Are electronic 'cigarettes' safer than tobacco?

[Lance]

I'm not asking if they are safe, I'm asking if you would consider them safer than the tobacco combustion variant.

 

A few examples...

http://www.blucigs.com/

http://www.myluci.com/

http://greensmoke.com/

 

And an FDA report on two samples...

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/ScienceResearch/UCM173250.pdf

[insane_alien]

chances are very high that that they are significantly safer.

 

for one they are just vaporisers so the chemicals it contains are known quantities unlike with tobacco smoke which contains an unholy mess of tars, carcinogens and other nasties.

 

not that it actually makes nicotine addiction any better as nicotine itself does throw up a number of problems and hasn't be adequately researched in a pure form.