are electronic cigarettes safe

Electronic cigarettes are becoming big business. Users say the devices have helped them stop smoking traditional cigarettes and are safer than smoking tobacco. Cancer surgeon Dr Pankaj Chaturvedi tells us why electronic cigarettes are very hazardous. Electronic cigarettes alternative of regular tobacco cigarettes. The marketing campaign to promote e-cigarettes is slick and clever and is targeting the youth of metros and this is bound to have huge health repercussions.
What is an e-cigarettes?
An e-cigarette is nicotine containing electrical device that mimics the act of tobacco smoking by producing hot vapour and often the flavour of smoke. The device uses heat to vaporise a glycerine-based liquid solution.
How harmful is nicotine?
Tobacco has got two major harmful ingredients – cancer causing chemicals (nitrosamines, hydrocarbons etc) and nicotine. second is a highly addictive and noxious substance. Even a small dosage of nicotine has been found to be fatal for life.

What are the analysis results of e-cigs by USFDA:

· All but one cartridge marked as having no nicotine actually contained the addictive substance.
· Cartridges marked as having low, medium, or high amounts of nicotine actually had varying amounts of nicotine.
· One of the cartridges contained a toxic antifreeze ingredient, di-ethylene glycol.
· The devices emitted tobacco-specific nitrosamines which are human carcinogens. The devices emitted tobacco-specific impurities suspected of being harmful to humans