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An e-cigarette: a white DSE-901

The electronic cigarette, “e-cigarette”, or “e-cig”, is a personal nicotine vaporizer device. When a user inhales on the cartridge, or “filter”, the battery-powered e-cigarette vaporizes a special mixture of nicotine, which is then directly inhaled into the lungs. The result is a nicotine delivery system, much like other nicotine products, in that nicotine is delivered to the user without any tobacco material actually being burned. 

Unlike most smoking alternatives, however, the e-cigarette also helps users that deal with hand/mouth fixation, and, more importantly, “smoke” fixation- or fascination/playing with the resulting smoke. Also, The “smoke” that is exhaled, is not really smoke at all, but rather, vapor, resulting from the atomizer heating up the nicotine-water-propylene glycol mixture. The propylene glycol is primary responsible for the “smoke” effect, and is used commonly as an FDA-approved food additive and for other products, such as theater stage smoke. 

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