While cigarettes and other tobacco products have been more or less unchanged for decades, there is a new product on the market for smokers. Whether it is safe or not is hotly contested.
The Food and Drug Administration describes electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes, as “battery-operated products designed to deliver nicotine, flavor and other chemicals. They turn nicotine – which is highly addictive – and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user. While some actually look like cigarettes, cigars, or pipes, others are more like a pen, or even a USB key.
Dr. Michael Fiore is a...
