Certainly, each of us knows about dangers of smoking. Tobacco smoke has a toxic effect on all organs of our body.
Electronic cigarettes appeared on the world market not so long ago, which are, according to the manufacturer , virtually harmless and help to quit smoking. However, the benefits and harms of electronic cigarettes – the issue remains controversial.
In Britain, the use of electronic cigarettes has gained popularity after the ban of real cigarettes five years ago. Incredibly, in Britain, the number of consumers of such cigarettes has reached 1 million people. Such popularity is due to the fact that they can smoke indoors without fear of smoke odor and bad breath. At first, people were shocked by this new invention. I would be shocked too, because electronic cigarettes are very similar to real ones, even by a scheme of action. As in regular cigarettes they have amount of nicotine, but it is so small that it doesn’t have a great effect and it is an effective way to quit smoking, maybe even more effective than patches, and other ways. I know this from experience of my father, who, fortunately, has already quit smoking. But once he experienced great difficulty in throwing the habit. He was throwing more than 10 times with short intervals of time and started again as soon as there were difficulties. I think the effect of these cigarettes would facilitate his efforts to quit smoking. But not everyone shares my opinion.
The Department of Health believes that the use of electronic cigarettes is not reliable and does not lead to long-term effect. They called electronic cigarettes danger that can attract a new wave of the tobacco epidemic.
Another negative aspect is that the good is not subject to registration, and, therefore, no safety tests of this product have been conducted.
Yet, I believe, that positive aspects electronic cigarettes are more than the negative. That is why I support smoking electronic cigarettes; I think it’s a good replacement of real cigarettes, with minimum causing of harm. But, of course, as proverb is saying “Too much water drowned the miller”. Everywhere must be a limit if we do not want to go through the second wave of the epidemic.