* So why do you want to ban them?
* The Royal College of Physicians (Royal College of British Physicians) endorses e-cigarettes as a safe alternative.
* However, last month, New York City banned the use of e-cigarettes in public places.
There are several celebrities who have joined this fashion of vaping (the verb that describes this technique is called vaping). Leonardo DiCaprio, Cara Delevingne, Robert Pattinson, and Paris Hilton use e-cigarettes to try to quit smoking tobacco. This fashion has become socially acceptable.
El Royal College of Physicians regards it as a safer alternative to smoking. Some studies have shown that they help smokers quit. However, lawmakers have been less considerate. In Australia it is difficult to buy electronic cigarettes. In Brazil, Mexico and Hong Kong these devices have encountered similar problems… and last month, New York City banned them in public places. Then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg said public use of e-cigarettes threatened to undermine enforcement of anti-smoking laws.
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The popularity of e-cigarettes skyrocketed last year. This remarkable consumption of electronic cigarettes worries the tobacco industry (its sales fell by eight percent last year), the pharmaceutical companies that make the nicotine replacement therapies and the medical organizations concerned about the safety of these new devices. .
E-cigarettes are at the center of one of the hottest health debates this year. Do you want to sit in a bar with someone who is next to you vaping? Do you want to encourage the use of a product that can potentially save the lives of millions of smokers?
The UK National Health Service (NHS) has taken an optimistic stance:
“Compared to regular cigarettes, e-cigarettes are without a doubt the lesser of two evils. These devices are considered the safest alternative to smoking for those who cannot or do not want to stop using nicotine. "
La Food and Drug Administration The US has found toxins in the vapor that are chemical carcinogens, such as nitrosamines and formaldehydes, but the NHS says: 'The levels are about one thousandth of those found in cigarette smoke. We can't be sure that those toxin remnants are harmless, but animal tests and a small study conducted in 40 smokers are reassuring, providing evidence that e-cigarettes are well tolerated and only associated with mild adverse effects, such as a dry cough. ».
While this medical debate is going on, European governments have already started to legislate the use of e-cigarettes:
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Hello:
Well, I believe that people already want to be like machines and stop having a habit that causes health problems, without having to exert themselves or their body noticing it.
Now everyone wants everything very "chewed" and without many problems to understand or perform, and electronic cigarettes are one of those products that proves how weak a man is that he cannot even control his own body when subjected to a addiction.
Anyway, we should focus on what or who are these devices bad or harmful, because if we talk about the economic issue ... a sector would be highly damaged, while if we limit ourselves to exclusively health issues I prefer to say that it is like leave a poop, to catch another poop… .but it smells better, but deep down the two are the same.
A real shame.
Greetings and congratulations on the article.
The electronic cigarette is harmful because:
-the state coffers would stop collecting € 9.500 million and thus maintain almost three ministries.
-The tobacco companies would stop entering 800 million euros.
-Pharmaceutical companies and medical-psychological offices would stop marketing products with nicotine (curiously, if it is a pharmaceutical, it is not toxic or addictive).
In Europe there are more than 8 million vapers, many of them more than 5 years old, there is no known emergency or ambulatory poisoning. ALL were smokers.
The studies to defame him are mainly 2:
-Which heavy metals were found, the resistance was copper covered with silver film and soldered with tin. It is invalid because these do not exist.
-Lung resistance and therefore bad for the lungs. Let's see, if you have a stuffy nose, pulmonary resistance increases, if you swim too, if the temperature rises as well. This study is ridiculous.
Dogmatic defamation: can incite smoking, a new designer drug, etc.
No component is carcinogenic, its vaporization is non-toxic. Its toxicity is of no clinical relevance. There is no toxic passive vape.
Nicotine is found in tomato, potato, eggplant, cauliflower, etc. ITS DOSE is toxic like caffeine and just as addictive, coffee makers emit steam in coffee shops. In an e-cig it is impossible to reach intoxication.
In any case, the benefits are much greater than the possible risks.
There is no greater benefit than the one who does not smoke anything ... neither electronic cigarette nor the real one. That's the only truth. Everything else, makeup to make up a less powerful drug, but still an addiction.
All the best
Drug? What are they telling me? Caffeine is a drug, chocolate is a drug, sex is a drug, Facebook is a drug, Whatsap is a drug, ………… .. Anything repetitive can be classified as a drug. Rather, it seems like a dogmatic argument with the sole aim of belittling a solution that can save millions of lives. Subjectivism and dogmas are not my thing. The dogmas that it is a drug is valid for the mere fact of not being able to prove otherwise, but it seems to me a very poor dogma and lacking in minimally objective rigor.
I think you're wrong. Drug is what makes you depend on something to the point of not being able to eliminate it from your life on your own. Call it caffeine, facebook, whatsap or whatever, be it harmful or beneficial.
Here there is no dogmatic argument or anything like that, I simply comment on the weakness of a human being who is not capable of quitting an addiction, and replaces it with a less harmful one, but who continues to have him tied up and without being able to quit.
That is the penalty of all this, wanting to replace something bad with something less bad, but the solution of the problem is not stopped and it is making people capable of controlling their own body and their own needs.
And I say again that please respond objectively to the question of whether there is any greater benefit than not smoking at all….
Better than that, you won't be able to find anything, no dogmas, no subjectivism or whatever you want to call it (that I don't cling to any religion).
When you answer that question objectively, I will agree with you, if you have it.
A greeting.
my friend, drug is any compound that generates a modification of the normal functioning of the organism, it does not mean that it is addictive, that is another issue. Now everyone is free to choose their vice, as the man above says, alcohol, drugs, tobacco, video games, the internet are all ways of bringing "pleasure" to the human being, choose one and enjoy
I have a problem that I would ask that some really trained person of course if he is a better doctor, clarify it for me, I am from the Argentine Republic, the electronic cigarette for me was a very interesting solution to quit smoking, I noticed a fabulous change but unfortunately after a short period that can be a month or two the suffocation that I feel makes me have to give it up, not because I miss the common cigarette, on the contrary, but I have to give it up because I could not bear the suffocation at night. It happened twice and I verified that it was that, Please if someone could explain it to me, I honestly do not accept the suggestions that you do not have to be addicted to anything, because for me it was a fabulous solution, I feel the difference in my physique until the drowning arrives. I hope someone can explain this to me, thank you very much, my email is mariamagnella22@yahoo.com.ar
Hello Maria Rosa, I am actually a psychologist, so I would not know how to talk to you about the medical part, but even so I think that if that electronic cigarette affects your breathing so much, you can see if there are other types, but I think the fact that you have left it has been a good decision, maybe you can visit a doctor who specializes in respiratory diseases to clarify it,
regards