Cancer is the second-leading cause of death, killing9.6 million people, at least, in 2018, as per the World Health Organization(WHO). Of these, lung cancer is the most menacing, accounting for 2.09 million cases and 1.76 million deaths that year. The biggest causes of the disease areair pollution and tobacco smoke; efforts are currently being made on bothfronts to bring down the death count. While on one hand, electric vehicles and other clean energy initiatives are being promoted, on the other, awareness campaigns are being organized on a massive scale to decrease the number of tobacco smokers.
The latter of them, says P&S Intelligence, will bea key factor in the growth of the e-cigarette market from $15.7 billionin 2019 to $39.0 billion in 2030, at a 9.2% CAGR between 2020 and 2030.E-cigarettes are being widely promoted as a less-harmful, if not healthier,alternative to conventional cigarettes, as the former do not contain tobacco.E-cigarettes contain a flavored liquid, which may or may not have nicotine, which is heated to create the smoke that people breathe. Because of the absence of tobacco, e-cigarettes stop around 4,000 chemicals from entering the lungs.
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Tobacco smoke is not only harmful to those breathingit directly, but also to non-smokers exposed to it. As per the WHO, tobaccoleads to 8 million deaths each year, of which 7 million are smokers, and 1.2 million are non-smokers, who die due to second-hand smoke. What is even moredisheartening is that almost half the children on earth inhale air pollutedwith cigarette smoke; second-hand smoke kills more than 65,000 childreneach year. Since apart from not having tobacco, e-cigarettes also do not lead to any smoky emission, rather, just creating vapor, these are becoming popular around the world.
E-cigarette is actually an umbrella term for fourtypes of products: vaporizers, cig-a-likes, T-vapors, and vape mods, all ofwhich have a similar working principle. Of these, vaporizers have found themaximum number of users, as they are cost-effective, produce a dense aerosol,and support more flavors. In fact, the availability of flavors is one of the key reasons an increasing number of smokers are shunning conventional cigarettes in favor of their electronic variants.
