Studies show no meaningful difference in overall mortality between pipe and cigarette smokers, indicating similar disease burden
Some devices use disposable cartridges, while others have refillable tanks
Approximately 90 percent of cigarette consumers continue to consume but either engage in cross-border trade, switch to other flavored tobacco products, or start smoking non-flavored cigarettes
To this point, prototype charcoal-filtered cigarettes with alternate flavor systems, such as a flavored cotton thread woven into the filter and crushable menthol beads, have been used to enhance acceptability or overcome flavor changes caused by charcoal filtration (Gordon et al., 2011
With cigarettes, you just set fire to the tobacco end and inhale what comes out of the filter, but with e-cigs, you have to contend with different batteries, a multitude of different atomizers, a cornucopia of e-liquids and much more