What is Vaping?
Vaping is like smoking except you inhale a (cool) steam-like vapour rather than smoke, and you use an electronic cigarette, rather than the old 'analogues' - they are just so passé, dontcha know...
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:
Advantages of Vaping
No tobacco, so no carcinogens, benzene, arcenic etc
No carbon monoxide
No smoke and so no second-hand smoke
Convenience - you dont have to worry if you've got time for a whole cigarette - just take a drag and put it back in your pocket - it's not alight!
No fire, and so no fire risk
No stink (if there is any smell at all it is very light, and pleasant)
Legal to use in places where smoking is banned (please respect others' feelings - it does look like you're smoking!)
No ash or need for ash trays
Much cheaper than smoking
