Despite all the health warnings these days about the smoking of cigarettes of a regular basis, there's no getting away from the fact that cigarettes can be a much needed social lubricator at times - especially when everyone else at a party is lighting up.

Of course, many people will say that giving up smoking simply brings with it these negative consolations - including being a bit of a "social outcast" at time, and not having a safety mechanism by which to resort in times of trouble or stress.

Thankfully however, the cigarette industry has realized that this is a genuine issue these days, and there are a number of products now available which are advertised as being "E-cigarettes" - a healthier and safer version of the trendy and long loved tobacco alternative.

E-Cigarette Functioning and Design

If you have seen someone smoking a cigarette before, the chances of you knowing whether or not that was a real cigarette or simply an E-cigarette are fairly slim. That is because the two products highly resemble each other, and it is extremely difficult to tell them apart, especially in a dark or smoky setting.

For example, both a standard cigarette and an E-cigarette have the following features:

• Burning embers at the end.
• Long white rolled stick.
• Filter at the top with a mouthpiece.

Hence, they look almost identical. The only real difference is the method by which they both work, and of course the "healthiness" of the two products.

E-Cigarette Health and Safety

Because E-cigarettes are completely electronic - from the light at the end of the body (the red embers) all the way to the smoke which is produced from the product, they do not pose a threat to health in any way.

Of course, there is still a bit of research which needs to be done as to whether or not the smoke being inhaled from the E-cigarette is totally harmless to the lungs, because there is still a processing mechanism which takes place whilst that electronic smoke is in the lungs.

However, as most people would agree, electronically created smoke is probably a huge number of times better than smoke which is the function of burning or combustion - and this is the key to the E-cigarettes safety.