Many tobacco smokers would more than likely give up the tobacco and start using an electric cigarette instead if they had all of the facts and understood how the product works. First of all, they want to know if it is safe to use. This is a funny question really since it would very difficult to find anything that is as unsafe as smoking tobacco. However, it is a fair question since most smokers would want to be sure that they are not giving up one deadly product just to take up using another. Listed below are some real facts that have been researched about using an electric cigarette.

Thus far, the majority of testing done on the ingredients and use of the electric cigarette have been positive. While there are still some skeptics out there, there has been little real evidence produced that shows the electric cigarette could even come close to the risks that are involved in smoking tobacco. Most researchers agree that using a electric cigarette could be as much as one hundred times safer than smoking tobacco. That is very significant.

The reason for this is that the nicotine liquid that is used in the e-cigarette is made up of so much fewer and less harmful ingredients than those you take into your body when you smoke tobacco. Tobacco has thousands of chemicals and a very long list of them are known to be substances that are deadly to humans. You will not find things like ammonia, cyanide, or formaldehyde in the nicotine liquid of an electric cigarette like are present in tobacco. The most talked about thing found in the electric cigarette was diethylene glycol and the small amount that was found in only one test and was so little that it really might not even be considered a risk at all. Another ingredient that you might not recognize is propylene glycol, but this substance is already used in a wide variety of FDA approved products.

Another absolute fact about the e-cigarette is that since there is no real smoke involved in its use, there are no carcinogens. This means there is also no tar because tar is produced when tobacco is burned. There is no tobacco present in the e-cigarette and it is never burned. Taking the tar from tobacco smoking into your lungs is probably about half of what is so deadly about tobacco smoking. So you can come to your own conclusion about how much safer you think using the electric cigarette is now that you have some real facts about what is in the nicotine solution and what is in tobacco.