Electric cigarettes are the latest smoking product to revolutionize the market. They are gaining in popularity as a smoking alternative for three very important reasons.

First, an electronic cigarette kit contains a nicotine solution that is an alternative to the harsh chemicals and tar found in tobacco products. Since electric cigarettes do not contain nicotine and tar, and they do not produce second hand smoke, they are exempt from smoking bans in workplaces and public areas. Finally, the numbers support electric cigarettes as a lower cost option for smokers as compared to the astronomical, and rising, cost of traditional tobacco products.

Any one of these reasons would make an electronic cigarette kit a great option for smokers. However, when you take into account all the benefits combined, they offer a major change in the smoking paradigm.

A Safer Smoking Alternative

An electronic cigarette kit contains a unique nicotine solution. This water-based liquid contains a specified amount of nicotine and little else. The laundry list of additives, chemicals, toxins, and carcinogens (all 599 of them) in the traditional tobacco product are not found in electric cigarettes.

The nicotine solution in the cartridge of an electronic cigarette kit has only four ingredients. These are water, nicotine, flavoring, and propylene glycol, a food grade alcohol additive that helps vaporize the solution. These components are all FDA approved, and they are the only ingredients found in the liquid. There is no tobacco, tar, or any other compound that makes traditional products unhealthy and offensive.

Ultimately, when someone chooses electric cigarettes as their smoking alternative, they are cutting out all the harmful chemicals that have the surgeon general's warnings plastered all over tobacco products. With an electronic cigarette kit, smokers do not have to suffer from the harmful additives, and can improve their lives drastically without have to deal with nicotine withdrawal.

In addition, these products are smokeless and flameless, meaning they are much safer to use. The body of these units is not a fire hazard and does not sprinkle hot ash everywhere. Since it is estimated that smoking is a factor in nearly a third of all fires, cutting out this hazard is another great health and safety benefit.

No Smoking? No Problem

Legislation continues to be approved every year that further prohibits where smokers may light up. Work places and public areas seem to be growing 'no smoking' signs at a rapid pace. From bars and restaurants to clubs and public buildings, smokers are facing ever increasing prohibitions and bans. The main culprit for these laws is secondhand smoke.

Electric cigarettes do not produce secondhand smoke; therefore, they are not included in smoking bans. Smokers do not have to be inconvenienced to go outside and face the elements just to smoke. An electronic cigarette kit uses a no-flame technology by vaporizing the nicotine solution that smokers inhale directly. The only byproduct is a small amount of water mist.

This means no one has to deal with the secondhand smoke with its own toxicity, acrid smell, and foul odor that permeates people, clothing, homes, and cars. This is a great benefit to smokers and nonsmokers alike. With these smokeless products, smokers are able to enjoy their freedom without worrying about the effects of smoke on both themselves and others. Nonsmokers can work and live in an environment free from toxic tobacco fumes. If everyone used this type of product, there would never be a need for the bans in the first place.

Lowering The Cost Of Smoking With Electric Cigarettes

To some people, the above two reasons might not be enough to convince them to switch to a smoking alternative. However, once they find out that electric cigarettes are actually cheaper than tobacco products, that usually seals the deal.

An electronic cigarette kit will cut the average cost of smoking in half. This is possible since a pack of five nicotine solution cartridges costs between $6 and $12, and each cartridge is equal to one pack. This means that five packs costs between $6 and $12; there is nowhere in the US that can sell cartons that cheap. This alternative smoking product has the potential to save the average smoker roughly $800 a year. That is reason enough to explain their rising popularity and use.

In the end, all three of these reasons comprise the bottom line when it comes to understanding why these products are gaining in popularity as the premium alternative to tobacco.