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Public Health England, an agency of the British Department of Health, published a report which describes e-cigarettes as 95 percent less hazardous than the regular, “normal” cigarettes and recommends them as a quitting aid.

“Best estimates show e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether,” Public Health England Chief Executive, Duncan Selbie, says while one of the study’s authors, Peter Hajek, professor at the Queen Mary University adds:

“My reading of the evidence is that smokers who switch to vaping remove almost all the risks smoking poses to their health.”

E-CIGARETTES DO NOT LEAD THE MASSES TO SMOKING

Anti-smoking activists and public health officials do not believe in vaping as a method for smokers to quit their unhealthy habit and believe that e-cigarettes are making smoking seem glamorous luring non-smokers into nicotine addiction.

The report though says that almost all of the 2,600,000 adults who use e-cigarettes in Great Britain used to be smokers and that most of them are using their devices in order to quit. In addition, less than 1% of adults and less than 1% of teenagers have become regular e-cig users without ever being smokers in the past.

In other words, as in the United States, smoking rates in the U.K. have decreased as vaping rates have risen and “there is no evidence so far that e-cigarettes are acting as a route into smoking for children or non-smokers.”

PHE’s report calculates that 44.8 percent of the population in Great Britain have not realized that e-cigarettes are less harmful than smoking. This number is quite small compared to the 65 percent of Americans who, according to a Reuters poll, believe that e-smoking is either worse than regular smoking or don’t know.

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Misleading pronouncements by anti-smoking organizations and public health agencies about vaping have made the masses believe that e-cigarettes may be, in fact, more dangerous than smoking. For example, CDC Director Tom Frieden says that “When it comes to tobacco products we really have to assume they’re dangerous until they’re proven safe, rather than the other way around.” However, e-cigarettes do not contain any tobacco at all.

E-CIGARETTES ARE NOT RISK FREE

This kind of misinformation may lead smokers to serious behaviors, making them believe that e-cigs are, at least, as harmful as normal cigarettes. This could keep million of smokers from quitting.

Kevin Fenton, PHE’s director of health and wellbeing, says:

“E-cigarettes are not completely risk-free, but when compared to smoking, evidence shows they carry just a fraction of the harm. The problem is people increasingly think they are at least as harmful, and this may be keeping millions of smokers from quitting,”

Ann McNeill, professor of psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience at King’s College London, who co-authored the study adds that in her view smokers should try vaping and vapers should stop smoking entirely, in order to prove that e-cigarettes could change everything in public health.

Report: E-cigarettes are 95 percent Less Harmful Than Smoking

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Teens who try e-cigarettes or vaping are four times more likely to start at least one of the traditional modes of consuming tobacco: cigarettes, cigars, and hookahs. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association outlines the research supporting this.

Is vaping the gateway to smoking?

The study was conducted among 9th graders from 10 public schools in California over a period of one year (Fall 2013-Fall 2014). From the pool of students, only those who had never smoked conventional cigarettes were chosen for the study. They were followed-up twice: six and twelve months after the study initiation.

They completed self-reported surveys at each of these time points answering questions about their usage of conventional tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, and hookah). Both the follow up time points showed higher consumption of conventional tobacco products among students who used e-cigarettes.

At the end of the study, they found that teens who smoked e-cigarettes were two and half times more likely to try cigarettes, five times more likely to smoke cigars, and three times more likely to use hookah. These results present new evidence that vaping at an early age could be putting teens at a risk of taking to conventional smoking in the future. However, the authors clearly state that this study doesn’t establish a causative relationship between vaping and smoking. This could mean that common risk factors may be driving teens to both e-cigarettes and smoking; one need not necessarily cause the other.

The rise of e-cigarette usage

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), usage of e-cigarettes has tripled between 2013 and 2014. This could have detrimental effects on their still developing brains, despite the fact that e-cigarettes have lower nicotine content. It is believed that adolescents are particularly vulnerable to ‘graduate’ to conventional tobacco use, as they are prone to risk-taking behavior and their developing brains are sensitized to the effects of nicotine.

Are e-cigarettes safer than conventional ones?

E-cigarettes were introduced as a healthier alternative to conventional cigarettes and as a means for adults to gradually quit smoking. It still remains so. It might only be problematic in the hands of impressionable adolescents whose brains might drive them to seek more nicotine as they grow up.

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Teens Who Try Vaping Are More Likely to Start Smoking

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Even though electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) have been around since 2004, it’s still slightly jarring to see someone smoking indoors when cigarettes are mostly banned from enclosed public spaces. That’s just one example on how e-cigs have shaped the way we view smoking, but could e-cigs actually be the first step in ditching the habit for good? Some statistics are starting to see a growing trend.

What are E-Cigs?

E-cigs have a few different names and come in a few different variants. There are e-cigs, vaporizers, and electronic nicotine delivery systems. No matter the name, they all set out to have the same effect: stimulate the feeling of smoking.

One of the biggest differences between a cigarette and an e-cig boils down to what’s inhaled. E-cig users inhale aerosol rather than smoke. There is a heater that atomizes a liquid solution, which contains propylene glycol, glycerin, water, nicotine, and various flavors.

A sensor inside the e-cig detects when a user is taking a drag, the heater vaporizes the nicotine held in a cartridge, a microprocessor controls the heater, an LED lights up when the user takes a drag, and it’s all powered by a battery.

Statistics Show That there are 2.5 Million E-Smokers

Accelerated Nursing put together an infographic to help highlight a few growing trends that have emerged from the latest e-cig fad.

Before diving into the nitty gritty, it should be known that while some initial studies show e-cigs to be healthier than smoking traditional cigarettes, they still have yet to be fully studied. According to the FDA’s website, researchers still don’t know all of the intended risks when using e-cigs, how much nicotine is being inhaled, and whether or not there are any real benefits to using them.

Drawing Conclusions from Statistics

According to the Accelerated Nursing infographic, there are currently 45 million smokers in the United States and there are an estimated 2.5 million e-smokers. From the pool of e-smokers, 62 percent of the users said that they’ve stopped smoking regular cigarettes (or cut back) since they started smoking e-cigarettes. Of those, 34.3 percent reported that they not only quit smoking cigarettes but also discontinued the use of e-cigs.

So, if initial reports are to be believed, these statistics show a trend of e-cigarettes having a positive effect on users who make the switch from regular to electronic. However, with there being more than 40 million people who are still using traditional cigarettes, there is still a lot of ground to cover.

Somewhat surprisingly, the majority of e-cig users are female, making up 60.5 percent of the pool while males make up the remaining 39.5 percent. And, not surprisingly, southern states make up the majority of users with 33 percent while the northeast states only make up 19 percent.

Unfortunately, Accelerated Nursing doesn’t give any demographic information regarding the statistics that revolve around how e-cigs help smokers quit, so while the infographic certainly insinuates that they could be an incremental step in helping someone quit for good, further study needs to be done in order to definitively say it actually works.


Source: Accelerated-Nursing.net

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Ever since their introduction into the market, electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, have raised a lot of questions from the health community. They have been both credited as a potential tool against smoking and deemed a gateway for those to begin smoking again. Either way they are looked at, the main question is to whether or not they are harmful to the health of those who use them.

Since their introduction, there has been a noticeable decline in the sale of traditional cigarettes. This is perhaps true due to those who want an alternative to the addictive and potentially deadly cigarette.

HOW DO THEY ACTUALLY WORK?

Electronic cigarettes use battery powered heating elements to vaporize a solution of either vegetable glycerin or propylene glycol with nicotine and added flavors.

Electronic cigarettes’ introduction into the world of smoking has been marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking actual cigarettes.

THERE’S A LOT TO CHOOSE FROM, complicating matters

There are currently about 500 different brands of electronic cigarettes offered in over 7,000 flavors. These different brands offer flavors often involving mixtures of nicotine, carcinogens and other toxins, just like the real cigarette.

So, can that really mean that vaporized tobacco is that much better for your health than actual cigarettes? According to the recent reports that have been released, the answer is likely a negative one. A lot of research has recently been done to see the effects of these electronic cigarettes.

ITS HARD TO DETERMINE ACTUAL RISKS BECAUSE OF number of BRANDS AND FLAVORS

The sheer number and variety of different brands and flavors being offered has made it difficult for researchers to make a clear assessment of this technology’s health impacts.

There aren’t any studies showing the long term effects of electronic cigarette smoking, but it is known that the overall effect on the body is negative. The lack of studies showing the long term effects has the health community at odds with each other. Some of the other studies that have been done have been compromised by conflicts of interest. Either way, the State of California issued a warning against e-cigarettes back in January, stating that they are harmful and can easily lead to nicotine poisoning. Especially strong was the state’s warning against leaving E-cigarettes within the reach of children.

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