Sunday, December 6, 2009

It Feels, Looks And Smokes Like A Cigarette...... But It Isn't?

By Paul Maynard

Yes that's right an electronic cigarette. Before you laugh you may want to read this as it may save your health most importantly, and thousands of dollars in the process. This is exactly like a cigarette, but there is no tar, or any chemicals that will do your body harm. There are nicotine filters which gives a nice shot of nicotine into your body with each puff. (exactly like a cigarette) You can also smoke anywhere! That's right anywhere. Why? Because there is no flame, its electronically powered and smoke does come out with each drag of the e cigarettes. Now to the money part. You dont purchase packs of e cigarettes, you purchase only one. But you do purchase nicotine filters (which are very cheap) which in turn can save you thousands of dollars if your a heavy smoker.

A USA company marketing the world's first "electronic" cigarette hopes to double sales this year as it expands overseas and as some of China's legions of smokers try to quit.e cigarettes are battery-powered, cigarette-shaped devices that deliver nicotine to inhalers in a bid to emulate actual smoking.

"The nicotine is delivered to the lungs within 3 to 6 seconds," said Mike Fraser, Vice President of SBT Co. Ltd., the Beijing-based firm that first developed the electronic cigarette technology in 2003 and which is now controlled by Golden Dragon. "It feels like a cigarette, looks like a cigarette, it even emits vapor. In many ways, it is like an actual smoking experience, and that's what makes us different," he told Reuters.

The cigarettes sell for around $38 a piece but you can get a free trial on the e cigarette. These are already available in USA, China, Israel, Turkey, and a number of European countries.E cigarettes competitors include global giants Pfizer and Novartis AG, which sell more familiar nicotine replacement products such as chewing gum, patches, and inhalers. But Golden Dragon's financial results show it might be onto a good thing. Sales more than doubled to HK$286.1 million in 2006, after surging more than ten-fold to HK$135.6 million in 2005, a year after the technology was perfected.

USA -- home to 400 million smokers and a roughly $160 billion dollar tobacco industry -- accounts for 35 percent of U.S. sales. The firm estimates around 10 percent of USA smokers are attempting to quit, and averaging a 2 percent success rate. That percentage will shoot up once this get's big in America. - 16890

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