Electronic Cigarette ReviewsElectronic cigarettes are a healthier alternative to traditional smoking. You smoke the electronic cigarette pretty much just like a traditional one; except there is no need to suck in the thousands of chemicals and carcinogens that you get from a traditional cigarette. After all, did you know it's not really the nicotine that is so bad for you â but the, literally, thousands of horrific by-products that come along with cigarettes.