Last week I asked 'Will e-cigarettes take centre stage in 2013?'.
I then referred to articles in the Daily Mail, Financial Times and Daily Express.
Since then more pieces have appeared on the subject. They include an excellent article by Lionel Shriver in the Guardian (E-cigarettes: no smoke without ire), which Forest tweeted here.
According to Wikipedia a cigarette is a "small cylinder of finely cut tobacco leaves rolled in thin paper for smoking". Apparently 'cigarette' is French for "small cigar" and 'cigar' comes, through the Spanish and Portuguese cigarro, from the Mayan siyar, "to smoke rolled tobacco leaves".
A small point, but if a product contains "no smoke, nicotine, tobacco or tar" how can it call itself a cigarette, electronic or otherwise?