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Enjoy an e-cigarette

The concept of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, is growing rapidly. Although the number people that puff on these smokeless, tarless, nicotine fixes is still relatively small compared to the number of real cigarette smokers, there are several people that are on board for this "new" phenomena. The concept of e-cigarettes has actually been around for years.  The earliest concept was actually conceived in 1963 when a man patented a "smokeless non-tobacco cigarette".  His concept replaced the tobacco with paper. That paper was then heated with moist flavored air.  Although various generations of the e-cigarette have been developed, the concept still remains the same.  The modern e-cigarette uses a small battery to vaporise a mixture containing nicotine and an organic solution similar to alcohol.  This produces a "smoke-like" vapor that smokers can inhale, providing the same delivery and effect of smoking a traditional cigarette. Although no ciga...