Electronic Cigarettes Are The Greener Option

Mention cigarettes and people immediately complain how cigarettes pollute the air. People complain how cigarettes pollute the environment as the cigarette butts are tossed on the ground when smokers finish their cigarettes. People complain about cigarettes affecting the health of the smoker and how smoking must stop. Electronic cigarettes are the greener option to people and their concerns about smoking.

The concern about traditional smoke polluting the environment is a valid concern. Traditional smoking emits to the air more than two hundred various chemicals. Estimates as high as four thousand toxic chemicals are found in second-hand smoke, with some are poisonous and others to be carcinogenic. Billowing clouds of second-hand smoke may contain harmful chemicals such as hydrogen cyanide and arsenic.

Now imagine 30% of people of North America smoke. These smokers create a huge amount of pollution not only stressing their bodies, but also the air quality. Why not use a non-pollution alternative to traditional cigarettes, the electronic cigarette. The vapor mist of an electronic cigarette does not pollute the environment and allows everyone to breath cleaner air.

Are people aware that about four trillion cigarette butts are tossed each year? Smokers create four trillion opportunities to pollute the environment with the waste and the chemicals remaining in the cigarette butts. How often have people looked in lake or creek water and seen cigarette butts lying under the water? How often have people walked a beach and seen it littered with cigarette butts? Cigarette butts are everywhere, streets, roads, rivers, lakes, sidewalks, backyards and stables. Cigarette butts are at the top of the list of garbage affecting the environment.

Four billion is an incredible number and not a green option. Now imagine, each of these cigarette butts takes twelve years to decompose, twelve years of affecting the environment with their toxins and other polluting elements. Four billion is for one year and in twelve years that is forty-eight billion chances to pollute the environment. The environmental effect of cigarette butts is astonishing.

Imagine, one electronic cigarette tosses nothing to the ground and the environment is not affected by the trash. Electronic cigarettes will not be stepped on, tossed away nor pollute the environment. Electronic cigarettes have no waste nor litter people can complain, pollute the environment. If you are a smoker and want the green option, choose the electronic cigarette and support the environment.