Everything You Need to Know About Electronic Cigarettes in One Minute

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Everything You Need to Know About Electronic Cigarettes in One Minute
Catharine Candelario, an employee at the newly opened Henley Vaporium, vapes, or smokes an electronic cigarette, on Dec. 19, 2013 in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Staff/Getty Images News/Getty Images

While electronic cigarettes have become wildly popular, many questions remain unanswered about the legal status and health benefits of these newly fashionable devices.

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Governments are grappling with defining rules for e-cigarettes, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research only currently regulates e-cigarettes that are marketed for therapeutic purposes.

To find out answers to some of these questions, watch Mashable's primer on e-cigarettes in the minute-long video, above.

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