In a report likely to further fuel a debate over electronic cigarettes, the influential British doctors group stressed that tobacco smoking is both addictive and lethal, and concluded that e-cigarettes are “much safer than smoking”.
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‘They’ve only been around e-cigarettes since about 2007 and that’s a very, very short period by which to determine whether they are as safe as everybody hopes they will be’.
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which also presses for FDA regulation of e-cigarettes, said it did not have an immediate comment on the British report. Smoking kills so many each year.
ELECTRONIC cigarettes have the potential to “radically reduce harm” from smoking and should be promoted as a public health tool, according to a new report.
They found that e-cigarettes are used nearly entirely by people who already use tobacco, and can lead to successful cessation in a proportion of those who attempt to quit cigarettes.
The organization has concluded that e-cigarettes are helping people more than harming them.
However the report also stated there is a possibility that the devices may result in some long-term harm because of the inhalation of the ingredients other than nicotine. Action and Smoking Health UK received the findings well.
Last year, one study showed that some e-cigarettes could release more formaldehyde than traditional smokes.
Now, the RCP’s 200-page report comes down conclusively in favour of supporting e-cigarette use among smokers.
He said confusion over the health consequences of e-cigarettes has “scared away a lot of investment and scared away a lot of consumers. MostPopularPages&a=Report. Standard&ssSession=354bead3c47a531a1a6ed3f92df70e35&jpj=15542188004542http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/health/e-cigarettes-vaping-quitting-smoking-royal-college-of-physicians.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=4&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=0” target=”_blank”>said in a New York Times report. Now a multibillion dollar industry, the popularity of e-cigarettes has spread more quickly than the government has been able to regulate them. A regulatory strategy should take a balanced approach to ensure product safety, enable and encourage smokers to use these product instead of tobacco, and to detect and prevent effects that counter the overall goals of tobacco-control policy.
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Moreover, the RCP suggested that it is indeed in the interests of the public health to promote the use of e-cigs and other non-tobacco nicotine products “as widely as possible” as a general substitute for smoking in the UK. If vaping helps someone quit smoking, that’s (probably) great, but that doesn’t mean everyone else wants to inhale a smelly cloud of grossness that’s only really healthy compared to inhaling cigarette smoke.
