The Alaska Dispatch News reports (http://bit.ly/1fusBcm ) that Alaska Division of Epidemiology bulletin released Thursday found that e-cigarette use rose from 1 percent in 2010 to 4 percent in 2013, the latest data available.
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Borough Global Positioning System and stop-smoking services are not able to prescribe or recommend e-cigerettes at the moment as they are not now licensed for medicinal purposes. There now are no federal laws in place to restrict minors from purchasing e-cigarettes.
“The battery-powered devices, which simulate the feeling of smoking but with nicotine inhaled in a vapour, could be a game changer in public health”, said the researchers. Her commentary and the study were both published in Tuesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association. Each school will have its own SWAT advisor who is trained to guide the students through the meetings and activities.
“We don’t promote a harm-reduction approach and we don’t promote just cutting back on the number of cigarettes because … we know that doesn’t change your overall risk of developing cancer”, he said.
“Money is lost when people switch. big tobacco doesn’t make a dollar when people aren’t smoking”, he said. Because of the level of nicotine in e-cigarettes, quitting could be just as tough as giving up the regular kind, said Dr. Jason Jerry, an addiction specialist at Cleveland Clinic.
He said if e-cigarettes are beneficial for people wanting to quit, then they should be tested and regulated in the same way as things like nicotine patches.
The debate over e-cigarettes has become so bitter in part because of the high stakes.
The report also said that vaping is 95 per cent less harmful than tobacco and stated there is no evidence so far to show that e-cigarettes are acting as a route into smoking for children or non-smokers. But he said more research is needed to determine if e-cigarettes are really the culprit. She had no role in the research.
E-cigarette companies now advertise their products to a broad audience that includes 24 million youths, and proposed U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations would not limit e-cigarette marketing.
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Professor Kate Ardern, director of public health at Wigan Council, has spoken out to highlight the importance of using vapers for those hoping to quit smoking.
