The Electronic cigarettes could save the lives of smokers or a welcome aid to smokers trying to quit?

Although there are kind of different products, most operate on the same principle: a heating element vaporizes a liquid containing nicotine. Comparison of toxin conventional and e-cigarettes.

 

Little research has been done on effect of e-cigarettes. It is generally accepted that the devices are safer than conventional cigarettes, although studies by the FDA and Health New Zealand have shown that some brands contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals.

 

Some countries such as Brazil and Norway have banned the e-cigarettes, but in the U.S. and U.K. have regulated them as a medicine.

 

Right now, report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, that shows some children who have never smoked cigarettes are using e-cigarettes and a high levels of smokers using both cigarettes and e-cigarettes, indicating that the products are being used to sustain nicotine addiction. The use of vapour flavourings could also attempt to use and appeal to younger consumers.

 

A tobacco researcher at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, thinks that e-cigarettes need to improve before they can replace cigarettes. Although they do present an opportunity to improve public health, care needs to be taken to ensure that they are not growing up alongside conventional cigarettes.

 

 

 

credit by the Nature magazine on September 25, 2013. post on http://www.scientificamerican.com 

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