The Electronic Cigarette (commonly referred to as the E-Cigarette) has been designed as an alternative method to smoking as opposed to smoked tobacco products. The E-Cigarette provides many health benefits over a standard cigarette, cigar, or pipe. The E-Cigarette provides a flavor and physical sensation which is very similar to that of inhaled tobacco smoke, yet, no smoking is involved with the electronic cigarette. The greatest health benefit of the E-Cigarette is that it involves virtually an alternative nicotine delivery system, making it safer than the smoke that is inhaled from burning standard tobacco.

Additionally, When a standard tobacco product is smoked, it is assumed that after it is lit up the smoker will not put down or walk away from the cigarette until it has been completely consumed. Electronic cigarettes change this assumption. Not only are E-cigarettes designed with an alternative nicotine delivery system, they are also designed to be picked up and put down at the smokers ease. Generally, smokers found to smoke less with an electronic cigarette than with standard tobacco products. Typically, the desire for nicotine is diminished after a few puffs on a tobacco product, yet, smokers continue to inhale tobacco smoke until the product is gone. The electronic cigarette changes that with the ability to put it down when a smoker is satisfied, making the product much safer. Furthermore, in burning tobacco there are roughly four thousand chemicals and carcinogens released, while the E-Cigarette contains a mere twenty ingredients.

Nicotine is known to be extremely addictive as well as extremely dangerous. With the electronic cigarette, nicotine is inhaled through a safer vapor, eliminating thousands of unneeded and chemicals. The alternative nicotine delivery system, ease of picking up and putting down the E-cigarette, and the elimination of thousands of chemicals and carcinogens make the E-cigarette a much healthy alternative than smoked tobacco products such as cigarettes, pipes, or cigars.