E-Liquid vs. traditional tobacco

Dear readers!

Hello and welcome to my blog about smoking. I am glad that you are reading this entry and I hope I can inspire you with it. Being a passionate smoker myself, I have thought about the topic many times and always tried to look at it from different perspectives. So I would claim that I know a thing or two about it.

In this entry, there is one topic that I would like to present to you in greater detail. That is related to a particular way of smoking which differs a bit from the traditional notion we usually know. Typically, we associate smoking with consuming tobacco. The way I want to discuss further, however, revolves around an alternative way. Before you get any wrong ideas, I do not want to write about chewing tobacco, snuff or snooze or something like that because I do not think that you can call this smoking in the narrow sense. What I want to write about is a way of smoking but with the restriction that you do not use tobacco for it. Instead, you use another substance which is similar to it. That one is the so-called e-liquid. People call it that way because you can only use it in combination with an electronic cigarette. That is what the "e" means.

Exactly that is the topic I want to write about because I think that using an electronic cigarette, or e-cig, for smoking is a real alternative to the traditional filter cigarettes. Some of you might now ask themselves how you could connect that to tobacco use in the classical sense. The answer to that lies in its effect. In theory, using an electronic cigarette has the same effect we as smokers enjoy. That effect is the feeling of relaxation which overcomes us while we inhale the smoke of a cigarette. There is one particular ingredient which enables that feeling we all appreciate that much. That one is called nicotine. In the narrow sense, we could even describe it as a soft drug. By the way, it has a similar effect than caffeine, which is the reason why many coffee drinkers also enjoy a good smoke from time to time. But, leaving that aside, the e-liquid of an electronic cigarette can also contain nicotine. The only difference in that respect is the fact that it does not necessarily have to. As an e-liquid does not contain tobacco and is an artificial product, producers can vary the ingredients freely. So you can find e-liquids containing more or even less nicotine than traditional cigarettes. There are even ones which do not contain any nicotine at all. So you as a user of electronic cigarette are free to choose how intensive your smoking experience is supposed to be in combination with the degree of nicotine you want to consume. That way, you get a little authority over your smoking. In my humble opinion, this is one of the main arguments that convinced myself to start using electronic cigarettes. I do not want to be dependent on the degree of nicotine contained in a particular cigarette of an individual brand because I want to decide for myself what I want to smoke with every cigarette used. By smoking an electronic cigarette, you can adapt the filling to every usage, giving you and only you the freedom of decision when it comes to your smoking experience. And that is how it should be, or would you not agree to that at all?

Thank you for reading my opinion on the usage of e-liquid rather than traditional tobacco. I hope I could inspire you a bit.