Archive for April, 2010
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April 16, 2010
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Doctor says electronic cigarettes are 100 to 1000 times safer than cigarettes
April 15, 2010
Dr Laugesen of Health New Zealand, a Christchurch based company, will be celebrating 50 years in the medical profession this year. He started off as a surgeon before switching to public health. Health New Zealand have researched the health risks of electronic cigarette vapour for users.
Dr Laugesen says, “both the nicotine liquid and the vapour shows there is little to worry about.”
He concluded that “inhaling mist from the e-cigarette is rated several orders of magnitude (100 to 1000 times) less dangerous than smoking tobacco cigarettes”.
“It is safer because it works at a much lower temperature,” he says. The temperature at the end of a real cigarette is between 800 and 1000 degrees Celsius, while the liquid in an e-cigarette vaporises at 54 degrees.
“Also, there are only a few chemicals in e-cigarettes compared to the thousands of chemicals in tobacco.”
Electronic cigarettes can be sold in New Zealand only without nicotine. According to ASH New Zealand, some certain supermarkets in Auckland are selling them. However, e-cigarettes with nicotine are can be imported for personal use only.
Dr Laugesen importing e-cigarettes should be controlled, but says regulating e-cigarettes as medicine is too strict. “In New Zealand, for a single strength of medicine it costs around about $100,000 to get registered for one year, and big trials that may cost a million dollars to show a product works as a medicine.” E-cigarette manufacturers do not have those kinds of resources, he says.
In the UK there is currently no restriction on the use of electronic cigarettes. They are exempt from the smoking ban, Health Act.
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Electronic Cigarette May Help Smokers Quit
April 15, 2010
The electronic cigarette, which has spread worldwide and now may help people to quit tobacco cigarettes indicates a study carried out by Auckland University. It is reported the device is as good as the nicotine inhaler at reducing smoker’s cravings. The findings are published in the British journal Tobacco Control.
Several public health specialists want electronic cigarettes to be made available as a cessation aid just like nicotine patches and gum. But those opposing the electronic cigarette, fear the device mimics cigarette smoking too closely and undermines the dangers of tobacco. However, most electronic cigarette companies promote their products by highlighting the healths risks of tobacco and passive smoking.
Dr Murray Laugesen, a Christchurch public health specialist, commissioned the testing on the e-cigarette used in the Auckland trial for more than 50 toxic chemicals found in tobacco cigarettes. None was found, except for trace elements of one. A New Zealand pharmacy is selling the device online for $140 (£65.00)
Last year a government authorised study in South Africa was carried out to test the effectiveness of the electronic cigarette as a cessation aid. The findings showed a 43% quit rate among smokers using the electronic cigarette. It also went on to show that 6% of smokers quit within the first two weeks and a further 45% over 8 weeks.
An electronic cigarette starter kit for £9.98 is available from VIP.
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Parents Face Smoking Ban at Home
April 14, 2010
Passive smoking or second-hand smoke is the main concern here. Health and anti-smoking groups have been urging the government to take action on smoking and only in recent years has action been taken by way of the Health Act 2006 (Smoking Ban). Passive smoking claims the lives of over 600,000 people a year. Children exposed to tobacco smoke are more likely to develop lung and breathing difficulties and have a higher risk of development problems. Doctors state that 15,000 children a year develop asthma due to parents’ smoking. Panorama showed children being treated at Alder Hey in Liverpool, the busiest children’s hospital in Europe. Some of the children were being treated ended up in hospital because they were exposed to their parents’ smoking. Despite this many parents simply refuse to accept these health warnings and are putting the lives of their children in danger.
A more aggressive anti-smoking campaign is being backed by ministers and is targeting parents at home. This is a ban on parents smoking in front of children. Those against the campaign claim that such government control will lead to further interference in our own homes. How this would be enforced is still under debate, if at all feasable.
Electronic cigarettes do no emit passive smoke and they unaffected by the Health Act and smoking ban. However, VIP agrees that parents should not smoke anything, including an electronic cigarette, in front of children.
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