Originally Posted by vdbucks

Where'd you get the clockwork RTA?



Because nicotine in and of itself - while it is a classified as a poison because too much can kill you quickly - has very low health risk. Yes, nicotine is a diuretic, suppresses appetite and can increase blood pressure, but it's not something that will kill you.

The danger from smoking comes from 2 things. The smoke itself which contains tar and such, and all the other 50,000 chemicals they add to cigarettes.

E-Cigs on the other hand contain no - or so minute that they're considered harmless - carcinogens, no added chemicals, no smoke - it's vapor, think of steam coming off a pot of boiling water - etc. The only chemicals in general are nicotine, vegetable glycerin, propelyne glycol, water/vodka, and flavoring. Now, some flavorings can be dangerous, and generally speaking I recommend LorAnn flavorings which are mostly all safe - except for anything containing oil - and the e-cig community can help point you to many other brands of flavoring that are safe.

A little history regarding the e-cig... the FDA has been trying extremely hard to ban them. This is only due to the fact that they cannot classify them as medical devices - which would allow them to tax them under big pharm like the patches and such are - and they cannot be classified as tobacco products because they contain no tobacco. This basically means that both big tobacco and big pharm companies lose out, as does the FDA/US gov. And as history has proven, if they can't find a way to tax it, they don't want you to have it. Same situation applies to online gambling... there's no way for them to reliably tax your earnings, and therefore it is illegal.

Anyway, smoking is absolutely the hardest bad habit to kick, for many people. This is mainly due to the fact that big tobacco companies essentially lace cigarettes with endless other chemicals; and many, many of those chemicals are addictive themselves. And while the average person may kind of sort of know this, they really don't. The average smoker believes themselves to be addicted to the nicotine, when in reality - while nicotine is addictive - they are addicted to countless chemicals. Which is why it's so hard to quit.