E-Cigarettes Offer Smoking Alternative

At first glance, it looks like smoking--but you're exhaling water vapor.

“I find I breathe a whole lot better I don't cough in the morning,” says E-Cigarette user Michael Douglas. “I don’t smell bad, any worse than I do normally.” Web designer Michal Douglas says he uses them to cut back on a $500 a month smoking habit.

“It replaces the oral fixation, it replaces the smoker, the feeling of it coming in and coming out and it replaces the feeling something with your hands,” says Douglas. The battery powered stick looks like a pen light. It allows the user to inhale atomized nicotine. The E-Cigarette isn't for smoking cessation. It's marketed as an inexpensive alternative.

“It doesn't taste like a cigarette, but it acts like a cigarette, it doesn't leave a nasty taste in your mouth but you're getting what you need which is the nicotine and nothing else,” says smoker Eileen Corker.