New smoking device promises the ability to light up anywhere without getting the heat

by Rowena Vergara
SuburbanChicagoNews.com

Smokers, what if you could smoke a cigarette that didn't contain any tobacco or carcinogens and didn't stink?

And nonsmokers, how would you feel about walking past a pack of smokers without coughing, or worrying your lungs were filling up with chemicals from secondhand smoke?

A new product on the market, widely known as the electronic cigarette, is changing the rules of smoking for those wishing to puff wherever and whenever they want.

Two businesses at Westfield Fox Valley mall in Aurora sell the e-cigarettes, including retail store Cigar Box and Chicago-based Elxtro Vapor Cigarette Co., which has a kiosk near the mall's Carson Pirie Scott store.

Elxtro has caught the most attention by far at the mall. Employees take drags on the e-cigarettes as shoppers pass. They exhale what looks like smoke, but actually is a vapor mist.

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