Tobacco smoke causes nearly 90 percent of lung cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. "If it is a choice between smoking tobacco product or a nicotine replacement -- of course, keep taking the nicotine," Schroeder said. "It is a heck of a lot healthier than tobacco smoking."
The E-Cigarette does contain, however, the substance that makes you addicted and therefore the main reason why you keep smoking: Nicotine. Basically, the E-Cigarette offers a real smoking experience without any of the unpleasant side-effects of traditional tobacco smoking.
Because no burning is involved, makers say there's no hazardous cocktail of cancer-causing chemicals and gases like those produced by a regular cigarette. There's no secondhand smoke, so they can be used in places where cigarettes are banned, the makers say.
Manufacturers have touted the products as a healthier alternative to smoking because no burning is involved, and there's no hazardous cocktail of cancer-causing chemicals.
[Smokers] say it has the taste, the feel, the draw of a real cigarette. This is the same nicotine that goes into cigarettes. It's delivered in water vapor, not in harmful smoke. Looks like a real cigarette. Gives you the sensation of real smoke. You're getting your nicotine instantly, except you're not getting all the things that are killing you, such as carcinogens, chemicals, poisons, tars.
It uses a small lithium battery that atomizes a liquid solution of nicotine. What you inhale looks like smoke, but it's a vapor similar to stage fog. It even has a red light at the tip that lights up with each drag.
