Assuming e-cigarettes are equal to cigarettes could lead to misguided research and policy initiatives. Comparing cigarettes to e-cigarettes can give a false sense of what dangers exist because it misses the gap in understanding how people use them and how they can make people dependent.
The amount of nicotine in e-cigarettes can vary widely, e-cigarette nicotine is ingested by vaping a liquid, e-cigarette contains liquefied nicotine and produce less-harmful water vapor instead of harmful smoke produce by cigarette. Stopping and restarting e-cigarettes allows variability in intermittent use and nicotine dosing compared to a traditional cigarette.
From numerous researches, it has been found that traditional cigarettes contain 4000 injurious chemical products amongst which 43 are cancer-causing elements. On the other part, E-cigarette does not use tobacco for smoking, it contains two carcinogens-diethyleglycol and TSNA.
The process of smoking includes the combustion of tobacco which contains thousands of chemicals connected to causing cancer. Some of the few of the chemicals are: Nicotine, Hydrogen Cyanide, Formaldehyde, Lead, Arsenic, Ammonia, Benzene, Carbon Monoxide, Nitrosamines, and Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
Vaping e-cigarette removes combustion, chemicals found in vapor are : Nicotine, Propylene Glycol, Vegetable Glycerin, Acetaldehyde and Nitrosamines. Vaping and smoking increase the risk of lungs cancer.