Smokeless cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes, are not a variation of traditional tobacco cigarettes. While smokeless cigarettes may look like tobacco cigarettes and may provide a comparable level of smoking satisfaction, they are, in essence, quite different.

E-cigarettes resemble tobacco cigarettes; they look like traditional cigarettes and simulate the feel of inhalation. The filter is soft like a regular cigarette and nanobeads are blended into it. This gives the sensory perception that this type of cigarette is like a regular cigarette filter. However, the e-cigarette actually consists of three components: a battery, an atomizer, and a cartridge. The device provides nicotine during the inhalation but it is liquid vapor that mimics the sensation of inhaling tobacco smoke.

Smokeless cigarettes allow you to smoke in places where smoking is usually banned, like bars and restaurants, offices and hotels, and buses and trains.

Generally, the reason smokeless cigarettes are not banned in public places or on public transportation is due to the fact that they have to been found to:

• Have no tar.

• Have no toxins.

• Have emit no carcinogens.

• Have are smoke-free.

• Have don’t need to be lit up with matches or a lighter.

• Have don’t heat up to cause burns or accidental fires.

• Produce ash and don’t need to be snuffed out in an ashtray.

So, while smokeless cigarettes may look and even feel like traditional, tobacco-filled cigarettes, they do away with most of the problems of traditional cigarettes.

The Problem With Traditional Cigarettes

Despite heavy denial by many about the insidious nature of tobacco cigarettes, the truth about the harmful effects of tobacco cigarettes is emerging due to diligent scientific studies.

Here are some lesser known facts about the harmful effects of traditional cigarettes discovered in numerous scientific studies and sociological surveys:

• Smoking causes lung disease and cardiovascular failure not because of the presence of toxins and specific carcinogenic compounds but because of the volume of smoke absorbed into the lungs. It is the inhalation of smoke, known as the products of combustion that causes most of the health issues associated with smoking.

• Prior to the invention of the rolling machine to make cigarettes, which happened around the time of World War I, smoking was not as dangerous to smokers and those in their vicinity because most of the smoke was not inhaled when the tobacco was contained in cigars and pipes. Additionally, with chewing tobacco, there was no smoke. However, this is not to say that cancer was absent in these forms of tobacco, but the incidence of it was much less. 98% of tobacco-related cancer is due to inhalation and only 2% of it is due to carcinogens found in tobacco products.

• It is estimated that about 400,000 American cigarette smokers die of illnesses related to tobacco. Of this number, 48,000 will be non-smokers who were in the presence of secondary smoke and 700 people will have died due to residential fires caused by smokers.

The problems related to tobacco cigarettes are due to the smoke and to the tobacco herb and how it is cured.

Mike Hollis is a dedicated blogger into the many innovative breakthroughs associated with the new technologies including that of smokeless cigarettes. The purpose of this article is not to encourage smoking or imply that smokeless cigarettes provide health benefits.