Is Electronic Cigarette A Safe Way To Quit Smoking?
Electronic cigarette is a hot topic right now. As New York considers becoming the first state to ban electronic cigarettes, debate surrounds e-cigarettes and their safety.
Online, February 1, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Electronic cigarette is a hot topic right now. As New York considers becoming the first state to ban electronic cigarettes, debate surrounds these devices and their safety.
The Discovery news article discusses whether electronic cigarettes should be considered safe or not.
Even more important is a recent scientific research published by the community health sciences professor Michael Siegel at Boston University School of Public Health.
Jenny Jenkins, the owner of an online electronic cigarette and quit smoking news blog quotes:
"I found a very interesting scientific study today about electronic cigarettes, their safety and effect on reducing the damage that smoking regular tobacco cigarettes causes."
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What are Electronic Cigarettes and Why are They Novel?
Electronic cigarettes are hand-held devices that deliver nicotine to the user through the battery-powered vaporization of a nicotine/propylene-glycol solution. The act of 'smoking' an electronic cigarette is called 'vaping' and it mimics smoking; but, there is no combustion and the user inhales vapor, not smoke.
Although the nicotine is derived from tobacco, electronic cigarettes contain no tobacco. Theoretically, we would expect vaping to be less harmful than smoking as it delivers nicotine without the thousands of known and unknown toxicants in tobacco smoke.
Moreover, a product that mimics the act of smoking, in addition to delivering nicotine, can address both phar-ma-co-lo-gic and behavioral components of cigarette addiction.
Electronic cigarettes are not manufactured or distributed by the tobacco industry or by the pharmaceutical industry. Hundreds of small distributors market them over the internet and in shopping mall kiosks. They have been on themarket in theUnited States for more than 3 years and have become increasingly popular.
Source: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf
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Awesome research if you ask me. Busts several myths and makes very logical conclusions.
It's great to see that government sites like PubMed (U.S. National Library of MedicineNational Institutes of Health) host and distribute this material.
I hope more people will finally give electronic cigarettes a try and stop ruining their health and the health of their loved ones.
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Jenny Jenkins