GOVERNMENT HEALTH officials want to see Global Positioning System able to prescribe e-cigarettes on the NHS, they said today as they published a review that said vaping is 95 per cent less harmful than tobacco.
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Are e-cigarettes safe? There have been debates on relative risks, apprehensions about the safety of electronic cigarettes and its influence on children and non-smokers.
Battery-powered devices, e-cigarettes vapourise liquid nicotine to imitate real – or conventional, at least – smoking.
Anti-smoking campaigners have called for more research into how electronic cigarettes can help people to stop smoking.
But the study found that contrary to public perceptions, e-cigarettes did not endanger health in the same way as traditional tobacco cigarettes.
However, the data, from a report commissioned by Public Health England, also showed nearly half of the population was in the dark about the benefits of using an e-cigarette. Indeed, numerous 2.6 million “vapers” in Britain have managed to give up traditional cigarettes by switching to the new products.
A new study found that high school students who had used e-cigarettes were more likely to start smoking tobacco than students who abstained altogether.
The report comes hot on the heels of a study from anti-tobacco campaign group Action on Smoking and Health that found no link between the rise in teens using e-cigarettes and young people transferring to regular cigarettes.
From October of this year it will be illegal to sell these products to people who are under the age of 18 in the UK.
Professor Kevin Fenton, National Director for Health and Wellbeing, further added that this study provided confirmation that regular use of electronic cigarette was still low and it was greatly confine among young people who were already smokers.
Moreover, e-cigarettes could help eliminate health problems in poorer areas, where smoking tobacco is more prevalent. That’s compared with only 8 percent of those who had never used e-cigarettes, according to the NIH.
However, the researchers can not conclude the relationship between e-cigarettes and tobacco products that leads to the use of one to the other, respectively.
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As it stands globally, about 1.3 billion people smoke and the WHO estimates that up to one billion tobacco-related premature deaths are possible in the 21st Century – all totally preventable.
