Electronic Cigarette Sale

Many people have emailed me with questions about the safety of electronic cigarettes. And with good reason. Considering you are basically inhaling vapourised chemicals it is important to understand the health implications of using electronic cigarettes.

Normal tobacco cigarettes contain more than 4000 different harmful chemicals. According to the Cancer Research UK site, some of them are:

• Tar – a mixture of dangerous chemicals
• Arsenic – used in wood preservatives
• Benzene – an industrial solvent, refined from crude oil
• Cadmium – used in batteries
• Formaldehyde – used in mortuaries and paint manufacturing
• Polonium-210 – a highly radioactive element
• Chromium – used to manufacture dye, paints and alloys
• 1,3-Butadiene – used in rubber manufacturing
• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – a group of dangerous DNA-damaging chemicals
• Nitrosamines – another group of DNA-damaging chemicals
• Acrolein – formerly used as a chemical weapon

There is ongoing testing and research being done on electronic cigarettes. Last year, toxological tests were performed on them and they were found to be much less harmful than tobacco cigarettes.

Since electronic cigarettes are such a popular product, many rogue companies have been quick to capitalize on that and have been flooding the market with cheap Chinese imitations. These imitations are untested and potentially hazardous to your health so it is not recommended that you buy them!