Everywhere around the world it seems, smoking is one habit that is constant. Be it in Asia, Africa or Europe, you will find people smoking. What is even worse is that people have to come to see smoking as a habit that brings them together. How could a habit which has come to be seen as abhorrent in contemporary times be seen as connecting people?

Well, smokers will justify it saying that nobody who has ever asked for a cigarette from a complete stranger has been turned down, which starts conversations and begins friendships. As absurd as it sounds, it does serve as an example for people that want to justify their smoking habits.

What Is In A Cigarette?

When it comes to really talk about why cigarettes are so harmful, the first line of argument is to figure out what is inside a cigarette. If I were to list the main components of what is inside it, I would list down tobacco and nicotine, which everyone knows, but I will also list down tar, which not many people know about.

Contrary to popular beliefs, it is tar, not nicotine that gives cigarettes most of the harmful qualities that it has. Nicotine, on the other hand, although is seen to be toxic when taken in large quantities, the amount of it present in cigarettes can cause you no serious harm, except for the fact that it is highly addictive.

The amount of nicotine is not uniform across all cigarettes and even in the same cigarette, different variants may contain different amounts of nicotine. However, if you were to take out an average of how much nicotine a cigarette contained, it will come out to be somewhere around 12 mg, with light variants containing around 6mg and hard ones containing around 24 mg.

E Liquids:

As opposed to a cigarette that relies on tobacco to provide all the flavor and some sort of combustion taste that adds to it, a vape device relies on an e liquid for this purpose. An e liquid is made by several manufacturers in the e liquid industry at present and most e liquids come as a part of the entire range that is made according to a theme that dictates the flavors in the e liquids. So, an e liquid can have any flavor you like rather than just one tobacco based one.

An e liquid is made up of four main components: Vegetable Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Flavorings and most importantly, nicotine. Now, unlike in cigarettes, you do not just get a number of universally predefined nicotine strengths but can get your e liquid in any strength of nicotine. The strengths will begin from as low as 0mg to up to 18mg in normal e liquids. However, it does not stop there. In nicotine salt e liquids, one of the relatively new inventions, the e liquid strengths can take a much larger proportion of the entire e juice and provide great nicotine feel.