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Nicotine Persuasive Speech

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Quit smoking without using patches or nicotine gum? Once the impossible dream, today's quitters are using a high-tech replacement for the tobacco-stuffed paper tubes now banned in work places and shared spaces. Nicotine bearing gums and patches help many end a dangerous and increasingly expensive habit. Many quitters find success using traditional smoking cessation products, but those products only replace nicotine. Unfortunately, they completely fail to replace an important element of the smoking experience; they do not feel the same. Quitting smokers miss that sensation of smoke hitting the back of the throat. They miss the deep inhale; they miss blowing smoke through pursed lips. Enter the electronic cigarette, a nearly complete substitute for the smokers' ritual. …show more content…

Comprised of a battery, heating element, wick and tank, users fill their e-cigs with flavored solutions of propylene glycol and nicotine. Often cheaper than cigarettes, and more satisfying than nicotine gums and patches, e-cigs are quickly replacing cigarettes. E-cig stores, like The Vaporium, may soon out number traditional Smoke Shops, both the brick and mortar variety and internet based outlets.

The e-cig fluids sold at vape shops, called juice, e-juice, e-liquid or e-fluid, come in several nicotine strengths but there are nicotine-free options as well. Flavors range from those mimicking the taste of cigarette smoke – both regular and menthol – to more exotic options approximating the flavors of fruit blends and liqueurs. With user safety in mind, stores like The Vaporium only sell e-liquids crafted by U.S.companies. Unlike the nicotine of cigarette smoke, nicotine from the flavored fluid's vapor enters the blood stream through the mouth's mucous membranes, instead of the lungs.

E-cig users, called vapers, are a growing community and some have developed a new

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