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The most common questions answered

Many people who are new to e-smoking want to know the answers to the same questions. Below are most common questions together with some straightforward answers.

1. What is e-smoking?

E-smoking is the act of using an e-cigarette. 'Vaping' is a new phrase being used to refer to e-smoking; it refers to the vapour that is produced and inhaled by the person using it.

2. What is in an e-ciggy?

Put simply, they are battery powered devices which convert liquid solution into a vapour to be inhaled by the user.

Most ecigs are made up of three parts: rechargeable battery, a cartridge (or a cartomizer) and an atomizer. The battery can be manual or automatic; the cartridge holds the liquid solution that contains the flavour (this is known as e-liquid) and also acts as a mouthpiece and the atomiser is the part that heats up to produce the vapour. Some have a cartomizer which is a cartridge and an atomizer contained in one unit.

To use it, a person simply inhales through the mouthpiece as they would a traditional tobacco one. Inside it, the atomiser is activated to heat up the e-liquid contained inside the cartridge, it is then converted it into vapour which is then inhaled.