Introduced this year, electronic cigarettes a South African company - Health E-cigarette company's Reid Wan Ismail, said: "Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to smokers, they are also proven to be harmful to people who inhale second-hand smoke. And electronic cigarettes will not endanger the people around you, and through the elimination of all cancer-causing substances, greatly reduces the harm caused to smokers. "

E-cigarette combustion is steam. This vapor from the liquid contained in the e-cigarette nicotine. This vapor is colorless, odorless, no toxicity and hazards of passive smoking, smoking in public places are safe.

"Cigarettes contained in the nearly 4,000 chemicals, including arsenic, cyanide and other carcinogenic substances, the electronic cigarettes are not, so it should be seen as 'healthy alternative'," Ismail said.

Electronic cigarette nicotine used in the warehouse, and cigarette butts are different can be recovered almost completely, because they are made almost entirely of plastic, as well as non-toxic smoke, electronic cigarette is a very environmentally friendly products.

In the United Kingdom, electronic cigarette since the introduction of the smoking ban last year, but its popularity increased. Some retailers sell about 2,000 a month e-cigarette.

E-cigarette company's managing director Jason Cropper said: "This is a healthier way of smoking. You can not absorb regular cigarettes and some other substances."

"People do not use any form of nicotine is best, but this is the use of tobacco products, an alternative, I think it significantly reduced harm. I bet life to it than cigarette tobacco use hundreds of times to be healthy."

Cropper said that his e-cigarette has done the test. He said: "In addition to nicotine, the random sample seems to be no other harmful substances." He said. "I think this product is a life-saving product. Finally, nicotine replacement therapy will become an option."