even President Obama has made use of electronic cigarettes

A big row has broken out in Washington after a Senator tried to get electric cigarettes banned in the Senate. These electric or electronic cigarettes which we have written about previously at Ukmedix News look exactly the same as normal cigarettes but don't contain any tobacco. Instead of smoke a water vapour is inhaled which has a little bit of nicotine in it.

The electronic cigarettes look so realistic and the water vapour which is inhaled and exhaled looks exactly like tobacco smoke that people using them have often been asked to put them out immediately by misinformed members of the public. For people who are heavily addicted to smoking using electronic cigarettes can make life easier for them and give them a nicotine rush which they miss after they decide to quit.

One of the other advantages of using electronic cigarettes is that they provide a bit of psychological release to people who have quit as they have something to do with their hands when they are extremely nervous and stressed about not being able to light up a normal cigarette.

In America however Senator Frank Lautenberg is having none of it and said that they must be banned until they have been tested by the Food & Drug Administration.  He argues that there is no evidence that they have been proven to be safe.  On the other hand there is no evidence to prove that there is anything wrong with them and since they only contain water vapour and nicotine they are unlikely to be more dangerous than smoking a cigarette.

At Ukmedix News our advice to people trying to smoke and who wish to try electric cigarettes is that they must not see them as an alternative to smoking but merely a way of making the jump from smoker to non-smoker easier. You should set yourself a target that you will only use the electronic cigarettes for a couple of weeks until you quit completely.

Rumour has it that even President Obama has made use of electronic cigarettes on more than one occasion.