What is vaping?
What is an Electronic Cigarette and What is 'Vaping'
Smoking just HAS to have been the greatest con-trick in history. The marketing pitch seems to be 'pay us loadsa money so we can kill you. Not quickly, mind. Then our income dries up. No - slowly - that way the money just keeps on coming'. Our reply seems to have been 'Hmm - sounds fair. Yup, I'll have some of that!'. The trouble is that, once you start, it's very hard to stop.
So - switch! I feel like I have given up smoking without having given up smoking!
An electronic cigarette is a metal device that (usually) looks similar to an 'analogue' cigarette, and is composed of a battery (the bottom half of the cigarette), and a 'cartomiser' (the filter tip) which contains the nicotine and an 'atomiser'. When you 'draw' the battery activates and the atomiser turns the nicotine into a vapour which you inhale exactly as you do with smoke. It feels very similar to smoking, but - without the smoke! Without the stink! Without the carcinogens! Without the second-hand smoke! And at a third of the price (usually less)! The 'smoke' that you see is just vapour, like steam from a kettle. An e-cig is not alight - it is powered by a battery! But is vaping safe? Watch this video: