They ignore evidence like a recent study of almost 6,000 adult smokers showing that e-cigarette users are more likely than users of any other type of nicotine replacement to abstain from tobacco use long term. If you’re sat there wondering what the aorta is, it’s like a balloon next to your heart, and the more stiff it is, the more hard it is for your heart to pump.
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Councillor Richard Overton, Telford & Wrekin Council’s cabinet member for health, says that while it is too early to know the long-term effects of vaping, it is nearly certainly safer than smoking tobacco.
He added: “It would certainly be fair to say the study shows that electronic cigarettes are not without any risk – the critical question is how much risk?”
The current regulations leave the door open for the use of e-cigarettes to reduce the harms of tobacco that could facilitate a major public health breakthrough.
Researchers at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Rome have called the NHS decision to back e-cigarettes premature. I wouldn’t recommend them now as a method to give up smoking.
“However, it is impossible for anyone to know the long term effects of vaping and we certainly can not say that electronic cigarettes are completely risk free especially for anyone who is not or has not been a smoker”. But by replacing tobacco with a synthetic and non-toxic nicotine-laced “juice” (equal parts propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin), heated by battery rather than fire, the most harmful components of smoking are removed from the equation.When you are shopping online, you’d better know this to avoid fraudulent transactions.
The province is enacting the Tobacco and Vapour Products Control Act to regulate e-cigarettes.
The team monitored participants’ hearts while smoking a conventional cigarette for five minutes and using an e-cigarette for half an hour, which they said was the most accurate comparison of typical use.
“Much more research is needed to establish the safety of long-term use of these devices”.
“We had five votes tonight, we’re building momentum and I think everyone understands this is the right thing to do”, said Page, an anesthesiologist and council member representing the second district.
Vapers spend longer puffing than traditional smokers as the devices deliver nicotine at a slower rate. They give a nicotine hit but with no tobacco toxins.
Rosanna O’Connor, from Public Health England, said: “Vaping carries a fraction of the risk of smoking”.
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A 2014 study, meanwhile, revealed that fewer than one in 40 adults who switched to vaping to quit smoking successfully kicked the habit.
