Looking At The Safety Of E-Cigs – The Argument Continues

Debate on the safety of electronic cigarettes has been raging since the product's introduction in 2003. Many of the arguments are incorrect information disseminated by the FDA with the help of big tobacco and big pharma.

In response to the heated debate, electronic cigarette suppliers recently formed a trade association to provide factual information about e-cigs to the buying public. Tobacco companies want to eliminate competition from electronic cigarettes and have followed an agenda of issuing warnings about e-cig dangers that have no basis in fact. The FDA conducted a very limited test of a few hand chosen e-cigarettes and then pronounced the products were not safe because trace amounts of a dangerous chemical were found in some of the products tested.

No tests were conducted on tobacco to determine whether the same substance occurred in standard cigarettes nor was any followup testing done of a larger sample of electronic products to replicate the original results.

Consumers who ask "are electronic cigarettes safe" will find e-cigarettes contain only 20 ingredients compared to 599 ingredients in tobacco cigarettes. Tobacco smokers inhale over 4000 different chemical compounds and additives. Although tobacco companies state additives used were judged safe by the FDA that is not quite the full truth. Many additives in cigarettes were not tested for compounds released when the additive is burned. Chemical elements can change when exposed to high levels of heat.

Poor nicotine is guilty by association with tobacco. Tobacco smoke is thought to lower the immune system in some smokers leaving them open to more colds and infections. We know for a fact that smoking tobacco causes cancers of the mouth, throat and lungs and increases risk of heart disease in smokers. These health problems are directly attributed to the tars and noxious gases of burning cigarettes inhaled by the smoker.

The properties of nicotine itself to not promote cancer in healthy tissue and nicotine has no mutagenic properties when separated from tobacco. There is no evidence that long term use of nicotine is detrimental to health. Nicotine is the reason we become addicted to tobacco. It is the fix we want when we light a cigarette yet it is not nicotine that damages our health.

You can buy nicotine stop smoking patches and gums at your local Walmart. Initially, the patches were only available with a doctor's prescription but years of wide usage with negligible side effects resulted in nicotine replacement products being freely available..

Nicotine provided in a safe form is the antidote to the risks taken when smoking tobacco. The Royal College of Physicians concluded there is no suspicion of adverse health effects posed by long term use of nicotine in controlled doses. The safety of e-cigarettes is more apparent with every passing year the products are available for public consumption.

Mary Kay Rivers has become an acclaimed expert in the field of e-cigs. Her publications "How do Electronic Cigarettes Function?" and about the best electronic cigarette are very famous.