Opposition to electronic cigarettes. Despite the growing popularity of e-cigarettes in the United States, many people, including health advocates, do not support the sale and consumption of e-cigarettes in public. Many health advocates have argued that e-cigarettes are neither a safer nor healthier alternative to conventional tobacco cigarettes. According to the American Heart Association (2000), “there is no safer cigarette.” An analysis by the Food Department Administration (FDA) has shown that e-cigarettes, widely touted as safer alternatives to traditional tobacco, are actually just as dangerous or even more harmful to your health. The FDA has found that e-cigarettes contain some of the same toxic and carcinogenic substances found in traditional tobacco cigarettes (FDA, 2009 cited by Kuehn, 2009). Some of the biggest e-cigarette brands, such as NJoy and Smoking Everywhere, contain a detectable level of tobacco-specific carcinogens, nitrosamines. Additionally, Smoking Everywhere e-cigarettes contain diethylene glycol, a common ingredient in automotive antifreeze and brake fluid.. ...