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Everybody knows that smoking is dangerous to our health. Government and private institutions alike have launched anti-smoking campaigns. City ordinances have been passed to ban people from smoking in different public places and means of transportation. Still, many are unable to quit smoking for good. Some experience slight withdrawal symptoms when they stay away from these killer sticks even for just a few hours. Others feel that they think better and become more productive when they are smoking.

Fortunately for the chronic smokers out there, modern technology has developed a solution to their worries - electronic cigarettes. This new invention, which is as lightweight and portable as the traditional sticks, enables smokers to enjoy cigarettes whenever and wherever they want to.

Electronic cigarettes are pretty much easy to use. Every e-cig consists of three removable parts - a rechargeable battery, a cartridge filled with liquid nicotine and an atomizer. No on or off switches are needed to turn on the device. The user just needs to inhale on the tool to turn it on and start the atomizer's heating process. The heat that emanates from the atomizer vaporizes the liquid nicotine inside the cartridge and produces an odorless vapour.

Electronic cigarettes reduce the hazardous effects of normal cigarettes, aside from allowing the smoker get his nicotine fix without the actual smoke. With the cancer-causing tar being absent in these alternative cigarettes, the chances of acquiring fatal lung diseases, like emphysema and bronchitis are significantly reduced. They also help prevent other side effects such as staining of teeth and yellowing of fingers, walls, or clothes.

Electronic cigarettes also do not produce second-hand smoke, so the smoker can enjoy his nicotine dose without exposing other people, even infants, around him to health hazards. Some variants of the alternative smoking devices give off scents that are pleasant to the smell, so non-smokers do not have to move away from the smoker in their effort to avoid the unwanted smell traditional cigarettes emit.

These electronic cigarettes are proven to be much cheaper than regular cigarettes. A cartridge is equal to approximately twelve traditional cigarettes. At initial purchase, a user may spend more than a pack of cigarettes, but eventually, he saves more because these alternative cigarettes last longer and need fewer accessories such as lighters, ashtrays, and deodorizers. And since there are less chances of getting hospitalized or buying medicines for smoking-induced illnesses, more costs are eliminated.