Toxicology Program, the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the World Health Organization’s branch known as the International Agency For Research On Cancer have all made statements announcing that secondhand smoke is unequivocally recognized as a “known human carcinogen.”  This is not breaking news in the US or across the rest of the world. People who continue to choose tobacco products know they are endangering themselves and others, while former smokers who now choose electronic cigarettes know better, much better… Users of electronic cigarettes are avoiding over 4,000 chemicals, of which over 40 have been shown to cause cancer. Their electronic cigarettes, cigars and pipes are not producing sidestream or mainstream smoke of any kind, because their electronic cigarettes are not burning. There is no combustion involved in the use of electronic cigarettes, and therefore there is no smoke at all.

What Harm Does Secondhand Smoke Cause To Non-Smokers?

Once again, secondhand smoke is extremely toxic, and it has been shown to cause not only cancer, but many other diseases as well. Secondhand smoke is suspected as the cause of death for many non-smokers, including children. Secondhand smoke kills. Recent statistics regarding specific harm caused by sidestream and mainstream secondhand smoke in the US include: 1) as many as 300,000 lung infections annually, such as bronchitis and pneumonia, all in infants under the age of 18 months old; 2) as many as 1,000,000 children with asthma experiencing more frequent and more severe asthma attacks annually; 3) more than 750,000 middle ear infections annually in small children; and 4) undocumented number of pregnant women whose pregnancies are affected by or compromised by secondhand smoke each year, often in the form of low birth weight babies, in addition to other serious complications. It has not been shown that babies and children are harmed in any way by the simple water vapor produced by electronic cigarettes.

Whether the user of electronic cigarettes is using the unit in close proximity to a child, or whether a child spends time in a room where the user of electronic cigarettes has been vaping, there is no sidestream, mainstream or residual, leftover secondhand smoke filling the room.

There is no smoke because there is no fire in the operation of electronic cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes provide the perfect alternative to tobacco products and the inevitable toxic tobacco smoke they create. Non-smokers are not choosing to absorb toxic chemicals and suffer, least of all the infants and small children involved. Electronic cigarettes ensure that vapers and non-vapers alike are safe from the dangers of harsh and deadly secondhand tobacco smoke. Electronic cigarettes offer the real advantage of blessed relief from secondhand smoke.