Just last year, the world was thrown into fear when earthquake struck off the coast of Japan hitting a nuclear energy facility threatening the release of radioactive material into the air, soil and water. It is said to be the biggest nuclear energy disaster after the Chernobyl incident in Russia.
This might have raised a lot of concerns over the safety of nuclear energy. For most people, the argument over nuclear energy is a non-starter this is because, nuclear energy provides a very cheap source of energy to the world at a time that crude oil prices is rising well above normal due to world politics.
However, the fear involved in nuclear energy stems from the fact that the radioactive material used in the operation of nuclear energy plants is very dangerous and can cause deaths as well as gene mutation that will last for centuries.
A typical example is the case of Hiroshima and Nagasaki where children continue to be born with birth defects several years after the A-bomb was dropped over those two cities.
With all these said to illustrate the potential hazard associated with radioactivity, it is right to point out that cigarette smoke has been found to contain Lead- 210 and Polonium- 210.
You may be asking what these are. Well, simply put they are radioactive metals present in cigarette smoke. Electronic cigarettes do not produce smoke and so can be said to be free from these radioactive metals and safer than conventional cigarettes.