If you have ever been sitting on a patio at your favorite restaurant and been forced to breath the smell of the smoke lingering over from the table behind you, then you already know how intrusive and offensive a smoking habit can be to others. On the other hand, you may be the smoker who has often received a series of nasty looks and comments as a result of your smoking cigarettes in public forums. No matter what the case is you will be pleased to know that there is now a way that you can smoke, or enjoy a smoke free environment without forcing yourself or others to stop smoking altogether. At least not in the way you may be used to.
There is a new trend that has become quite popular and that is the emergence of . You may be scratching your head and wondering how a cigarette can be smokeless. Well, these cigarettes are not really cigarettes. That is they feel like a real cigarette and the act actually feels is if you are smoking, yet there is no real smoke because you do not light these cigarettes and they do not contain tobacco.
These smokeless cigarettes, otherwise known as electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes are actually electronic devices that are made to look like a cigarette and feel like one as well. They are battery operated and when used completely mimic smoking a real cigarette
. The smoker simply places the device in his/her mouth, presses a button and then takes a long drag on the e-cig in the same way he/she would a real one. When the smoker does this a small puff of vapor that contains nicotine is released into the lungs. This makes the smoker feel as if he/she is having a cigarette but is far less intrusive than the real thing.