Electronic cigarettes and tobacco smoke prohibitions.

In recent years, some countries have been approved and implemented laws that seek to regulate and even completely eliminate the smoke of tobacco in shared public spaces. Though there are less than one-sixth of the world's people protected under these laws, every day its implementation becomes wider. In Europe, smokers have seen more reduced spaces each day.

Far from saying that this is a bad thing, it's quite the opposite! Recent studies by the University of Edinburgh, UK, together with researchers from the University of Maastricht, the Netherlands; Hasselt University in Bélgica and Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in the United States, has demonstrated that the implementation of these laws has significantly decreased premature birth and asthma attacks in infants. Also these restrictions have forced smokers to reconsider and put into question theirs bad habit, in addition to the consequences that smoking produces in their health and the health of those around them.

And while smokers cause great harm to the health of others, we know that they are the biggest victims of this addiction. It has been proven over the years, that quit smoking is not easy, smokers live a pretty hard process of giving up smoking. At the view of this situation, the electronic cigarette has been presented as an "alternative" that seeks to help the smoker quit smoking through the progressive elimination of the quantities consumed of nicotine, and in turn, prevent those around them from being contaminated by the tobacco and other harmful substances in cigarette smoke.

On the other hand, we have the economic aspect that has brought these bans, the tobacco industry, which is one of the biggest revenue generators in the world, has started competing strongly with this unexpected rival: The electronic cigarette. At first, when the prohibitions were still fresh, the consequences or the decrease in sales was not appreciated, but over time the proposals presented by WHO have been complying "If smokers can not smoke on their way to work, at work, in shops, banks, restaurants and other public places,  are going to smoke less ... "

In order to truly erradicate the smoke of tobacco and its terrible consequences it is important to be rational, and by this we mean to be rational at all. We have to be honest; if a smoker is forced to leave the cigarette one day to another, this simply will not happen. Cigarettes addiction is a real illness and it has an abstinence syndrome too. So, more than defend the use of the electronic cigarette we must to recognize the right of smokers to have a nontraumatic quitting process, but using a device that does not generate damage to the health of others, as it is proven that water vapor that emanate the e cigs not contain substances harmful to health.

The appropriate, intelligent and responsible use of these devices can substantially benefit the health of the smoker and those around him, until it became innocuous since there are  eliquids that do not contain nicotine in their composition. It's good that both, smokers and non-smokers, people who are near smokers know more about these devices because, a smoker who quit, it means that they will too. Definitely buying, and encourage smokers to buy and try an electronic cigarette is a great contribution to reach the goal of no more tobacco smoke in public places, a realistic contribution with an honest and real dimension.